The TradingSim Story
In 2001, the founders of TradingSim (Kunal and Al) met as analysts working for a large global consultancy. While we cranked out spreadsheets and requirements documents 60+ hours per week, we both had dreams of trading for a living. Well in 2007, that dream was realized and we began trading full-time.
While this was over 10 years ago, we faced many of the same challenges retail traders struggle with today. This pain point had to do with the fact we wished we had a safe place where we could practice trading all day in a life-like environment without pushy sales tactics and up-selling methods of brokerage houses.
We so desperately wanted to get better at trading by putting in the hard work, but the only time data would flow through our brokerage platform was during market hours. That was no good for us because we had to trade in order to make money.
Our need for the most realistic trading environment to practice on 24/7 led to the birth of TradingSim.
