Route — Demo account, handset only
Exness demo account on a phone: rehearsing on the screen that will do the trading
A demo is created in the Personal Area straight after registration on the official exness.com, needs no deposit, and trades virtual funds at the same market prices a real account receives. When the phone is the entire setup, that changes what practice is for. It is not a second screen for comparing things — it is the only way to learn where every control sits on a display the width of a palm, and to find out how the app behaves when a call arrives mid-order, before the same handset is holding a funded account.
The account list
One app, two accounts, one display
The demo and, later, the funded account are not two separate installations. They sit in the same account list inside the app, and the app puts exactly one of them on the screen at a time — never both. Switching is a tap in that list; nothing is uninstalled, nothing is signed out, and the account that leaves the screen keeps running on the server.
| App on the handset | Which demo signs in | What its account list holds |
|---|---|---|
| Exness Trade app | MT5 demo | Every MT5 account opened in the Personal Area — demo and funded together, one shown at a time. |
| MT5 mobile app | MT5 demo | The same MT5 accounts, in the terminal's own layout instead of the app's. |
| MT4 mobile app | MT4 demo | MT4 accounts only. An MT5 demo will not appear in this list at all, and nothing is broken when it does not. |
Swipe the table sideways →
A demo, like every Exness trading account, is created for one platform — MT4 or MT5 — at the moment it is opened in the Personal Area, and that single choice decides which app on the phone can ever see it. Opened for the wrong one? A second demo for the other platform is opened in the same Personal Area; accounts are per-platform, so this is the ordinary fix rather than a workaround. Installers for each app are on the downloads page, and every route, handset or otherwise, is laid out on the platform board.
Rehearsal, then the real thing
One screen means one thing at a time
On a desk, a demo can sit beside a funded account and the two are compared side by side. A handset has no such view. The rehearsal is finished and closed first; the funded account is what appears on the screen afterwards. That makes the order of the exercise matter more than it would anywhere else.
Everything mechanical, at zero stakes
Order tickets, closing, chart tools, the position list — every gesture rehearsed on virtual funds, where a wrong tap costs nothing. Stay here until nothing on the screen is a surprise, because there will be no second screen to check against later.
Real money, counted in cents
A cent-denominated account, so genuinely small real trades are possible. Real prices arrive with real — but tiny — consequences, which is the one thing a demo cannot teach. No minimum deposit.
The default real account
The spread-only account most people start real trading on, also with no minimum deposit. All five account types are compared on their own page.
Account types in detail →This is a path, not a rule — each account is opened separately in the Personal Area, and the demo stays in the list afterwards. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.
What to actually practise
What one-handed practice is for
There is no mouse anywhere in the room, no keyboard shortcut, and no room on the display for two things at once. Four exercises cover almost everything that goes wrong later.
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Reach the order ticket from a cold start
Phone locked, app closed. Unlock, open the app, land on the right account, find the instrument, and get to the buy and sell screen — counting how many taps that takes and where the thumb has to travel. This is the sequence that will be repeated under pressure.
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Close a position without hunting for a menu
Opening a trade is the easy half. Closing one on a handset lives behind a different control from the one that opened it, and finding it for the first time while a position is running is the wrong moment.
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Read the summary strip
Balance, equity, free margin and the floating result are squeezed into one narrow line at the top or bottom of the screen, often abbreviated. Learning which figure is which on virtual funds means never misreading them on real ones.
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Set and move a protective level with a thumb
Attaching a stop to an open position, then dragging or retyping it, is the most fiddly thing a small screen asks for. Do it repeatedly on the demo until the fingers know the target area.
The point of all four is muscle memory, not results. A demo proves that the app is understood; it does not promise the same outcome on a funded account, where slippage — a fill at a different price than the one quoted — and the weight of real money both arrive.
Small screen, expensive habits
The gestures that cost money later
Four things a handset does differently, and where they bite
- The long press. A good deal of what a desktop terminal puts in a visible menu is reached on a phone by holding a finger on a symbol or a row until a menu appears. Nobody discovers that at a useful moment by accident — discover it on the demo.
- The swipe that closes. Rows in a position list often respond to a sideways drag, and the action revealed at the end of that drag is not always the one expected. Swiping a practice position away teaches which direction does what.
- The confirm button under the keyboard. Tap into the volume field and the on-screen keyboard covers the lower part of the ticket, including the button that submits it. The view has to be scrolled or the keyboard dismissed first — an easy thing to learn once and never think about again.
- The volume field itself. Small step arrows next to a small number are exactly where a thumb lands imprecisely. On a demo an extra digit is a shrug; on a funded account it is the size of the position.
Every one of these is a property of the phone rather than of the account, which is why they can be rehearsed on virtual funds and will behave identically once the funded account is on the same screen.
The part nobody plans for
Interruptions belong inside the rehearsal
Interrupt the practice session on purpose
- An incoming call, mid-ticket. Let the phone ring while an order is half-written, take the call, hang up, and see which screen the app returns to — the ticket as it was, the chart, or the account list.
- A screen lock. Let the display time out, unlock it again, and find out whether the app asks for a passcode or a fingerprint before showing an account, and how long it takes to be usable.
- A low-battery warning. Power-saving modes throttle what an app may do in the background. Watching that happen with a practice position open is far better than meeting it later.
- A notification, tapped. Following an alert from the lock screen drops the app somewhere specific. Knowing where it lands saves several seconds of confusion.
Why this is the phone-only trader's whole edge
Somebody with a desk can ignore all four: the terminal on a computer is not interrupted by a phone call and does not get locked by a timeout. On a handset these events are part of ordinary use, and they land exactly in the middle of the actions that matter.
None of them can be practised on a funded account without accepting a real consequence. On a demo they cost nothing, which makes the demo the only sensible place to meet them for the first time.
Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone.
Quick answers
Questions from a trader whose only screen is the handset
How long does a practice account stay alive?
Demo lifetime is a policy detail that can change, so the rules in force are the ones published on the official Exness website. What does not change is how cheap the fix is: opening a fresh demo takes about a minute in the Personal Area, from the same phone, and needs no deposit.
Can a demo and a funded account both be signed in on one phone?
Yes — they sit together in the app's account list, and switching between them is a tap. The display shows one at a time, which is the whole reason the rehearsal is finished before real money joins the list.
What actually changes on the phone once real money is on the same device?
Nothing about the layout: the same app, the same buttons, the same gestures. What changes is that a mistaken tap now has a consequence, which is why the habits worth forming — checking which account is on screen, reading the volume field twice, dismissing the keyboard before confirming — are formed while they are still free.
Can an MT4 demo be opened in the Exness Trade app?
No. The Trade app and the Web Terminal are MT5-based, so an MT4 demo signs in through the MT4 mobile app instead. The platform is fixed when the account is created in the Personal Area, and a second demo on the other platform can always be opened there.
Does a demo on a phone show different prices from one on a computer?
No. What differs between the two is how much of the drawing fits, never the numbers inside it: the same figures arrive, and a hand-width display simply shows fewer of them at once.
Does a good run on the demo mean the strategy works?
No. What a rehearsal settles is whether the controls are known well enough to be used with one thumb under time pressure. Everything beyond that — execution, and the weight of money that is actually at stake — is what the Standard Cent step exists to meet in small quantities.
The rehearsal starts at the official door
Registration on the official Exness website takes an email and a short questionnaire, and a demo can be opened right after it — no deposit, virtual funds, real market prices, on the same handset that will eventually carry the funded account.
Open Exness AccountNothing on this page collects a password and no account of any kind is opened here; the button hands over to exness.com, where the rehearsal account is created. The registration steps in order →