Your first day on the GPS-AUTOTRADE simulator, step by step

Before you begin: what the simulator is

The simulator is a practice market. You see real stock prices and real charts, but every trade you place uses pretend money. Nothing you do can lose (or win) real money.

There are three versions. Each one works the same way and has the same buttons:

Inside each tool there are two modules:

• Technical Analysis — live lists, charts, Practice Mode and paper trading. This is the “trading simulator” part and most of this guide.
• Fundamental Analysis — sectors, company scores, stock reports and comparisons. Covered in Step 13.

Create your account

It takes about two minutes. You need an email address and a mobile number.

1. Press REGISTER at the top of this page and choose the tool you want to learn with.
2. Fill in your first name, last name, email, a password and your year of birth (you must be 18 or older). Tick the small robot check and press REGISTER.
3. We email you a 6-digit code. Type it in, together with your mobile number with country code (for example +91 for India). Your free days start at that moment.
4. You are taken to the Dashboard. Well done — you are in.

The Dashboard: your home page

The Dashboard shows how many free days you have left and gives you two big cards.

1. Click Technical Analysis → Open module →. The first time, it takes up to a minute to load all the prices. You land on your watchlist with a chart on the right.

The top row of buttons

At the very top you see the market at a glance, and just under it a row of buttons. This is how it looks:

Each one, explained:

The left panel: ready-made lists of stocks

The left panel is a library of lists. Each list picks out stocks that match one idea, for example “biggest risers today”.

Each group heading has its own small button to open or close it:

1. Click Show next to Price & Volume.
2. Click Top Gainers. The table on the right now lists only today's biggest risers.
3. Click any column title to sort by it. Click a row to open that stock.
4. Click ⌂ Default page to go back to your watchlist.

Your watchlists

A watchlist is your own shortlist of stocks to follow. You can have several, like “Banks” or “Swing ideas”.

1. Press + New list and name it My first list.
2. In + Add symbol… type the first letters of a company you know and pick it. Add four or five more.
3. Click a stock name: its chart opens on the right.

The chart

Click any stock and its candle chart appears on the right. Each candle is one slice of time: green if the price rose during it, red if it fell.

BULLISH and BEARISH reads (Strategy Bias)

The tool watches four well-known intraday strategies on every stock and tells you when they line up.

• The four strategies: opening-range breakout (9:15–9:30), EMA + gap (15-min), reversal day, and gap + VWAP (15-min). Each has its own BULLISH and BEARISH list under Default Strategies.
• All Live Signals lists every stock with at least one strategy active. Agree shows how many of the four agree.
• Strategy Bias gives one read per stock: A = all four agree, B = three agree and the fourth is silent. BULLISH also needs the price above today's VWAP; BEARISH below it. New reads appear only between 9:30 and 14:30.
• Market filter (drop-down above the BIAS column): when NIFTY 50 is up, BEARISH reads are skipped; when it is down, BULLISH reads are skipped.
• Stock-moving filter: only show a read if the stock has already moved a set amount (off / 1% / 1.5% / 2%).

Practice the Market: replay a real day

The real market is only open a few hours a day. Practice Mode lets you replay a real past day, candle by candle, whenever you like.

1. Click 🎯 Practice the Market.
2. A list of past trading days opens (up to the last 100). Pick a day.
3. Press Start practice session. The whole tool switches to that day: prices, lists, charts, Strategy Bias and the index box.
4. A purple banner shows the date and the pretend clock:
   Practice Mode — replaying 7 Oct, simulated time 09:16  Exit Practice
   and the green tag 🎯 PRACTICE · 7 Oct · 09:16 stays on screen.
5. New 5-minute candles arrive at the real pace (about one every 5 minutes). The chart starts with the day before already drawn, so it looks like a normal chart.
6. Place practice orders exactly as in Step 9. They go into a separate Practice account, so your normal paper-trading record is not touched.
7. Press Exit Practice on the banner to return to the live market at any time.

Paper trading: practise placing orders

Paper trading is a pretend trading account with pretend money (for example ₹10,00,000). No broker and no real orders.

Your first practice order, step by step

1. Open a stock's chart and press BUY or SELL (or the small B / S on a watchlist row). The two buttons always look the same; the tool never suggests which to press.
2. The order window opens. Choose the product:
   MISCNC   MIS = intraday (closed automatically at 15:15). CNC = carry it to the next days.
3. Choose the order type:
   MARKETLIMITSLSL-M
   • MARKET — fills straight away at the latest price.
   • LIMIT — waits until the price reaches your price.
   • SL-M — waits for a trigger price, then fills at whatever the price is.
   • SL — needs a trigger and a limit price; after the trigger it acts like a LIMIT order.
4. Enter the quantity. Optionally set a stop-loss and a target. The window shows the margin needed and the risk : reward.
5. Press the big button at the bottom: BUY or SELL.
6. A pop-up confirms “order is placed”. A MARKET order is filled at once and a second pop-up says “executed”.

Positions and Orders

Trade Journal

Every closed practice trade is recorded here, with tiles for win rate, average win, average loss and total.

Filter by period (in Practice Mode the first button reads Practice day) and download the journal to open in Excel.

Funds & Settings

Backtest: how would the reads have done?

Backtesting replays about 60 past days and checks what would have happened if you had followed every Strategy Bias read.

1. Press Backtest ↗ in the top row.
2. Optionally change the stop-loss %, target %, amount, slippage, filters and entry time window.
3. Press Run backtest. The first run of the day takes 1–3 minutes.
4. Read the results: win rate, profit / loss, profit factor, drawdown, longest losing streak, an equity curve and every trade. Download CSV saves them.
5. Change one setting at a time and run again to see what it changes.

My Strategies (add-on)

Build your own BULLISH / BEARISH rule instead of the four ready-made ones. This is an add-on; if the page shows a locked message, contact support.

1. Open My Strategies from the left panel. It opens in a new tab.
2. Pick one of 19 strategy types (moving averages, momentum, breakouts, VWAP / volume, candle patterns) and fill in its numbers.
3. Choose a timeframe: 5-min, 15-min or Daily. Optionally add extra conditions (trend filter, time window, second timeframe, cool-off, market filter).
4. Press Save. The page then watches your stocks and shows the latest signal, refreshed about every 20 seconds.
5. Switch a saved strategy on / off, Edit it, or Delete it from the list below the builder.
6. Use the Backtest part of the page to test your own rules (alone, or combined with AND / OR).

Searching for a stock

1. Click the Search symbol… box above any table.
2. Type one or two letters. A drop-down shows matching names, best matches first.
3. Click a name, or use ↑ ↓ and Enter. Esc closes the list. Clear the box to see all stocks again.

Fundamental Analysis: understanding companies

From the Dashboard open Fundamental Analysis. Here you study sectors and companies rather than charts.

Page 1 — Sector briefing

Page 2 — Equity screener

The picks tray and reports

Sector Rotation (RRG) chart

This chart shows which sectors are gaining strength against the market and which are fading. Each sector moves through four corners: Leading, Weakening, Lagging and Improving.

Using it on a phone

On a phone the tool works like a broker app, with a tab bar at the bottom.

• Watchlist / Chart / Positions / Orders — jump straight to that screen.
• More — Funds & Settings, Trade Journal and Overview / All Scans.
• The left panel opens as a drawer; close it with ✕ Hide left pane.
• Press ▲ Hide to fit more rows on the small screen.

A simple 7-day plan for complete beginners