Free Crypto Paper Trading No account, no deposit, real fees included
Test a strategy without putting money at risk. Run it on the coins you pick, 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 preset 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 — 280+ 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 the trust page covers a git-timestamped window that now holds 103 daily points — since Jun 26, 2026, through Oct 6, 2026 — shown as measured, whether it is up or down.
We also say what it is not. The reason is not that the record is short — it is that the record has only been through one kind of market. Most of the gain arrived in August: through the end of July the account was up around 7%, against +49.48% across the full window. The worst drawdown reads 6.84%, and that is a statement about the market it met, not about the defence: exposure averaged 0.81and sat below full for most of the record, and no falling regime has tested it yet. In this same file the other tracks stand at −3.10% and +29.54% over the same window — the portfolio number is not the engine's number. None of that becomes conclusive by running longer. It becomes conclusive by running through conditions this window did not contain. Its opening stretch, through Jul 5, 2026, was what we required of ourselves before risking capital. We do not publish information about real-money operation until the feature is complete. It stays published either way.
The strategies that did not survive are published too, in the research log.
How to Paper Trade a Strategy Here
01 · Pick a starting point
Start from one of the 26 builder templates 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 many 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 — the fees 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 the strategy library, and why so many of them did not survive it in why backtests fail.