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Posted by Gregory Wright on June 27, 2009, 6:14 am
Forex practice accounts allow you 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 approximately 30 days, some
are longer and some are shorter it all depends based on the broker
that you choose to open your practice account with. We have found many
forex brokers even let you continue to use the account for longer than
the time period that they say it the account is for. However, other
brokers will discontinue the account as soon as the time frame is
expired.
Forex brokers offer forex practice accounts to people as a way to get
other people interested in their forex trading tools and use their
forex broker services. As a result - they will collect some basic
contact information from you when you create your forex practice
account. Depending on the broker, they may call you and see how you
are doing with the account and see if they can help you get started in
a live account. Remember brokers get paid a commission only when you
are making trades in a live forex account not the forex practice
account.
Our advice is to use a forex practice account until you have tested
your forex trading strategy and are comfortable trading the foreign
currency market. 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 foreign currency market and you are
looking for a simple and easy to use system that will take about 15
minutes to use - you should check out Freedom Rocks - it is an
effective and simple to use forex trading system.
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 theories. Some brokers make it easy to have
multiple accounts and other brokers make it hard. The broker we use
allows us to create new practice accounts in just a few mouse clicks
and they don't care how many practice accounts you have - as a result
- it makes it a lot easier to test theories on their software as
opposed to other forex brokers.
Even after you have been trading the forex market for a many years you
will want to experiment and try 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 practice account.
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