I went to the Tradezero page and was confused. Is there a virtual account I can use so I can understand and experience the bid/ask spread as well as other fees that will be charged?
By virtual you mean paper/demo/fake money ? Paid live paper account Free paper demo (?) https://us.tradezero.co/faq
I was referring to fake money in real time where all the fees and mark-ups would be included so I would know how it works. It looks like Tradezero does not offer this. Am I correct?
I only used a simulator to see if I was good at choosing stocks. If you want the live trade experience you should probably set up a small account somewhere and trade with real money, do small trades of 5-10 shares, or whatever you are comfortable with. I would not pay for a simulator account, that is a waste of money, you could use that to setup a real account for actual trading and potentially earn some profits. We addressed your fees question in another thread. There are no fees for day trades.
They've paper account except it's 15-20 min in the past. Nobody would offer free realtime data on charts and quotes. You've to pay for that.
That is AWESOME! So they allow you to trade in the past! Just WOW! So all you gotta' do is look at any one of a billion realtime charts on the Interwebs, see what the market does. Then in this delayed platform, just trade what has already happened. 100% win-rate. Awesome!