As in all areas of life, in Forex practice makes perfect; or as near to it as you can get.  Using forex practice accounts allow you to learn to trade the forex market while not putting your hard earned capital at risk. These accounts are often also called forex demo accounts, these accounts should be free - so if a forex broker is trying to charge you for one – just say no thank you and look for another broker.

Most forex practice accounts will work for about 30 days, some are longer and some are shorter - it all depends based on the forex broker that you choose to open your practice account with. We have found some forex brokers even let you continue to use the account for longer than the time frame that they say it is good for. However, other brokers will discontinue the account as soon as the time period is up.

Forex brokers offer forex practice accounts to people as a way to get new people interested in their forex trading platform and use their forex broker services. As a result - they will normally collect some basic information from you when you setup your forex practice account. Depending on the broker, they may call you and see how you are doing in your demo account and see if they can help you get started in a live account. Remember they get paid a commission only when you are making trades in a live forex account not the forex practice account.

It is in your best interest to use a forex practice account until you have thoroughly tested your forex trading strategy and are comfortable trading the forex market. Trading a live forex account is quite a bit different than trading a demo forex account. Never understimate the excitement and responsibilities of live forex trading.  There is nothing worse than making a mistake in a live account, especially when its something that you should have learned not to do in your practice account. If you aren’t sure yet of how you are going to trade the forex market and you are looking for a simple and easy to use system I suggest that you links listed on our front page under Forex Systems.

We have learned a lot using forex practice accounts to test out different strategies and test new theories. Often times we will be running anywhere from 3 to 5 practice accounts at the same time just to try out different forex strategies. Some brokers make it easy to have several accounts and other brokers make it difficult. The broker we use allows us to create new demo accounts in just a few mouse clicks and they don’t care how many accounts you have – as a result – it makes it a lot easier to test strategies on their platform as opposed to other forex brokers.

Even after you have been trading the forex market for a long time you will want to experiment and test out new methods of trading and that is what forex practice accounts are great for. Test your new forex method without putting any money at risk in a demo account.  Try every variation you can think of in your demo account, different currency pairs combinations, pip size allotments, leverage strategies; all the variable that will affect your live trading once you are ready to begin.  Do all this first in a demo account will be one of the wisest decisions you ever make.

In Forex, those who succomb to the temptation to go live too early usually pay a heavy price for their inexperience.  There is no rush, the market will be there tomorrow and next week, and next month.  Demo accounts are key to your growth and education.

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