Could someone please explain why, even though I have $100,000 in my paper trading account on TradingView, I am unable to place a trade? From the very beginning, with my first, it has always displayed the message "insufficient funds. " or it would just show that my order margin is like 100 000 to place a 2000 usd trade any suggestions welcome and help much appreciated
Have you asked the broker? They must have a helpdesk?
That would normally be the way to get a fast and reliable answer, rather than seeking guesses from people in a forum who don’t use your broker, haven’t got your version of the platform (mostly), and can’t see exactly what’s happening and reliably work out why?
Sorry if my reply sounds disparaging. I wish you good luck with the situation, but that’s honestly the way to get a reliable and quick answer that will help you, rather than a mixture of guesses from people who don’t quite know what’s going on. 
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thank you for the reply, I tried asking tradingview who didnt reply and there ai chat was not helpful at all before i came here i even tried to get on the tradingview forum/ social but couldnt, butonce again thank you for trying to help
You mention you’re on a paper trading account. Is it possible that the platform "thinks you’re trying to open a real money trade, rather than a demo?
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Who is the broker? Trading View is the platform, it’ll be the broker that sets margin.
Some pictures of your account balance, equity, leverage and the position you’re trying to open and error message might help.
I dont know how it would think this or what could be done if this is what is was thinkign as tradingview will not reply to my msgs
would my broker be Tradingview because I opened it with Tradingview its the tradingview platform and the tradingview account or are you talking about when you add a symbol in the top right corner and then it will show pepperstone or another broker but id still say its tradingview
I have add this imagesto try make things more clear it says i cant use 6k of the 100k they gave me it basically says i would need 200k to place a 6k trade.
No.
TradingView is not a broker. It’s a platform-manufacturer.
I think you have a demo version of the platform from the manufacturer without it being attached to a broker at all.
My suggestion to you is to forget that, and open instead a demo account with Oanda (this takes 1 minute) and use their “advanced charts” on the demo platform. Those charts are a white-label version of TradingView but don’t actually display the TradingView name. They’re otherwise identical, so it’s the same thing you’re already used to. You’ll be able to demo-trade there.
You’re trading a Pepperstone CFD feed, I think trading view can have its own paper trading on the many feeds it has.
I’m not sure what the margin requirements for a CFD in NAS100 are, but 87 is a ginormous position size. Have you tried placing an order of 1 and seeing what happens? It looks like it wants 22k of margin per lot.
My spread betting account is about 1k per position size of 1 and those positions are typically much smaller than CFDs
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