One of the most common questions asked by newly made traders sounds so - is there a difference between real and demo accounts?Of course, there are very significant. Moreover, there are many nuances faced by a novice trader, opening a real account first.Many brokers prefer to keep silent about them.
All the caveats that distinguish the demo account of the real, can be divided into three groups:
Psychological
Product
Special
Technical point is that the virtual account all the transactions holds the computer itself. On a real account is already running the human factor, in other words, the transaction shall have a person not a machine. In the demo transaction, all operations take place in fractions of seconds, regardless of price movement. The real deal with you people running here and certainly not so quickly. For while people process information, decide to pass some time. Is that it takes less than a minute and if you're new to the moment when he worked only with the demo version, it just will not have time to conduct transactions on the appropriate price.
While the dealer is engaged in processing information, the price will have time to change several times. This concerns both the closing and opening of the transaction. For example, the trader before the release of news put a warrant out news and has 70 positions profits available for demo this can be easily. But in the real world can be a problem: the most mundane - it's a long time obrabatyvaniya transaction, as well as breaking the link with the dealer. And while the person is trying to get through to him, extends from five to 15 minutes, the price changes direction and turns instead of income loss. Fix it certainly can not.
The psychological point is that often when trading on a demo, a person can turn the pile of successful transactions as well as it came to actual transactions, does not work. What's the matter? It's simple - when it is trading on a demo, man is sure - he risks nothing, but in real life you can lose everything. The man begins to fear to shake a step or push a button and panic as it is known - is a bad counselor. Because there will be advantageous to start with a small amount of loss, which will not cause you trauma.
Finally, special moments, the ones who do not like to discuss in the forums DC. These are the moments when the trader does not give money. For example:
Not market prices, or in other words, a trader at the terminal there is the so-called "candle" to 300 points, which initially takes down a stop-loss price and then returned to their former positions. And on the demo so no candles and brokers as well.
Slippage, another way to rob a trader. For example, he put an order to buy a pound of 1.4400, and broker a deal to put him to 1.4410, quire points as usual.
Opening the market, a broker at all times open transaction worse market by a few points and also at the closing. And so in every transaction, of course losses will be considerable.
Resetting the story - this is when people say, within two weeks had a number of different trades and then opening the terminal detects that deals most incredible way disappeared. In the log file is also no trace of the history of operations. When writing a petition to you politely respond that it's actually so - nothing. It remains only to find another broker.
