How to Reset TradingView Paper Trading Easily 2026

With a chart open on TradingView, look for the Paper Trading tab docked at the bottom of the screen next to Trade. Clicking it expands a panel showing your simulated account — its name, current Account Balance, Equity, Realized and Unrealized P&L, and available funds, along with tabs for Positions, Orders, Order History, Balance History, and Trading Journal. Click the small dropdown arrow next to your account name (something like PMN_Online1 USD) to open the account menu, which is where the reset option and other account-level actions live.

Before resetting, check the Positions tab for anything still open. TradingView's reset wipes the account's orders, history, and positions outright, so there's technically no need to close trades manually first — but doing it anyway gives you a clean read on how your last session actually performed before that data disappears for good. If the panel already shows "There are no open positions in your trading account yet," you're clear to move straight to the reset.

Selecting the reset option from the account dropdown opens a Reset account dialog with a clear warning: your account's orders, history, and positions will be deleted, and the balance will be set to whatever value you specify — and the action can't be undone. Enter a Balance and pick a Currency, then set leverage separately for Stocks, Futures, Forex, Crypto, and Others if you want different simulated leverage than your last setup. Click Reset to confirm, or Cancel if you just wanted to see what the dialog looked like.

After confirming, the panel's Account Balance and Equity figures should immediately reflect the new starting number you entered, with Realized P&L, Unrealized P&L, and margin figures all back at zero. The Summary row menu — accessible from the small icon in the corner of the panel — lets you toggle which of these figures show up in the row at a glance, which is a quick way to double-check the reset landed correctly across balance, equity, and margin all at once rather than opening each tab individually.

Occasionally the account dropdown loads without the reset entry visible, usually because the panel hasn't fully refreshed or a browser extension is interfering with the layout. Refresh the page, or close and reopen the Paper Trading panel from the bottom bar, and check the dropdown again — the option is there, it's a rendering hiccup rather than a missing feature. If it still won't appear, try a different browser or disable ad blockers and script blockers temporarily, since those can occasionally strip UI elements from TradingView's web app.

A reset is a good moment to fix habits, not just numbers. Decide your position size as a fixed percentage of the new balance rather than picking round numbers on the fly, and set a hard rule for how much of the account you're willing to risk on a single trade before you place it. Since paper trading carries no real financial consequence, it's tempting to oversize positions just to see what happens — resist that, because the whole value of practicing here is building habits that transfer directly to a live account.