Trader Trainer Reviews

TraderTrainer doesn’t give the stock names. They say the charts are pulled from the S&P500 but I highly doubt it. The price movement on these “stocks” are unrealistically from the US. You’ll get frustrated with TraderTrainer the moment you see that it doesn’t show what you have learned from books and watching stocks price action in real time. If you think you’re good at trading because of TraderTrainer, YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY in the stock market in real life trading. The developer needs to fix that problem if TraderTrainer is for educational purposes, otherwise it is just for fun. TraderTrainer DOES NOT TEACH YOU TO TRADE BETTER. With that said, it will only confuse you and make you doubt of what really works. I’m going to try Stock Trainer instead and how it is but the best way to learn is watching the real time price action, not the moronic movements in these stocks (I don’t think all of them are stocks).

April 8th, 2019
Something is very wrong. I was playing this Trader Trainer (TT for short) app and worked my way to $27k & then...something went wrong. After I shut off my iPhone 📲, then the very next day, I opened my TT to find out that I lost some big fake money 💰. Went back to $11k. What has happened overnight? This game won’t let me save the game after I’m done for the day. Everyday is the same thing. I would make big earnings then the next day, I’m back at $11k. Looks 👀 like this TT app doesn’t want me or maybe anyone to reach $100,000 to become a novice trader. I believe that there’s a bug in this game. It’s preventing me to reach my goal at $100k. That’s why I clicked this game to 1 star. Until you can fix this game and help me ‘save’ my earnings instead of loosing it overnight. Not happy! 😐
April 21, 2019
What? No reply? No advice? Huh? Saying nothing? Becoming silence? 🤐Hmmmm 🤔. I’m gonna be back & looking 👀 forward to reading your reply.

Thank you! You never replied back but I kept going and made it to top as a Guru Trader by earning at $105 millions. It appears to be the maximum earnings. Am I right?
-St. Louis Man

TraderTrainer is great for a beginner trader all the way up to advance traders who wants to brush up on their pattern recognition skills. But that’s where it stops.

TraderTrainer caters to only a very specific niche of traders. Traders who trade using only technical analysis and enter/exit their positions at close of a candle (time frame irrelevant). Which most traders are not.

Without the ability to set a specific entry, target, and stop price, TraderTrainer fails to deliver true strategy success measurement, thus making the scoring system useless. Without these features you are forced to take a loss where you could have had a winner. Markets are very volatile, and within one candle you can reach your target and crash 20% from your entry, and because you can only exit at the end of the candle, you can’t accurately measure your win/loss rate using the scoring system.

Also with no real consequence to a loss, there is no reason to even exit a position until you advance the chart enough to make it a winner which 9 times out of 10 it will if you are patient enough. That’s why you see people claiming to have scored trillions in a short amount of time.

Overall good concept and great for pattern recognition, but severely lacking as a game in simulating a real world trading situation.

TraderTrainer is fun to practice and learn as you go, only thing keeping me from giving it 5 stars is a bug with the overlays. I try to remove unwanted overlays but they never leave the chart. Very frustrating.

[edit] the overlays aren’t a issue anymore but it does take a few hours to changes to take place, now I’m facing another bug regarding saving....twice my account went from $400,000 to $136,000 upon reopening TraderTrainer . This is much more frustrating and annoying then the previous issue I was facing with the overlays

It is a great concept, and will aid tremendously for patterns recognition, but ads keep interfering with TraderTrainer . When you are in a trade if a major ads come in, it closes out your position, some ads you can’t even close and have to close TraderTrainer instead.
Improvements such as different timeframes, select price range and slow down the speed of candlestick movement. At time i found myself wanting to exit a position but it reversed so quickly that my initial action becomes irrelevant.

The game is pretty fun. What I learned from it is that if you pick a good company’s stock and buy on dips and let it rise back up, you will profit. With the strategy of buying on dips, I ended up maxing out the high score. My portfolio value is much higher than what the high score states, but I can’t tell by how much since there isn’t enough space to display the full value.

My High Score is maxed out at: $16,433,300,000,000,000

Unsure if the game is being updated, but some additions would be great.

A couple issues with this... first, since this is real historical stock data there should be some kind of indication of when an earnings report is due. You’ll be trading along then all of a sudden there is a double digit gap up/down that blows out your position. Second, there should be a premium paid option to get rid of ads. I would happily shell out $5 or so for TraderTrainer. The ads are overwhelming and annoying.

Boy if you ever want play a game that will drive you insane try this one. It makes no difference which position you take TraderTrainer plummets or sky rockets in the opposite direction. Long or short it makes no difference if you watch the patterns or just guess it makes no difference. There is no long position, very short swings you have to be really present or will miss that out you have to get in and get out... so at the end of the I guess it’s great for quick day/twitch trading. Great game.

I really like this market trainer. I used to use the Spoof Trader app, which was very similar, used it for a number of years actually… and then the game disappeared :(.. In that game you could enter a long or short position with an OCO conditional order to limit losses. In this game, if you think you’ve pressed the stop button, and you haven’t..there is no stop loss so.. you may lose 20,000 like that (*fingers snap).

Still a very good game and teaches you how to take heavy hits.

In summary, please add to this game the OCO conditional order.

This is a great sim, most trading sims I’ve come across are missing something like ability to change lot size, go short. This one has great charts, but is limited as well. No changing time frames, limited indicators, limited ability to change lot size, some small glitches here and there like some purchases won’t go through, etc. still fun. I’d be willing to pay for a more built out version with additional features and no ads. Might be willing to pay for no ads as is. Good job.

I really enjoy this trader. It could have a couple improvements though. First, why can’t MACD and RSI be displayed simultaneously? Would be helpful to see both. Being able to see larger time frames would be nice too. Trading options would be awesome as well. And last, it would be awesome to be able to pick which stock you are trading on and time frame.

Thank you for creating such an amazing tool.

After watching numerous tutorials, applying what I’ve learned through paper trading was a slow, grueling and intimidating process due to the limited market hours. I’ve been slowly learning within the span of 2 years (never took it as seriously as I do now).

This tool has allowed me to really dive in and master the basics on my own time, especially on weekends.

I finally reached $500k in TraderTrainer. Over a long period of time, I started understanding and mastering MA (5, 10, 20, 50) and MACD indicators. I’ve improved my money management skills by cutting losses sooner than later.

I’ve learned so much about stocks and basic indicators thanks to TraderTrainer!

I’m already green on my real cash account.

Again, Thank you.

PS. I would love more indicators (specifically the Ichimoku Cloud) 🙂

Listen. Download this right now. Please. Let me explain. You’re probably thinking, “who the heck is this guy?” Well, you’re looking at a future millionaire right here. I’m talking the cold hard stuff. Cash money. There’s no better pure price action practice tool out there that’s so EASY as this. I can literally whip this out while I’m on the crapper and practice making money. The key is three things:

1-Memorizing key buy confirmations.
2-Learnjng how to slowly average down on charts you really like.
3-Learning how to professionally scale OUT. This is the hardest part to master, but look for bearish candles that clearly are stronger than the bull candles. If you still find red candles above green ones, and you still find lots of big green candles in the highs, that usually means there’s still room to run…so WAIT to take profits until you see red candles overtaking the greens.

Good luck all. This is the very best trainer out there. Life is much tougher than this, as stocks get way more overextended lower and sometimes way higher, so know that this is only a more or less “theoretical” practice tool of what MOST stocks do, not all stocks.

I’m not a financial advisor. Please keep your mutual fund intact always and invest with risk capital only. Avoid 3x bull/bear ETFs unless we see another complete market crash like in 2020. Don’t be stupid. Eat your veggies. Get sleep. Don’t do options. Keep your day job. All that good stuff. GL all!

Thanks for creating this and helping people out. But if you could give us ticker symbols, it would’ve mean more man. My first time writing a review and it’s to TraderTrainer. It’s my virgin homie. Btw can’t seem to pull up the RSI chart on an iPhone pro max. Don’t think the developers will apply to me, but it’s a great stimulator. It’s awesome and I think every day trader should download and get their emo and plans right before hitting up the real game. Thanks man. Appreciate you for creating this game.

I’m just gonna rattle off things I like and don’t like:

Likes:
Quick to get started
No fluff
True Price action theory
Easiest to use
Specified purpose

Not liked as much:
Ads
Subscription price

Deeper review:
I don’t generally believe in a five star app if it’s just doing its job and not truly excelling, same with tipping on a pick up order when you haven’t even tasted the food or know if they made your order right.
But in comparison, this one excels compared to a lot of the other ones because it is so direct and specific with its intent - without holding you back using unnecessarily locked features, lengthy startups, etc.

The “not liked as much” list are a necessary part of this type of model for app development, unfortunately.
To their credit, the ads are short and can be skipped, and this subscription is more than fair compared to competition.

Feedback/ suggestions/ please implement:

A slider for the percentage to buy yourself would be real nice instead of chunked percentages by 25% increments.

I would like to see portfolio and positions data laid out across the top so that there is more space for the chart to fill in…

I would like onetime subscription fee, but I am considering the yearly ( right now only 10 for the year to remove ads). Other apps are charging 20 a month …

I have been trading for 5 or so years now so I’m still pretty new. TraderTrainer is amazing for recognizing candles on the fly . If your kinda new to trading this is a must have . Best stock market game/ chart game there is . 5 stars all day. This is the only app I have ever felt the need to review. Unfortunately I come back to write another review but it will only let me edit my current one. TraderTrainer is unbelievably great for practicing discipline and taking profits/cutting losses quick!!!! TraderTrainer should be in every traders tool box . Use it everyday. Can’t say enough good things about TraderTrainer. I have genuinely been looking for this kind of app for a long time now!!!!!!!!!!!

When I first started on TraderTrainer I couldn’t grow the account consistently but I kept just trying things till I started recognizing technical patterns and stuff (as well as practicing when to cut my losses) and started getting somewhere. I got the hang of it after a long while and was able to grow my account to over 500,000,000,000,000,000,000. Haha. really. But then TraderTrainer started glitching and kept crashing whenever I tried to put on more positions so I reset my account and it’s working fine again. And I’ve already doubled my account 5 times again. Who ever developed TraderTrainer, thank you! It’s really helped me improve my technical analysis and I’ve seen a difference in my live trading!

My current balance: $3 Trillion.

Wish I had that much in real life.

But in real life, I attribute this game with my success over the past 2 years. Up 178% last year, so far doing well in 2021 projecting very similar gains.

The game is simple. Buy low, sell high. You'll learn real quick when a price is settled at support/resistance lines. You'll learn to recognize breakout patterns. You'll learn to take profits at the appropriate time, and when the buy back in to lower your DCA.

This game is my #1 recommendation to anyone who wants to learn swing trading safely, using real historical market data. You can learn to trade purely on technicals if you want, and you'd have a decent amount of success if applied in real life. I would suggest mixing this sort of technical analysis with fundamentally healthy stocks, but I've had tons of success learning to trade based on a candlestick chart alone.

I know I sound like I'm being paid to write this, but I'm just a regular dude who has been playing this game forever and learned so much. I can all but guarantee that playing this game will improve your trading skills.

Not a financial advisor, this is not advice.

Stocks shown on practice are great to play and practice on. I wish I could have TraderTrainer to play it with a remote or help assigning keys on an iPad Pro keyboard like space bar to advance etc. so I don’t have to keep pressing it with my finger (my arm gets tired after an hour).Please assign keys for iPad Pro if someone has a keyboard for more fun. Great app. Try to add more stocks like MU, TWTR, DIS, VZ, aapl, tsla foxa, pypl, sq, baba, tech stocks or try to add stocks in different time frames. But this is pretty awesome. Also a lot if the stocks they just go up so it’s kind of easy to pile up money. You have to find charts that go down and stay neutral. But very good app. The ads are annoying but I know you gotta make your money. Maybe sell a version without ads for a reasonable price. Ads are so bad and annoying

TraderTrainer is amazing for those true traders who just love the sport, excellent way to have fun throughout the day and get to exercise the muscle of taking my setups day in and day out, it’s all about finding a high probability setup and sizing up over time. A few critics I have is to have a premium add free version of TraderTrainer and also being able to remove the 50 and 20 Ema this is really amazing work tho ! Nothing else like it on TraderTrainer Store.