If you're dead set on becoming a prop firm trader, there's one skill you cannot avoid: backtesting. It's not cool, it's not nearly as thrilling as live trading, but it's perhaps the best way to determine if your strategy truly has legs. And when you're trading with MT5 (MetaTrader 5)—the platform that's used by most prop firms—you've got an arsenal of chart styles that can revolutionize the way you test and hone your concepts.

Let’s dissect how to backtest trading strategies with various MT5 chart types in the context of prop firm trading. Prop…