Backtest Trading Strategies Smarter: Combine Charts & Fundamentals With MRKT

Most traders back-test only with charts. Learn how MRKT’s Candle Analysis lets you back-test smarter by combining technical setups with fundamentals, sentiment, and news context.

Every trader knows the importance of backtesting. It’s how strategies are tested, refined, and validated before risking real capital. But here’s the truth: most backtesting methods are incomplete.

Traders often rely only on charts, indicators, and technical signals. While this isn’t wrong, it misses one crucial element: the reason why price actually moved.

That’s where MRKT’s Candle Analysis comes in. By revealing the fundamental drivers, sentiment shifts, and headlines behind every candle, you can back-test with full context, just like institutional traders do.

Why Chart-Only Backtesting Falls Short

Traditional backtesting focuses on:

• Support and resistance levels
• Technical indicators (RSI, MACD, moving averages)
• Candlestick patterns and breakout strategies

This approach helps identify patterns. But the weakness is clear: it tells you what happened, not why it happened.

For example:

• A “perfect breakout” may fail instantly if it ran into an unexpected CPI release.
• A bullish pattern may only work because a dovish Fed speech pushed risk assets higher.

Without context, you’re testing in a vacuum. This creates false confidence and strategies that break down in live conditions.

Introducing MRKT Candle Analysis

MRKT’s Candle Analysis changes the way traders backtest by integrating fundamentals directly into the chart.

What It Does

• Click any candle on the chart.
• Instantly see the headlines, economic events, and sentiment drivers that caused the move.
• Understand the “why” behind every spike, rally, or dump.

Why It’s Different

• Combines technical price action with fundamental reality.
• Lets you validate if a setup aligned with real market catalysts.
• Helps build robust strategies that mirror how institutions think.

How to Backtest With MRKT Candle Analysis

Here’s a simple framework advanced traders can use:

1. Pick Your Market & Timeframe Open your TradingView chart and identify setups you want to test.
2. Click the Candle Use MRKT Candle Analysis to reveal the exact fundamentals that drove it.
3. Record the Context Note which moves were driven by macro events (Fed, CPI, earnings) vs. random volatility.
4. Correlate With Your Strategy Did your setup align with the fundamentals? Or was it a false signal?
5. Refine Your Rules Build filters: only take trades when both technicals and fundamentals confirm.

Practical Examples

This is where the real power of Candle Analysis shows.

📌Example 1: Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) Miss:

📌Example 2: Fed Political Shock, DOJ Investigation Into Governor Cook

📌Example 3: PMI Miss Hits Tech Stocks (GOOGLE)

By testing these scenarios, traders see not only if a setup worked but also why it worked. That’s how you eliminate hindsight bias and sharpen strategy edges.

Conclusion

Chart-only back-testing is like watching a movie with the sound off, you see the action, but you miss the plot.

MRKT’s Candle Analysis gives you the missing piece: the why behind every move. By combining technical setups with fundamental drivers, you build strategies that are battle-tested for real market conditions.

👉 Backtest smarter. Follow the smart money, not the dumb money. Try MRKT Candle Analysis today.