A browser-based ForexTester alternative for XAUUSD practice

ForexTester has been around for years and covers a lot of ground. It ships with many years of tick-level history, supports forex, futures, indices, crypto, and stocks, and lets you open multiple synchronized charts at once. It has its own backtesting engine, a large indicator set, and tooling aimed at funded-account preparation.

If you want one desktop application that can simulate trading across many markets and has deep historical data per symbol, ForexTester is a reasonable choice. Candlune is not trying to match that breadth.

Candlune runs in the browser. There is nothing to install, no license file, and no per-machine activation. You sign in and replay candles on the same chart you would review later.

It is also narrower on purpose. Today, Candlune supports XAUUSD only. There is no scanner, no large indicator library beyond the essentials, and no live charting. The point of that narrowness is to make one workflow good: replay a market, take simulated trades, write the journal entry, and review the result on a dashboard.

• Browser-based and zero-install rather than a desktop application.
• XAUUSD-only rather than broad multi-market coverage.
• Replay, simulated trades, and journal in a single loop.
• Essentials-only indicators rather than a deep library.

Most replay tools stop at the chart. You can hide future candles, step through bars, and place hypothetical trades, but the record of what happened lives somewhere else, usually in a spreadsheet you forget to fill in.

Candlune treats the trade and the journal as part of the same session. When a simulated trade closes, it becomes a row in the journal automatically. Repeated sessions feed a dashboard that shows win rate, expectancy, and behavioural patterns over time without manual data entry.

If you trade many instruments and want a single simulator that covers them, ForexTester is built for that. If you need decades of tick data on a specific pair, deep optimization tooling, or features tied to prop-firm challenges across markets, a desktop simulator gives you more surface area than Candlune does today.

Candlune is honest about being a newer, narrower tool. It is most useful for traders who specifically want to get better at XAUUSD and want the practice and the review to live in the same place.

Starter and Pro include a three-day trial after Stripe payment setup, then renew monthly unless canceled. Ultimate does not include a trial, and Candlune does not offer a permanent free tier. The no-signup demo is there so you can inspect the workflow before choosing a plan.

If you are evaluating against ForexTester, the most useful thing to do is run a few replay sessions in each and see which workflow you actually open the next day.