WickCheck vs Backtrex
Two no-code backtesters with different ideas: plain words versus a chart-driven builder.
The short version
Both let you test strategies without code. Backtrex builds a strategy from trades you mark on a chart and exports it to Pine Script and MQL5. WickCheck reads rules you write in plain words, or from a video transcript, and focuses on smart money logic and honest robustness checks.
How you describe the strategy
Backtrex: visual, you show it examples and edit the blocks it suggests. WickCheck: you write sentences; it shows how it read every rule, with an AI reading for messy wording.
Where Backtrex is stronger
MetaTrader (MQL5) export, a lifetime licence model, and up to 10 years of 1-minute data on its top plan, as listed on its site.
Where WickCheck is stronger
Rules in 9 languages, strategy from a video, ICT sequences with sessions and red news days, a free demo without sign-up, a public library of honest results and a trading school.
Results compared
On RSI(2) for the S&P 500 over ten years, both tools found the same picture: around 70 to 80 percent winners and a profit factor above 1. The numbers differ because the exact rules, the shorts and the position sizing differ, not because one engine is wrong.
Write your rules in plain words and test them on real data in seconds.
Tool comparisons
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