The Trade Pilot is a free options paper-trading platform for India. You trade NIFTY, BANKNIFTY and SENSEX options on live NSE and BSE data, with virtual capital, a full options chain and an AI coach, so you can practise real strategies without risking a rupee. There is no KYC and no demat account to open.
Why we built it
Most people learn options the expensive way. They open a demat account, fund it, and find out what time decay, position size and an expiry-day swing really mean with their own savings. The numbers show how common that is. SEBI's FY26 study of individual traders in equity derivatives found that 87.7% of them made a net loss, and that their combined net loss was ₹91,685 crore. The same study found that about 59% of index-options turnover was in contracts expiring that very day.
Those figures are not mostly about bad luck or bad predictions. They are about risk management: how much to put on one trade, where to get out when you are wrong, and why to stay away from the riskiest hours of a contract until you understand them. Nobody teaches these things before the first real trade, and a book cannot teach them either, because they only make sense when you watch a position move.
SSSP Business Solutions, a technology company in New Delhi, built The Trade Pilot to close that gap. The idea is simple: give Indian traders the real thing, a live options chain with real premiums, and take every consequence of a trade out of their bank account but not out of the lesson. A trader who has watched a stop-loss save a position, and watched time decay eat a premium on a quiet expiry day, a few dozen times with virtual money, starts real trading as a different trader.
What we stand for
- Risk first. Every trade gets a score for how it was planned: whether it had a stop-loss and a target, the risk against the reward, and how much of your margin it used. Profit is not part of that score, because a profit made by luck teaches nothing.
- Real prices only. We never show a made-up price. When the market is closed we say so, and the practice session replays a recorded market day at real speed, clearly labelled as a recording.
- Practice that looks like trading. A real options chain, order charges and margin, stop-losses and targets, so the habits carry over.
- Education, not advice. The Trade Pilot places no real orders and gives no recommendations. See our SEBI disclosure and disclaimer.
What you can do here
- Trade NIFTY, BANKNIFTY and SENSEX options on live NSE and BSE data with virtual capital
- Read a full options chain; while the market is open it shows open interest, implied volatility and the Greeks
- Get an AI coach to explain what went right or wrong on each trade
- Climb the challenges, leaderboard and trade-score system as your discipline improves
- Work out any strategy's risk before you place it with the free option payoff calculator
The Trade Pilot in numbers
Counted from verified accounts only, leaving out our own staff accounts, since June 2026. Updated hourly.
Who is behind it
The Trade Pilot is built and operated by SSSP BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, an IT company in New Delhi that designs websites and builds custom software, automation and IT consultancy for businesses. The Trade Pilot is its education-first product for Indian retail traders. You can find the company at A-57, Street No. 5, Jagat Puri, Krishna Nagar, New Delhi 110051, and reach it on the contact page.
How we write and update our guides
The articles on our blog are written to teach, not to sell trades. Some of them are drafted with the help of AI tools, and the SSSP Business Solutions team publishes them. When we use a statistic we aim to say where it comes from, as with the SEBI study above; worked examples that use made-up numbers are labelled as examples; and each article shows the date it was published. If you find a mistake, email info@ssspsolutions.in and we will correct it.