What is a demo trading account?
A demo trading account, also known as a practice trading account, provides risk-free trading for beginners.
With an Alpari demo trading account, you get access to Alpari online trading platforms, designed to be beginner-friendly and easy to use from the start.
Our platforms allow you to trade forex and a wide range of CFDs, including stocks, indices, and cryptocurrencies, using virtual funds instead of real money. It copies real market conditions, so you can place trades, test strategies, and explore the platform just as you would on a live account - but without any financial risk.
A demo trading account is ideal for beginners who want to understand trading basics, and for experienced traders who want to test new strategies before using real capital.
Why open a Practise trading account with Alpari?
Get familiar with the markets at your own pace
- Practice trading under real market conditions. Get first-hand experience of potential live trading scenarios. See what happens when prices change and learn how best to protect your trades with tools like Stop Loss.
- Familiarise yourself with the trading platform. MetaTrader offers a wide range of indicators and timeframes designed to let you monitor the markets.
- Grow your confidence. By the time you're ready to move to live trading, you'll have grown the confidence to start using real money.
Also remember, if you get stuck at any point or have any questions, we have a comprehensive online Help Centre or you can contact our dedicated Customer Support team, who are always happy to help.
Practice share and stock trading with Alpari
With a free Alpari Practice Account, you can also practise demo share trading by opening trades on popular stock CFDs using virtual funds. This helps you understand how stock price movements work, experiment with different strategies, and gain confidence before moving to a live trading account.
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A demo trading account is a way to practise trading without risking any of your own money, as you'll be using virtual funds.
It offers the same tools and features as a live trading account, and you'll be trading under real-market conditions.
Most of what you can do on a live trading account, you’ll be able to action on a Practice trading account.
You can open and close positions, adjust order types and choose from hundreds of different financial instruments.
The trading platform works the same way too - the only difference is that the funds you're trading with are not real.
The features, conditions and tools are the same on a demo trading account and live account.
The only difference is that you're trading with virtual money, so there's no risk involved for you.
Stock CFDs are not available on the Practice trading account.
Once you've moved to live trading though, there are thousands of different stocks for you to access, and you'll still benefit from experimenting with other instruments before.