How the simulation works

Quotes and candles come from public market-data feeds for US stocks, major crypto pairs, and forex. Data can be delayed by up to a few minutes and occasionally wrong or missing — treat prices as realistic, not exchange-grade. When a live quote is unavailable, the app says so (or shows your cost basis, clearly labeled) rather than inventing a number.

Market orders fill immediately at the current quoted price — no simulated queue, no partial fills. Limit orders fill when the live price crosses your limit. Stop-loss and take-profit levels on leveraged positions are checked continuously against live quotes; when both could have been hit inside the same price bar, the stop is assumed to hit first — the conservative reading.

Real trading costs money that simulators usually ignore. Live paper fills use the quoted price directly, so your live results are slightly optimistic versus a real broker (no spread or commission is charged) — keep that in mind when judging tight-margin strategies.

Backtests replay a scanner's exact live logic bar by bar over recent history. Three rules keep them honest:

• No look-ahead: at every decision point the replay sees only bars that had fully closed at that moment — never data from the future.
• Costs are charged: every backtest trade pays an estimated round-trip spread + slippage (about 1 pip on forex majors, ~0.1% on crypto, ~0.05% on liquid stocks). High-frequency strategies pay it on every trade, exactly as they would in life.
• Stops first: when a bar touches both the stop and the target, the trade is scored as a loss.

Backtests still overstate real-world results — history is one path, and live spreads widen at the worst moments. Use them to compare strategies, not to predict returns.

Your performance chart is a time-weighted return: adding virtual cash never counts as profit — only what your positions actually did. The leaderboard ranks traders by percentage return on the money put in since each account's last reset, valued at live prices. There is no way to buy an asset at a made-up price or backdate a trade.

The AI scanner runs on your own Anthropic API key — Poshkan never bills you for it and can't spend on your behalf. Every AI-proposed trade must pass the same validation as any other signal (real symbol, sane stop/target geometry, price near the live quote, minimum reward:risk) before it can execute, and it always trades inside the risk limits you configure.

Your account needs an email address and a display name — nothing else. No payment details, no broker connection, no real money anywhere in the system. Trades, balances, and returns are 100% virtual; nothing can be won or lost, and nothing on Poshkan is financial advice.