Virtual trading simulator
PaperTrade is a simulator for Indian stocks and options. You get ₹1,00,00,000 in virtual money and real live market prices, so you can learn how orders, stop-losses and option positions actually behave before any real money is involved.
Start with 2 days free on the website — no card required. Then pick a plan.
The customer app — Trade, Screener, Replay, Portfolio, Settings. No Admin tab. Figures are from a closed session, not a live ticker. Buy and Sell do not place an order.
PaperTrade
NSE STOCKS & OPTIONS
Order book is empty outside market hours.
The market is closed. NSE trades 09:15–15:30 IST. This page is a sample — it does not place orders.
Sample index levels from a past session — not today’s close.
Sample rows from a past session. Real NSE names and older prices — not today’s movers.
| Symbol | LTP | Chg% | Volume | RVOL | OI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADANIENT | 2,245.50 | +4.82% | 12.4M | 2.41× | 8.21M |
| TATAMOTORS | 678.40 | +3.91% | 28.7M | 1.86× | 14.6M |
| HINDALCO | 612.15 | +3.44% | 9.18M | 1.62× | 6.04M |
| SBIN | 782.30 | +2.87% | 18.3M | 1.21× | 22.9M |
| BAJFINANCE | 7,145.00 | +2.61% | 1.42M | 1.14× | 3.88M |
| Symbol | LTP | Chg% | Volume | RVOL | OI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INFY | 1,512.80 | −2.94% | 8.66M | 1.73× | 11.2M |
| TCS | 3,890.25 | −2.18% | 3.21M | 1.28× | 5.47M |
| HDFCBANK | 1,645.10 | −1.87% | 14.9M | 1.09× | 19.4M |
| RELIANCE | 1,245.60 | −1.42% | 7.55M | 0.94× | 16.8M |
| ICICIBANK | 1,188.45 | −1.21% | 11.0M | 1.02× | 13.6M |
Sample pre-open layout from a past morning. Not today’s 09:00–09:15 session. The Level column names the highest rung the open actually cleared, and a crossing seen later replaces it with the level that was broken and the time that tick arrived.
| Symbol | Prev close | IEP | Chg% | OH/OL | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADANIENT | 2,102.40 | 2,210.00 | +5.12% | OH | R2 2,204.00 ABOVE |
| TATAMOTORS | 647.60 | 671.20 | +3.64% | OH | R1 668.50 ABOVE |
| HINDALCO | 591.20 | 608.40 | +2.91% | P 604.10 ABOVE |
| Symbol | Prev close | IEP | Chg% | OH/OL | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INFY | 1,530.30 | 1,498.50 | −2.08% | OL | S1 1,505.00 BELOW 🔻 BROKE DOWN S1 09:21:14 |
| TCS | 3,929.40 | 3,865.00 | −1.64% | OL | S1 3,880.00 BELOW |
| HDFCBANK | 1,659.00 | 1,638.75 | −1.22% | P 1,644.20 BELOW |
Sample of closed 1-minute candles between 09:15 and 09:30 that finished on the other side of a pivot from where they opened. Volume is compared with the average of the 20 bars before it. This describes what happened; it is not a recommendation.
| Symbol | Time | Close | Level | Volume | Vol avg 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HINDALCO | 09:18 | 606.85 | P 604.10 | 184.2K | 96.4K |
| SBIN | 09:23 | 786.10 | R1 784.50 | 212.7K | 168.3K |
| Symbol | Time | Close | Level | Volume | Vol avg 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INFY | 09:21 | 1,503.20 | S1 1,505.00 | 331.5K | 142.9K |
| NIFTY | 09:19 | 24,388.10 | P 24,402.00 | not measured | -- |
An index carries no volume, so the comparison is withheld rather than printed as zero. In the app a third table tracks which events the very next candle held.
Sample of a closed RELIANCE week. Play, step and practice trades work after you sign in — this page does not step through a session.
| Session | Open | High | Low | Close | Chg% | Range% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 4 Aug | 1,328.40 | 1,341.00 | 1,319.50 | 1,334.20 | +0.44% | 1.62% | |
| Tue 5 Aug | 1,335.00 | 1,338.80 | 1,312.10 | 1,317.00 | −1.29% | 2.00% | |
| Wed 6 Aug | 1,318.50 | 1,326.40 | 1,301.20 | 1,309.75 | −0.55% | 1.91% |
Transport is shown so you can see the desk. It does not play a tape on this page.
Sample of a closed session — the same cash and P&L as the header. Not a live book.
| Symbol | Type | Qty | Avg Cost | Current | Market Value | Unrealized P&L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RELIANCE | Delivery | 50 | ₹1,348.00 | ₹1,317.00 | ₹65,850.00 | −₹1,550.00 |
| Time | Symbol | Type | Side | Qty | Price | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Aug 14:12 | RELIANCE | Delivery | Buy | 50 | ₹1,348.00 | ₹67,400.00 |
Reset and licence controls are in the signed-in app. This page does not change an account.
Live prices after sign-in come from PaperTrade’s feed, or from your own read-only Analytics token. This preview does not store a token.
New accounts get 2 days on the website. Monthly, yearly, or lifetime plans continue website access and unlock Android and Windows.
Quotes, charts and option chains come from the live NSE feed the moment you sign in — there is nothing to connect. Prefer your own connection? Add a read-only Upstox Analytics token, which cannot place orders, and yours is used instead.
Market, limit, stop-loss and target orders, held on the server so a stop still works when your laptop is shut. Intraday and delivery, with intraday squared off automatically at 15:20.
Full option chains with strikes, premiums and correct lot sizes, priced with Black-Scholes so you can see how a premium responds rather than guessing.
Each pattern is scored against what actually happened afterwards on that stock's own history, and shown next to the base rate. A bullish signal winning 54% in a stock that rose 55% of the time is reported as the nothing it is.
Step through a previous day bar by bar and make the decisions again without knowing what came next. The cheapest screen time there is.
Eleven levels, not the usual four — the chart draws exactly the ones the screener computes. A stock is placed on the highest level it has actually cleared, not the line that happens to be nearest, so a name that has run past R2 is not still being described by R1.
Base breakout, double top and bottom, head & shoulders and its inverse, bull and bear flags, cup & handle and its inverse — drawn on screen and scored against that stock's own history. Geometry is accepted only for the exact candles you are looking at, and replay hides them so future bars cannot leak into practice.
Screeners
A list of today's top gainers tells you what already happened. These are built to show you where the activity is while it is still going on, and which levels it is happening at.
Every F&O underlying that has moved more than ±1.25% since the open, ranked and updating through the session. The opening range is where the day's character gets set, and this is what is breaking out of it.
Between 09:00 and 09:15, while the pre-open auction is still running, see where each stock is being matched and what the indicative open looks like before the bell. The clearest fifteen minutes of the day for spotting a gap.
Reads NSE's own pre-open feed directly. NSE blocks most datacenter addresses, so this panel is on the phone, the website and the desktop app — but it only fills when the machine serving it can actually reach NSE.
While the pre-open shortlist is on screen, each name carries where it opened against the ladder, and a BROKE UP or BROKE DOWN tag naming the level and the moment that tick arrived. "P ABOVE" beside "BROKE DOWN R1 09:21:14" is a stock that opened above the pivot, reached R1, and lost it again.
Descriptive on purpose. It says a line was crossed and when — never buy, sell, or a strike to take.
Closed one-minute candles that finished on the other side of a pivot from where they opened, split into levels reclaimed and levels lost, with volume shown against the average of the 20 bars before it. A separate table tracks which of them the very next candle held.
A candle whose instrument reports no volume is marked not measured rather than thin, and anything still waiting on the next candle is pending, not failed.
Not raw volume — a stock that always trades heavily is not news. This ranks by relative volume: today's cumulative volume against that same stock's own median at the same minute of the session. A quiet mid-cap doing four times its usual 10:15 volume outranks a giant doing its normal amount.
When a stock has too little history to say what normal looks like, the scanner reports nothing rather than printing 1.0 and letting you read it as "average". Indices carry no volume at all, so they are excluded rather than shown as zero. A screener is a place to look, not a reason to buy.
An installer, your own database on your own machine, and automatic updates.
Sign in here. Nothing to install.
Add it to your home screen from your phone's browser. The Screener tab is there — movers, RVOL, and pre-open.
After you pay
No waiting list, no drip course. Payment activates the key you already have, and these four screens are waiting.
Live NSE prices, chart with the full pivot ladder and pattern drawings, buy/sell ticket with stop-loss and target. Virtual cash only.
Movers and RVOL while the market is open, the pre-open scan before 09:15, and the level events of the first fifteen minutes.
Chain with the maths shown, lot sizes, and the same order types you will use for real later.
Re-run a past session and see whether the trade you meant to take would have worked.
Same licence on the website, Android and one Windows desktop. See the desk above · How to get a licence
After the 2-day website trial
₹299
per month
Start with Monthly₹1,499
per year
58% less than monthly
₹1,499 a year, against ₹3,588 for twelve months at ₹299 each.
Start with Yearly₹4,000
one-time
47% less over 5 years
₹4,000 once, against ₹7,495 for 5 years of the yearly plan at today's price.
Start with LifetimeThe software is licensed to you personally, not sold. Copying, sharing, reselling or redistributing it is not permitted — see the Terms of Use. Once a key has been issued it cannot be returned, so it is non-refundable; your statutory rights are unaffected.
How to start
Payment opens after you create an account and accept the terms — paying first cannot be matched to a licence.
Payments are handled by Razorpay — your card details are never seen by PaperTrade. Activation is usually automatic within a minute of payment. Stuck, or paid and still locked out? Email us.
PaperTrade is a paper trading simulator for the Indian stock market. You practise NSE stock and options trading with ₹1,00,00,000 of virtual money against live market prices — the same instruments, order types and expiries a real broker gives you, with no real orders placed and no real money at risk. Options paper trading works the same way: build a position from the live option chain, watch the premium decay into expiry, and close it without paying for the lesson. It runs in a browser, and as installed Windows and Android apps.
Most people learn options by losing money on them. PaperTrade gives you the same instruments, the same live prices and the same order types, with none of the consequences. Put on a position, size it wrong, watch what happens, and do it again on Monday.
Every price carries a LIVE or SIMULATED badge, and the app refuses to show a number it cannot stand behind rather than filling the gap with something plausible. If a statistic has too small a sample to mean anything, it says so instead of printing a confident percentage.
No. There is no real money in PaperTrade and it places no real orders. It cannot reach your funds or your holdings. The broker token it uses is read-only and Upstox will refuse an order placed with it.
No. Live prices are included, served through PaperTrade's own market data connection, so you can practise against the real market from the moment you sign in.
You can still connect your own Upstox account if you would rather — it is your own connection, it is not shared with anyone else, and it keeps working independently of ours. The token is read-only, encrypted before it is stored, and never shown back to you.
It will not, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. What a simulator can do is let you learn the mechanics — order types, position sizing, how a premium decays into expiry — without paying tuition to the market. Real trading adds slippage, partial fills, brokerage, taxes and the fact that it is your own money, and none of those are small.
Your email, a hashed password, your virtual portfolio, and — when you activate a licence — which machine it was activated on and which version of the terms you accepted. Your broker token is encrypted. You can ask for your data to be erased once your licence has ended; details are in the Terms of Use.
Prices come from your own broker feed and are best-effort. They can be delayed, wrong or simulated — which is why every one of them carries a badge telling you which it is. Lot sizes are approximations, not exchange-official values.
Keep the real kind until you know what you are doing with it.