What a practice portfolio is — and isn't

A practice portfolio is simulated money for learning. Every trade fills at a real quoted price, so buying, selling, and profit-and-loss behave the way they would — but no real funds are ever involved.

It is a safe place to see how the mechanics work and to make mistakes that cost nothing.

It is not a real brokerage account, and its results are not a prediction of what real investing would return. And nothing in Aureus tells you what to buy or sell — it shows you what things mean and what your own choices did.

What one looks like lived-in. A seeded example of a practice portfolio with open positions — the spread runs green to red on purpose, because a ledger where everything is up teaches the wrong thing: