It’s slowly becoming no fun anymore.
If you move all to Real Live, the fun will be real.
I am not even kidding. And my promise : it is way less frustrating. Though there too anomalies happen for sure, they happen way less often. And in the end you need to deal with *those*, right ? Unless your end game is Monopoly. Then I don’t know …
I run a mix of strategies live… real… real money. Everything’s running smoothly there. On the demo account, I have a selection of my best strategies, various versions of them running, to gather statistical data on which strategies perform most consistently over a longer period. And of course, an event like this throws everything into disarray again. I like to test without risk.
I am telling it more often : If you rally cars, there is no single way to test this in paper mode or other demo mode. This, while you could drive the very same car with your helmet on through your own picked woods. You just won’t get flat out on that gravel track with trees all over the place, never mind it is not allowed; you can’t. It is a dopamine thing. You won’t risk your life without reward in sight. Same is with trading.
This is not out loud read textbook stuff. It is just my experience of both.
Only from the real, hard world you will learn and improve.
If you go on a nice vacation, will you throw out your auto systems in demo because you might lose ?
Or will you take all precautions possible taking care of not losing, including not going on vacation to begin with, *or* have the systems so robust that you happily can, see your money grow on CarPlay or Android Auto ? I do the latter with the greatest pleasure. It is the joy of all rides. With Demo on your car’s dash ?… Need I say more ?
But let me be clear. Of course it is a good thing to test without risk. But my point would be : that won’t be real testing. It won’t cause you to squeeze out all the best you have inside of you.
I have a couple of utmost small accounts, which I refuse to make larger by deposits. They can only grow / recuperate by earning it. These are my test accounts. One for IB and one for IG. They allow me to test myself (and the systems) to be so robust that the real thing will eventually happen in the real accounts. And as we know, that takes many years.
Hello everyone,
Please be aware that as of Tuesday morning, due to IG problem, a set of 32 instruments are currently triggering errors and are no longer tradable on the DEMO platform.
A correction is currently in progress by their techies.
Below is the list of affected instruments:
We apologize for the inconvenience and will update you as soon as the issue is resolved.
Sorry but this is a stupid strategy, When you made a ProOrder or whatever in other languages, you are doing a program and a program can have bugs or not considered situations that can burn your account so, the demo environment is crucial because the back test can’t simulate all. IG it is one of the worst platform for paper trading because they allow a ProOrder only for 30 days if i’m not wrong and this is absolutely a too short period. If at this limitation you are going to add also technical problem, you are in a bad situation, believe me.
Trading is not for Kamikaze, is for prudent people.
allow a ProOrder only for 30 days
We can have trades open on Demo Account for months / years so what has led you to think / believe above?
Did you extend the expiration date?
That’s a bit annoying, but it allows running a strategy for years!
This is what the IG guy tell me.
There is a 20 day limit on Systems (see attached) but it is easily extended by clicking ‘extend’.
So, for example, when only 5 days left, a click will extend by another 15 days.
My guess is that the ’20 day limit’ is to prevent 100’s of Systems on 100’s of
abandoned Accounts running ad-infinitum.
Hello everyone,
Please be aware that as of Tuesday morning, due to IG problem, a set of 32 instruments are currently triggering errors and are no longer tradable on the DEMO platform.
A correction is currently in progress by their techies.
We apologize for the inconvenience and will update you as soon as the issue is resolved.
Any updates on this? Is it solved? Any ETA?
Yep it was solved from about last Thursday 4 Dec 25.
Yep it was solved from about last Thursday 4 Dec 25.
I can’t confirm that. Some algorithms were stopped again over the last two days. I don’t feel like restarting them again and again with a half-life of several hours.
