The short version: the simulator is free, and free is not a trial. JagSim Pro is $4.99 a month, or $49 a year. You never need it to practise trading. This page says exactly what each one gets you, including the part most comparison pages leave out — who should not upgrade.
Everything you need to learn to trade. A permanent $100,000 virtual portfolio that carries over between sessions, live charts on real-time market data, the full order ticket with market, limit and stop orders plus the ability to short, your watchlist and open orders and trade history, and your place on the leaderboard. No credit card, no time limit, no card on file.
Coach Jag is on the free plan too: the guided tour and eight glossary terms, so you can be walked through your first trade rather than handed a blank chart.
If you are here to learn how orders and charts work, stay on free. Pro will not teach you anything free does not, and you will be paying for tools that answer questions you do not have yet. The same goes if you hold two or three positions — you can keep that much in your head, and every Pro tool that maps, screens or stress-tests a portfolio is solving a problem you do not have.
Pro starts paying for itself when you hold enough that you have lost track: when you could not say off the top of your head what you paid for something, which holding moved the account this week, or how concentrated you actually are.
Two things, broadly. The first is unlimited Coach Jag — tap any word or any button anywhere on the site and he explains it in plain English on the spot, plus guided walkthroughs through the whole platform. The second is your own book: analytics, your trades drawn on the price history, performance stats, dividend tracking, stress testing, and a full export.
| What you get | Free | Pro · $4.99/mo |
|---|---|---|
| Paper trading on live charts | Yes | Yes |
| $100,000 virtual portfolio, permanent | Yes | Yes |
| Full order ticket — market, limit, stop, and shorting | Yes | Yes |
| Watchlist, open orders, trade history | Yes | Yes |
| Leaderboard place | Yes | Yes |
| Coach Jag | Guided tour + 8 glossary terms | Every walkthrough, whole glossary, tap anything for a plain-English explanation |
| Live charts side by side | 1 chart | Up to 4 |
| Chart indicators | Moving averages, RSI, volume, trendlines | Adds MACD, Bollinger, Stochastics, Ichimoku, Fibonacci, boxes, freehand and pinned notes |
| Stock research pages | 1 company a month | Unlimited |
| News | Headlines only | Full newsroom, filtered to the stocks you hold |
| Trading calendar | This month | Every month, streaks, best and worst day |
| Price alerts | 3 | 50, across your whole watchlist |
| Portfolio analytics | No | Everything you own in one view: what you paid, what it is worth, where your money is concentrated, and which holdings are actually moving |
| Your trades drawn on the price history | No | Yes |
| Performance stats — win rate, best and worst days, average trade | No | Yes |
| Market screener | No | Yes |
| Your earnings calendar | No | Yes |
| Dividend tracking | No | Yes |
| Portfolio stress testing | No | Put your holdings through the worst days the market has already had |
| Planning calculators, filled in from your own account | No | Yes |
| Export your holdings and trades as a spreadsheet | No | Yes |
See plans and pricing Start free, no card
Yes. Paper trading, the $100,000 portfolio, live charts, the order ticket, your trade history and the leaderboard are free, with no credit card and no time limit. It is not a trial.
$4.99 a month, or $49 a year.
No trial. Pro starts when you subscribe. The free plan is not time-limited, so there is nothing to trial your way out of.
Nothing. Your paper trading, portfolio, trade history and leaderboard place are part of the free plan and stay yours. You keep Pro until the end of the period you already paid for.
No. JagSim is a simulator. The prices are real and real-time; the money is virtual. It is not a brokerage, and nothing on it is investment advice.