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A practice account quotes real prices and moves a balance that is not real. That gap is the subject of this page: which parts of a currency-pair position rehearse honestly on a demo, which parts cannot, and what is worth writing down while the money is still virtual.

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A demo account trades the live price feed with virtual money, so everything that depends on the price rehearses accurately: reading a quote, sizing a position in lots, placing and moving stops, watching a swap post at rollover. Everything that depends on the money being real does not. That is the honest split, and it is why a practice period is worth structuring rather than just opening and clicking.

What a practice account can and cannot rehearse

Moving one pair from demo to live

The switch itself is administrative: a live account is opened from the same Personal Area, verified, funded, and the platform then shows both. The part that is not administrative is size. A practice balance that was never the real number produces practice positions that were never the real size, and the first live order is where that shows.

A workable handover is to open live at a size small enough that the first loss changes nothing about the plan, keep the same written record running, and only scale once the record on live looks like the record on demo.

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What transfers from a demo without loss

Everything mechanical. Where the order window is, how a pending order differs from a market order, what happens to a stop when it is dragged, how margin is displayed and where the swap column lives. These are platform skills, and a platform behaves the same whether the balance behind it is real or not.

The arithmetic transfers too. A pip on a standard lot is worth the same number whether the account is a practice one or not, so the habit of converting a stop distance into money before the order is placed carries over intact. That single habit is most of what a practice period is for.

So does the reading of the pair itself: which hours it moves in, how far the spread widens around a scheduled release, how much ground it typically covers in a day. Those observations are about the market, and the market does not know which kind of account is watching.

What a demo quietly gets wrong

The balance. A practice account starts at a round figure that has nothing to do with the money a person actually has, and position sizes drift to match it. Two months of sizing against $10,000 followed by a live account funded with a fraction of that is two months of practising a different game.

The consequence. A demo loss is a number changing on a screen; a live loss is money earned somewhere else. The decisions that go wrong in live trading — moving a stop, adding to a losing position, closing a winner early — are decisions about that feeling, and no practice account can supply it.

And the attention. Practice positions get opened casually and abandoned, which teaches a looseness that has to be unlearned afterwards. The fix is simple to state and hard to keep: treat each practice position as if it were funded, or do not open it.

Reading the practice record

A practice period without a written record produces a feeling about how it went, and feelings about trading are unreliable in a predictable direction. The record does not need to be elaborate: date, pair, direction, size, entry, stop, exit, and one line on why the position was opened.

What to look for is repetition. One large loss is an event; the same small mistake twenty times is a habit, and it is the habit that follows a trader onto a live account. Sorting the record by reason rather than by result usually makes the pattern obvious within a page.

The numbers that support the record are published separately: measured spreads by hour, swap readings and the margin and pip calculator.

A practice sequence on one pair

  1. Choose one pair and stay on it. Rotating between six pairs teaches six sets of habits and none of them well.
  2. Set the virtual balance to the amount actually intended for a live account rather than leaving the default. Position sizes only transfer if the balance does.
  3. Trade inside one session for the first stretch, so the pair is seen under comparable conditions each day.
  4. Write down every position before it is opened: entry, stop distance in pips, size in lots, and what that stop is worth in money.
  5. Leave one small position open past rollover on purpose, to watch the swap adjustment appear rather than read about it.
  6. Review the written record weekly and look for the repeated mistake rather than the largest loss.
  7. Move to live only at a size where the first loss changes nothing about the plan.

A practice record is only useful if it was written before the outcome was known.

Demo and live, side by side

What is being testedOn a demoOn a live account
PricesReal, live market pricesReal, live market prices
Money at stakeVirtual funds onlyThe funds deposited
Opening balance$10,000 by default, adjustable at any time through Set Balance in the Personal AreaWhatever has been deposited
Identity checkNot needed to open a demoPart of opening a live account
How many accountsUp to 100 MT4 and 100 MT5 demo accounts per profile, 200 in totalSet by which account types are opened
PlatformsMT4, MT5, the Exness Terminal and the appMT4, MT5, the Exness Terminal and the app
Account types to practise onAll five — Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread, ZeroThe one that was opened
Cost of a mistakeA number on a screenThe balance

A demo can go inactive after a long period without use; a new one can be opened at any time.

Frequently asked questions

Does a practice account cost anything to open?
No. A demo is free and funded with virtual money, so nothing is at stake while the platform is being learned.
How much virtual money does a practice account start with?
$10,000 by default. The balance can be reset or changed at any time through the Set Balance option in the Personal Area or the Exness Trade app, and setting it to the amount actually intended for live trading is what makes practice position sizes meaningful.
How many demo accounts can be opened?
Up to 100 MT4 and 100 MT5 demo accounts per profile, 200 in total, so more than one account type or pair can be tested side by side.
Does a demo account expire?
It can go inactive after a long period without use, and a new one can be opened at any time from the Personal Area. A fresh account also resets whatever record was building up in the old one, which is a reason to keep the record outside the platform.
Do prices on a demo match the live feed?
The quotes are the real, live market prices for the instruments, which is why spread behaviour and session timing can be studied on a practice account at all.
How long should a practice period last?
Long enough to see the same pair in a slow week and a busy one, and long enough for a written record to show repetition. Time spent is a poorer guide than whether the mistakes have started repeating.
What does a demo not prepare a trader for?
The part where the money is real. Sizing against an artificial balance and the calm of a loss that costs nothing are the two things that do not carry over.

Reviews

What traders say about the Exness demo account:

★★★★☆
doy cuatro estrellas porque todavía no la use en cuenta real estoy en cuenta demo y me parece fácil de operar después de unos días practicando.cuando vaya en serio vuelvo a editar está opinión
— ruben humberto2026-05-19
★★★★★
muito bom no demo agora falta sabe no real
— EDUARDO DE SOUSA MENDES SOUSA2026-03-09
★☆☆☆☆
Disappearing Demo Accounts. the fact that a Demo account gets deleted because you haven’t been on it in a week or less is just weird, I’ve lost about 5 accounts in total I’ve been practicing on, such a shame I actually liked the UI & everything else
— ilovewokhard2026-02-13
★★★★★
what amazing platform to learn trading with Demo on this Exness trade!!!!
— gemechis lemessa2026-04-30

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