Capital Market Services International

Micro Accounts

A demo account gives you the opportunity to become familiar with our trading platform VT Trader™ 2, learn how to place trades, and use technical analysis tools. However, when there is no risk, you are likely to be more detached when you place your trades and in how you look over the result of each trade. Also, a demo account usually starts with a large initial amount that may not be representative of your starting capital when trading live.

Start Small with Micro Lots
With Micro Lots, putting some money on the line, even in very small amounts, may make you more invested in what happens with your trading.

Instinctively follow the market more when you have a position open, or have the chance to open a real position.
Trading real money exposes you to the emotions like greed and fear that come with trading.
With micro lots, you can see if the trading plan you tested in your demo account is successful or not with a small amount of capital.
When you are ready, you can deposit more funds and upgrade to a standard account.

Standard and Mini Lots
With the experience of demo and micro-lot trading, you might be more prepared to trade forex with larger capital, though you still have to be aware of the risks.

A generic example of how position sizes affect how much you make or lose on a 100 pip move.

Position Size	Move	Gain/Loss
Standard (1 Lot)	100 pips	± $1,000
Mini (0.1 Lot)	100 pips	± $100
Micro (0.01 Lot)	100 pips	± $10

Plus, with any live account (even if trading Micro Lots) you get access to Dow Jones Newswire, Forex Power Course and Chartist Corner webinars by in-house analysts and technical traders.