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Paper trading · no real money

Charting, bots and risk —
without risking a single cent.

A full-featured crypto terminal in your browser: multi-timeframe charts from two exchanges, leveraged paper trading with complete mechanics and eight trading bots you can configure, backtest and run. Plus heatmaps, radar and alerts. All as a simulation.

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Grab it and spin it — it keeps turning on its own

Important: Paper trading only. No real money, no investment advice. Backtest figures are simulated and no promise for the future. Read the risk disclosure →
The platform

A full-featured terminal in your browser

Pro charting, indicators and tools, combined with paper trading, bots, heatmaps and alerts. Everything saved on the server, ready to go.

Pro charting

Fast charts based on lightweight-charts — smooth, precise, in a dark pro look.

  • Six chart types: candles, hollow, bars, line, Heikin-Ashi, vector
  • 23 timeframes from one second to one month
  • MEXC and Binance, freely switchable — live and history

Indicators

Twelve indicators, each with its own settings and its own pane.

  • RSI, MACD, volume, ATR, SMA, EMA, Bollinger Bands
  • VWAP, Supertrend, Donchian channel
  • Oscillator based on the Ehlers SuperSmoother filter
  • Bot score — the engine's rating as a line in the chart

Drawing tools

43 tools, several at once, fully editable.

  • Trend lines, Fibonacci, Gann, projections, position tools
  • Measuring and ruler tool, magnet to OHLC, undo/redo
  • Drawings are stored on the server — back again on another device

Layouts & watchlist

Keep an eye on several markets at once and save your view.

  • Up to 18 charts in one window, with a synchronised crosshair
  • Watchlist with live prices and daily change
  • Layouts and settings saved on the server

Paper trading

Practise leveraged trading — with the full mechanics, but without real risk.

  • Leverage, Isolated and Cross, limit orders
  • Stop, target and up to five partial-profit levels
  • Liquidation calculation and a $10,000 demo account
  • Draw lines in the chart instead of typing numbers

Bar replay

Play back the history like a film — and practise without risking money.

  • Pick a date or click the starting point directly in the chart
  • Play, pause, candle by candle forward, adjustable speed
  • Every real trade as a tick in the chart — buys green, sells red

Eight trading bots

Configure, backtest, optimise — and run it as a simulation.

  • Grid, Dynamic Grid, DCA, Confluence, Scout, Donchian, Quorum, Trend Guard
  • Backtest and parameter search at the push of a button
  • Each type as its own background service
To the eight bots

Market overview

The whole market at a glance — and where liquidations might be waiting.

  • Market heatmap: all coins by volume and price change
  • Liquidation heatmap, estimated from open interest, 12 hours to 2 years
  • Radar: which bot has its weather right now
  • Sentiment: Fear & Greed and liquidations of the last 24 hours

Alerts

The server keeps watch — even when the terminal is closed.

  • Price, trend line or range directly in the chart
  • Once, every time or only on candle close
  • Notification, 20 sounds and email
Pro charting Demonstration · simulated data

Once logged in

This is what your terminal looks like — on every screen

No graphics, no montage: real recordings with a demo account. Four charts side by side on the big screen, the bot setup on the laptop, leveraged trading on the tablet, the app on the phone.

The terminal in action

Click by click through the terminal

Keep scrolling: the pointer opens the menus and shows what is behind them — layouts, timeframes, chart types, indicators, tools, the three panels, bots, Command Center, replay and time bar.

The chart

Two exchanges, 23 timeframes, one picture

MEXC and Binance run separately down to the seconds level — both with real volume from the trade stream instead of approximations. You switch in the chart.

BTC / USDT Demo data —
Live rating30m
Trend—
Direction—
RSI—
Prob.—
Agreement—
Demo accountUSDT
Balance10.000
Equity10.000
Leverage25×
Open position±0

Turn the leverage up and watch how the same price move pulls the result apart — in both directions.

Demonstration with simulated data — the real prices run in the terminal.

This is what a bot trade looks like in the chart Entry → target / stop

The bot draws every trade into the chart: a blue arrow at the entry, a green dot at the target, a red one at the stop — with the percentage. That is exactly how you see it in the terminal, also back through the history. Two winners, one loser — that is what trading looks like.

Market overview

The whole market at a glance

Two heatmaps, the radar and the sentiment: what is going on right now, where liquidations might be waiting and which bot has its weather right now.

Market heatmap on the right in the terminal: Majors, Meme and other coins as tiles, green when up, red when down
Real recording · market heatmap, 24 hours

Market heatmap

Every coin a tile: large when it is heavily traded, green or red by price change.

  • All coins in three baskets: Majors, Meme and all others
  • Change over 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days
  • One click brings the coin into the chart
  • The chart coin's tile ticks in step with the chart
Sentiment card: Fear and Greed, liquidations of the last 24 hours long and short
Sentiment below the watchlist

Liquidation heatmap ESTIMATE

Estimated from Binance's open interest and buy and sell flow: where many positions were opened, their liquidation prices sit at the usual leverage of 10× to 100×. Once the price reaches a level, it is gone.

  • Period from 12 hours to 2 years
  • Zoom and pan like in the candle chart, crosshair with price and amount
  • Real liquidations as dots on top
  • Side map: what is still waiting at each price level, long below, short above
An estimate, not exchange data. No exchange publishes where its traders' liquidation prices are. So we compared the estimate with real liquidations from OKX: on all five coins tested, it predicted when and on which side liquidations happen clearly better than the price movement alone. So far one day has been tested; we are repeating the cross-check with our own recordings over several weeks.
Liquidation heatmap BTC over 7 days: candles, coloured bands of estimated liquidations, crosshair with label
Real recording · liquidation heatmap BTC, 7 days

Radar

When does which bot have its weather?

The radar does not predict prices. It reads sensors that are not contained in the price and shows whether the conditions under which a bot used to earn money are present right now.

  • Bot weather: good, mixed, bad or no verdict, for every bot
  • Buying pressure BTC: are impatient traders buying or selling, compared with the past year
  • For information: Fear & Greed, open interest, funding and liquidations
Tests26
Held up after cross-check1
Demo test until01/2027
A display, not a trading signal. In our study only one sensor predicted anything: buying pressure on BTC, for the Donchian bot on 4h, in the learning and test period and cross-checked with ETH. A demo test running until January 2027 checks whether that holds in the future. The radar changes nothing about your bots.

Demonstration · simulated data. The bounds of the thirds slide with the past year.

Radar in the Command Center: bot weather for each bot, below it the sensors buying pressure and long/short with learning and test period
Real recording · radar in the Command Center
Alerts

The server keeps watch, even when you are away

Set an alert on a price, a trend line or a range. The server checks every single trade, not just minute candles.

Set on

  • Price line
  • Trend line, also beyond its end
  • Range (rectangle)

How often

  • Once or every time
  • Only on candle close
  • Valid with no end, today or one week

How you find out

  • The notification stays until you click it
  • 20 sounds, repeated if you like
  • Email, at most 30 per hour

Coming later

  • Phone notification
  • Alerts for bots and paper trading
  • Market alerts such as radar and liquidation wave
Alert window: price, crosses upward, once, no end, notification, sound, email, message
Real recording · creating a price alert
Automation

Eight bots, eight ways of thinking

Each one runs as its own background service with its own check interval. All are configured through forms, can be backtested and trade exclusively in simulation.

Grid

Sideways market

Lays a price grid over the market and trades the gaps: buys at the lower lines, sells at the upper ones. It lives from fluctuation, not from direction.

Foundation
Price grid, fixed lines
Suits
Calm sideways phases
  • Upper and lower bound and number of lines freely selectable
  • Result of each open grid line visible separately
  • Own service, checks every two seconds

The price swings; at every grid line it buys or sells.

All about the Grid bot

Dynamic Grid

Rising marketDEMO ONLY

A grid whose net comes along. When the price rises above the top line, everything is sold — then the net moves up, at no cost, because nothing is open. If the price falls below the net, a second net of the same width can open directly below, and it closes as soon as the upper one trades again.

Foundation
Price grid, moves along
Suits
Large coins in an uptrend
  • Step when moving: 1 to 100 % of the net width
  • Up to nine tiered nets below, with templates
  • Spacing in percent: even after a tenfold rise, every round stays above its costs

The price breaks out at the top and the net moves up. If it falls, net 2 opens below.

Tested on the Majors — the twelve large coins, with leverage 1 and no liquidation. On smaller coins it did not hold up. So far it only runs in the demo account.
All about the Dynamic Grid

DCA

Entry spread

Does not buy all at once but in steps. Each step moves the average price of the position — so the counter-move needed to turn the position into profit becomes smaller.

Foundation
Follow-up buy levels
Suits
Pullbacks in an uptrend
  • Several levels with their own spacing and size factor
  • Average price is updated continuously
  • Fully reproduced in the demo account

Every follow-up buy pulls the average line down.

All about the DCA bot

Confluence Engine

Indicator bundling

Adds several signals up into one number: MACD, RSI and the Ehlers SuperSmoother form a score. It only trades when that is clear enough — not on every bit of noise.

Foundation
MACD, RSI, Ehlers
Suits
Clear impulse moves
  • Higher timeframe filters against the higher trend
  • Parameter search across timeframes and thresholds
  • Time stop closes positions that stay open too long

Three indicators add up to a score — it only trades above the threshold.

All about the Confluence Engine bot

Scout Engine

Multi-timeframe

Looks at three timeframes at once: the trading level for the entry, a middle one for the tendency, a high one for the trend. The stop follows the measured volatility instead of a fixed percentage.

Foundation
VWAP, EMA, RSI, ATR
Suits
Trends with pullbacks
  • Entry only when the timeframes agree
  • ATR stop, capped between 0.1 and 1.5 percent
  • Trailing target and break-even protection

Three timeframes at once. Entry only when all of them point the same way.

All about the Scout Engine bot

Donchian Channel

Trend following

Watches the highest high and the lowest low of the last N periods. When the price breaks out of this channel, that counts as the start of a trend. A classic, very simple method — and robust precisely because of that.

Foundation
Channel breakout
Suits
Higher timeframes
  • Channel length, trailing and volume filter adjustable
  • Trend filter prevents entries against the direction
  • Few entries, but longer holding times

As long as the price stays inside the channel, nothing happens. The breakout triggers the entry.

All about the Donchian Channel bot

Quorum Engine

Ensemble

Five opinions instead of one: several independent sub-strategies assess the situation, and it only trades with a sufficient majority. Whoever was wrong recently gets less weight.

Foundation
Five weighted experts
Suits
Changing market phases
  • The majority threshold decides how much the experts must agree
  • Weights adapt to the most recent hit rate
  • Every single opinion stays traceable in the log

Five experts vote. Without a majority, nothing is traded.

All about the Quorum Engine bot

Trend Guard

Trend + pullback

Two halves, one direction: one follows the trend — in as long as the price is above its EMA and BTC plays along. The other buys short pullbacks in the uptrend and sells on the first recovery. Long only, ideally on all twelve large coins at once.

Foundation
EMA trend, RSI(2), BTC market weather
Suits
Longer upward phases
  • Decides at the candle close — 4h, 6h, 12h and 1d held up
  • Market weather: only in when BTC is above its EMA (10 to 300, default 200)
  • No fixed stop: the exit is the rule itself

The green background means the trend half is in; ▲ marks a pullback buy, ● the recovery.

All about the Trend Guard
Bot window

One window for all bots

The robot button at the top opens the list of all bots, also with the B key. Search, filter, compare: every row says what our study found about this bot, even when it is nothing good.

Search

  • By name, idea or coin: “trend”, “breakout”, “BTC”
  • Also your running bots and drafts

Study badge

  • Green: holds up, with the condition stated
  • Yellow: only under certain conditions
  • Red: does not hold up after costs

Presets

  • Expanding a bot shows the values from the study
  • ★ is the recommendation
  • One click opens the setup with these values

Filters

  • Only what holds up according to the study
  • Only what can run live
  • Only what can also go short
The bot window in the terminal: search, categories, study badge per bot, expanded presets
Real recording · bot window in the terminal
Step by step

Your first bot — in six questions

The beginner setup asks one thing after another; costs and details stay on default until you need them. The six questions are the same for all eight bots — shown here with the Trend Guard.

  1. 1 Choose a bot

    Eight bots, one setup

    The robot button at the top opens the bot window: search, filters and the study badge for every bot. Expand a bot to see the presets; one click opens the setup with these values.

    • Grid, Dynamic Grid and DCA for nets and buying the dip
    • Confluence, Scout, Donchian, Quorum for signals
    • Trend Guard: trend + pullback, long only
  2. 2 Question 1 · What to trade?

    Pick a coin, give it a name

    On the right you see “This bot” from the start — everything you are setting up, at a glance. Plus the timeframe; the direction is set by the Trend Guard: long only.

  3. 3 Question 2 · How much?

    Margin, leverage, buffer

    You enter your own margin and the leverage. Below, the setup calculates right away: volume, at which price it would be liquidated and how much of the bot account is committed.

  4. 4 Question 3 · How to trade?

    Three presets instead of many fields

    Calm, Standard or Fast — one click is enough. Right below it shows exactly how this setting would have done on the coin over the last twelve months. You can change single values in “Expert” mode.

  5. 5 Question 4 · When to get out?

    The exit — clearly named

    Stop-loss, target, trailing — or, as with the Trend Guard, the rule itself. What does not apply to a bot is shown crossed out instead of silently missing.

  6. 6 Question 5 · Test first

    One click runs all the numbers

    Pick a period, then one button calculates fact sheet, backtest and basket in turn — with real prices, fees and slippage as measured live.

  7. 7 The verdict

    One sentence that tells you where things stand

    Holds the setting — or not. Below it the fact sheet: profit, hit rate, deepest drawdown, worst streak and how much leverage would still be safe.

  8. 8 The basket

    The same setting on twelve coins

    If it only works on one market, you will see it here — before real money is involved. Each row can be opened as a curve.

  9. 9 Question 6 · Start

    You start exactly what was tested

    As a demo bot with play money — or live through your own exchange keys, with confirmation, emergency stop and limits.

  10. 10 It runs

    The card shows what it is thinking right now

    In the bots panel: trend half in or out, market weather, RSI(2), key data. Pause, edit or stop at any time.

Live means real money. This mode exists, but it is not what this platform is for. Let a bot run in demo mode for weeks first and watch how it behaves in bad phases — not just in good ones.

Guide for each of the eight bots

Paper trading

From the order to the exit

The mechanics are fully rebuilt — margin, leverage, liquidation, partial profits. Only the money is not real.

Limit order → entry → targetLONG · 25×

What really happens

  • Limit order: the margin is only committed when the price reaches the order — not when you place it.
  • Isolated or Cross: either only the position margin is at stake, or the whole account.
  • Partial profits: up to five levels, each closes a share and releases the margin tied to it.
  • Liquidation: calculated and shown continuously, before it happens.
  • Server-side: stop, take-profit and liquidation work even with the browser closed.
Try it in the demo account
Understanding risk

What leverage really does

Set volatility, margin and leverage and see how stop, target, fees and distance to liquidation follow from them. The same calculation is behind every position in the terminal.

More on risk: costs, liquidation, what the demo does not show →

The path of an order

From the terminal to the exchange

In demo mode the path ends in the simulated account. Anyone who wants to trade for real later stores exchange keys — they are kept encrypted and never leave the server.

Terminal
You set the rules
Key bridge
Keys encrypted
Exchange
MEXC / OKX
Under the hood

It keeps running, even when you are away

Data feeders, bot services, aggregators and a reconciliation service run around the clock. That is why stop and take-profit work even with the browser closed.

foundlux@server: ~/secure · daemons.log ● live

Sample output for illustration.

The methodology

No black-box hocus-pocus

What is behind the ratings is laid out openly here. Check it — that is worth more than any profit figure.

Confluence score
Many small signals — trend, RSI, volume, position in the range — are weighted and added up into one number. Higher timeframes count more. It only trades when this number crosses a threshold, not on every twitch.
Ehlers SuperSmoother
A filter from digital signal processing, a two-pole Butterworth low-pass. It smooths price noise without lagging as much as a simple moving average. The basis of the oscillator in the chart.
ATR risk management
The stop follows the actual volatility: Stop = ATR × factor, limited to 0.1 to 1.5 % of the price. Volatile market → wider stop, calm market → tighter one. A fixed percentage would be wrong in both cases.
Trailing instead of hard target
Hard means: at the target it closes, done. Trailing means: at the target a trailing stop is activated and the winner may keep running until the price comes back. One locks in, the other allows big moves.
Several timeframes
A rating on the 5-minute level is checked against the 1-hour and 4-hour levels. That way a bot does not trade against the higher trend just because the small timeframe happens to look like it.
Walk-forward and over-optimisation
The biggest risk in backtesting is called curve fitting: parameters are tweaked until they fit the past — and then fail in the present. To counter this, the history is split: optimised on one half and tested on the other; a stability measure also feeds into the rating. That reduces the problem. It does not solve it.
Frequently asked questions

Briefly answered

Is FoundLux Terminal Pro free?
Yes. It is a free demo and simulation platform. You start with 10,000 USDT of demo balance with no real monetary value.
Do I need real money?
No. Everything is paper trading. At no point is real money or crypto used, transferred or put at risk.
Where do the prices come from?
From MEXC and Binance. Both sources are kept separate — down to the seconds level with real volume from the trade stream. You can switch between them in the chart.
Which trading bots are there?
Eight: Grid, Dynamic Grid, DCA, Confluence Engine, Scout Engine, Donchian Channel, Quorum Engine and Trend Guard. Each is configured through forms, can be backtested and runs purely as a simulation.
Do I need programming skills?
No. Symbol, timeframe, leverage, stop and target are set in forms. Backtest and parameter search run at the push of a button.
Are good backtest figures a promise?
No, and that is the most important sentence on this page. Backtests are historical simulations. What worked in the past can lose immediately in the live market. That is exactly why there is a risk-free environment here — for learning, not as a promise of profit.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. Terminal and website are built for mobile devices. There is also FoundLux Premium, an installable app for accounts, bots and positions.
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