You forget the learning effect. I think not even the best seminars offered out there would have taught me those things I learnt in the demo myself.Quote from auspiv:
One more time: you're not fucking trading with anyone!
IB's paper trader links together real market data and then from there, it adds all the other paper trader's orders. What you see is the real market + every paper trader's orders.
Besides, who the fuck would waste their time being a market maker for a fake market?
The number of participants in the demo has dropped considerably since the last 2 days (it seems mainly MM are left).
For me not that important b/c I already have learnt my lessons well.
I think under normal conditions one learns all that maybe in at least 5 years trading, I learnt it in just a few weeks only, thanks to the RT simulator, ie. the IB demo.
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