How To Change Leverage On Tradingview Paper Trading, Set it to Maximum 2026 Easily

Below your chart, TradingView shows a row of trading modes: Strategy Tester, Replay Trading, Paper Trading, and Trade. Click Paper Trading to activate it — a green dot appears next to it once selected. This opens your paper account panel, which shows an Account dropdown (defaulting to a name like Account: PMN_Online USD), along with Equity, Realized P&L, Unrealized P&L, and Account margin figures, plus tabs for Orders, History, Account History, and Trading Journal.

Next to the Account dropdown, a small hexagonal icon opens the settings panel for that specific paper account. Clicking it brings up a modal titled with your account's name and "settings," which is where leverage actually lives — not buried in the general TradingView preferences, but scoped to this one paper account.

The settings modal has a Leverage section broken into five categories: Stocks, Futures, Forex, Crypto, and Others, each with its own dropdown showing a ratio like 500:1. These are independent settings — bumping Forex leverage doesn't touch what Futures or Crypto use, so if your strategy only trades one asset class, that's the only dropdown you actually need to adjust. Below Leverage, a Commission section lets you set a per-contract commission and toggle it on for futures & options or other instruments, which matters if you want your simulated results to reflect realistic trading costs.

Click any of the five dropdowns and a list of ratios appears — options like 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, and 50:1 are visible before the list continues further, up to higher ratios such as 500:1 depending on the asset class. Pick the ratio that matches what you're trying to simulate: a low ratio like 1:1 or 2:1 mirrors a cash account with no borrowed buying power, while a high ratio stress-tests how a leveraged position would behave, position sizing and all, without any real capital on the line.

TradingView's Reset account dialog carries its own Balance, Currency, and Leverage fields, and reapplying leverage through this flow — rather than only saving it in account settings — clears out existing orders, history, and open positions in the process. The dialog warns plainly that this action can't be undone, so make sure you're not mid-strategy on trades you still need before confirming.

Set your desired starting Balance, confirm the Currency, dial in leverage per asset class one more time, and click Reset. Your paper account comes back with the balance and leverage you just set, zeroed-out P&L, and no order history — a genuinely clean slate for testing a new leverage level without any prior trades muddying the results.