Exness Demo Account
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.
Open Exness Account →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
- Learn where every control is on MT4, MT5 and the Exness Terminal before an order costs anything.
- Rehearse the arithmetic — lot size, pip value, margin and stop distance on one pair — until it is automatic.
- Watch how the same pair behaves at the European open and an hour before the American close.
- See what a swap adjustment looks like by leaving one small position open past rollover on purpose.
- Set the virtual balance close to the amount actually intended for a live account, so position sizes transfer.
- Accept the limit: a demo cannot rehearse what a losing position feels like when the money is real.
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.
Open a Demo or Live Account →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
- Choose one pair and stay on it. Rotating between six pairs teaches six sets of habits and none of them well.
- 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.
- Trade inside one session for the first stretch, so the pair is seen under comparable conditions each day.
- Write down every position before it is opened: entry, stop distance in pips, size in lots, and what that stop is worth in money.
- Leave one small position open past rollover on purpose, to watch the swap adjustment appear rather than read about it.
- Review the written record weekly and look for the repeated mistake rather than the largest loss.
- 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 tested | On a demo | On a live account |
|---|---|---|
| Prices | Real, live market prices | Real, live market prices |
| Money at stake | Virtual funds only | The funds deposited |
| Opening balance | $10,000 by default, adjustable at any time through Set Balance in the Personal Area | Whatever has been deposited |
| Identity check | Not needed to open a demo | Part of opening a live account |
| How many accounts | Up to 100 MT4 and 100 MT5 demo accounts per profile, 200 in total | Set by which account types are opened |
| Platforms | MT4, MT5, the Exness Terminal and the app | MT4, MT5, the Exness Terminal and the app |
| Account types to practise on | All five — Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread, Zero | The one that was opened |
| Cost of a mistake | A number on a screen | The 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?
How much virtual money does a practice account start with?
How many demo accounts can be opened?
Does a demo account expire?
Do prices on a demo match the live feed?
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What does a demo not prepare a trader for?
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
muito bom no demo agora falta sabe no real
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
what amazing platform to learn trading with Demo on this Exness trade!!!!