Designed for people completely new to trading, novice traders (and may even be of use to more experienced traders), Simulator Trading offers a simulated trading platform that can help you to understand the principles of trading and the movement of price without requiring a market data feed or brokerage account.

The simulator allows the playback of REAL stock price data for multiple stocks with simulated Level II and Time & Sales screens.

Basic trading functionality is incorporated that allows for Market, Limit, Stop Market and Stop Limit orders to be placed using a virtual trading account.

Key functionality is ...

• Price charting of (NASDAQ) stocks using OHLC bars, candlesticks and line on close.
• NEW - Now handles Futures
• Selection of time frames from 1 minute to Monthly.
• Bar width and height scaling in each chart panel.
• Provides the ability to draw lines (vertical, horizontal, trend), Fibonacci retracement lines, rectangles, ellipses and text and to format them.
• Simple indicators: Volume plus average, MACD, Moving Averages (Simple and Exponential) and formatting options.
• NEW - Slow Stochastic, Average True Range and Commodity Channel Index indicators.
• Allow playback of data from any historic price bar, at varying speeds.
• Recreation of intrabar “price action”.
• Display of simulated “price action” on Level II, Time & Sales during playback.
• Allows simulated buying and selling using a “virtual trading account”, with user specified commissions and costs per trade applied.
• Allows screen layout to be saved as a workspace for later loading.

Included in the download is...

• Simulator Trading software.
• 20 stock data sets with 6 months of data from June 9th, 2008 ($COMPX, AMGN, AMLN, AMZN, CA, CSCO, DTV, EBAY, ERTS, FLIR, FWLT, HSIC, INTU, JOYG, KLAC, LVLT, NVDA, PDCO, SNDK, VRSN).
• User Guide.
• Trading Primer guide - basic terms and principles of trading for the novice.

Also available for download are 4 extra stock data sets with 6 months data from June 9th, 2008 and a Futures pack with 1 years worth of data...

• Pack 1: (AAPL, ADBE, ADSK, AKAM, ALTR, AMAT, APOL, ATVI, BBBY, BIDU, BIIB, BRCM, CDNS, CELG, CEPH, CHKP, CHRW, CMCSA, COST, CTAS).
• Pack 2: (CTSH, CTXS, DELL, DISCA, DISH, ESRX, EXPD, EXPE, FAST, FISV, FLEX, FMCN, GENZ, GILD, GOOG, GRMN, HANS, HOLX, IACI, INFY).
• Pack 3: (INTC, ISRG, JAVA, JNPR, LAMR, LBTYA, LEAP, LINTA, LLTC, LOGI, LRCX, MCHP, MICC, MRVL, MSFT, NIHD, NTAP, ORCL, PAYX, PCAR).
• Pack 4: (PETM, QCOM, RIMM, RYAAY, SBUX, SHLD, SIAL, SIRI, SPLS, SRCL, STLD, STX, SYMC, TEVA, VMED, VRTX, WFMI, WYNN, XLNX, XRAY, YHOO).
• Futures Pack: (Nasdaq, S&P E-Mini. 24 hour and Standard session data packs)

Last update 11th February 2009