can anyone advise me on what a good trading platform to use to start my demo trading on pls and thank you

So this may be a super dumb question… I’m paper trading to practice and I feel like I’m missing a huge concept and I like to understand all the things. When you have an account and let’s say you take a trade and want to sell, what are you selling? You don’t own that stock right? Or if I buy in a trade so I now have stock?? But day trading you want to close out all your trades in a day? I may be having a blonde moment over here…. It’s like when the dr starts talking medicine to lay people. Please someone dumb it down for me!!! I promise I’ll smart 🤪

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The part on the 1-hour chart, after drawing a zone and the zone gets hit. Are we waiting for that candle on the 1 hour to close in that zone before switching to 5-minute entry, or should we be waiting for a rejection candle? What I notice is when it hits the zone and I switch to 5-minute, I get a break of structure but lots of times that was not the final push into that zone before it broke to the opposite direction for a winning trade. example on simulation I waited for 1 hour to close there was a double bottom, switched to 5 - minute, waited for BOS. demand at down candle adjacent to move up order not hit broke to upside.

I’m new here, I want someone to put through all this process