Help & quick guide

The basics

Create one or more trading accounts (stocks, crypto, or forex), fund each with virtual cash, and trade with live market prices. Each account is independent — its own cash, holdings, and history. You can add more virtual cash or reset an account anytime (reset wipes its history and starts fresh).

Account types are enforced: a stocks account trades stocks & ETFs, a crypto account trades coins (like BTC-USD), a forex account trades currency pairs. Selling is always allowed, so you can never get stuck holding something.

Order types

Market order — executes immediately at the current live price.

Limit order — waits until the price reaches your level — a buy fills at or below your limit, a sell at or above it. Poshkan's background workers fill limit orders even while you're offline, and you get a notification.

Day vs GTC — a Day order expires at the end of the trading day if unfilled; GTC (good-til-canceled) waits until it fills or you cancel it.

Forex (currency pairs)

Forex works differently from stocks — you trade pairs like EUR/USD and can profit from prices falling (short) as well as rising (long).

Lots — position sizes: micro = 1,000 units, mini = 10,000, standard = 100,000.

Leverage & margin — You choose your leverage (30:1 up to 500:1) when you create a forex account. At 30:1, opening a 10,000-unit position reserves about 1/30 of its value from your cash as margin; higher leverage reserves less, so the same cash controls bigger positions — amplifying both gains and losses. 30:1 matches EU/UK retail brokers.

Pip — the smallest common price step (0.0001 for most pairs). Your P&L per pip = units × 0.0001.

Stop-out — if a position's loss reaches the margin you reserved, it closes automatically — so your account can never go below zero.

Stop-loss / take-profit — optional exit levels on each position: stop-loss caps your loss, take-profit locks in a gain. Set them when opening or edit them on the open position.

Entry orders — "open this position when the rate reaches X" — the forex version of a limit order, with optional expiry.

P&L — the numbers explained

Today's P&L — how much your holdings moved since yesterday's close.

Unrealized P&L — paper profit on what you still hold: (current price − your average cost) × quantity.

Realized P&L — profit you locked in by selling. Selling above your average cost realizes a gain — it stops moving with the market.

Buying power — cash available for new purchases.

Alerts & notifications

Open any stock and tap 🔔 Set alert with a target price. When it hits, you get a banner on your dashboard, an email, and — if you enabled notifications in settings — a push notification on your device. Order fills push too. Installing Poshkan as an app (see the bottom of the home page) makes notifications land on your lock screen.

Leaderboard

Every account is ranked by % return on the money put in— not by total value, so depositing more virtual cash doesn't buy rank, and resetting an account restarts its history. Your username and your accounts' virtual returns are visible to other users there.

Claude connector (advanced)

Settings → Claude API access creates a personal token that lets the Claude AI assistant read your portfolio and trade on your instruction via MCP. Treat tokens like passwords; revoke them anytime in the same menu.

Still confused by something? That's feedback we want — mention it on the page you found it. And remember: it's all practice money. The best way to learn is to try things.