Paper TradingField Guide
Practise PSE swing trades with pretend pesos and real prices. Every plan you write and every honest fill you record makes you a sharper trader, at zero cost.
Today's ticket
- Real money at risk while practising
- ₱0Mistakes here are free lessons
- Paper plans waiting for a dip
- 2ALI and BDO
- Practice pot (pretend)
- ₱5,000Fees counted like the real thing
- Review with Claude
- Mon, Nov 97:20 PM
My plans this week
Real orders go in the DragonFi mobile app (the web version needs a ₱10,000 balance to trade). Paper plans live only in your journal.
| Stock | Kind | Plan | Reward vs risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCOR | Real sell | Limit sell 200 at ₱8.19 this week, ₱8.05 next week, ₱7.95 in week 3. Never sell to the ₱7.31 buyers. | – |
| PHES | Real sell | Limit sell 7,500 at ₱0.45 until one-share lots start, then ₱0.43 (lowest ₱0.425). | – |
| ALI | Paper | Buy 100 only if it dips to ₱14.90. Cut-loss ₱14.60, target ₱16.00. | 2.5 to 1 |
| BDO | Paper | Buy 10 only at ₱116.00. Cut-loss ₱114.40, target ₱122.00. ₱120 is a hurdle on the way. | 2.2 to 1 |
| URC | Watch only | Sitting near the top of its range. The best plan pays under 2× the risk. | 1.8 to 1 |
| DMC | Skip for now | Falling for months, from about ₱10 to ₱6.50, with a sharp drop in late October. | – |
| AETF | Core plan | The PSEi ETF (it was FMETF until Oct 9). Payday buys go here once BCOR and PHES are sold. | – |
ALI Results around Nov 5
PSE EDGE, Oct 26: an analysts' briefing on nine-month results is set for Nov 5. Results can open the price well past your buy or cut-loss line.
Its ₱0.35 dividend came off the price on Oct 28 (paid Nov 13). That explains part of the late-October drop from about ₱16.10, so ₱16.00 is an ambitious target.
BDO Results out Oct 30
PSE EDGE, Oct 30, 1:13 PM: quarterly report filed. Tuesday may move more than usual. It pays ₱1.10 a quarter; the last ex-date was Sep 11 and the next isn't declared yet.
Daily routine
Tick items as you go. A finished day lights up your streak on the first screen. Ticks are saved in this browser.
After 3:00 PM or in the evening
Before 9:30 AM
9:30 AM to 3:00 PM
After the close
Fridays
Trade planner
Type a plan and the checks update as you go. Fees, break-even and price steps follow PSE rules.
Your plan
What it adds up to
Fill checker
A paper trade only counts if the real price would have filled it. Copy the day's open, high and low from the stock's DragonFi page.
The numbers loaded are a made-up day for ALI.
What to record
How it decides: a buy fills at your price if the low reached it, or at the open if the day opened below it. If the cut-loss and target were both touched on the same day, it counts the cut-loss. If the day opened past either line, you get the opening price.
Red-flag scan
Before writing a plan, tick anything that's true. Spotting a red flag is a win: skipping a risky trade protects your pot.
Resources
Where each answer lives, most trusted first. Check PSE EDGE every evening before writing a plan.
PSE EDGE
PSE's official site for company announcements. If a company says it, it's posted here first.
- Type a ticker in the search box at the top right and pick the company.
- Company Disclosures: every announcement, newest first. Watch for quarterly reports, dividend declarations, analysts' briefings and "Material Information".
- Dividends and Rights: amounts with ex-date, record date and payment date.
- Halts and Suspensions (top menu): stocks PSE has paused.
- ETF (top menu): AETF's daily NAV per share.
DragonFi
Your broker. Charts and statistics on the web; trading in the mobile app.
- Stock pages: chart, open/high/low/close, volume and statistics.
- Market › Stocks, filtered to PSEi: the 30 busiest stocks, your practice list.
- Market › Market Pulse: PSEi level and market mood.
- Research tab and the "Before the Bell" morning note.
- Mobile app: orders and the live buyers and sellers list.
Also yours: the PSE Cheat Sheet and PSE_Trading_Journal.xlsx.
News and data
- Official: pse.com.ph for notices and market reports; SEC for scam warnings.
- Economy: BSP (interest rates, inflation) and PSA (GDP). Banks and property stocks react to both.
- Business news: BusinessWorld, Philstar Business, Inquirer Business, Manila Bulletin, BusinessMirror, Bilyonaryo, GMA Money.
- Global: Reuters Asia markets. US rates and foreign selling often move the PSEi.
- Least trusted: Facebook groups, Telegram and influencer tips. Treat them as a red flag.
If a story isn't confirmed on PSE EDGE, treat it as a rumor. By the time news is in the paper, the price has usually moved.
Reading a DragonFi stock page
Every number on a stock page, using BCOR's real figures from Oct 30, and what each one told us.
| On the page | BCOR | What it means | What it told us |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price and change | ₱8.20, +3.14% | The last price someone actually paid, and the change from the previous close. | Up 3% on only 500 shares. A tiny trade can move a thin stock a lot. |
| Market Closed (As of …) | Oct 30, 2026 | The date of the last data shown. | Nothing traded after Friday; Nov 2 was a holiday. |
| O, H, L, C | 7.95 8.20 7.95 8.20 | Open, high, low and close of the candle under your mouse. | Opened at the low and closed at the high: buyers won the day, with very few shares. |
| Day Volume | 500 | Shares traded that day. | About ₱4,000 changed hands all day. |
| Average Volume (20D) | 350 | Average shares per day over the last 20 trading days. | Your 200 shares are more than half a normal day, so selling takes patience. |
| Day Range | ₱7.95 – ₱8.20 | Lowest and highest trade of the day. | Where to look when checking paper fills. |
| 52 week range | ₱6.00 – ₱9.71 | Lowest and highest price over the past year. | Your ₱9.17 break-even sits near the top of the year. |
| Market Capitalization | ₱35.6B | Price × all shares: the company's value at today's price. | Big on paper, barely traded. Size alone doesn't make a stock busy. |
| Shares Float | 520,953,684 | Shares the public can trade, out of 4,341,280,693. | Only 12% is in public hands, one reason so little trades. |
| Dividend Yield | 0.0% | Yearly cash dividend ÷ price. | BCOR pays nothing while you wait. |
Candles
Each candle on a daily chart is one trading day. The thick body runs from open to close; the thin wicks reach the high and low.
Green candle
Closed higher than it opened. Buyers pushed the price up during the day.
Red candle
Closed lower than it opened. Sellers pushed the price down during the day.
Floors and ceilings
A floor is where buyers keep stepping in; a ceiling is where sellers keep showing up. Swing trades buy near a floor and sell just under a ceiling.
Shaped like ALI in Sep–Oct 2026. The levels are real but approximate; the daily line is drawn for teaching.
How to spot them
- Find a price where the chart turned at least twice. More touches make a stronger level.
- Treat it as a zone: ALI's floor is about ₱14.70, not exactly ₱14.70.
- Round numbers often act as levels, like ₱120 for BDO.
- A broken ceiling often becomes the new floor, and the other way around.
- Your cut-loss goes just under the floor. If the floor breaks, the reason for the trade is gone.
- Check ex-dividend dates: that morning the price drops by about the dividend. ALI's ₱0.35 went ex on Oct 28.
Glossary
Terms in plain words, each with an example from your own stocks.
Quiz
Ten questions built from your own trades. Aim for 10 out of 10 before your first real trade.
Your progress
Weekly review
Every Friday after the close. Answers are saved in this browser. Copy them into a chat with Claude for your Nov 9 review.