Demo account and real account are different think. When i do trade on demo account i feel so confident. But when move to real account i lost 12000 USD with.... GOLD
Emotions are the main key of trading and learning, Demo is just for learning the tools and activity. Main part is emotions and feelings which we have to control.
Gold is the most sensitive asset to change in market sentiments. And it's hard to predict crowd psychology because they react to various economic and political events which are impossible to predict. That's why it is especially important to use stop losses trading Gold.
Gold is always love for some people because the way it moved last week, was amazing and many has noticed it because of profits.
That’s right, demo, though important, is just limited to letting the trader know about the basics of how to trade. But the real problem which most beginners face, that is how to tackle emotions while trading, can be dealt with only when trading through real account.
Looks like a harmful recommendation to me. We have to do our best to avoid emotions or stress in trading because it is a direct source of mistakes. Automating the process of signal generation and trading itself is a right way to reduce human factor in trading.
I feel like people are missing out the difference between demo and real account when it comes to trading. They won't feel any range of emotions if they are making losses because they knew that it is not a real money.
Sometimes the differences are far more tangible - spread, requoting, server connection may all be different on a live account compared to the demo account.
There are many traders saying that demo and real account are different, but reality is the demo account is emotionless because you have notice this while working on demo account.
After I realised that I started to develop automated trading solutions because manual trading quickly (or sometimes slowly) pushes you out of emotional balance where mistakes start to occur frequently.