Demo Account Trading

The Financial markets are buzzing and exciting.
Money flows around the globe in huge amounts and at superfast speed.
The opportunities to trade world events and big market moves are always there and always changing.

Yet it requires some degree of knowledge and skill to navigate this constantly evolving maze, so you can seize those openings and cash in.

One of the best ways to help you do this to use a demo account. This allows you to practice trading, test strategies and get used to a trading platform without actually risking any of your own money.

What is demo account trading?

Demo account trading lets complete beginners get familiar with every aspect of trading financial markets, without any risk. For more experienced traders, testing new strategies or ideas in a trading demo account allows them to develop and improve their trading plans – again without any risk involved.

By recreating the experience of ‘live’ trading as closely as possible, a demo account gives you the feel of what it is like to enter and exit a position in any market you choose. This simulated market environment is sometimes called ‘paper’ trading, as you are practicing buying and selling with no possibility of losing any real money.

Demo account trading also gives you the chance to try out all the trading platform’s functions. Understanding how to place orders, manage an existing trade position or multiple positions at the same time, will advance your insight and awareness around ‘real’ trading.

Getting comfortable with what you need to use in a market environment is a key part of trading, as speed can sometimes be crucial to success or failure.

Discover FXTM’s demo account to see the benefits – https://www.forextime.com/trading-accounts/demo-account

What can you do on a demo trading account?

A demo trading account enables you to look at the whole range of financial markets available to you to trade. You can understand and familiarise yourself with how they behave and what suits your trading personality. Or you can learn how to set alerts and monitor different markets at the same time.

• Practice trading – with a similar data feed to a live account, market conditions on your demo account will mirror the live markets. Build up your confidence in your strategy and how you use a platform, in a risk-free environment.

If you are more experienced, you can try out other, new strategies that you think might develop your trading success. You can test and tweak parameters to fine-tune results, assured that there is no risk involved.

• Risk management – understand the idea of having ‘as live’ positions on, perhaps two or three at a time. Get to a point where position sizing and the placing of stop and limit orders is second nature, as this makes moving to a live trading arena a lot easier.
• Platform understanding – read and analyse price charts, quickly and effectively when prices are ‘live’, fill in deal tickets, listen to live news and see how it affects markets. By navigating around the trading platform, you can have the confidence to use all the tools you want to use at the right time.

How do I open a demo account?

• To start trading on a demo account, you need to open an account with a recognised, regulated broker.
• Once you have your account number and password, you should download MetaTrader4, the most popular and widely used trading platform in the world. The numerous built-in features mean demo account trading is ideal for getting to understand all the functionality of the platform.
• It is always best to keep your demo trading account rules as close to your real account as possible. Using similar position sizing, risk amounts, leverage and strategy will help when you progress to a real account.
  Demo account trading allows you to practice trading with virtual funds.
  Perhaps you want to test strategies on the go with a mobile app?
  Or access educational content to take your trading to the next level?

To find out more about demo account trading and how you can might benefit, go to visit us at https://www.forextime.com/trading-accounts/demo-account

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