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Free 7-day demo trial · No card
Watch us trade a demo before you trust us with your challenge
You should not have to take a passing service on faith. Open a free demo account with any broker you already use, send us the login, and we will trade it for seven days while you watch. At the end of the week you decide whether the $220 evaluation is worth it — or you walk away and owe nothing.
Key takeaways
- The trial is a broker demo account, not a prop firm evaluation. It costs you nothing and involves no prop firm fee.
- We trade it for seven days under a written plan, and you keep the login so you can watch whenever you like.
- No card, no deposit, no obligation to buy anything afterwards.
- What you are judging is the process: pacing, position size, how a losing day is handled, and whether the reporting makes sense.
- A demo cannot reproduce a prop firm's daily loss breach, verification stage or payout rules. It is evidence of method, not a guarantee of a pass.
- You never send live account credentials. A demo login is the only thing we ask for.
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How the seven days work
The trial is deliberately simple, because the point is to remove the reason not to check. There is no application form, no sales call required, and no payment step hidden at the end.
- Open a demo at a broker you already use. Any broker offering MT4, MT5 or cTrader will do. Most let you create a demo in a couple of minutes from the platform or the client area. Choose the account size you would eventually want to pass — $50,000 or $100,000 is a sensible test size, because the arithmetic is the same as a $200,000 account scaled down.
- Send us the demo login. Broker name, server, account number and password. That is all. You do not need to fund anything, and a demo cannot be funded anyway.
- We write the plan the same day. Before a single trade, you get the four numbers that govern the week: risk per trade, the daily stop, the weekly target, and the point at which we stop and reassess. The plan is written for the demo's balance, not copied from another account.
- We trade it for seven days. You keep the login, so you can open the platform at any time and see the positions, the equity and the history for yourself. Nothing is hidden behind a screenshot.
- You get a written summary at the end. What was traded, what the plan allowed, where the week went badly, and what the same sequence would have looked like against a prop firm's daily and maximum loss rules.
- You decide. Continue with a paid evaluation, ask about the smaller trial challenge, or stop. There is no follow-up campaign and no obligation.
Seven days is short on purpose. It is long enough to include a losing day, a news release and a decision to do nothing — the three situations where a service either follows a process or improvises. A month would tell you more about a strategy and less about whether the person trading it is disciplined, which is the thing you are actually buying.
Why we offer this at all. The passing-service market runs on screenshots, and a screenshot cannot show you how a provider behaves on a bad day. A week of live demo trades can. It also costs us nothing except time, which is the right thing to risk before asking a client to risk $220 and a challenge fee.
What the demo proves, and what it does not
It is worth being precise, because a demo is often oversold by services that want credit for a funded-looking equity curve.
What you can judge
- Pacing. Whether the account is pushed toward the target or worked there over several sessions.
- Position size. Whether risk per trade is constant and derived from the stop, or changes with confidence.
- Behaviour on a losing day. Whether the daily stop is respected or quietly widened.
- Reporting. Whether the explanation after the fact matches what the account actually shows.
- Communication. How quickly questions are answered during the week, not just before payment.
What it cannot prove
- A prop firm pass. A demo has no daily loss breach, no verification stage and no minimum trading days.
- Execution on the firm's server. Spreads, slippage and order handling on a prop firm feed differ from a broker demo.
- The funded phase. Passing and keeping a funded account are different jobs, and the demo tests neither payout rules nor consistency at payout.
- Future results. Seven days is a sample of process, not a forecast.
The honest way to use the trial is as a filter, not as proof. If the week looks like a plan being followed, the paid evaluation is a reasonable next step. If the trades look improvised, or the answers to your questions are vague, the demo has done its job by costing you a week instead of a fee.
Which brokers and platforms
Use whatever you already trust. The demo exists to test our process, not to steer you toward a broker we earn from — we take no commission from any broker, and there is no affiliate link in this offer. MT4, MT5 and cTrader cover most forex and CFD brokers. If you trade futures, a demo on Tradovate or NinjaTrader works the same way; say so when you send the login and the plan will be written for contracts rather than lots.
One practical note: choose a demo with a balance close to the account size you are considering. A $10,000 demo traded at 0.01 lots tells you very little about how a $100,000 evaluation would be handled, because the position sizing arithmetic is different. The plan is scalable, but the sample is more useful at a realistic size.
What to send, and what never to send
A demo login is low-risk by design, but the habit matters. Send the broker name, the server, the demo account number and the password. Change the password at the end of the week, or ask us to confirm that access has stopped — both are fine.
Never send live account credentials, a bank statement, card details or identity documents for a demo trial. None of those are needed, and a provider that asks for them before a demo has told you something important about how it handles client data. The same rule applies to prop firm accounts later: the evaluation login is the only credential the work requires, and the funded login should never be handed over.
Demo trial, trial challenge or paid evaluation
There are three ways to start, and they answer different questions. The demo is the cheapest and the least committal; the trial challenge is for a trader who wants to see a real firm rulebook before committing to a full-size attempt.
| Option | What it is | What you pay | What you see | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demo trial (this page) | A broker demo account traded by us for seven days | Nothing | Live trades, the written plan, the weekly summary | Judging the process before any payment |
| Trial challenge | A smaller prop firm evaluation run through the same process | Ask — it depends on the firm and the size | A real firm rulebook on a small account | Traders who want to see a firm-side pass first |
| Paid evaluation | Your chosen firm, at your chosen size, traded to target | $220 flat, plus the firm's fee | The full evaluation and a funded login in your name | Traders ready to start the real attempt |
If you are unsure which one fits, start with the demo. It is the only option that costs nothing, and a week of watching usually makes the choice obvious in one direction or the other.
Two pages are worth reading either way: the certificates from passed challenges, published with client names redacted, and the prop firm passing service fee compared with four rivals.
Questions about the demo trial
Is the demo trial really free?
Yes. No card, no deposit, no prop firm fee and no obligation to buy anything afterwards. The only cost on your side is the few minutes it takes to open a demo account, which brokers provide free.
Do I need a prop firm account to start?
No. The demo is a broker account, not a prop firm evaluation. It is designed for people who have not decided whether to use a passing service at all.
Can I watch the trades while they happen?
Yes. You keep the demo login, so you can open the platform at any time and see positions, equity and trade history. You do not need to wait for a summary at the end.
Which broker should I use?
Any broker you already trust that offers a free demo on MT4, MT5 or cTrader. We take no commission from brokers, so there is no preferred one. For futures, a Tradovate or NinjaTrader demo works.
What happens after the seven days?
You get a written summary and a decision: continue with a paid evaluation, ask about the smaller trial challenge, or stop. Nothing renews, and nothing is charged automatically.
Does a good demo week mean the challenge will pass?
No. It means the process was followed for a week. A prop firm evaluation adds daily loss breaches, minimum days, verification and payout rules that a demo does not have, so the demo is evidence of method rather than a guarantee of outcome.
Ready to watch a week of it?
Open a demo with your broker, then send the broker name, server, account number and password. The plan comes back the same day, and the first trades usually start within one session.
See the process before you pay for it
Seven days, a demo account you control, and a written plan. If it does not convince you, the $220 evaluation can wait.