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Paper Trade Mode

This feature allows users to test Hummingbot and simulate trading strategies without risking any actual assets. Enter the command paper_trade to enable this feature.

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Enabling and Disabling

Paper trading mode can be enabled and disabled from the Hummingbot client by doing paper_trade or config paper_trade_enabled.

The top bar shows the status to indicate if paper trading mode is on or off.

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Also shows a reminder that paper trade was enabled when doing a status or history command.

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Adding Paper Trade Balance

By default, the paper trade account has the following tokens and balances which you can see when you run the balance paper command.

>>>  balance paper
Paper account balances:
    Asset    Balance
      DAI  1000.0000
      ETH    10.0000
      ONE  1000.0000
     TUSD  1000.0000
     USDC  1000.0000
     USDQ  1000.0000
     USDT  1000.0000
     WETH    10.0000
      ZRX  1000.0000

When adding balances, specify the asset and balance you want by runing this command balance paper [asset] [amount].

For example, we want to add 0.5 BTC and check our paper account balance to confirm.

>>>  balance paper BTC 0.5
Paper balance for BTC token set to 0.5

>>>  balance paper
Paper account balances:
    Asset    Balance
      BTC     0.5000
      DAI  1000.0000
      ETH    10.0000
      ONE  1000.0000
     TUSD  1000.0000
     USDC  1000.0000
     USDQ  1000.0000
     USDT  1000.0000
     WETH    10.0000
      ZRX  1000.0000
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