Using OctoBot Paper Trading to Test Strategies with Simulated Funds
Summary
This article introduces paper trading as a way to run strategies in live market conditions against a virtual portfolio. It describes using simulated funds to explore strategies before committing capital and to continue experimenting without risking real funds. The OctoBot workflow is to create an account, select strategies, choose paper trading and a simulated portfolio, then monitor the bot through the cloud service or app. The article says exchange credentials are not needed for this paper-trading setup.
The discussion concerns access and workflow rather than strategy design or evaluation. It refers to historical results accompanying strategies but presents no specific test results, performance measures, or details on how simulated execution compares with live fills, fees, or slippage. Paper trading can help users observe a strategy under live conditions, but the article does not establish that simulated outcomes will carry over to real trading. Its claims about the service's availability describe OctoBot's offering at publication time.
Key ideas
- Paper trading runs a strategy with virtual funds in live market conditions.
- The described OctoBot setup requires choosing a strategy and a simulated portfolio, then monitoring the bot.
- The article says exchange credentials are unnecessary for its cloud paper-trading workflow.
- It provides no specific performance evidence or analysis of differences between simulated and live execution.
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# Trading virtuel avec OctoBot
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title: "Trading virtuel avec OctoBot"
description: "Test trading strategies risk free with paper trading. Run OctoBot strategies for free with simulated money."
slug: "paper-trading-with-octobot"
date: "2023-11-17"
authors: ["guillaume"]
tags: ["Trading", "Strategy", "OctoBot cloud"]
image: "/images/blog/paper-trading-with-octobot/cover.jpg"
---
# Trading virtuel avec OctoBot
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## Introduction au trading virtuel
Paper trading is service allowing to test trading strategies in live conditions using a virtual portfolio.
By using paper trading, you can easily:
- **Test** the trading strategies you are interested in before using your real funds
- **Experiment** all the trading strategies you are curious to know more about
## La position d'OctoBot's sur le trading virtuel
At OctoBot, transparency is one of our core values. It is the reason why OctoBot is [open source](/guides/octobot) and why each strategy comes with its historical results.
In order to bring this one step further, we decided to make [paper trading](/investing/paper-trading-a-strategy) of trading strategies **free and unlimited**.
While most trading robot services choose to charge for paper trading or limit its duration, we decided to stay true to our ethos and include paper trading to our free services for all users.
This means that when using OctoBot cloud, you can:
1. **Explore**: Test the trading strategy (or strategies !) you are interested in using paper trading
2. **Invest**: Once you find a trading strategy you like, start an OctoBot with your real funds
3. **Optimize**: Keep experimenting other trading strategies risk free with your paper trading OctoBot
## Comment lancer son bot de trading virtuel avec OctoBot ?
As paper trading is using virtual funds, OctoBot cloud doesn't need your exchange credentials to run a paper trading OctoBot.
This means that you can very quickly experiment with any strategy on OctoBot cloud in just 3 steps:
1. Create your [OctoBot](https://www.octobot.cloud/fr) account
2. Select the strategies your want to use
3. Choose paper trading and the simulated portfolio you want to trade with
4. Follow your new OctoBot either from <a href="https://www.octobot.cloud/fr/bots" rel="nofollow">OctoBot cloud</a> or the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drakkarsoftware.octobotapp&utm_source=www.octobot.cloud&utm_media=blog&utm_content=paper-trading" rel="nofollow">OctoBot app</a>Shown in full with attribution under the source's licence. Licence: GPL-3.0
This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.