DummyTraderWhat Is Paper Trading?
Practice buying and selling with fake money against real prices. Why every beginner should start here.
DummyTrader is a free paper-trading simulator: you get virtual cash to buy and sell stocks, futures and options against real, delayed market prices — so you can learn how trading actually works before putting real money on the line. The guides below explain the ideas you'll meet along the way.
Start here: the fundamentals
How to Read Candlestick Charts
Open, high, low, close — what each candle tells you about who's winning, buyers or sellers.
Market vs Limit Orders
The two orders you'll use most, when each makes sense, and how slippage eats your fills.
Intraday Trading Basics
Buying and selling within a single session — the rules, the risks, and why most beginners lose.
Options & derivatives
How Options Trading Works
Premiums, strikes, expiry and lot sizes — the moving parts of an options contract explained simply.
Call & Put Options Explained
The difference between calls and puts, and the four basic positions every options trader should know.
Options Greeks Explained
Delta, theta, gamma and vega — what actually moves an option's price, in plain English.
Nifty & Bank Nifty Explained
India's two most-traded indices, how they're built, and why traders love their options.
Risk & money management
Leverage & Margin
How borrowing magnifies both gains and losses — and how margin can wipe an account out.
Risk Management for Beginners
Position sizing, stop-losses and the 1% rule — the boring habits that keep traders alive.
Trading Glossary
50+ trading terms — from "ask" to "volatility" — defined in one or two plain sentences.
Ready to practice? Reading only gets you so far. Open the DummyTrader simulator, place a few trades with virtual money, and watch how the concepts above play out live — no signup, no risk.