paper trading en · NOUN
Etymology
From the habits of less digital eras, when people used pens to record their imagined plans in personal notebooks and later assessed their progress through sources like physical newspapers.
Meanings
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A simulated form of trading where individuals practice buying and selling securities, such as stocks or options, using virtual rather than real money.
Learning from paper trading may be difficult for a number of reasons, including that it requires significant discipline to keep track of hypothetical trades and that transaction prices for hypothetical trades are not observable.
2010, Amit Seru, Tyler Shumway, Noah Stoffman, “Learning by Trading”, in The Review of Financial Studies, volume 23, number 2, Oxford University Press. Sponsor: The Society for Financial Studies., pages 712–713 fn. 18 of 705–739:
Deriveds
Synonyms
demo trading · simulated trading · paper investing
Translations (7)
de Paper-Trading (maintenance of a hypothetical portfolio for learning the stock market) · ru демо-торговля (maintenance of a hypothetical portfolio for learning the stock market) · ru виртуальная торговля (maintenance of a hypothetical portfolio for learning the stock market) · ru бумажная торговля (maintenance of a hypothetical portfolio for learning the stock market) · fi leikkisijoitus (maintenance of a hypothetical portfolio for learning the stock market) · de Demohandel (maintenance of a hypothetical portfolio for learning the stock market) · de Demo-Trading (maintenance of a hypothetical portfolio for learning the stock market)