Practice mode · fake money only
A trading desk that never touches a real dollar.
Paper Desk is a window onto an automated trading bot. It watches a short list of tickers, explains in plain words what it would do and why, and writes down every trade it would have made — on a practice account funded with imaginary money.
How it works
Three steps, no jargon required.
01
A small program looks at a short list
A bot on a home computer checks a handful of well-known tickers every few minutes — prices, momentum, and how busy trading is.
02
It says what it would do, and why
Each report turns into a sentence a person can read: what the bot would buy or sell, how confident it is, and which numbers drove that view.
03
Every would-be trade is written down
Nothing is sent to a broker. The trade is recorded on a practice account, so the record shows how the idea performed without risking a dollar.
The scoreboard, in plain words
How the practice record has gone so far.
These are example numbers, shown so you can see the shape of the record before the desk is connected. On the real dashboard every figure carries a one-line explanation and a (?) with more detail.
Total profit or loss
P&L
+$7.62
Every finished would-be trade added up. Practice money, so this is a rehearsal score — it is not money you earned.
Trades that made money
Win rate
71.4%
5 of 7 finished trades were winners, 2 lost.
Average per trade
Expectancy
+$1.09
On average each finished trade made $1.09.
Wins versus losses
Profit factor
1.90×
Total winnings divided by total losses. Below 1.00 means the losses are bigger than the wins.
Worst dip
Max drawdown
$6.10
The deepest fall from a high point was $6.10, measured trade by trade.
Recent would-be trades
What the bot would have done.
Oversold on busy trading: a small practice buy.
Overbought after a fast run-up; took the practice profit.
Bounced off oversold; closed when momentum returned to normal.
Looked oversold but kept falling; the stop-loss closed it.
What this site will never do
Paper, not portfolios.
Paper trading is the traders' word for rehearsal. It is genuinely useful for judging a strategy, and genuinely useless as a promise about real markets — practice results are always friendlier than the real thing.
- No orders, ever. The bot reads prices; it cannot place a trade.
- No real accounts on show. Account numbers and access keys live behind sign-in, never on a public page.
- No advice. Everything here is a record of what a program would have done, not a recommendation to buy anything.