While it’s easy to learn the basics of trading in the Indian stock market from theory, the same is not the case when it comes to gaining hands-on experience without losing any capital. Paper trading platforms can be of great assistance in this situation. Arthhwise promises to be a market simulator specifically tailored for the Indian market, allowing users to simulate trading without real money, whilst still maintaining abreast of real market prices.
On the Arthhwise website, and the existing Google Play listing, it seems the platform can be more than just a simple stock market simulator. It is a paper trading, market data, portfolio tracking, F&O simulation, competition, learning and dedicated college and corporate trading event platform.
Arthhwise is an interesting option to consider if users wish to try out strategies prior to putting in any actual money.
What Is Arthhwise?
Arthhwise is an educational stock-market simulation platform that is developed based on virtual trading. Users get virtual capital instead of real money and make virtual transactions on various markets.
The platform is currently introducing simulated trading in equity, Futures & Options, commodities and crypto, with a particular stock, crypto, commodity and F&O paper trading feature available for its listing on Google Play. It includes also simulated portfolios, market/limit/stop-loss orders, charts, watch lists and performance analysis.
This is especially important for the beginners or the students and aspiring traders that would like to gain experience in trading before taking up real-money trading.
₹10 Lakh Virtual Capital for Practice
The most basic of all the features about Arthhwise is ₹10,00,000 as the beginning balance.
It offers a considerable amount of space for users to try out various strategies, instead of just a single or two quick trades. For instance, a learner may experiment with portfolio diversification, position sizing, intraday or longer term portfolio allocation without putting their real money at risk.
However, virtual profits should not be taken to be a reflection of actual trading results. Paper trading is not quite a realistic setting for losing real money but is still a helpful setting to practice order execution, portfolio management and risk.
Real-Time Indian Market Experience
The one area in which Arthhwise excels is in its emphasis on targetting a new market in India.
It claims to have real time market data from NSE/BSE which enables users to trade with virtual money while keeping track of the market movement. There is also simulated market activity, charts and portfolio tracking that is geared towards the Indian market.
For an Indian learner this is more beneficial than to practise on a basic simulator taking foreign market as the main theme. Users can get to know instruments and market behaviour that are applicable to the Indian Investing Environment.
Paper trading is an invaluable advantage for traders of all types.
F&O Paper Trading Is a Major Advantage
It features the promotion of options-chain analysis and as well information like implied volatility, Delta and open interest, and also offers simulated price ladders for derivatives trading. It is currently listed on Google Play, and supports F&O paper trading and options-chain analysis.
The app has also been updated recently to include improved derivatives functionality, such as more features for Futures & Options, support for short Futures, expiry and days to expiry tracking for option-chain.
This will provide traders with practice of concepts like:
- Options-chain analysis
- Futures trading
- Long and short positions
- Stop-loss management
- Open-interest analysis
- Options strategy testing
- Derivatives risk management
However, even with their first attempts at F&O, care should be taken. The risks associated with real derivatives trading are very real and cannot be totally replaced by a simulator.
Market, Limit and Stop-Loss Orders
Arthwize isn’t just a place to purchase and sell at an advertised price. It has an app containing market, limit or stop loss orders, providing a much more authentic order management experience.
It’s crucial because grasping the types of orders is an integral component to being a successful trader.
A novice beginner can get a chance to practice the difference between a market order and waiting for a certain price and using a limit order. The stop loss simulation can also help the user to understand the impact of the pre-defined stop loss on risk management.
Portfolio Analytics and Trading Journals
The other advantage is the platform focuses on evaluating the trading performance instead of a profit value.
Arthhwise supports the concept of tracking P&L, win-rate, portfolio analysis and journals.
This will make paper trading more educational. One trader might ask himself/herself after the trade:
- Which strategies did you find effective?
- What number of times did trades make a profit?
- Did having too much capital in one position?
- Did losses hit record lows?
- So weren’t traders getting better profits from their trading?
That feedback mechanism is more beneficial than just watching a virtual portfolio rise and fall.
Trading Competitions Make Learning More Engaging
Arthwise also has an element of “playing around” when it comes to paper trading.
The platform features trading tournaments, leaderboards and private tournaments. This allows the users to compete against other users using virtual currency.
This can be more interesting for students and newer traders. However, competitive leaderboards also can incentivize users to take too many risks to earn maximum quick profits. This is best applied as learning time instead of a show of how much you can bet.
College and Corporate Trading Competitions
College and Corporate Trading Competitions
It features private trading areas for corporate groups, finance clubs and colleges. Private Join code, Live leaderboards, Isolating Virtual portfolios and automated certificates are all available for use by Organisers. The college platform also promises ‘Excel/CSV export,’ as well as ‘event-specific trading environs.
For educational institutions, this can be of great help in Finance fest, Finance clubs, MBA activities and Stock-market competitions.
Financial-literacy training and employee engagement can also be done through a simulated trading league for corporate teams, while allowing employees to remain protected from any financial loss.
Commodities and Multi-Asset Simulation
Arthhwise has gone past the basics of equity paper trading.
It recently added commodity paper trading for markets like Gold, Silver, Crude Oil, Natural Gas and Copper, paper futures trading, as well as intraday/overnight trading modes to its Google Play.
This extension will make the site more valuable for users who want to try out multiple asset classes, instead of just stocks.
Mobile App Experience and Availability
The Android app is available from Google Play and recent development activity and feature updates are available from the listing. The Play Store listing describes the app as an educational market simulator, and explicitly clarifies that the activities are not related to the trading of real money.
That’s significant because Arthhwise is not a brokerage website. It is for learning and simulation purposes only, and not for carrying out actual stock or F&O trades.
It is also a platform that encourages access via iOS, though access method has changed over time; see the latest access method on the official platform page.
What We Like About Arthhwise
Based on the current platform information, there are positive aspects to note:
The first thing is that it’s India centric. The NSE/BSE markets have been highlighted, which makes it more relevant for Indian traders.
Second, it has more features than the standard stock simulation. A lot more practice is available with F&O, information on options chain, simulated order types, analytics and commodities.
Third, the competition system is an appropriate system for education. Instead of manual spreadsheets for colleges/ organisations to complete, they can define structured trading events.
Last but not least, the platform is continually developing. In the last few Play Store updates, there is no indicator of a washed-out simulator or leaving it alone, but the development of F&O and commodity functionality continues.
Who Should Use Arthhwise?
- Stock-market beginners learning how orders and portfolios work
- Students studying finance, markets or investing
- Aspiring traders testing strategies before risking capital
- F&O learners wanting to practise derivatives mechanics
- Active traders experimenting with new ideas
- Finance clubs and colleges organising trading competitions
- Corporate teams running financial-literacy or trading simulations
It is not suitable for those who want to have an actual brokerage account as no real-money trading is done with Arthwis.
Arthhwise Review: Our Verdict
Now, Arthwize is not just a virtual stock-picking game; it’s a more comprehensive platform for Indian paper trading and market simulation.
Unlike just a paper trading app, its ₹10 lakh virtual capital, Indian market data, simulated equity/f&o trading, options analysis, order types, portfolio analytics, competitions and institutional style event tools provide a wider range of functionality.
The commodity and F&O additions are noteworthy for equity traders that wish to go beyond simple trading. Meanwhile, novices should not take their place in the leaderboard as proof of success in real life.
