Learning to deal with the emotional pressure when trading with real money isn’t really lagging when one’s using a demo account, it’s outright non-existent if you ask me. It’s something people have to learn from scratch once they do open a live account.
my suggestion is to use a demo account until you learn and master one good entry… and then use smallest lot size on real account.
Why just one good entry? A sample size of one could just be a fluke, rather than proof for good decision-making.
I think Blaiserboy meant “one good type of entry”: he wasn’t suggesting a sample-size of one. He did say “[B]master[/B] one entry”: that would surely imply practising it a few hundred times?
Four and a half years since starting, I still use demo trading, because if you want to forward test risk free then there is no other way… I do not see a difference in the way I respect demo money or real money, because if one leads to the other then there should be no difference in how you protect your capital through conservative risk exposure, for example…
I share this perspective and experience [I]completely[/I] (though I think it’s a real minority perspective!): there has never been [I]any[/I] “psychological” difference to me, at all, between demo trading and real-money trading. I see hundreds of people saying the exact opposite, doubtless all entirely honestly, and that somehow makes your comment above unusually welcome, to me. 
(I traded on demo for 4 years before opening a funded account. :8: )
Right! It would be like flight pilots going crazy when using simulators and going for
wild, risky moves because, well, it’s not for real… Of course they would treat it
seriously because even if risk-free it would be preparation for the real thing.
My plan was only for 3 months, but I needed fully one year to make a professional trading skill on technical and news trading analysis! Basically, it depends on traders quality! Yes, I see many traders are doing well in their live trading but they have few month’s demo trading experience! Whatever, try to spend your time in demo with your best concentration!
i will suggest to demo trade until u can gain 1000% of your original margin… n repeat it until u really comfort, confidence with your system,…
your answer may be helpful to him, even though he asked the question over 12 years ago (some people are slow learners)
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For all you know he may have profited 1000% of his original margin by now. 
Hi,
I would trade demo until I’m making constant profits in demo, have my strategy tested day in and day out, stop loss, feel comfortable with trading all together and know what you actually need to know. And then, I would consider moving to real money.
There is a right path of doing it, but timeframe is highly dependable on person, how much time you are investing to learning and understanding, how quick of a learner you are, etc.
Hope it helped,
Regards
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I couldn’t agree more. Trade on a demo for as long as you feel you need and don’t compare yourself to others, every person learns at a different pace.
I have been trading for a few years. I have a demo account open almost every day for experimenting and replaying past activity.
When I blow a trade, I want to retrace what happened so that I can make adjustments in my approach.
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each person is different. There is a fast or slow. It all depends on an understanding of that person.