Demo foreign exchange trading is advocated as the way to start by nearly everybody, including us here on this site. Trading in a demo account lets you begin to know your broker’s platform and services, discover the strengths and weaknesses of your system and figure out your own weaknesses and strengths as a trader at the same time.
Nevertheless, currency exchange demo accounts do have some drawbacks.
We assume that a demo account and a real money account from the same broker are going to look the same, offer the same services and work in the same way. Sometimes this is right. The broker could have many rationalizations for doing this. Legitimized reasons would include freeing up the genuine platform and its server space for live traders. Sneaky reasons would involve tricks like drawing you in with something that is convenient to use and perhaps even stacked in your favor (if it does not access the genuine market) so that they can grab your cash and then watch you lose it in the real world. So check prior to signing up.
