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title: "Demo account - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "A practice account with no assessment, no rules and no payout. It exists to learn an interface or test a strategy, and nothing that happens on it…"
url: "https://getfundednow.com/glossary/demo-account"
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last_modified: "2026-09-22"
publisher: "Get Funded Now (getfundednow.com)"
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disclosure: "All trading at Get Funded Now is simulated. 'Funded' means a simulated or virtual account; GFN is not a broker and does not hold client funds."
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Evaluations and accounts

# Demo account

A practice account with no assessment, no rules and no payout. It exists to learn an interface or test a strategy, and nothing that happens on it qualifies you for anything.

GFN’s figure

A GFN account is not a demo account. It carries enforceable risk limits, an assessment where one applies, and payout eligibility on qualifying simulated performance at the funded stage.

In detail

## Demo account, explained

A demo account and a simulated prop account are technically similar and practically nothing alike. The prop account has hard risk limits, an assessment attached and money on the other side of it; the demo has none of those, which is why results on one rarely transfer to the other.

The useful role for a demo is mechanical: confirming how orders behave, how a strategy is coded, or how an interface works, before any of it is exposed to an account with rules.

[Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More evaluations and accounts](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/evaluations)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Simulated account](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/simulated-account) - An account that reproduces live market conditions - prices, spreads, commission, slippage - without routing orders to a market. Every GFN evaluation and funded account is one, and no customer capital is ever exposed.
- [Live account](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/live-account) - A brokerage account holding a trader's own money, where orders reach a market and losses are the trader's own. It is the thing a simulated prop account is deliberately not.
- [Forward testing](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/forward-testing) - Running a strategy on live data it has never seen, in real time. It is the honest test a backtest cannot be, because the results are produced by data that could not have been fitted.
- [Backtesting](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/backtesting) - Running a strategy over historical data to estimate how it would have performed. Useful for rejecting ideas, weak as evidence for accepting them, because the result is fitted to data already seen.
- [Funded account](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/funded-account) - The account a trader receives after passing an evaluation, or buys directly under an instant programme. At a simulated-funding firm it is a simulated account whose eligible gains can qualify for a real payout.

Ready when you are

## Your capital stays yours. The risk is ours.

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/demo-account
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