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A demo account is the cheapest way to check arithmetic — Pakistan

Practice accounts are usually described as a place to rehearse decisions. They are better than that at something narrower: they print the same computed figures as a funded account, so any sum you can write down can be tested against a real screen for nothing.

The drill is always the same three moves. Write the number you expect on paper. Set up the ticket that should produce it. Compare. A match means the constant you used is the one your platform uses; a mismatch means a lookup is wrong, and finding that out on virtual money costs nothing at all.

Four reconciliations, in order of usefulness

  1. Money per point

    Open the smallest size, note the running result, wait for the price to move one step, note it again. The difference should equal units × step of price. This is the constant every other sum leans on, so it is worth confirming first.

  2. The reservation

    Predict size × units per lot × price ÷ leverage, then read what the ticket fences off. If they disagree, the leverage figure in your sheet is not the one on the account.

  3. Proportionality

    Double the size and check that both the reservation and the money per point double. A figure that does not scale is a figure you have misidentified.

  4. The cost of entering

    Open and immediately close one position. The small loss that remains is the spread — and any commission — expressed in money at that size. Compare it with spread in points × money per point.

Four drills, four constants confirmed. After them, the five-line sheet is filled with your figures rather than with examples.

Which figures a demo reproduces, and which it invents

FigureSame as on a funded account?
Units in one lotYes — a contract constant
Money per pointYes, at the same size
The reservation formulaYes; the leverage figure is whatever the practice account carries
Live quotes and the spreadYes, from the same feed
The balanceNo — it is virtual, and chosen when the account is created
How an exit fills in a fast marketNot reliably — this is where practice results and real ones part company

The first four rows are why a demo is a checking machine. The last two are why a good practice month is evidence that the screens are familiar and nothing more: demo results do not guarantee real-account results, because real trading adds real losses and the pressure that comes with them.

Setting the practice balance deliberately

A virtual balance is a free variable, and picking a large one quietly breaks the exercise: a size that would be reckless on your own money sits comfortably on a balance ten times bigger, so the arithmetic you rehearse is not the arithmetic you will use. Set the practice figure to what you would genuinely commit, and the sized answers come out at the scale you will actually meet. Practice accounts carry no time limit, so nothing is lost by starting small.

What a matched figure does not prove

  • That the trade was a good one. The sums were right; the idea was never tested by them.
  • That the fill will be identical when money is real. Execution in fast conditions is the part practice copies least well.
  • That the constant will hold forever. An overnight charge in particular is quoted per symbol and side and can change.
  • Anything about profit. Trading carries a high risk of losing money, and no reconciliation changes that.
Which drill should be done first?

Money per point. Every other figure on the ticket is built on it.

My predicted reservation was out by a factor. What is wrong?

Almost always the leverage figure or units per lot. Both are lookups — read them again on your own screen.

Does a practice account need documents?

Opening one asks for far less than a funded account, and no money is sent. Verification belongs to the funded route — see the constants sheet.

How long can a demo stay open?

There is no time limit, which is what makes it usable as a permanent checking tool rather than a trial.

Can I run the drills on the mobile app?

Yes. The specification windows and the running result are on every platform, so the comparisons work anywhere.

Should I keep a demo after funding an account?

It stays useful for exactly this: checking a constant on a new symbol before the constant matters.

Why did the result move while the price stood still?

Either the spread widened or a conversion rate moved — both change the money side without changing the count of points.

Is a matched sum enough to start trading real money?

It settles the arithmetic only. The decisions above it — amount at stake and where the stop sits — are a separate matter entirely.

What to check next

The prediction

Write the expected size before the ticket prints one.

Use the calculator

The count

Pips or points — the drill that settles it in seconds.

The mismatch

What each wrong constant does to an answer.

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