How paper trading works in Tickrift

Paper trading is a way to practise market decisions with virtual money instead of placing real brokerage orders. Tickrift combines a paper account with a shared synthetic market, so you can practise opening, managing and closing positions without putting real money at risk.

What you can practise

In the simulator you can create virtual long and short positions, use market, limit and stop orders, add stop-loss and take-profit levels, and review unrealized and realized paper P&L. The long-term order mode is separate from leveraged trading so that a holding is not accidentally treated like a day trade.

Why a simulation behaves differently from a real market

Real trading can include liquidity constraints, changing spreads, exchange halts, slippage, fees, taxes and execution delays. Tickrift models some trading concepts but does not claim to reproduce every real-world execution condition. Its default market is synthetic and clearly labelled as such.

A shared market that keeps moving

Tickrift prices are generated from time rather than from your browser session. That means closing the site does not pause the synthetic market. At the same time, two visitors viewing the same instrument at the same moment should see the same clock-synced base price. If the optional global-flow backend is enabled, aggregated paper orders can create a tiny temporary simulated pressure that is shared by visitors.