Best simulation platforms

I have used many brokers along the years and any of them had enough good simulators to learn. You can ask as many demos from them  as you want.

Hey folks! To better use Think or Swim / TD, you can set the data feed to realtime.  In the application go to setup (in the upper right corner) > general (first tab on the left) > system (5th down in the column on the left) > qoutespeed [set to realtime instead of moderate]It's default data feed option is 3 seconds. 

I've tried pretty much all of the platforms and DAS trader is my favorite platform hands down, it's simple, powerful (can program macros and hotkeys), fully customizable, stable, doesn't take up too much CPU usage or ram.  The only downside is it cost money.  My second favorite is Tradestation and then Thinkorswim.  I've tried multicharts it was too complicated and not intuitive, Ninja trader, also too complicated and not intuitive.  Schwab's street smart edge is ok for swing trading but intraday it felt difficult because there where no hotkeys.

Tradestation is pretty good and it has a simulation mode and web based platform that I have used to trade at work without software.  Same with TD thinkorswim, it has a web based platform that you can use without software. 

Hope this helps

~Stephen

You can use 'paper trading' feature of tradingview, I think that's the best option for simulated trading.

Also icmarkets.com is pretty good, they provide metatrader and ctrader platform (in my opinion ctrader is much much better for daytrading, compared to mt4 or mt5) 

I personally use the TWS by interactive brokers, just because it's the broker that I'm going with for now. I don't think it's the best simulation software out there, but it's probably the top few best free ones that you can get. Personally I think the TWS charting isn't as good as TOS, but you can customize a ton of hotkeys, trade off charts, easily enter bracket orders, which is quite a bit better than TOS.