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Free crypto trading simulator: practise without real money

A crypto trading simulator lets you open positions on Bitcoin, Ether or Solana with virtual capital, at current prices. Used well, it teaches method; used badly, it gives false confidence. Here is what to expect from one and how to use it.

BULLSAGE Trader by MyBotIA · Published on · Educational content prepared with AI assistance, calculations checked. No personalised financial advice.

Why practise on crypto in simulation first

  • The market never closes: cryptocurrencies trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can practise in the evening and at weekends, but liquidity (how easily you can buy or sell without moving the price) is often lower then.
  • Volatility is high: moves of several percent in a day are common on Bitcoin, even more so on Solana. They make risk management concrete very quickly (see what is Bitcoin and what is Solana).
  • A mistake costs nothing: forgetting a stop or miscalculating a quantity shows up in the journal, not in your bank account.

What a good simulator should offer

  1. Real, timestamped prices, not a replayed or made-up chart.
  2. Both directions: buying (LONG, betting on a rise) and short selling (SHORT, betting on a fall), to learn the difference.
  3. A stop executed automatically, even when you are not in front of the screen.
  4. Simulated fees: a simulator without fees flatters the results.
  5. A journal that also keeps the losing trades and measures each result against the planned risk.

What BULLSAGE Paper Trading does

With a free account, you get €10,000 of virtual money to trade BTC, ETH, SOL and HYPE on real prices. Every order requires a plan: direction, quantity, mandatory stop, target. The stop is monitored continuously and triggered automatically. A timer can alert you with a beep, or close the position, once the chosen duration has passed. Closed trades feed a journal.

Fictitious exercise on SOL

  • Virtual capital €10,000, chosen risk 1% = €100.
  • Planned buy at $150, stop below the recent low at $145: $5 of risk per SOL.
  • Quantity: 100 ÷ 5 = 20 SOL (assuming $1 = €1 for simplicity).
  • If the stop is hit: −€100, i.e. −1 R (R being the planned risk). If the $160 target is reached: +€200, i.e. +2 R, before fees.

The limits of any simulation

A virtual balance is not frightening. Decisions taken in simulation are not subject to the stress of a real loss, and not always to the partial fills or slippage (the gap between the expected price and the price actually obtained) of a real order book. A winning streak in simulation is therefore neither a forecast nor a green light to move to real money. The guide paper trading: learning with a simulation explains the method in detail.

Where to start

First read what a stop-loss is and how to read Japanese candlesticks, follow the free path in the Academy, then open your first virtual positions. The full path is in learn trading from A to Z.

This article is educational and is not investment advice. Crypto-assets are highly volatile: you can lose all the money invested.

Free kit

Get the trading plan kit (PDF)

The plan to fill in, the eight questions to ask before acting, the position size calculation and a journal template. You will also be told when the platform opens, on 1 January 2027.

For now, the confirmation email and the PDF kit are in French.