Paper trading is a great way to test strategies. Now, it’s also a way to compete on your own terms.
If you’ve participated in The Leap paper trading competition, you already know the thrill of climbing a leaderboard. With community trading contests, anyone can create that experience. Now you can organize your own trading competition: invite friends, colleagues, or followers, and compete under rules you define.
TradingView provides the technology and tracks every trade. You choose everything else.
Create a contest in minutes
Creating a contest is available on paid plans and trials and only takes a few minutes.
- Visit our community competitions space and click Create contest
- Choose what your participants can trade, from crypto and forex to your own list of symbols (make sure they’re supported in paper trading)
- Set the starting balance, leverage, contest duration (from one hour to four weeks)
- Decide whether the contest is private or open to everyone
Then simply share the invitation link and let the competition begin.
Anyone with a TradingView account can join a contest for free.
Each participant receives a dedicated contest account that exists only for that competition. While the contest is live, traders compete on a shared leaderboard ranked by realized profit. Every contest is a single run with no resets or second chances, so every trading decision matters.
Bring your community together
Community trading contests aren’t just for friends.
If you’re a content creator, educator, or community leader, you can run competitions for your audience without building any infrastructure yourself. Organize a contest around earnings season, a major product launch, or a market trend everyone’s watching, and let your community put their ideas to the test together.
Browse active contests on the Community contests page, or create your own and invite someone worth beating. We’re looking forward to seeing what you’ll build next.