PAPER TRADING
Free Crypto Paper TradingNo account, no deposit, real fees included
Test a strategy without putting money at risk. Run it across 320+ coins in your browser, with exchange fees and slippage applied to every trade — then decide whether it deserves a deposit. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
Every verified strategy publishes its exact settings — reproduce the numbers yourself →
Paper Trading vs Backtesting
These get used interchangeably and they answer different questions.
BACKTEST
Replays the strategy over history and finishes in seconds. Answers did this ever work. Cheap to run, easy to fool yourself with — you already know what the market did.
PAPER TRADE
Runs forward on live prices with no real money. Answers does this work now. Takes real time, which is exactly why it can still surprise you.
The honest order is backtest first, paper second, money third. A strategy that fails the backtest does not deserve the weeks a paper run costs. One that passes still has to survive forward.
Being exact about what you get here: the free tool is the replay — 320+ coins, exchange fees and slippage applied, no account. Forward execution on live prices is the part we have so far only done to our own strategy, and its record is below.
We Paper Trade Our Own Strategy in Public
Our trend-ensemble portfolio runs as a paper account, and the snapshot we publish on thetrust page covers a git-timestamped window — Jun 26 to Jul 5, 2026, ten days — shown as measured, whether it is up or down.
We also say what it is not. Ten days is not a sample you can conclude from, and we would rather write that here than let a good stretch look like proof. That window is what we required of ourselves before risking capital — real-money trading started Jul 3, 2026 and has since been paused. It stays published either way.
The strategies that did not survive are published too, in theresearch log.
How to Paper Trade a Strategy Here
01 · Pick a starting point
Start from one of the 26 presets or build the entry and exit rules yourself in the visual builder. No code.
02 · Run it across the market, not one coin
One run covers 320+ coins. A strategy that only works on the one pair you chose is the most common way to fool yourself.
03 · Read the losses first
Max drawdown and profit factor before return. A profit factor under 1.00 means the losing trades took more than the winners brought in, whatever the win rate says.
04 · Only then consider real money
And when you do, check the fee side too — thefees page explains the discount available through our exchange link, which is how this stays free.
Paper Trading Without Costs Is a Sales Pitch
A high-turnover strategy can look profitable on paper and lose money in an account purely on fees and slippage. That is not a small correction — in our own grids, strategies that settle thousands of trades pay a fee on every one of them — a cost that scales with turnover, not with how good the idea is.
Every simulation here includes exchange fees and slippage by default. You can see what that does to specific strategies in thestrategy library, and why so many of them did not survive it inwhy backtests fail.