
The first tips is that you will need to decide if you want to open a demo account with a broker that you may use for live trading or will only use for practice. It is much easier to make the transition from demoing to trading live if you are able to find a suitable broker that offers a foreign exchange demo account and they also offer all the features you need if you were to trade live. This isn’t crucial if you are just starting out but it is something you can keep in mind. If you become familiar with one broker’s trading platform, when you make the move to trading live it would be much more seamless.
If you demo trade with one broker and then start trading live with another, you may find that their trading platforms are very different and this might have an impact on how well you perform at trading. Something much more important than this is picking a demo account with the right kind of leverage.
Many new traders see leverage as their friend and often pick the highest ratio possible. What usually happens is the blow up demo account after demo account and completely give up on trading. Some new traders do well with demo trading and when they begin trading live the leverage is too high and wipes out their trading capital.
