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title: 'How do I replay past candles (bar replay)?'
description: 'Open the Panels menu, pick Replay under Tools, then click the bar to start from and press Play. Replay is free for every signed-in account. Tick replay covers the last 48 hours and needs Plus on CME futures.'
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updatedAt: '2026-10-28'
popularity: 6
---

# How do I replay past candles (bar replay)?

**Open the Panels menu, pick Replay, then click the bar you want to start from.** The chart hides everything after that bar and plays the candles forward from there. Replay is free for every signed-in account.

## Start a replay

1. On the chart toolbar, open the **Panels** menu and pick **Replay** under **Tools**. You can also open super search with `Ctrl/Cmd+J`, type "replay" and pick **Start Bar Replay**.
2. If your layout has other charts, choose **This chart** or **All charts**. With **All charts**, the other charts switch to this chart's interval and replay with it, then switch back when the replay ends.
3. When the replay bar says **Click the chart**, click the bar to start from. **Jump** picks a date and time instead (in UTC), and **First available** starts at the oldest bar replay can reach.

Replay is not on the toolbar by default. To keep a button for it, press the pin beside **Replay** in the **Panels** menu (**Pin to toolbar**).

## Play, step and exit

Hover a button on the replay bar to see its name.

- **Play** and **Pause**, or press `Shift+Down`.
- **Step forward one bar**, or press `Shift+Right`. **Step back one bar** goes the other way.
- **Playback speed** sets how fast the bars play.
- **Replay data resolution** sets the data the replay steps through: **Auto**, a finer interval, or **tick**.
- **Jump to a date & time** moves the replay to another date. **Pick a new bar to restart the replay** lets you click a new start bar.
- **Follow the playhead** keeps the running candle in view.
- **Exit**, or `Escape`, takes you back to the live chart.

## Plans and limits

- Replay is free on every plan: you only need to sign in.
- Tick replay covers the last 48 hours. On CME futures it needs [Plus](/learn/faq/account-billing/what-does-plus-add); on crypto it is free.
- How far back replay reaches depends on the interval: coarser intervals reach further. A date out of reach is locked, and the date picker says why.
- Replay is off on month intervals (1M and longer), prediction markets, on-chain tokens, grids larger than the standard layouts and presets (the row reads **Off in Monitor**), and during a live stream. The **Replay** row stays in the menu and says why.

## Drawing and trading during replay

- You can draw while a replay runs, as on the live chart, and your drawings are saved. Drawing tools wait only while you pick the start bar.
- Replay has no practice trading of its own. The [paper account](/learn/faq/trading-brokers/paper-trading) always trades at live prices, so an order sent during a replay fills at the live price, not at the replayed candle. A replaying chart hides your order and position lines until you exit.