# Backtesting with Real Trading Costs | Botico

> Run any trading strategy against real market history and read the whole result. Fees and slippage are included in every backtest, with win rate, drawdown and more in one view.

- **Canonical page:** https://botico.ai/features/backtesting/
- **Launch the app:** https://app.botico.ai

## Backtesting with real trading costs

See how a strategy would have traded before any money is at risk.

Run any strategy against real market history and read the whole result, not just a profit number. Fees and slippage are part of every test, so what you see is closer to what live trading would give you.

## What you get with backtesting

- **Fees and slippage included:** Every backtest applies trading costs, so results reflect how orders would actually fill.
- **A full set of metrics:** Win rate, Sharpe, Sortino, max drawdown, profit factor, expectancy and more, all in one view.
- **Compare side by side:** Put backtests next to each other, clone the best setups and keep refining.

## How it works

1. Pick a strategy, a market and a time period.
2. Choose your candle size and run the backtest.
3. Read the equity curve, the trades on the chart and every metric, then adjust and run again.

## Related features

- [Paper trading](https://botico.ai/features/paper-trading.md)

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