Comparison

Chart Alpha vs FX Strategy Simulator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Chart Alpha

Practice stock and FX trading risk-free with simulated market scenarios. Master trading instincts through rapid-fire rounds and analyze your performance with detailed data. Accelerate your learning curve without risking real money.

Highlights
  • Real market scenarios
  • Multiple trading styles
  • Rapid-fire practice
  • Detailed performance analytics
  • Campaign mode with historical events
  • Full indicator suite
  • Advanced order types
Features
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Accelerate Your Learning Curve, Risk-Free. Most traders struggle in their first year because they skip practice and jump straight into the live market. Pilots log hundreds of simulator hours before they ever fly a plane. But for traders, there hasn’t been a truly convenient way to practice — until now. Chart Alpha is your flight simulator for the markets. Master your edge with 38,000+ real market scenarios across 800+ tickers and multiple timeframes, from swing trading to scalping. Every bar, you call the shots: LONG, SHORT, or CASH. Then you advance the chart and instantly see the results. It’s the active, rapid-fire practice that separates profitable traders from everyone else. Compress Years Into Weeks. Grind 1 year of market history in under 1 minute. Turn your commute, your lunch break, your dead time into rapid-fire rounds that build raw trading instincts. No waiting for live candles to slowly paint the screen. No paying market tuition with real money. The Lesson Most Trading Education Skips. Trading is a game of probabilities, not perfection. After a few hundred rounds in the simulator, you'll see exactly where your instincts are sharp and where they need work—holding losers too long, cutting winners too early, ignoring trends, or overtrading in choppy markets. Hard Data. Every Session. Your alpha vs. benchmark, win rate, profit factor, max drawdown, and more — tracked across every game. You don't guess if you have an edge. You know, because the numbers prove it. The Ultimate Challenge: Beat Buy & Hold. Most Wall Street fund managers can't. Can you? Who This Is For: • The aspiring trader who needs real instincts before going live with real money • The swing trader who wants to compress years of screen time into weeks • The data-driven trader who wants hard numbers on their strengths and weaknesses • The day trader who wants to sharpen entries and exits on 1-min and 5-min charts • Anyone who knows the difference between profitable and unprofitable is pattern recognition — and pattern recognition requires practice, not textbooks Features: • 800+ real tickers across stocks, ETFs, crypto, and forex • 38,000+ unique charts to practice • 3 vault modes: Swing (daily/weekly), Day Trade (5-min), and Scalping (1-min) • Campaign mode: trade through real market events like the Dot-Com Crash and COVID • Star rating system with leveling and daily quests • Share charts of your best trades with friends • Full indicator suite: SMA, EMA, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, and more • Advanced order types: limit orders, stop losses, and take profits • Detailed post-game analytics: alpha, win rate, profit factor, drawdown, and more Trading Education That Doesn't Cost You a Fortune. Trading education is broken. Courses cost thousands. Paper trading is slow. And live markets charge tuition in blown accounts. We built Chart Alpha because everyone deserves access to the experience that builds real skill — not just the people who can afford to lose money learning. No subscriptions required to play. No paywalls on the core experience. Just you, the charts, and the edge you're building. There is no secret indicator. There is no magic pattern. The only difference between a profitable trader and everyone else is 10,000 more charts. Play more. Trade better. Terms of Use: https://chartalpha.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://chartalpha.app/privacy.html

About

FX Strategy Simulator

Features
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FX Strategy Simulator is an educational trading simulator designed to help users learn and understand common FX trading strategies through visual chart examples. The app includes 50 educational trading strategies covering: • Trend Following • Mean Reversion • Breakout Trading • Scalping Concepts • Momentum Strategies • Indicator-Based Systems • Risk Management Concepts Features: • Explore 50 trading strategies • View educational chart simulations • Study Entry, Take Profit, and Stop Loss examples • Understand strategy logic and market conditions • Compare different trading approaches • Learn trading concepts in a risk-free environment This application is intended solely for educational purposes. Important Disclaimer: FX Strategy Simulator does not provide financial advice, investment recommendations, broker services, trade execution, or guaranteed results. All charts, entries, take-profit levels, stop-loss levels, and outcomes are educational simulations and should not be interpreted as real trading signals. Past performance and simulated results do not guarantee future performance.

Screenshots

Chart Alpha4 screens
FX Strategy Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FX Strategy Simulator at none against Chart Alpha's 6. FX Strategy Simulator also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chart Alpha sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. FX Strategy Simulator asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Chart Alpha versus FX Strategy Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChart AlphaFX Strategy Simulator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size206 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCode & Love, LLCIkuto Yokota

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Chart Alpha

Subscriptions2
  • Chart Alpha Pro (Monthly)$19.991 Month
  • Chart Alpha Pro (Yearly)$89.991 Year
One-time4
  • 10 Lifeline Tokens$1.99
  • 100 Lifeline Tokens$9.99
  • 500 Lifeline Tokens$24.99
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  • Chart Alpha Pro (Lifetime)$149.00
None

FX Strategy Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chart Alpha free?
Chart Alpha is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FX Strategy Simulator free?
FX Strategy Simulator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chart Alpha or FX Strategy Simulator have ads?
Chart Alpha shows ads; FX Strategy Simulator does not.

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