paper trading

English

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.

Noun

paper trading

  1. (stock market) A simulated form of trading where individuals practice buying and selling securities, such as stocks or options, using virtual rather than real money.
    Synonyms: demo trading, paper investing, simulated trading
    • 2010, Amit Seru, Tyler Shumway, Noah Stoffman, “Learning by Trading”, in The Review of Financial Studies‎[1], volume 23, number 2, Oxford University Press. Sponsor: The Society for Financial Studies., pages 712–713 fn. 18 of 705–739:
      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.

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Verb

paper trading

  1. present participle and gerund of paper trade
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