A fake trading screen you can hold, and how to film it

First, the line you don’t cross

A fake trading screen is a prop. In a skit it’s a costume. In a prank it’s the set-up for a reveal that comes in the same scene, played on someone who knows you. The same screen shown so that someone invests with you, lends you money, copies your trades, or pays for a course, a signal group or a mentorship is fraud, whichever tool drew it. The figure on it is one you typed: it is never evidence of trading results or of income, for anyone. Our acceptable use policy covers the rest.

One screen needs extra care. Every position has a Share button, and the card it opens ends in a referral band: a code, with a QR code beside it. Keep Referral code plainly invented, leave QR link (optional) empty, and keep the card inside the video.

Three things get called a fake trading screen

• A practice simulator. Pretend money on real prices, for learning. If that’s what you came for, this page isn’t it: use a paper-trading or demo mode run by a broker or an exchange. Fake trading app or paper trading sets the two side by side.
• A wall of charts for a monitor. A looping video, or a page that scrolls numbers by itself behind someone at a desk. Pozer doesn’t make that either. Its screens are laid out for a phone held upright, and nothing on them streams.
• A trading screen in someone’s hand, with your trade on it, that answers when it’s tapped. That’s the rest of this guide.

Building it, installing it and filming it are free.

What’s on the screen

Of Pozer’s templates, the Hyperliquid-style futures terminal is the one that reads as a trading screen from across a room. It’s an original design with no exchange’s name, logo or artwork, and it’s called Margin in the editor. From the top: the market, BTC-USDC, with its leverage under the name and the price and 24-hour change beside it; a panel that switches between Chart, Order Book, Trades and Funding; a green Buy / Long button and a red Sell / Short; a strip reading Equity, uPnL and Margin; and under that your open positions, each on a card with its size, entry, mark and liquidation prices and a PNL (ROE) line.

The chart is 42 candles over volume bars, on 5m, 1h or D. It carries the two lines a futures chart is recognised by: ENTRY, solid, in your accent colour, and LIQ, dashed and red, each tagged on the price axis. Three tabs run along the bottom: Markets, Trade and Account.

What moves, and what doesn’t

This is where a prop differs from the looping kind, so here it is plainly. With Live prices on, which is the default, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and the other coins the price feed carries are marked at the market price. The app fetches them again about once a minute, and whenever you pull down on the terminal. Each position’s PnL and ROE, the equity strip and the chart’s price scale follow. Your side, size, leverage and entry stay as typed, so the profit is still fiction: a typed trade at a real price.

Between refreshes, nothing moves. The candles don’t tick, the Trades tape doesn’t stream, the order book holds still, and the funding countdown is text you typed. A long hold on the chart is a still image. What moves on camera is what a thumb does: a pull to refresh, with its spinner; a tap on 5m, 1h or D, which redraws the candles; a switch from Chart to Order Book; an order.

With Live prices off, each position gets a Mark price and a 24h change % field, and the screen shows exactly what you typed, take after take. For a prank or a scripted video, that’s the setting to use.

Set the number by setting the trade

There’s no profit field. The screen works its figures out from the trade, the way a terminal does, which is why they agree with each other. So start with the sentence you’ll say and work back.

1. Say the number. Here: “I’m up ten grand on Bitcoin.”
2. Switch Live prices off, in the editor’s Header group, and remove the ETH and SOL rows under Positions so one trade owns the screen.
3. Type the trade. Market BTC, Side Long, Leverage 20, Size (coins) 2, Entry price 71400, Mark price 76400. Profit is the size times the move: 2 × 5,000.
4. Read it back. The position card shows +$10,000 beside a LONG 20x badge, with a Position value of $152,800, a Liq. price of 67,830.00, a Margin of $7,140 and PNL (ROE) +140.06%. The strip reads Equity $94,000 and uPnL +$10,000, on the default Deposited margin of 84,000.

Two fields are typed on their own. Deposited margin sizes the account around the trade: ten thousand on top of 84,000 is a good week, and the same ten thousand on top of 8,000 is a different character. Margin used %, the third figure in the strip, isn’t worked out from the positions; it shows what you type.

Keep the entry within reach of the mark. ENTRY and LIQ only draw when they sit close enough to the candles to share a scale with them. In this set-up both are on the 1h chart the app opens on; on 5m the candles cover less ground, and the LIQ line at 67,830 drops off the bottom. The terminal mockup guide shows where the lines stop drawing.

Red works the same way. A mark below a long’s entry turns the card, the uPnL and the share card red. For the version that ends at the dashed line, see how to film a liquidation skit.

Give the thumb something to do

A screen that only sits there is a screenshot. Two orders play well on camera, and each is a tap, a number and a tap.

“I’m cashing out. Watch.”

Tap Sell / Short. A sheet slides up with Cancel on the left, the amount, BTC already picked as the market, a Leverage (optional) box and a keypad. Type 2 and tap Short. A tick draws itself over the word Confirmed and −2 BTC, with ≈ $152,800.00 notional under it. The receipt lists Market BTC-PERP, Order Close, Fill price $76,400.00, Position Closed and, on its last line, Realised PnL +$10,000.00. It stays until you tap Done, so turn the phone round on that line. Afterwards the Positions tab reads “No open positions”, the strip still says Equity $94,000, and the Account screen carries the ten thousand on its own Realised PnL line.

“I’m adding.”

Tap Buy / Long, type 1 and tap Long. The receipt says Filled and +1 BTC, with Increase as the order and Long 3 BTC · 20x as the position. Back on the terminal the profit hasn’t moved. It’s still +$10,000, because the new coin was bought at the price on screen. What has moved is everything a trader would check: the entry is now 73,066.67, the ENTRY and LIQ lines have climbed with it, and PNL (ROE) has dropped to +91.24%, because more margin is tied up.

Every order is saved in the app on that phone, and it’s still there if you close the app and open it again. Before the next take, bring up Edit and tap Reset to published values.

When someone else is holding it

• Install it first. Publish with Create home-screen app and open the link on the phone. On iPhone, in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, in Chrome, tap ⋮, then Install app. It then opens fullscreen from its own icon, with no address bar.
• Your Edit button stays out of the shot. The installed app hides it while you film. Hold two fingers still on the screen for a little over half a second and it comes back for five seconds; one finger never brings it up. It also shows once, with a hint, the first time the app opens, and on iPhone the first two-finger hold asks you to sign in. Do both before you roll.
• Know what answers. The three tabs open their screens. Markets lists every market on your positions list, and tapping one reframes the terminal around it. Account shows the account value over rows for the deposit, realised PnL and margin. Balances, Positions, Open Orders, TWAP and Trade History all switch. What doesn’t respond: the Connect pill, the menu and settings glyphs beside it, and Indicators.
• Know what the free tier shows. Free apps carry SIMULATED · POZER.COM in small print under the Buy / Long and Sell / Short buttons, on the Markets and Account screens, on the share card and on every order receipt. Pointing at it is the easiest reveal there is. Pro at US$12.99/mo removes it.
• Silence the phone. A real message sliding down mid-take breaks it, and it can show them something private.

If you pictured a different trading screen

“Trading screen” means a different app to different people, and the candle terminal isn’t the only one here.

• A stock app. Pozer’s Robinhood-style trading app opens on Investing, and its Buy and Sell buttons fill an order and print a receipt. It has no price feed at all, so every price sits where you typed it. The fake trading app prank guide walks through it.
• A crypto exchange. The Binance-style exchange has a markets board, a spot order ticket beside an order book, and a futures desk, with live prices on by default.

All three are original designs. None carries a real company’s name, logo or artwork.

What gives a fake trading screen away

1. Live prices left on for a scripted take, so the profit you rehearsed has changed by the time you roll.
2. A position still open past its LIQ line. The app never liquidates anything, so a mark typed beyond the liquidation price leaves the card running past −100% on a trade no exchange would still be holding.
3. An entry so far from the price that ENTRY and LIQ have dropped off the chart.
4. A long hold on something that should be ticking: the funding countdown is text, and the chart’s time axis counts back from a fixed 15:00, whatever the phone’s clock says.
5. Last take’s order still in the account, so the size doesn’t match the story.
6. A browser tab instead of the installed app: an address bar, and an Edit button that never hides.

The reveal

End it on camera, in the same scene. The quickest way is the one only a prop can do: hold two fingers on the screen, tap Edit, change the Mark price, tap Save changes and let them watch ten thousand dollars turn into whatever you typed. Keep that moment in the cut. A prank video without its reveal is a video of someone being lied to. Then ask before you post it: the person holding the phone gets a say in whether their face goes out.