Guide / Paper trading
Paper-trade a strategy
Paper trading runs your strategy against live market data and records every trade it would have taken, without placing real orders. It’s the step between a good backtest and real money.
Send a strategy to paper trading
In the Strategy Sandbox, open a backtested strategy and click Paper Trade → at the top right. Quorum opens the Paper Trade page.
Pick a strategy for each session
The Session manager has a card for each trading session:
| Session | Hours (Eastern) |
|---|---|
| New York | 9:30–17:00 |
| London | 3:00–12:00 |
| Tokyo | 18:00–3:00 (next day) |
Choose one strategy per session. Where sessions overlap, the card further left wins; drag the cards to change the order.
Start the schedule
Click Start session schedule. Quorum swaps to the right strategy as each session opens, and every completed trade is saved to that strategy’s session.
The page shows P&L for the session and all time, maximum drawdown, win rate and the equity curve as trades close. TradingView has to stay open while it runs.
Stop or pause
Pause stops watching for trades and keeps the session open; Resume carries on. Stop schedule ends the sessions; you’ll find them later under Past sessions.
Run more schedules at once
The tabs at the top of the Session manager let you paper trade several schedules side by side. Main chart is the schedule above. Click + Tab to add another: it gets its own New York, London and Tokyo cards, its own Start session schedule, and its own results.
Each tab opens its own TradingView tab in Quorum’s Chrome window, so it shares your TradingView login. Its strategy runs on that tab’s chart, on the strategy’s own market and timeframe, and swaps as its sessions open, just like the main chart.
Click a tab to see its P&L, equity curve and trades. A green dot marks a tab that is running. Stop schedule stops the tab you are looking at; the others keep going.
A strategy can only run in one place at a time, the main chart or one tab.
How many tabs you can run
Quorum runs up to 5 tabs beside the main chart, as many as your TradingView plan streams at once. TradingView cuts the oldest chart when an account streams more than its plan allows, so Quorum stops at the plan’s limit instead:
| TradingView plan | Charts at once | Paper tabs beside the main chart |
|---|---|---|
| Basic (free) | 2 | 1 |
| Essential | 10 | 5 |
| Plus, Premium, Ultimate | 20 or more | 5 |
Quorum reads your plan each time TradingView opens. Settings → Account shows it, and Fetch account status there or at the top of the Session manager checks it again, for example after you upgrade.
If TradingView stops sending a tab data, Quorum stops that tab, keeps its trades and tells you. TradingView allows one session per account, so signing in to it on another device stops the tabs, and Quorum alerts you. Live execution won’t arm while paper tabs are open.