- Open the simulator and pick GBP/USD from the instrument list - or EUR/USD, GBP/JPY, EUR/GBP and the rest of the 105.
- Choose a start date and timeframe. The chart hides everything after it, so you read the same bars a trader had at the time rather than a chart you already know the answer to.
- Replay bar by bar and place trades with the mouse. Drag the stop and target on the chart and the lot size follows from your risk percent.
- Read the report. Win rate, expectancy, profit factor, Sharpe and drawdown across the session, saved to your trading journal so the sample accumulates.
Pound / Dollar · GBP/USD
Backtest GBP/USD free, in your browser.
Replay cable bar by bar from 2010 to this week, place trades with the mouse, and get win rate, expectancy, profit factor and drawdown at the end of the session. No download, no broker account, no card - GBP/USD is unlocked on the free plan along with all 105 instruments.
The data
Sixteen years of cable, with minute data back to 2016.
Tick-derived OHLC bars from the same archive our published research is computed on. GBP/USD is one of four markets with a full minute-data pull back to 2016 - the table is exactly what you can replay today.
| Timeframe | History starts | Roughly | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| D1 / W1 / MN | April 2010 | 16 years, 5,000+ bars | Free |
| H4 | April 2010 | 16 years, 26,000+ bars | Free |
| H1 | July 2010 | 16 years, 100,000+ bars | Free |
| M30 | January 2016 | 11 years, 124,000+ bars | Free |
| M15 | January 2016 | 11 years, 249,000+ bars | Free |
| M5 | January 2016 | 11 years, 773,000+ bars | Free: latest 9 months · Ultra: all |
| M1 | January 2016 | 11 years, 3,979,000+ bars | Free: latest 6 months · Ultra: all |
Coverage as of October 2026 and growing nightly. Free and Pro accounts replay the most recent 6 months of M1 and 9 months of M5 on GBP/USD; the full minute archive back to January 2016 is on Ultra. Every other timeframe is free to its full depth.
Measured
Cable moves a quarter further than EUR/USD - most years.
Median GBP/USD daily range in pips against EUR/USD on the same days, every trading day from 2014 to September 2026.
| Year | GBP/USD: median daily range | EUR/USD: median daily range | GBP/USD ÷ EUR/USD |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 78.7 pips | 65.1 pips | 1.21× |
| 2015 | 111.5 pips | 107.3 pips | 1.04× |
| 2016 | 126.9 pips | 78.9 pips | 1.61× |
| 2017 | 89.2 pips | 72.5 pips | 1.23× |
| 2018 | 99.4 pips | 79.9 pips | 1.24× |
| 2019 | 84.9 pips | 48.3 pips | 1.76× |
| 2020 | 114.1 pips | 74.1 pips | 1.54× |
| 2021 | 85.0 pips | 59.9 pips | 1.42× |
| 2022 | 113.5 pips | 94.0 pips | 1.21× |
| 2023 | 92.1 pips | 70.7 pips | 1.30× |
| 2024 | 72.6 pips | 55.4 pips | 1.31× |
| 2025 | 83.4 pips | 72.5 pips | 1.15× |
| 2026 (to Sep) | 73.0 pips | 54.3 pips | 1.34× |
| All years | 97.8 pips | 78.8 pips | 1.24× |
4,296 GBP/USD daily bars, 2010-04-07 to 2026-09-25, FxBacktest archive, weekend stubs excluded; the all-years row covers the whole archive.
Across sixteen years the median cable day covers 97.8 pips against 78.8 on EUR/USD - 1.24 times as far. The gap is not constant: it widens in years when sterling has its own story (1.61× in the 2016 referendum year, 1.76× in the 2019 Brexit deadlock) and narrows toward parity when both pairs are mostly trading the dollar. A EUR/USD system moved to cable unchanged gets stopped out by ordinary noise in the sterling-driven years.
The tail is fatter too. 22.2% of cable days range more than 1% of price, against 21% on EUR/USD, and the widest day in the archive, 24 June 2016, covered 9.78% from high to low. If your sample includes that week, check whether one event is carrying the result.
When GBP/USD movesmedian hourly range by 3-hour block, UTC, 2021-2026
35,753 GBP/USD hourly bars, 2021-01-03 to 2026-09-25, FxBacktest archive. Each block is the average of its three hourly medians. The 06:00-09:00 block holds the London open and most UK data releases.
Before you test
Three things to settle before you test cable.
Each links to a longer read.
Guide
How to backtest cable
A walkthrough of the pair itself - its sessions, its news calendar and the setups that suit a market this fast.
Read the guide Original researchThe London open, measured
Does the first hour of London set the day? Our opening-range study tests the break on the majors so you start from a measured baseline.
Read the study GuideEnough trades per regime
Split the sample by year before you trust the total. Each regime needs enough trades on its own to mean something, or the headline win rate is mostly one good year.
Read the guideHow it works
Four steps, about a minute.
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Questions
GBP/USD backtesting FAQ
Is GBP/USD backtesting really free here?
Yes. GBP/USD and all 105 instruments are unlocked on the free plan, with every timeframe, full trade execution and the session report. Nothing to download, no card. The only GBP/USD limit is minute depth: free and Pro replay the latest 6 months of M1 and 9 months of M5, and Ultra unlocks the full archive back to 2016.
How much GBP/USD history can I replay?
Daily and 4-hour bars from April 2010, hourly from July 2010, and 30-minute, 15-minute, 5-minute and 1-minute bars from January 2016 - about 4 million minute bars.
How volatile is GBP/USD compared with EUR/USD?
About a quarter more volatile over the long run: the median cable day ranges 97.8 pips against 78.8 on EUR/USD since 2010. In sterling-driven years such as 2016 and 2019 the gap reached 1.6 to 1.8 times.
Can I backtest other pound pairs?
Yes. GBP/JPY, EUR/GBP, GBP/AUD, GBP/CAD, GBP/CHF and GBP/NZD are on the same free plan with the same replay engine and report - all listed on the backtest hub.
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