It's the most case to use a demo account without emotion, but at least if work in a demo trader can learn how to keep discipline, it will help when trading in a real account, and maybe not easy to treat the demo account seriously.
I think, one must start with demo accounts for forex trading as this helps to understand the trading platform on which you will be trading for real and main thing is learning, always analyse your trade for better trading experience.
by and large traders especially the newcomers trade in real right now instead of demo, its a good decision to make sure live trading knowledge and experience.
right now i am using demo account where i playing my recent trading strategy , this approach is very supportive to avoid unfortunate risk and losses.
Make a demo account for yourself the basis in order to start preparing for trading on a real account.
the demo account is really important we all know but we cant focus on there , the main reason is there is no real money .
Minimum 3-6 months on demo account, then you can try on real, I still use demo for testing different strategies. With real account I have deposit 1000 and for this moment only opened positions with 0.01 lots.
5-6 is really appropriate time for practicing in a demo account but as a beginner, its really difficult to keep patience , for that reason they lost interest after passing sometimes.