The process of testing a trading strategy or cBot on historical market data to evaluate its performance. In cTrader, the Automate module provides a Backtesting mode that allows a cBot to trade on past price data under set conditions. After running a backtest, cTrader generates detailed reports (trade-by-trade results, equity curves, statistics) so you can analyze how the robot would have performed historically without risking real money.

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