Pay for deep history, or pay for a practice seat
Finish the rule you already have, on a chart that does not show what comes next. The sitting can leave its HTML report on this PC, keep the note and the line when you open it again, and step a CSV you already have, without reading their blotter, without a second computer, and without a tick pack from us. End Training writes that HTML here, the bookmark holds the note and the horizontal line, and Data Center imports your OHLCV CSV, while Save Layout stores a layout, the note stays on this machine, and a TradingView replay file is not read. On installed 0.1.4 with the PRO badge, Data Center showed the imported EURUSD H1 file as 6,264 bars from 2025-01 to 2025-12 and a step changed Fri 00:00 O: 1.08741 to Fri 01:00 O: 1.08726; after End Training, Report Center listed Blind H1 archive beside the local HTML, and opening the sitting again showed "fabe-014 walk note" and "1. Horizontal line".
A forex tester alternative is a bad purchase if the thing you wanted was their history. Forex Tester Desktop is a standalone backtester. Its public order page splits the bill in two: a one-time license, then data. Basic data is listed as included. The long tick archive is Super Data, and that line is extra.
We do not sell that archive. If 25 years and hundreds of symbols are the reason you are here, stay with them.
What you are comparing
Three different bills get mashed together in reviews. Keep them apart.
The desktop license is one payment for the program. On 2026-09-23 the USD order page listed that license at $149, with $230 struck through. The same page's euro capture, filed with this note, shows €149 struck from €230 on the Basic Data column. Both are promotional. Both say tax is extra. Do not treat $149 as a permanent price.
Super Data is the tick product: they describe 25 years, on the order of 860 symbols, updated often. The filed euro page shows €29.99 per month (struck from a higher monthly). The USD check the same day showed about $30 per month on promotion, with a yearly and a lifetime option beside it. Basic Data subscription is marked free on that page. Forex Tester Online is a different product with its own plans. This note does not use those prices.
BarionQuant is a third bill: Free $0 for EURUSD, Standard $15/mo or $150/yr, Pro $29/mo or $290/yr, handbook included, Windows only. No 20-year official tick pack.
The Hidden Cost of Crypto Historical Data vs Open Benchmark Packs
Traders looking to backtest both Forex and cryptocurrency often hit an expensive wall with legacy desktop simulators. Forex Tester's entry-level $149 license provides "Basic" quality data. If you require intraday M1 data or cryptocurrency coverage, you are steered into recurring Super Data packages ($169/yr to $469 lifetime add-on).
BarionQuant adopts a strictly open philosophy: 1. Zero Lock-In (BYOD): Any clean CSV history from your broker or HistData can be imported for free. 2. Open Benchmark Packs: Clean, 1-year continuous M1 data for EUR/USD and Gold (XAU/USD) is provided freely to eliminate cold-start hurdles. 3. Native Binance Crypto: Data Center allows 1-click direct downloads of major perpetual contracts (BTC, ETH, SOL) without paying hundreds of dollars in secondary data subscription fees.
Where they are stronger
They are stronger when the job is deep history inside a dedicated tester: many symbols, a data plan you can point at, a program that is not a MetaTrader plugin. That is a real product. A practice seat does not replace it.
We are the other job. A Windows window for rehearsing a session, plus the written method that comes with the seat. Not a broker. Not their data warehouse.
Who should skip us
Skip us if you need their Super Data depth, a native Mac app, or replay in the browser. Stay with Forex Tester if the data subscription is the product you actually want.
If you want the seat, download the Windows build and run Free EURUSD first. The boundary of what practice is not allowed to pretend is on the risk page at /en/legal/risk. Pricing is there when one symbol is not enough.