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Paper Trading

Reps without
the rent money.
Real data, fake stakes.

Every play in the Scanner has a Paper Trade button. Tap it and the contract fills at the price on the card, marks against the real tape every refresh, closes at live prices, and settles at intrinsic value if you hold to expiry. The only thing that isn't real is the money.

Pro access for 7 days · then Trader $29/mo · card required · cancel anytime

or start on the free plan

$25K practice balance on the free plan; more in the trial and on paid plans.

$25K
practice balance on the free plan
10
open positions free · unlimited on Trader and Pro
Live
marks: mid, else last trade, else VWAP
Intrinsic
settlement for anything held past expiry
From the panel

One tap from the play to the portfolio.

Pick a play in the Scanner and Paper Trade sits right under it. The contract fills at the price on the card — the live mid, or the last trade when quotes are thin, and the card tells you which — and the premium comes off your paper cash. The Advisor's trade cards carry the same button, so you can keep score on its ideas too.

  • One contract per paper trade today; covered calls are not paper-tradeable yet
  • Premium debited from your practice balance, like a real fill
  • Same button on Advisor trade cards
Marked against the real tape

Real prices, all the way through.

Marks refresh from live data — the mid, else the last trade, else VWAP — never a stored guess. Closes are priced by the server from live data at the moment you close; if there is no live price, the close waits rather than inventing one. Anything you hold past expiration settles at intrinsic value, exactly as it would with a broker.

  • Server-priced closes; the client never supplies a fill
  • No live price means no close, not a made-up one
  • Expired positions settle at intrinsic value
Your numbers, by plan

See where you stand.

Every plan shows your trades, what you have invested and your total P&L. Trader adds win rate and closed-trade analytics and lets you export it all to CSV. Pro adds the trade journal — your own notes and tags on each closed trade, filterable by outcome and tag — multiple portfolios, and gamma exposure across the whole book.

  • $25K free · $100K Trader · $250K Pro practice balance
  • Win rate and closed-trade analytics on Trader
  • Journal, multiple portfolios and portfolio GEX on Pro
The loop

Find it. Plan it. Prove it.

Paper trading is the last stop in one loop: the read on GEX, the ranked play in the Scanner, the plan from the Advisor, then a paper fill to see whether the idea holds against the real tape — before you put a dollar behind it.

Who it's for

Reps for three kinds of trader.

Start here

New to options

Learn what a spread does to your P/L before you learn it with money. Every play reads as a plain-English claim, and the P/L chart shows what happens at expiration.

Level up

Testing a structure

Same thesis, three structures — a long call, a debit spread, a put credit spread — and a live tape to settle which one you actually want to trade.

Keep score

Advisor-curious

Paper every plan the Advisor gives you. Win rate on Trader and the journal on Pro turn a hunch about its ideas into a record.

Common questions

Questions, answered plainly.

Get the reps in.
Real data, fake stakes.

$25K to practise with, live prices, no credit card. Send your first play from the Scanner.

Pro access for 7 days · then Trader $29/mo · card required · cancel anytime

or start on the free plan