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The Paper Trading Lab lets you run any ViperX strategy engine against a real-time simulated price feed using a virtual $10,000 balance. Nothing touches the blockchain and no real capital is at stake, making it the ideal first stop before you commit funds to Solana Devnet. Use it to verify that your chosen strategy parameters produce the behavior you expect, watch key performance metrics update in real time, and build confidence before moving to the next stage of the deployment pipeline.

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The Three-Stage Deployment Pipeline

Every ViperX agent follows the same progression from safe simulation to verified live trading. Paper trading is Stage 1 — the safest way to start.

① Paper Trading

Simulated execution against a virtual $10,000 balance. No wallet required, no on-chain activity.

② Solana Devnet

Real on-chain transactions using testnet tokens. Fills are indexed and count toward your 50-fill verification requirement.

③ Verified Live Performance

Mainnet deployment with a public leaderboard ranking earned through 50+ independently verified fills.
Paper trades are entirely off-chain simulations. They do not count toward the 50 independently verified on-chain fills required for a leaderboard ranking. To start accumulating verified fills, deploy your agent to Solana Devnet (Stage 2).

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How to Use the Paper Trading Lab

1

Choose a Strategy Engine

Select one of the three available strategy engines from the Strategy dropdown:

Momentum Trend Follower

Detects directional price momentum over a rolling window and opens long or short positions on threshold breakouts.

RSI Mean Reversion

Monitors the Relative Strength Index and buys oversold dips (RSI ≤ 35) while shorting overbought spikes (RSI ≥ 65).

Grid Market Maker

Places automated buy-low and sell-high orders across a dynamic grid around the current market price.
2

Set Position Size (USD)

Enter a Position Size in the USD field. This controls the notional value of each simulated order the strategy places. Start with a size that reflects what you plan to use on Devnet so that simulated results translate meaningfully.
3

Adjust Strategy Parameters

Fine-tune the strategy-specific parameters that appear beneath the position size field:
4

Click Start to Begin the Simulation

Click ▶ Start to begin the paper trading session. The strategy engine starts polling the simulated SOL-PERP price feed every 15 seconds — the same tick rate used by the live execution runtime — and places virtual orders whenever its signal conditions are met.
5

Monitor the Live Metrics Panel

Watch the four key metrics update in real time as simulated trades execute:

Total Equity

The current value of your virtual portfolio, starting at $10,000 and fluctuating with open and closed positions.

Return %

Percentage gain or loss relative to the $10,000 starting balance. A quick read on overall strategy profitability.

Trades

Total number of simulated fills executed since the session started. Aim for at least 50 before drawing conclusions.

Win Rate

Proportion of closed trades that ended in profit. Used alongside Return % to assess strategy consistency.
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Reset or Proceed

  • Click Reset at any time to wipe all session data and start fresh with a clean $10,000 balance — useful for testing a different parameter combination.
  • When you’re satisfied with the results, click Deploy on Solana Devnet to advance to Stage 2 of the pipeline and begin accumulating real verified fills.

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What the Paper Trading Lab Does Not Validate

Paper trading reproduces your strategy’s signal logic faithfully, but it cannot replicate every condition you will encounter on-chain. Keep these limitations in mind before advancing to Devnet:
The following real-world conditions are not modelled in the Paper Trading Lab. Always treat paper results as a directional signal, not a precise forecast of live performance.
  • Real slippage — orders fill at the exact simulated price; live DEX fills will slip based on order book depth.
  • Liquidity constraints — large position sizes may not fill completely in thin markets.
  • On-chain gas costs — no transaction fees are charged during paper sessions; Devnet and Mainnet incur gas.
  • Fill latency — the simulation assumes instant fills; live chain finality adds variable confirmation time.

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Supported Markets

The Paper Trading Lab currently simulates the SOL-PERP perpetual market. Additional markets (BTC-PERP, ETH-PERP) are available in the Backtest Lab and will be added to the Paper Lab in a future release.
Run at least 50 paper trades before advancing to Devnet. Fifty trades gives each strategy engine enough signal cycles to reveal edge cases — parameter settings that look great after 10 trades often degrade with more data. A larger sample also makes it easier to compare win rate and return consistency across different configurations.