Forex Simulators

I have been looking at forex back testing for mt4 and have come across a few but really wanted to ask if anyone is using one here and what is the best one for a real time feel, I trade manually. I don't want to be able to peek and see candles, plus something I can change leverage on. Something with typical spread of about 1-2 pips.

Also one that is free is better

Simulator is all I learn to trade my manual approach on; I go through hundreds of trades held an average of 1/4 day each. This has allowed me to rewrite my chart study into something I can stomach, so that I can concentrate on how I write my trade plan using it.

Simulators lack real's or demo's data of how fast or slow the ticks happen each candle. On the other hand, speed is variable and it's easy to select price history to train on.

You probably already know of the two that work on MT4:
LFH is what I only use; you can only "peek and see" one TF at a time, and everything else is also very simple and reasonably bomb-proof.
VHands is the more sophististicated one; there's a long thread about it in the Rookie Discussion below your thread.

Either simulator will take any template you design, including one without candles. If, when you say you don't want to see the candles, you want to backtest an EA, somebody else may know; there's several threads, just search ff.

You can't change leverage on LFH, unless perhaps if you go into the program. Try VHands. I live in the US, so this isn't an issue for me ; )

Programs for developing trading systems are very useful as you can see where your ideas will bring you.
Moreover there is no need in understanding how most of the market indicators are calculated.