Crypto Paper Trading: Same Automation, Paper Money First
Run your automations on live prices with paper money. Same strategy, same schedule, same budget rules. Switch to live when you trust it.
Backtests tell you how a strategy behaved in the past. Paper trading tells you how it behaves now, on today's prices and at today's pace, without betting anything on the answer.
Not a separate toy
Paper trading in TradeFIQ isn't a simplified simulator on the side. Your paper automations use the same strategy templates, the same risk profiles, the same schedules and the same capital budgets as live ones. What you learn transfers directly.
One switch: Live or Test
Test mode trades paper money on the TradeFIQ sandbox exchange, using live market prices. The Live / Test switch on your dashboard, trades and automations pages decides which world you're looking at. Live and test automations, trades and results are kept apart, and each has its own automation allowance, so practice never eats into what you can run for real.
What to watch before going live
- Does it trade about as often as the backtest said it would?
- Are the losing streaks survivable, emotionally as well as financially?
- Do the exits fire where you expect, or are stops getting clipped by normal noise?
When the answers look right, create the same automation in live mode with a small budget, and grow it only as it earns trust. Our paper-to-live guide walks through it.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an exchange account to paper trade?
No. Test mode trades on the TradeFIQ sandbox exchange, so it needs no exchange account and no card. Connect an exchange when you are ready to go live.
Are paper prices real?
Yes. Paper automations run on live market prices; only the money is pretend.
Do paper and live automations share limits?
No. Paper and live have separate automation budgets on every plan, so practising never uses up a live slot.
Do paper results count toward copy-trading eligibility?
No. Only live trades count toward a manager’s record, so paper results can’t be used to look better than you are.
Try it with paper money first
Free to start. No card, no exchange account needed until you go live.
Start free with paper trading