Backtest Manager is a Windows app that runs and keeps your MetaTrader 5 backtests. It uses the MT5 you already have on your PC. This guide lists what to have ready before you install it.

Plan: every plan. New accounts get 14 days of Pro when they first sign in to the app.

Check what you need

• A Windows PC: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. MT4, macOS and Linux are not supported.
• MetaTrader 5, installed from your broker (or from MetaQuotes) and logged in at least once. Best is a separate MT5 install just for backtesting, not the one you trade with. The app never installs MetaTrader itself: it copies the program files of an install you have.
• An Algo Trading Space account. The Free plan needs no payment.
• Free disk space for the test terminals: each copy needs the MT5 program files plus the price history you copy into it. The app shows the size before it copies.
• Your Expert Advisors (.ex5 files) and, if you use them, their set files (.set: a saved list of an EA's input values).

If Settings › Terminals says No MT5 install found, MetaTrader 5 is not installed on this PC yet.

Get set up

1. Download and install the app.
2. Sign in with your Algo Trading Space account.
3. Add a test terminal from your MT5 install, and log in to your broker in it once.
4. Run your first backtest.

Good to know

• The app never trades and never changes your own MT5. It works on copies, called test terminals, that it starts and closes for each test.
• Keep your trading terminal on your VPS. A test terminal must stay closed while tests run on it.
• Robustness reviews (Pro) can re-run a test on MetaQuotes' demo price feed. For that, add one test terminal logged in to MetaQuotes-Demo.

Related guides

• Install Backtest Manager: installer or portable ZIP
• Sign in and check your plan
• Add your MT5 test terminals
• Run a backtest