Live ETH market data, simulated capital, and the fees, spread and price impact a real order would pay — the honest way into Ethereum before a wallet is involved.
Ethereum is the largest smart-contract platform and the settlement layer under most of DeFi. It moved to proof of stake in 2022, so ETH can be staked to secure the network, and its fee mechanism burns a portion of every transaction fee, making net issuance a function of network activity.
ETH is the second-deepest crypto market and behaves as both a major and a high-beta asset: it tracks Bitcoin closely in stress and outperforms or lags sharply on flows specific to DeFi and layer-2 activity. Because ETH is the base asset of countless liquidity pools, on-chain and centralised prices stay tightly linked by constant arbitrage.
ETH is the best market to learn on-chain execution: compare a swap in an ETH pool against a book trade for the same size, and watch how price impact grows non-linearly as your order approaches the pool's depth.
DexLadder does not fill at the mid price. An order is charged the spread, the venue fee and the price impact your own size causes — on pool trades that impact is computed from the constant-product and concentrated-liquidity maths rather than approximated by a flat percentage. That is the difference between a paper result you can trust and one that quietly flatters you. The full model is written up in the methodology.
Work out the position from your stop distance rather than your balance — the position size calculator does it in one step — and if you are using leverage, check the liquidation distance against the ordinary daily range of ETH before choosing a multiplier.
Yes. DexLadder needs no signup, no email and no wallet connection — the paper balance and trade history stay in your own browser.
Yes. Prices come from live market feeds; only the money is simulated.
Yes — venue fees, the spread and the price impact your order size causes. An environment that skips those overstates every strategy you test.
Trade ETH on live markets — free — no account, nothing to install