💡 What Makes This Back Tester Unique?

Unlike traditional backtesters that use OHLC bars or interpolated ticks, Westernpips Back Tester works with actual recorded market quotes (ticks). This provides unmatched accuracy and replicates the real trading conditions, including slippage, execution latency, spread behavior, and gap detection.

You’re not just testing theoretical strategies — you're simulating actual market conditions as they happened.

In the world of high-frequency and latency arbitrage trading, success depends on precision, speed, and the ability to forecast how your strategy will behave — before you ever place a trade. Westernpips Back Tester is a specialized module built not just to show you numbers, but to give you a strategic edge. It simulates arbitrage strategies using real historical tick data recorded directly from live market environments, helping you move from guesswork to data-driven execution.

💡 Why It Matters

⚙️ Engineered for Serious Arbitrage Traders

Westernpips doesn’t rely on random candles or interpolated prices. Our system reconstructs the market using actual quote streams from fast and slow providers.

You’re testing against what really happened — not what “should have” happened.

The Back Tester is ideal for:

• Latency Arbitrage
• HFT Algos Simulation
• Slippage Modeling
• Broker Spread Behavior Testing
• Advanced Multi-Broker Coordination

🧠 Supported Arbitrage Strategies

Westernpips Back Tester supports all core algorithms, including OneLegMulti, OneLegHidden, and TwoLegStandart. Each can be tested with custom parameters such as provider delay, slippage, take profit and stop loss logic, trailing algorithms, and more. What makes the simulator especially powerful is its ability to incorporate real execution data — including average open/close times, slippage size, and the probability of zero-slippage trades — and reflect those conditions accurately in simulation reports.
The Back Tester supports simulation of all core Westernpips strategies, including:

Westernpips Back Tester — Professional Arbitrage Strategy Simulator Powered by Real Time Data

The process of building a working set begins with quote recording, followed by trial live trading using small volume trades. Once you’ve gathered data on execution times and slippage, you input that into the Back Tester, load the tick data, and run your simulation. At this stage, you’ll already see whether your configuration can generate consistent profits under real conditions.

Strategy optimization becomes a process of refinement. You can gradually adjust gap size, take profit levels, stop losses, and trade duration — analyzing how each change affects overall performance and deal profitability. With every iteration, the Back Tester helps you identify which parameters yield the most consistent and profitable results.

What truly sets the platform apart is its attention to detail. You can configure everything from minimum and maximum spreads, to entry conditions based on tick direction, to quote alignment shifts between brokers. While limit orders are not yet fully supported in the tester, they can be used in live trading to further mask trading behavior — provided your broker allows it. The recommended default limit order lifespan is 1000ms.

Building a truly profitable strategy requires patience and persistence. You’ll need to record several days of tick data, test your sets on different days, and ensure your configurations perform consistently across various market conditions. If performance falters or results are unstable, it may be time to consider switching brokers.

Westernpips Back Tester is not just another tool — it's a professional-grade testing environment where real strategies are built from real data. It empowers you to shape and refine your arbitrage models step by step, transforming raw market behavior into a resilient, high-performance strategy. This is a solution for traders who act ahead of the market — not behind it. For those who value precision over instinct. And for those who understand that every millisecond and every pip can translate directly into real-world profit.