Demo Accounts — Paper Trading & Strategy Testing
Every exchange below offers a free demo (paper-trading) account with virtual funds. They run through the exact same TVH alert flow as live trading. When you are ready, you go live by swapping the API key. Nothing else in your alerts changes.
Use a demo account to:
- validate a Pine strategy end-to-end before risking capital,
- check symbol formats and order behaviour on a specific exchange,
- rehearse the full TradingView → TVH → exchange path.
Free on TradingView Hub
Demo and paper trading on TVH are always free, with no subscription required. This includes running prop-firm demo accounts. You only need a subscription once you trade a live account.
Which exchanges offer demo?
| Exchange | Demo path | exchange identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Bybit (Spot + Futures) | Demo Account checkbox | bybit / bybit-spot |
| OKX | Demo Account checkbox | okx |
| Binance (Spot + Futures USD-M) | Demo Account checkbox | binance / binance-futures |
The exchange field in your TradeCommand stays identical to live. Demo routing is read from the Demo Account flag on your TVH API key at execution time.
No demo checkbox
Binance Coin-M and BitMEX have no demo path; use their separate testnet identifiers instead. See the Exchange Overview and Exchange Quirks.