often at times, newbies are to eager to earn money in real account that they do not make the best use of the demo account to practice what they have learnt during their course of training. to be a better trader, its wise to consider the following why demo trading: step1: before you open a demo account, have a budget of the amount you want to deposit for your real account and try to start your demo account with such amount. that will make your demo account look more real. some people make the mistake of using heavy amount to start demo and when they now open a live account they start with smaller amounts. this will really have an impart on you. step2: take your demo account as if its a live account. trade with it as if you were giving a money to manage for someone. treat it in a similar way you will treat a live account. when you loose money, let it touch you and try to build it up again rather than neglecting the account. step3: keep practicing with on demo until you are sure that you are now making a consistence profit from it