Core concepts
Pretend-money portfolios
A pretend-money portfolio follows a rule from today with money that does not exist, so you can watch what it does next without risking anything.
What it is
Tracking starts a rule today with 100,000 pretend US dollars. Each US trading day it holds what the rule says, at that day's prices, with trading costs.
How it differs from a test
A test replays the past, where every price was already known. A pretend-money portfolio only ever uses prices that arrive after it started, so nothing in it could have been tuned to them.
Does the cash add up?
Each portfolio shows a check: the starting cash, minus what was bought and the costs, plus what was sold, the dividends and the interest, must equal the cash it holds. A mismatch is shown as an alert, never hidden.
What it is not
- Not real money: no order reaches a broker.
- Not a long record: a few weeks or months of a rule says little on its own.
- Tracking follows rules on US-listed shares and funds, in US dollars.
Related
- Feature guidesPortfolios and trackingEverything that holds pretend money for you, in one list: the rules you track, your paper portfolios and any practice account you connected.
- Use casePractise with pretend moneyFollow a rule from today with pretend money and see what it does with prices it has never seen.
- Core conceptsPractice broker accountsA practice account holds pretend money at a real broker. Quantis Trade can connect one. It cannot connect a real-money account.
- Learn pathBeyond one shareAt the end you can look a company up, ask about the wider market, and name two rules that hold more than one share.
These pages describe how Quantis Trade works and what its tests show about the past. They are not forecasts and not advice.