Challenge Mode — Rehearse Evaluation-Style Rules on Real Replay Data

Challenge Mode runs a replay session under evaluation-style rules — trailing drawdown, daily loss limits, profit targets, consistency checks, multi-phase progression — in a practice environment. TestMax applies those rules to replayed historical futures and forex data, so you can trade a complete evaluation challenge candle-by-candle and find out whether your strategy passes before an attempt counts.

An evaluation challenge is a rule set — a profit target, a maximum drawdown, usually a daily loss limit, and often consistency and minimum-day requirements — that has to be satisfied without a single breach. Challenge Mode reproduces that structure on replayed data: hit the target inside the limits and the challenge is passed; break a rule and the attempt ends.

Challenge Mode — advanced drawdown rules, profit targets, and multi-phase evaluations — is a Pro feature at $14.99/month. A free account gets you the market replay engine with all order types, drawing tools, and analytics, so general practice on historical markets is free; Pro adds the rule engine on top.

There is no cap. A simulated challenge is a replay session with a rule set attached — start as many as you want, restart instantly when you breach one, and run different rule sets side by side. One Pro subscription covers all of it.

Four: trailing end-of-day (EOD), trailing real-time, static (fixed from starting balance), and daily drawdown limits. You can combine them with a lock threshold, a consistency cap, minimum trading days, session windows, and holding rules to match the rule set you want to practice.

The challenge moves to the performance phase. The profit target is gone, the drawdown and daily loss rules stay, and simulated withdrawals become available once winning-day and consistency checks are met. Every figure is simulated — it is a way to keep practising discipline after the pass.

No. TestMax is a practice environment. Nothing is issued, held, or paid; every balance and result is simulated.

Yes. Choose Custom and set every value yourself: account size, drawdown model and amount, lock threshold, per-phase profit targets, daily loss limit, consistency percentage, minimum trading days, contract caps, trading hours, and overnight or weekend holding.