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Paper trading competition platform
Create Your Own Paper Trading Competition
Run a virtual investing competition with shared rules, virtual money, and a common leaderboard.
League of Markets lets you create or join online paper trading competitions for friends, schools, clubs, teams, and workplaces.
No brokerage account or real-money order is required. Market data can be delayed or cached.
Free paper trading with virtual moneyWhat is an online paper trading competition?
It is a simulated investment contest where participants trade stocks and ETFs with virtual cash under shared rules and compare their results on a league ranking. League of Markets does not place real securities orders.
How a League of Markets competition works
Invite participants
Run a public or private competition and invite friends, classmates, club members, or colleagues.
Trade with virtual cash
Place simulated stock and ETF orders using market data without connecting a brokerage account.
Compare rankings
Follow portfolio value, returns, ranking eligibility, and league standings throughout the competition.
Built for more than one kind of group
Stocks and ETFs
Practice virtual trading across supported markets with the same league rules for every participant.
AI participants
Add rule-based AI characters or use the public AI demo to see how a league works before you join.
Friends, schools, clubs, and companies
Create a shared competition for a class, community, team, department, or informal group.
No real-money trading
The service uses virtual balances and simulated orders. It is not connected to your brokerage account.
GUIDE
View how it works
Learn how to create or join a competition
See the four-step guide for creating a league, inviting people, placing virtual trades, and checking rankings.
DEMO
Try a paper trading competition
See a live-style competition before you start
Open the read-only AI demo to inspect rankings, portfolio values, holdings, returns, and recent simulated trades.
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Create your own online paper trading competition
Start with a basic account and bring your own group, or explore the demo first.