I am not also a Fan of backtesting / Bar replay .
What made me improve while I was first starting out was at the end of each trading day , I would study what price did and how I would have reacted
I was very busy as a student and don’t have time to trade somedays. But after every single day at night , I study how price delivered to the extent of imagining the drawdowns , retracements and how I would have felt about it.
After doing that for some months , I began seeing improvements when i execute.
Back testing: market move straight to your SL or TP in seconds
Live Trading: Real time movement of emotional torture
Pull backs and retracement in hours
Holding trades in hours of torture with live trading in the real experience