Trenches guides

The Trenches guides

New to Trenches, or not sure where to start? This page lists every guide in reading order, grouped by topic. Read the first two, then open the guide for the market you came for.

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Trenches is a trading simulator. You learn in short lessons, then practice trades at live prices with paper cash. Paper cash is practice money with no real value. No order reaches a real market, so you can practice a whole trade without risking a dollar.

Came for memecoins? A memecoin is a crypto asset tied to a meme, character or cultural theme. Memecoins are attention markets: money goes where attention flows. Guides 3 to 5 cover them.

Each guide names the buttons as the app shows them, on a computer and a phone, and ends with a place to practice.

Start here

  1. Getting started on Trenches: your first ten minutesMake your free account on a computer or a phone, pick a course, finish your first lesson, and find Trade, the Hub, Toro and the Discord.Guide 17 min read
  2. How lessons work: the road, energy and paper cashRead the road, play a level from first card to finish, plan your energy, see what a level pays in paper cash, jump ahead and keep your streak.Guide 27 min read

Memecoins

  1. The Memecoin starter, unit by unitOpen the Memecoin starter, learn what each of its seven units teaches and why they come in that order, and read its card, energy rule and finish.Guide 38 min read
  2. How to paper trade a memecoin on TrenchesMake a whole paper trade on a memecoin: find it, read the quote, buy, check the fill, set Protect, sell and find the trade in your history.Guide 48 min read
  3. Read the Trenches board and a coin pageRead the board's columns and every figure on a row, set filters, and read a coin page from header to audit, telling history from signals.Guide 58 min read

Your paper account

  1. Your paper account: cash, positions and profitRead paper equity, all time profit and positions, close any position from one list, read your trades and fees, and tell a deposit from a gain.Guide 68 min read

Crypto

  1. The Crypto course, section by sectionWhat each stage of the Crypto road teaches, where memecoins, perps and DeFi sit, which sections it shares with other courses, and where to start.Guide 78 min read
  2. Paper trading the major coins on TrenchesOpen a major coin's spot page, place a paper market buy or sell, read the 0.25% fee and your average entry, and find the trade in your history.Guide 88 min read
  3. Paper trading perps: leverage, margin and fundingOpen and close a paper long or short on Trenches, pick Isolated or Cross and your leverage, and read the liquidation price, funding and fees.Guide 98 min read

Stocks and forex

  1. The Stocks and Forex courses, section by sectionSee what the Stocks and Forex roads teach, which sections are open today or In the works, and what carries over from Crypto.Guide 108 min read
  2. Paper trading stocks and options on TrenchesBuy a paper stock by the dollar, see what happens to an order after hours, and buy, read, close or hold a call or a put on Trenches.Guide 118 min read
  3. Paper trading forex: pairs, lots and leverageRead a pair's bid, ask and spread, size a paper trade in lots, set leverage up to 30x, check margin, liquidation and swap, then close it.Guide 127 min read

More of Trenches

  1. Track: watch real traders, practice on paperRead Track's tabs and trade cards, star traders for alerts, ask Toro what a trade might mean, and practice one you see with paper cash.Guide 137 min read
  2. Economics, Macro, Personal finance and the LibraryWhat the Economics, Macro and Personal finance courses teach and who each is for, how to switch courses, and the right order for the Library.Guide 147 min read
  3. Battles, Ranks and the weekly leaguesStart a rated or casual paper battle, learn what counts and how your rating moves, read Ranks and the Ladder, and earn weekly league points.Guide 158 min read
  4. The Hub, Toro and the Trenches DiscordRead the Hub on a computer or a phone, claim the day's reward and quest chests, ask Toro what it can answer, and join the Trenches Discord.Guide 168 min read
  5. Trading IQ: what it measures and how it movesRead your Trading IQ and its range, see what counts from lessons and paper trades, why 140 and up is so hard, and how to raise it honestly.Guide 177 min read

Practice it

Start with the free lessons

The lessons are free. Your next step: read Getting started on Trenches: your first ten minutes, then Start learning free.

Here for memecoins? Skip the course question: the Memecoin starter opens your first memecoin lesson.

For memecoins themselves, what they are, how a coin is made and how to read one, read our memecoin blog series, First coin to first trade.

Stuck? Once you have a free account, ask Toro, the AI coach, in the app. Found a bug, a problem or an idea? Email trading@trenches.academy.

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