TradingSim review: what this trading sim does, and where a journal takes over

Tradoshi and TradingSim at a glance

11 lines to decide fast, then the detail below with the sources read on TradingSim.

1. What TradingSim and Tradoshi each offer, plan by plan

Every TradingSim plan and every one of ours, with what each actually unlocks. Prices are those shown on both pricing pages on 10 September 2026.

Every price on this page is in dollars, on both sides, and no exchange rate is applied. TradingSim only displays monthly prices billed yearly: $33 a month for $396, and $37 a month for $449, the amount exactly as written on their page, even though twelve times 37 makes 444. No monthly price without a yearly commitment is published there. On our side, backtesting is in neither the free plan nor Essential: it starts at Pro, which has a 7-day trial, card required.

On the price of replay alone, there is no gap: $396 a year for their Pro, $399 for ours, and their Premium even costs $50 less than our Premium. There, that budget buys a far more precise simulator. Here, the same subscription buys something else on top of replay: your broker synced, your real trades measured, your discipline scored. So the question is not which one costs less, it is what you need right now.

2. The partner offer, in months of revenue

TradingSim publishes an affiliate program, but its own pages do not give the same figure: “up to 30% per subscription” on the home page, “30% Payout on all sales” in the summary of its affiliate agreement, “33% of the sale” in section 6 of the same agreement. No duration is written down: nothing says whether a yearly renewal earns a commission.

Our schedule is public and pays from the first customer: 15% for life, 20% at fifteen active subscribers, 25% at fifty-one, on every payment collected.

Comparing two percentages means nothing while the durations differ. The honest unit is months of the referred customer's revenue: it neutralises both the product price and the commission duration. Read it as: for a customer who stays N months, the partner has earned the equivalent of X months of that customer's revenue.

The table only holds our rows, and that is not an oversight: a schedule whose rate changes from one page to the next and whose duration is not written down cannot be computed in months of revenue. If TradingSim clarifies its terms, this page will be updated with the survey date.

On our side, the commission lands on every payment collected, with a 30-day holding period and a €500 payout threshold.

3. Mentoring, and who pays for whom

TradingSim highlights the educators who use it to teach, with a whole section of expert testimonials on its home page. But no mentoring feature appears on its pages: no student invitation, no shared space, no way for a supervisor to follow a trader.

At Tradoshi, the mentor account is free. The student is the subscriber, from the Pro plan up, and invites their mentor, who pays nothing to follow their trades and progress.

For an educator, the two tools follow each other rather than compete: the student practises on the simulator, then goes live on Tradoshi, where their mentor follows them without paying. Nothing TradingSim publishes lets the supervisor see what the student does in the simulator.

How mentoring works at Tradoshi · The offer for educators and schools

4. The full comparison, feature by feature

Every line comes from both public pricing pages, read on the same day. Nothing is pulled from a help centre on one side and a grid on the other: on unequal evidence, a comparison stops being honest. “Absent from the grid” means exactly that, not “does not exist”.

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5. What we concede to TradingSim

A comparison won on every single line is not a comparison, it is an advert. Here are the points where TradingSim is ahead, with nothing taken off.

The verdict

TradingSim and Tradoshi do not replace each other, they come one after the other. TradingSim answers “can I execute this setup?”, in a precise simulator, on real sessions, without risking money, and on US stocks it does it better than we do. Tradoshi answers “what do I actually do when the money is real?”: what are my losing streaks, what state was I in, do I stick to my rules. If you are starting out on US stocks, begin with the simulator. If you already trade live, the journal is what you are missing, and our backtesting, from Pro, lets you validate a strategy with real execution costs.

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