u/Candlune

Candlune

Brief Description:
Candlune is a small trading community built around learning, backtesting, journaling, and improving execution without relying on signals or hype.

The goal is to create a place where traders can practise properly, share ideas, review setups, and get better at risk management and repeatable decision-making. It is mainly focused on backtesting and building real trading skill over time.

Channels Overview:

• 📋 rules — basic server rules and expectations
• 👋 welcome — intro area for new members
• 🔗 resources — useful trading and learning resources
• 💬 general — normal community discussion
• 📈 trading-talk — market structure, setups, risk, and trading ideas
• 🗂️ share-your-playbook — share your trading process, notes, and strategies
• 📣 announcements — updates about Candlune and the community
• 💡 feedback — suggest improvements and request features

This is not a signal group and there are no profit promises. It is for people who want to practise trading more seriously, learn with others, and help shape a growing trading/backtesting community from the early stage.

Invite: https://discord.gg/pftF2enNq5

Hey everyone, I’m looking for honest beta feedback on a web app I’ve been building called Candlune.

The idea came from something I struggled with myself.

Learning trading online feels messy. There are endless YouTube videos, Discords, indicators, strategies, and opinions, but not many straightforward places where you can actually practise making decisions.

Most people end up learning by looking at charts after the move already happened. The problem is that hindsight makes everything look obvious. You can scroll back, see the perfect trade, and convince yourself you would have taken it properly in real time.

Candlune is my attempt to make trading practice more honest.

It lets you replay historical market sessions candle by candle, place simulated trades, write notes, and review your decisions afterwards. The future price action stays hidden, so the focus is on execution, patience, risk management, and consistency.

Right now it is still early. I’m a solo developer and the first version is focused on gold/XAUUSD because I want to make the core workflow solid before adding more markets.

I’m mainly looking for feedback on:

1. Is the purpose clear within a few seconds?
2. Does the replay/practice concept make sense?
3. Is the product trustworthy enough to try?
4. Does starting with one market feel too limited?
5. What would make the onboarding feel more beginner friendly?

I’m not trying to promise profits, signals, or some magic trading system. I’m trying to build a straightforward practice environment for people who want to learn trading properly before risking real money.

Link: https://candlune.com

Any blunt feedback would genuinely help.

I’ve been building Candlune, a manual trading replay web app.

The reason I started working on it is simple. Learning trading online feels messy. There are endless videos, indicators, Discords, strategies, and advice, but not many straightforward tools that actually help you practise making decisions.

Most people learn by watching charts after the move already happened. The problem is that hindsight makes everything look obvious. You can scroll back, see the perfect setup, and convince yourself you would have taken the trade properly.

Candlune is my attempt to make trading practice more honest.

It lets you replay historical market sessions candle by candle, place simulated trades, write notes, and review your decisions afterwards. The future stays hidden, so the focus is on execution, risk, patience, and consistency.

Right now I’m starting with gold/XAUUSD first because I’m a solo developer and I want to make the core experience solid before adding more markets.

I’d appreciate honest feedback on three things:

1. Does the idea make sense from the screenshot?

2. Is it clear that this is for practice and learning, not signals?

3. Would a straightforward replay tool like this have helped you when you were learning?

I’m not trying to promise profits or sell people a dream. I’m trying to build a cleaner way for traders to practise before real money is involved.

I have been making lots of backtesting trades and trying to get more consistent over the last few weeks and not sure when it would be the right time to enter and start doing the live markets.

I have been backtesting for a while now these are my stats, btw this website only let me do $1000 so every trade was consistent in size. Do you think this is enough practise to go in and start trading in the real markets?

Any help would be beneficial I am kind of new to this and don't really know much about it.

Took the short on a failed breakout into resistance with momentum fading and the MA still acting as dynamic resistance and clean setup, market just chose higher.

I’ve been working on a trading practice platform called Candlune.

The idea is simple:

Most traders backtest with hindsight.

They scroll back, already know what happened, then convince themselves they “would’ve entered” perfectly.

So I built a tool where you replay real XAUUSD sessions candle by candle, place paper trades, journal your reasoning, and review your performance after.

It’s not signals.
It’s not a broker.
It’s not “get rich” nonsense.

It’s basically a trading gym for practising decision-making before risking live money.

Current features:

• XAUUSD replay
• Multiple timeframes
• Buy/sell paper trades
• Drawing tools
• Trade journal
• Dashboard/performance review
• Randomised sessions to reduce hindsight bias

I’m mainly looking for honest feedback from traders:

Would you actually use something like this for backtesting/practice?

And what would make it genuinely useful instead of just another chart tool?

Site is Candlune.com, but I’m more interested in criticism than signups right now.