WickCheck vs TradingView strategy tester

The short version

TradingView is a charting platform with a strategy tester that runs Pine Script code. WickCheck is a backtester where you write the rules in plain words. They overlap, and many traders will use both.

Writing the strategy

TradingView: you write or find Pine Script code. WickCheck: you type the rules as you would explain them to a friend, in 9 languages, and see exactly how they were read before testing. For indicator strategies WickCheck can export the result to Pine Script, so you can continue in TradingView.

Data and history

TradingView covers far more markets. Intraday history depends on your plan; on the free plan we could test only about a month of 5-minute gold in one run. WickCheck covers 32 markets with years of intraday history on forex, metals, indices and crypto, and full daily history on stocks.

Smart money and ICT

Pine Script can do anything if you can code it, but sweep, fair value gap and session sequences take a lot of code. In WickCheck they are a sentence: 'Between 13:30 and 16:00 London time, wait for a liquidity sweep, then a fair value gap.'

Checking the result

Both show trades on the chart. WickCheck adds a plain-words verdict, a test on every market, a grid of nearby settings and a year-by-year table, aimed at telling you whether an edge is real.

When TradingView is better

When you already code, need an exotic market, want to publish scripts to the TradingView community, or need live alerts on any symbol.