Demo Versus
Real.

TM9 offers two primary account types, and the difference between them is larger than the presence of real money. A demo account lets you practise using the platform without risk, exploring features, testing strategies and becoming familiar with the analysis tools in a simulated environment. A real account allows eligible users to participate in live trading with real funds, subject to the applicable terms, market conditions and risks.

The features overlap heavily by design. Demo accounts provide access to many of the same platform capabilities available to real accounts, so the skills transfer directly and nothing has to be relearned. What does not transfer is the emotional weight. A drawdown on a demo account is an interesting data point; the same drawdown on a real account is the thing that makes traders widen stops, take profits early and abandon rules they spent weeks testing.

The useful way to think about it is that demo tests the strategy and real tests the trader. Both need testing, and running them in that order is cheaper than the alternative. A sensible progression is a few weeks on demo until the mechanics are automatic and the rules are written down, then a real account at small size for long enough to see how you behave.

Keeping both open afterwards is underrated. When a new idea appears, the demo account is where it gets tested properly rather than tried live because it seemed promising. Demo profits and losses are not real and simulated fills can flatter a fast strategy, which is worth remembering when results look encouraging.

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