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How to Use TradingView Bar Replay to Practise

Bar replay rewinds a TradingView chart to a past bar and plays it forward one bar at a time with everything to the right hidden, so old bars can be practised on without the answer showing. This paper shows you replay in five lines; the idea as a deck of cards dealt one at a time; the euro's real one-hour chart rewound to 10:00 on 25 August 2026 with nothing to its right; the same chart after eight steps to 18:00; and the replay strip on your platform, with play, pause, step, speed and exit.

Difficulty
Intermediate
Reading time
5 min
Pages
8
Reviewed by
Saman Rahbar

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Bar replay, in five lines

Bar replay rewinds the chart to a past bar and plays it forward one bar at a time with everything to the right hidden. The Replay button on the top bar starts it; a click on the chart picks the bar to start from. The controls are play, pause, step forward one bar, and a speed setting. In the example the chart is rewound to 10:00 on Tuesday 25 August 2026, when the euro's one-hour bar opened at 1.16526, and stepped eight bars to 18:00. The point is not to see what happened; it is to see the chart the way it looked before anyone knew.

A deck of cards

Picture a deck of cards dealt one at a time. The turned cards are the bars you can see; the deck is the bars to come, face down. You look at what is turned, decide what you think, and only then turn the next card, and the deck does not care what you thought. Bar replay deals the chart that way. Every bar to the right of the cursor is in the deck, and each step turns exactly one, which is the only honest way to practise on old bars: with the answer hidden.

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