Questions Are Part of the Trading Process.
Whether you are replaying your first historical market session, testing a strategy, discussing an observation or placing a simulated trade, questions are part of the learning process. Here you can find answers about BRBStox, Market Replay, Backtesting Lab, Trader Community, Trading Simulator, subscriptions, market data and responsible use of the platform.
About BRBStox and Your Account
BRBStox is a trading-practice and strategy-testing platform built around four connected tools:
- Market Replay for practising historical market sessions whenever you have time
- Backtesting Lab for testing strategies, patterns and trading rules across historical data
- Trader Community for discussing observations, asking questions and learning from other traders
- Trading Simulator for practising execution using virtual capital
Together, they help you replay the market, test the strategy, discuss what you discover and practice execution.
BRBStox can be used by beginners, working professionals, intraday traders, swing traders, options traders and experienced market participants.
Beginners can understand charts, orders and position management without risking real capital.
Working professionals can use Market Replay after work or during weekends.
More experienced traders can use the Backtesting Lab to evaluate strategies and setups across historical market data.
Each tool answers a different question.
Market Replay: Can I spot the setup and trade it without knowing what happens next?
Backtesting Lab: Has the strategy shown historical consistency?
Trader Community: What assumptions or risks might I have missed?
Trading Simulator: Can I follow my process consistently?
You can use them as one connected learning process or use each product independently.
Register using the information requested on the signup page.
One BRBStox account gives you access to the Trader Community and allows you to start the available trial of Market Replay, Backtesting Lab and Trading Simulator.
No.
BRBStox does not place real-money orders, so you do not need to connect a demat or brokerage account to use the platform.
KYC is not required to create a BRBStox account because BRBStox does not execute real-money trades or maintain customer trading balances.
Standard account-verification requirements may still apply for security, payments or other platform purposes.
No.
You can start the available free trial without providing a payment method.
Nothing is automatically charged when the free trial ends unless you later choose a paid subscription and authorise recurring payments.
No.
All trades placed through Market Replay and the Trading Simulator are simulated using virtual capital.
The Backtesting Lab uses historical data to evaluate strategies and setups.
No trading order placed through BRBStox is transmitted to a broker, stock exchange or real trading account.
No.
BRBStox does not provide personalised investment advice, research recommendations, assured returns, trading tips or instructions to buy or sell specific instruments.
The platform is designed for education, practice, historical testing and simulated trading.
Yes.
Market Replay, Backtesting Lab and Trader Community can be used after market hours.
Market Replay is especially useful for people who are at work or otherwise unavailable during normal market hours because historical sessions can be replayed whenever your schedule allows.
Yes, you can use BRBStox on mobile app, mobile browser and web browsers.
Some advanced features—such as multiple charts, detailed backtesting, strategy creation and options baskets—may be easier to use on a larger screen.
Practice the Market Whenever You Have Time
Market Replay lets you select an available historical market session and experience it as though the market were unfolding in front of you.
Future candles remain hidden. You analyse the market, apply indicators, place simulated trades and manage positions without knowing what happens next.
It is designed to help you practice trading without knowing what the market will do next.
Market Replay can be useful for anyone who wants to practice trading without depending on market hours.
It is particularly useful for:
- Working professionals
- Students
- Traders who prefer evening practice
- Weekend learners
- Traders reviewing particular market conditions
- Anyone wanting additional execution practice
Yes.
Market Replay uses historical market sessions, so you can practice in the evening, after work, during weekends or whenever your schedule allows.
Yes.
Market Replay includes the core trading functionality available in the Trading Simulator.
Depending on the supported instrument and product flow, you can:
- Place simulated buy and sell orders
- Manage open positions
- Set targets and stop-losses
- Use supported order types
- Monitor simulated profit and loss
- Apply indicators and drawing tools
- Use professional charts
- Review your trades after the session
Market Replay then adds control over the historical market session itself.
Yes.
You can move faster through quiet periods, slow the market down when an important setup begins developing, pause the session or move progressively through the market.
The available playback controls will be displayed within Market Replay.
No.
Future candles remain hidden while the session is being replayed.
The purpose is to make decisions using only the information that would have been available at that point in the historical session.
Yes, multi-chart layouts can help you monitor different instruments or timeframes during the same historical session.
For example, an options trader may want to view an underlying index, futures contract, call option and put option together.
Yes.
Market Replay is more than a moving historical chart.
You can place simulated trades, manage positions, set supported targets and stop-losses and monitor the simulated outcome as the historical session unfolds.
No real-money order is transmitted to a broker or exchange.
Chart Replay primarily allows you to reveal historical candles progressively so you can study how price action developed.
Market Replay goes further by combining historical chart movement with simulated trading functionality such as order placement, position management, profit-and-loss tracking and post-session review.
Market Replay is designed for manual trading practice.
You watch a historical session unfold and make decisions without knowing what happens next.
Backtesting is designed for strategy evaluation.
You define or select a strategy, pattern or set of rules and test it across multiple historical opportunities.
In simple terms:
Market Replay helps you test yourself.
Backtesting helps you test the strategy.
Both provide simulated trading functionality, but the market experience is different.
With Market Replay, you choose an available historical session and control how it unfolds. You can pause, resume and change the playback speed.
The Trading Simulator runs according to the simulator session and available historical market feed. You practice while that simulated market session is moving, without controlling the market clock in the same way.
Market data used in both products is historical and is made available with a minimum delay of 30 days.
Test the Strategy Across Historical Data
The Backtesting Lab helps you evaluate trading strategies and setups using historical market data.
Instead of relying on a few selected examples, you can test an idea across multiple historical opportunities and examine how it behaved under different conditions.
You can test:
- Prebuilt options strategies
- Custom options structures
- Multi-leg baskets
- Trading setups
- Chart patterns
- Rule-based entry and exit conditions
- Targets and stop-losses
- Different historical periods
- Different instruments and market conditions
Yes.
BRBStox includes a library of recognised options strategies covering different market views and structures.
Select the underlying instrument, relevant expiry, historical period and supported trade-management rules, and the platform can process the historical test.
Yes, you can modify individual legs or parameters before running the test.
Available settings include quantity, buy or sell direction, strike selection and other supported strategy conditions.
Yes.
Custom baskets allow you to combine supported instruments into your own multi-leg structure.
You can save supported baskets and reuse them when testing other dates, expiries or variations.
Yes, a custom basket may combine different supported instrument types.
This can be useful when testing hedged positions, futures-and-options combinations and other multi-instrument structures.
Choose a supported setup or chart pattern, select the historical period and define the available trading conditions.
BRBStox then identifies qualifying historical occurrences and applies the selected rules.
The objective is to understand how often the setup appeared and how it behaved historically.
You can test a setup on one stock or derivative at a time.
Yes, you can define trading conditions available in our no-code engine, specially designed for those who do not understand coding.
These may include entry conditions, exit rules, targets, stop-losses, time conditions and other supported parameters.
The available strategy-building features may depend on the instrument.
Yes, you create your rule set around the index, set the strike price depth or keep it on auto mode. The sytem will track the index and place the options trade to let you test.
Supported choices may include in-the-money, at-the-money or out-of-the-money contracts or leave it to the AI based options selector.
Where historical data is available, BRBStox uses recorded historical option prices, strikes and expiries.
Historical option data may not be available for every strike, expiry, contract or date.
No. But you can define the slippage percentage while setting up the rules.
Actual market execution can still differ because of liquidity, bid-ask spreads, order-book depth, market impact, transaction costs and execution delays.
Depending on the type of test, results may include information such as:
- Starting capital
- Ending balance
- Simulated profit or loss
- Number of trades
- Winning and losing trades
- Win rate
- Margin used
- Drawdown
- Entry and exit details
- Trade-by-trade history
- Other relevant performance statistics
A backtest should be reviewed as a whole rather than judged only by the final profit or loss.
No, there is no limit. You can test unlimited strategies, your own rules.
No.
A backtest only shows how a defined strategy behaved on the historical data and assumptions used in that test.
Future market conditions can be very different.
Historical performance should be treated as research and evaluation—not as a guarantee of future profitability.
Actual results may differ because of factors including:
- Liquidity
- Bid-ask spreads
- Slippage
- Brokerage and transaction costs
- Order-book depth
- Market impact
- Partial fills
- Execution delays
- Changing market conditions
- Differences in trader behaviour
Backtesting can improve understanding, but it cannot reproduce every condition of real-money trading.
Share, Question and Learn
The Trader Community is a free, moderated space where members can discuss markets, share charts, ask questions, discuss strategies and learn from one another.
It is not a trading-call or tips platform.
Yes.
Trader Community access is free and does not require a paid Market Replay, Backtesting Lab or Trading Simulator subscription.
Topics may include:
- Market observations
- Charts and setups
- Stocks and indices
- Futures and options
- Backtesting results
- Market Replay observations
- Trading strategies
- Execution mistakes
- Beginner questions
- Risk-management concepts
Useful discussions should explain the reasoning behind the observation.
You may discuss the chart, setup, conditions and reasoning you are studying.
However, Community posts should not instruct other users to buy or sell a particular instrument.
The focus should remain on analysis, learning and discussion.
No.
Direct trading calls, guaranteed-return claims, paid tips and personalised trade instructions are not allowed.
Yes, you can share results, charts, observations or strategy structures and invite other members to review your thinking.
Historical or simulated results must not be presented as proof of future returns.
If you share all the information, rule sets on the forum, other members can clone it into their own account and test it independently.
Sharing a basket does not mean that BRBStox or the person who created it recommends using the strategy with real money.
Yes.
The Trader Community is intended for traders at different stages of learning.
Members are expected to respond respectfully and focus on helping one another understand the subject.
The person who asks a question may mark the response that addressed the question most effectively.
An accepted answer means the response was useful to the person who asked the question.
It does not mean that the response is official investment advice or the only valid market interpretation.
Yes, you can follow contributors whose posts you find useful and receive supported notifications about their activity.
No, direct messaging is not available.
Use the available report option on the relevant post, reply, profile or message.
The moderation team can then review it under the applicable Community rules.
Prohibited content may include:
- Direct buy-and-sell calls
- Guaranteed-return claims
- Paid tips or advisory promotions
- External tips-group promotion
- Payment or deposit requests
- Pump-and-dump activity
- Impersonation
- Referral spam
- Misleading performance claims
- Harassment or personal attacks
- Sharing private information
- Requests for passwords, OTPs or brokerage credentials
Yes, every post is valuated, checked and verified. In case of inappropriate posts or the posts beyond the community rules, they are not made public.
No.
BRBStox representatives will never ask for your password, OTP, brokerage credentials or account access through Community posts or direct messages.
Report any such request immediately.
Practice Execution With Virtual Capital
The Trading Simulator is a practice environment where you can place simulated trades using virtual capital.
It helps you practice:
- Opportunity selection
- Order placement
- Position sizing
- Targets
- Stop-losses
- Position management
- Trade exits
- Trading discipline
No real-money order is sent to a broker or exchange.
No.
Market data used in the Trading Simulator is historical and is made available with a minimum delay of 30 days.
It should not be confused with a current or live-market feed.
Tick-by-tick movement provides greater detail than relying only on completed candles.
It allows simulated positions and profit or loss to respond to price movement within a candle, including shorter spikes, reversals and other intrabar movements.
Simulated execution may still differ from actual broker execution.
The Trading Simulator currently begins with the virtual capital amount displayed inside the product.
Virtual capital has no monetary value and cannot be withdrawn or converted into real money.
Yes, there is a small price you have to pay to top-up your account with virtual money.
Virtual-capital top-ups apply only to the simulated account and have no real monetary value.
Any applicable daily trade limit is displayed within the Trading Simulator.
Trade limits may be used to encourage focused practice and reduce excessive or unplanned simulated trading.
You can trade supported Indian-market instruments made available in the Trading Simulator.
These may include supported stocks, futures & options and commodities.
Instrument, expiry and contract availability may vary.
Depending on the instrument and product flow, supported orders may include:
- Market orders
- Limit orders
The order types available to you will be displayed on the trading screen.
Yes, you can set the target, stoploss in your trades.
No, trailing stoploss is not available.
You can enter a fixed quantity or, specify the amount of virtual capital you want to allocate and allow BRBStox to calculate the corresponding supported quantity.
Always review the quantity and simulated risk before confirming an order.
Yes, BRBStox latest margin requirements to calculate the investment required for buy/sell and hedge trades.
Yes, the hedged positions are automatically identified and the margin calculation is done accordingly.
Yes, the Trading Simulator provides prebuilt industry standard multi-leg options strategies.
Review every leg, strike, expiry, quantity, margin requirement and exit condition before placing the simulated basket.
Yes, you can create custom baskets, add stocks, futures or options and execute them.
The complete basket should be evaluated as one structure rather than as unrelated individual trades.
BRBStox provides stock, index and sector screeners.
Screeners are designed to help you filter and study the market.
A screener result is not a trading recommendation.
Available reports may include:
- Instrument
- Buy or sell direction
- Order type
- Entry and exit price
- Quantity
- Target and stop-loss
- Margin used
- Simulated profit or loss
- Entry and exit times
- Trade status
- Day-wise performance summary
Use the report to review the decisions behind the result—not only the final profit or loss.
No.
Virtual capital and simulated profit have no monetary value and cannot be transferred, redeemed or withdrawn.
If you are profitable consistently for a minimum 3 months, then you can consider yourself ready to trade with the real money.
However, simulation cannot completely reproduce real-money pressure, liquidity, transaction costs, partial fills, market impact or changing market conditions.
Free Trial, Pricing and Subscriptions
The Trader Community is free.
Market Replay, Backtesting Lab and Trading Simulator are paid products with the applicable trial and subscription options displayed on the platform.
The available trial provides access to supported features of:
- Market Replay
- Backtesting Lab
- Trading Simulator
Trader Community access remains free regardless of your trial or subscription status.
Your trial starts only when you access the sections.
For e.g. if you accessed Backtesting Lab after 3 days of registration, your trial will start after 3 days. Same applies to market replay and trading simulator.
1. Your community access is forever.
2. After the trial ends, you will have to purchase the paid subscription to continue.
3. Your data is retained for 180 days after the subscription (trial or paid) ends.
No.
Market Replay, Backtesting Lab and Trading Simulator are separate products.
You can subscribe according to the tools you want to use.
Current prices for Market Replay, Backtesting Lab and Trading Simulator are displayed on the Pricing page and during checkout.
The amount shown at the time of purchase is the applicable subscription price for the selected product and billing period.
Yes, the prices shown on the pricing page are inclusive of GST.
Available billing periods are monthly, quarterly, yearly.
The applicable price, subscription period and any available discount will be shown before payment.
Yes, where you choose a recurring subscription.
BRBStox uses Razorpay for authorised recurring payments.
The applicable subscription amount is charged at the beginning of each new billing period unless automatic renewal is cancelled before the next renewal is processed.
Your account or checkout will display relevant information such as:
- Selected billing period
- Amount payable
- Next renewal date
- Recurring-payment status
- Available subscription-management options
Yes.
You can cancel future automatic renewal before the next renewal is processed. You can also suspend the auto-renewal from your UPI application or the bank application.
After cancellation:
- No further automatic renewal payment will be collected
- Your current subscription remains active until its expiry date
- The payment already made for the current billing period remains non-refundable
Cancelling renewal prevents future charges. It does not reverse a completed payment.
Completed subscription payments are non-refundable, subject to rights that cannot legally be excluded.
Users are encouraged to use the available free trial and review the product before purchasing a subscription.
Refer to the Cancellations & Refunds Policy for complete terms.
No.
Virtual capital has no monetary value and cannot be withdrawn, redeemed or converted into real money.
Completed virtual-capital top-up payments are non-refundable, subject to applicable law and the published terms.
Your BRBStox account and free Trader Community access will remain available.
Access to the relevant paid product pauses when its subscription expires.
Data associated with Market Replay, Backtesting Lab and Trading Simulator is retained for up to 180 days after the relevant subscription expires.
Depending on the product, this may include:
- Saved backtests
- Strategy configurations
- Saved baskets
- Market Replay sessions
- Trade history
- Simulator reports
- Saved chart or workspace settings
- Other supported product-related information
Paid-product access may remain restricted while the subscription is inactive.
If you renew within the retention period, retained information will become accessible again, subject to product availability and platform rules.
Paid-product data associated with an expired subscription is permanently deleted after the 180-day retention period.
Once deleted, the information is not be recoverable even if you subscribe again later.
Your main BRBStox account and free Trader Community access continues even if expired paid-product data is deleted.
Understanding What BRBStox Can—and Cannot—Do
Market price data used in Market Replay and the Trading Simulator is historical and is made available with a minimum delay of 30 days.
These products do not represent the current or live market.
No.
BRBStox does not open demat accounts, hold securities, maintain real trading balances or transmit real-money orders to an exchange.
BRBStox is not offered as an investment-advisory or research-recommendation service.
The platform provides tools for education, historical strategy testing, market practice, simulated trading and Community discussion.
BRBStox does not provide personalised investment advice, research recommendations, trading calls or assured returns.
No data system should be treated as completely error-free.
Historical market data may occasionally be incomplete, adjusted, unavailable or affected by technical issues.
Users should independently verify information before making any real-money decision outside BRBStox.
Availability can depend on factors such as:
- Exchange segment
- Listing history
- Historical-data coverage
- Contract expiry
- Corporate actions
- Liquidity
- Data availability
- Platform maintenance
Not every instrument, strike, contract or expiry will necessarily be available for every historical date.
Only where the selected test or simulation explicitly models them.
Unless a charge is clearly displayed as part of a result, you should not assume that brokerage, taxes, exchange charges or other real-market costs have been included.
No.
Actual execution depends on factors including:
- Liquidity
- Bid-ask spreads
- Order-book depth
- Partial fills
- Market impact
- Broker infrastructure
- Exchange processing
- Execution timing
Historical and simulated execution can approximate some of these conditions but cannot reproduce every real-market situation exactly.
Automatically identified patterns are analytical aids.
They may be incomplete, incorrect or unsuitable for a particular market environment.
Patterns should be independently reviewed in the context of trend, timeframe, volume, support, resistance and risk.
No.
Screeners filter instruments according to selected conditions.
A screener result does not tell you whether an instrument is suitable for you or whether a real-money trade should be placed.
Real-market trading and investing involve financial risk.
Backtesting, Market Replay, Community discussions and simulated trading cannot remove that risk or guarantee any particular outcome.
Any real-money trading or investment decision made outside BRBStox remains your responsibility.
Use BRBStox to:
- Test clearly defined ideas
- practice without risking real capital
- Review both successful and unsuccessful results
- Understand your trading behaviour
- practice risk controls
- Ask questions
- Challenge your assumptions
- Understand the limitations of historical and simulated results
Do not treat a backtest, Market Replay result, simulated profit, Community opinion, chart pattern or screener result as proof that a future real-money trade will be profitable.
We Are Here to Help
If you could not find the answer you were looking for, contact the BRBStox support team and explain the product, feature, payment or account issue you need help with.
For your security, never share your password, OTP, payment credentials or brokerage-account credentials in a support request.