About Varcity FAQ

It used to be that an ivy league pedigree was essential for a career in trading or an office on Wall St, but now anyone, anywhere, can become a great trader. In fact, we believe great traders are made and Varcity was created to facilitate a path to become a great trader by:

• Giving everyone access to our enterprise-grade trading simulator for educational purposes, with real-time data, analytics, and learning resources.

• Giving everyone access to the Varcity Trading Index (VTI), a powerful evaluation tool that assesses real-time demo trading performance.

• Giving everyone access to the Varcity Network for mentorship and community support.

• Read more about our principled approach on Medium.

Varcity is a trading simulator with real-time market data that helps traders at all levels develop great skills through forward testing, quantitative trading metrics and our Varcity Trading Index™ (VTI) performance rankings. You can use the platform to test your skills and your own trading plan, however, Varcity will never provide you with any trading advice. For more information please visit our Terms and Conditions or email support@varcity.io.

Varcity has currently released Version 1.0 of our demo trading platform with two types of accounts:  Basic and Pro.  We will be releasing more account types, including swap-free and Islamic, in future versions. 

• Real-time L1 and Order Book

• Instant analytics and quantitative performance metrics

• VTI

• Trade a portfolio of instruments:  Forex, Crypto, Equities, Futures and Indices.

• You do not need to open up an account at a brokerage to use Varcity.  

Varcity also simulates live trading by adding the same type of fee structure that an exchange and/or brokerage may charge, except all our simulated fees use virtual funds.  These simulated fees include:

• Holding margin on open positions

• Commissions

• Interest

• Ability to hold positions overnight and long-term