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Exness Demo Account

Run the whole order sequence on a practice account first: add a symbol, size the position, send it, manage it, close it - with no verification needed and no money involved.

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A demo rehearsal is the step that costs nothing and catches the most mistakes. Open a practice account from the Personal Area, set the virtual balance, connect it in the platform exactly as a live account is connected, then run the full order sequence - size, send, manage, close - before real money is involved. No verification is needed to open one.

What the rehearsal is for

A demo proves the mechanics - where the volume field is, what a stop-loss does, how a close is reported. It does not prove cost, because live spreads move with the market.

When the rehearsal is finished

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What a demo rehearsal proves, and what it does not

It proves the mechanics: where the volume field is, how a pending order is placed, what a stop-loss does to a position, how the platform reports a close. It proves the setup too - whether the right symbols are in the watchlist, whether the chart template is the one you want, whether the platform runs on the machine at all.

It does not prove cost or fill behaviour. Live spreads move with the market and widen around news and the daily rollover, and the swap that applies overnight is read from the live symbol specification. Treat the rehearsal as a test of your own hands, and read the measured spread and swap pages for what the conditions look like.

Making the rehearsal look like the real thing

Set the virtual balance to the amount actually planned for the live account rather than leaving it at the default. A $10,000 rehearsal teaches nothing about position sizing if the live account will hold a fraction of that, because the same lot size means a completely different share of the margin.

Practise the awkward moments on purpose: send an order that is too large and read the message, hold a position through the daily rollover, close a position at a loss and watch what the balance does. Those are the screens that are unpleasant to meet for the first time with real money on the line.

The rehearsal, in order

  1. Open a demo account in the Personal Area. No identity check is needed for this step, so it can be done before verification finishes.
  2. Pick the tier the rehearsal should imitate: all five live types - Standard, Standard Cent, Pro, Raw Spread and Zero - can be practised on.
  3. Set the balance. A demo starts with $10,000 in virtual funds, and the figure can be changed at any time via Set Balance in the Personal Area or the app.
  4. Connect it in the platform with its own account number and trading password, on the demo server, exactly the way a live account is connected.
  5. Run the sequence end to end: add a symbol, read its specification, size the order, send it, attach a stop-loss and a take-profit, then close it.
  6. Repeat the same sequence at the hour you would really trade, because spread and movement are not the same at every hour of the day.
  7. Move to live only when the sequence is boring. Everything except the money behaves the same way on the live account.

A demo can go inactive after a long period without use. Opening a new one takes the same few steps.

Rehearsal checklist before going live

CheckHow to run it on the demoReady when
Platform connectsLog in with the demo account number and its own passwordCharts load and the account number matches the header
Symbol is findableAdd the instrument from the full symbol treeIt sits in Market Watch with its specification readable
Order sizes correctlyEnter the volume, read the required margin in the order windowThe margin figure matches the one you worked out beforehand
Stops behaveAttach a stop-loss and a take-profit, then move themBoth levels show on the chart and update the position
Close worksClose a position in profit and one at a lossBalance changes the way the position said it would

Up to 100 MT4 and 100 MT5 demo accounts per profile, 200 in total, so several tiers can be rehearsed side by side.

Questions that come up mid-way

Does a demo have to wait for verification?
No. A demo account is opened without an identity check, so it can be running while verification of the live profile is still in progress.
How much virtual money does the rehearsal start with?
An Exness demo starts with $10,000 in virtual funds, and the balance can be reset or changed at any time from Set Balance in the Personal Area or the Exness Trade app.
Which account tier should the demo copy?
The one the live account will use. All five live types can be practised on, and the cost structure differs between them, so a rehearsal on the wrong tier teaches the wrong entry cost.
When is the rehearsal finished?
When the full sequence - add symbol, size, send, manage, close - runs without checking the instructions, including at the hour you would really trade.

Reviews

What traders say about the Exness demo account:

★★★★★
good broker. the issue I have is that my demo account disappear
— Thabiso Moloi2026-06-05
★★★☆☆
App demo not working on iphone 12 pro max
— M Umar Gulzar2024-08-31
★★★☆☆
Sometimes, the app removes my demo account for no reason and I have to create another. It has happened a number of times. Please fix up ASAP.
— Chukwudum Nwabuwa2026-06-03
★★★☆☆
Great. I was on demo training but is god
— Thecamboy2019-10-02

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