Zella AI is now available inside a specific backtesting session. Open it while you backtest a session, and it can control the replay, read the chart up to the current point, add indicators, and analyze your recorded results — all without leaving the chart.
How Do I Open Zella AI in a Backtesting Session?
Open or continue a session from the Backtesting page.
Open the Zella AI panel from the AI icon in the session's right-hand toolbar.
The panel shows which session you're replaying (session name, symbol, and starting balance).
Use New chat at the top of the panel to start a fresh conversation for the session.
What Can Zella AI Do in a Backtesting Session?
Read and analyze the chart
Read the current chart, including the latest visible candles and indicator values.
Explain price action, trend, structure, key highs and lows, momentum, and volatility, and point out possible trade locations.
Review what Williams Fractal is marking and whether recent fractals are useful structure or noise.
Compare multiple charts if you have a split layout open.
Analyze historical candles before the current replay point.
💡 Zella AI won't reveal candles after the current replay point unless you specifically ask it to look ahead.
Set up the chart
Add indicators such as VWAP, RSI, and Fair Value Gaps, and more.
Add them with default settings and tell you which settings it used.
Change the chart timeframe — for example, from 1-minute to 5-minute, hourly, or daily.
Control the replay
Play or pause the replay.
Change the playback speed (10× by default).
Change the playback interval (1 minute per step by default).
Jump to a specific point in the session.
⚠️ Note: If you jump backward, TradeZella asks you to confirm because orders placed after that time would be removed.
Run a structured backtest
Build a pre-trade checklist: higher-timeframe bias, key levels, entry trigger, stop, target, invalidation, and sizing.
Define objective strategy rules so you're not judging trades emotionally.
Help you tell a valid setup from a chase, countertrend attempt, late entry, or low-quality range trade.
Compare your execution to a Strategy's sample trades, if it has them.
Review the trades you log: P&L, win rate, expectancy, hold time, long vs. short, and rule adherence.
Journal and improve
Append a structured recap to the session note without overwriting your existing notes.
Document each trade's thesis, entry, stop, target, mistake, and lesson.
Create or refine a Strategy you can use to judge future sessions.
Create a draft backtesting scenario for repeated practice.
Compare this session against your other backtests or your live trading.
💡 Best use: before each entry, tell Zella AI your intended direction and trigger. It will pressure-test the thesis and make sure you have a defined invalidation and target before you commit.
What Can't Zella AI Do Here?
Orders and trades
Place, modify, close, delete, merge, or split simulated trades.
Set your stop loss, target, quantity, or bracket order.
Create a new session or start a scenario session.
Drawings and existing studies
Draw or edit trendlines, boxes, arrows, text, or Fibonacci tools.
Delete a drawing or undo a drawing deletion.
Remove, toggle off, or edit an indicator already on the chart.
Switch the chart symbol.
Use the chart's own drawing toolbar and undo controls for drawings.
Platform and account
Change backtesting settings, balances, commissions, subscriptions, or broker connections.
Import trades, sync a broker, manage media, or share the session.
Run or configure an automated backtest from chat.
What Are Some Useful Commands?
You can talk to Zella AI in plain language. Some examples:
"Pause the replay."
"Switch to the 5-minute chart."
"Add Fair Value Gaps."
"What does the current structure suggest?"
"Review my trades from this session."
"Help me define what I should test next."
Can I Keep Chatting with Zella AI Outside a Backtesting Session?
Yes. Your session conversations stay in your Zella AI chat history, so you can continue them from anywhere in TradeZella.
Click Zella AI at the top of the screen.
Click Chat history.
Select a previous conversation to pick up where you left off.
With Zella AI in your session, you have a hands-on partner to read the chart, control the replay, and turn each backtest into a clear set of lessons.
If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out to our support team — we're here to help!