Real account vs Demo account

A demo account lets you practice risk-free with virtual funds; a real account trades actual money. Even with the same EA and settings, results can differ.

Main differences

• Execution quality. Real trading has spread widening, slippage, rejects and delays. Demos tend to fill ideally.
• Swap and commissions. Real-account costs hit the bottom line.
• Psychology. With real money, human stops/intervention can break the EA's intended performance.

Why live forward results carry weight

An EA's true ability is judged most reliably by live-account results among forward tests. Whether each TrackRecord EA is real-money depends on the connected account type (about the data).