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What a demo is genuinely useful for: producing the amount (Bangladesh)

The one figure nobody will hand you is how much to send. A minimum is a threshold, not advice; a guide that names an amount is guessing about your money. A demo account settles it arithmetically, in an afternoon, before anything has been transferred — because the sizes and costs it displays are the sizes and costs a funded account will meet.

The method in one paragraph: open a demo, find the smallest position the order ticket will accept, open one, and read what it takes hold of and what one step of price is worth at that size. Those two readings turn «how much should I send» from a feeling into a multiplication. The demo carries no transfer and rehearses none — it is being used here as a calculator that happens to look like a trading screen.

Four readings that produce the number

Take them in order. Each one is a value you read off a screen rather than a judgement you make.

The floor of the order ticket

Every ticket refuses sizes below a certain point; the common smallest step is 0.01 lots. That floor is the real starting constraint, because an account too small to open the smallest permitted position is an account that cannot be used at all.
What one position takes hold of

Open a single position at that floor size and watch the account panel split. Part of the balance is held in place while the position runs and comes back when it closes. Note the figure — it is the amount an account needs simply to hold one open position.
What one step of price is worth at that size

Move the position along and read how much the figure changes per step. At the smallest size the number is small on purpose; the point is that it is a number rather than a mystery, and it scales with everything else.
What the entry itself costs

A new position starts slightly behind, because two prices exist at once and it opens on the far side of the gap between them. Seeing that once on virtual money is worth more than reading it here.

Multiply the second reading by the number of positions you would realistically hold, add room for the third to move against you for a while, and the result is the amount that makes the account usable. The arithmetic, worked through slowly.

The lever that changes the answer

If the number that comes out is larger than the amount you are willing to move, there is one adjustment that changes the arithmetic rather than the wishful thinking around it.

A Standard Cent account counts the balance in cents, and trades on it are around a hundred times smaller than on a regular account. Every one of the four readings above shrinks with it: what a position holds, what a step of price is worth, what a mistake costs. The same modest transfer that looked marginal on one account type is comfortable on the other.

That is not a trick and it does not improve any outcome. It changes the unit the account counts in, so the same money buys more room to be wrong in. What each type fixes at creation.

Why the answer has to come from a screen and not from a page

The question	Why no page can answer it	Where the reading is
What does one position hold?	It follows the instrument, the size and the account type	The account panel, the moment a position opens
What is one step worth?	It follows the size and the unit the account counts in	The running figure on an open position
What does entry cost?	It follows the instrument and the moment	The gap between the two prices on the ticket
How much should be sent?	It follows money you hold elsewhere, which no screen can see	Nowhere — that half is yours. The part that is not arithmetic

The first three rows are why a demo is opened before a transfer. The fourth is why the demo cannot finish the job.

What opening one asks for

An email and a password. No documents, no transfer, no minimum, no expiry and no monthly charge. The platform is the same platform, the quotes are the same quotes, and the account panel is the same panel — which is exactly what makes the four readings above transferable to a funded account.

Nothing about the way in exists on it, though. A demo holds virtual funds, so no transfer is confirmed on it, nothing is credited to it, and no transaction entry is ever created. It answers «how much», never «where is it». That half starts here.

The limit worth stating plainly

Demo results do not guarantee real-account results. The screens are identical and the reasoning is not, because a virtual balance carries no consequence. What survives the move to real money is the arithmetic on this page — the floor size, what a position holds, what a step is worth. What does not survive is any conclusion about whether a trade was a good idea. Trading with leverage can lose money, and no measurement taken here changes that.

This site holds no accounts and no money. A demo is opened in the Exness Personal Area, like everything else described here.

Questions about using a demo this way

Does a demo need documents or a deposit?

Neither. An email and a password is the whole list, and the account is free with no time limit.

Will the figures read on a demo hold on a funded account?

The mechanical ones will: the smallest size the ticket accepts, what a position holds, what a step of price is worth. Those come from the instrument and the account type rather than from whether the money is real.

Can a transfer be practised on it?

No. A demo routes money nowhere, so there is nothing to confirm, nothing to credit and no entry to read. The transfer is the one part that has no rehearsal.

Should the demo be closed once real money is sent?

There is no reason to. It costs nothing to keep, and it stays the cheapest place to check what a change of size does to the same four readings.

Which account type should the demo be opened as?

The one you intend to fund. The readings scale with the type, so measuring on one and funding another gives an answer to a question you did not ask.

How long should the measuring take?

One position and a few minutes produce the numbers. Anything longer is practice rather than measurement — useful, but it is a different activity from sizing a transfer.

Does a growing demo balance mean the amount is right?

No. A virtual figure moves because positions closed, and nothing about it says anything about a result on real money. Use the demo for the four readings and ignore the balance line entirely.

Where the number goes next

Turn it into arithmetic

The same readings, written out as a calculation.

Open the worked version

Then decide whether to send it

The half of the question no screen can answer.

Read that part

Then walk the transfer

Five moments, and the reading that belongs to each.

Follow it through

Take the four readings for nothing

A demo account is free, uses virtual money and has no time limit. Every figure this page asks you to look at is on it.

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