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Yes, I agree. It is like giving false hope to those looking to trade live eventually. At first and for a while, I thought it may be showing a large disparity with certain trades because of liquidity or something related to that, but I now realize it is more than likely a demo bug/platform...

Oh this is a permanent feature on all the Ironbeam brokerages I've used, from Generic Trade to Zumo, Insignia Futures to Go Futures. All show these results every single day these trades are executed. As I mentioned in a previous post, I have contacted these brokers and they promise to look into...

No. It is normal in the regard, that it's the usual buy at ask, sell at bid. But it's showing unusual prices at the entry level.

If they can't be bothered to fix the issue in the demo, who's to say it wouldn't be the same for the live account. Either way I haven't invested any real money into this brokerage so I can't test it out.

Of course. The only slight hope I would have here(obviously proper trading needs to be based on accurate results normally) is that perhaps with this broker this glitch exists in the live accounts as well. Therefore the potential for the same kind of money to be made maybe.

Generic Trade

Yes I know it never traded at that price, ever. But the thing is the chart gives an accurate price, the actual current price. As you can see it is a crack spread. I have contacted the broker several times for over a year about this issue, and every time they say they will fix it, but it remains...

I refreshed the account and placed that trade just before posting it on this forum. Point is, this is always the result upon opening that particular trade on that platform. Trade was placed a few minutes ago.

I didn't enter it at any price. It is a market order, this is what I'm trying to tell you, that is the result that comes up when you open the trade...

Ok so the profit when I now open this trade is just over 1 million, but it varies, and was 2 million until recently. Here is the screenshot. This is the Firetip platform demo.

I will screenshot it on here. Bear with me and I'll upload that.

Actually, most of the demo accounts I have used, will not allow large contracts. You are limited to whatever the market can handle at the time. So, that combined with the fact that I accept slippage will happen in a live account means I already understand some differences between real and demo.

I have used a few Demo accounts that do take slippage into account, so I think it could be a liquidity thing I'm seeing, particularly in the Firetip demo account. The futures spreads may be too illiquid, so they show a large difference between entry price and current price.

What is the Margin required for an electricity contract to trade? Why would no retail traders trade this commodity?

I agree. But the reason I'm asking about electricity futures here is because from what I have heard, it is not unrealistic to make big money. If one knows what they are doing of course.

The idea of trading is to dream, and to make decent money. Otherwise why would anyone bother to do it. A positive attitude is a must in this game, that I do know.

So it's possible to make 7 figures daily either way with electricity?

I may trying to find out more about electricity futures. Using demo accounts at the moment, and I cannot seem to trade electricity futures on these as it comes up as Invalid trading instrument, despite being listed. I have heard they can be volatile, but very profitable if traded correctly. Any...

Virtual demo starting balance of 50k. As I said, in some cases there in instant profit upon opening a trade, no levering up mostly.

[ I'll be honest, the drawdowns have been in the thousands depending on which side of the trade I have entered. But mostly, with the futures spreads I have been trading, it has been huge profit. Mostly based on the use of the Firetip demo platform, but I also had big success with OEC trader...