Tonight on one of my demo accounts I have two strategies that I found stopped and that I have restarted three times only to look a few minutes later and find them stopped again. The same account has 32 orphaned positions open with a total position size of 33.3 which is currently running a £5850 loss. I guess I should just put it down to IG giving no priority to demo and deposit £20000 with them and put the strategies live – or maybe not.
It would be nice to know if anything is actually being done to fix this.
I personally have given up having my demo platforms open during the day or developing anything at the moment. I just fire the platform up once a day – restart any stopped strategies, try to close any orphaned trades and then shut it all down and walk away before I punch the laptop in frustration. Boat jobs suddenly feel like something really worth doing instead of wasting my time on demo trading – and with every day that goes by the chance of any of the strategies that I have on test going live gets slimmer and slimmer. I guess you could say that I have taken a leaf out of IG’s book and decided that demo trading is low priority.
Some of my strategies have been on demo forward test for a year now but I can have no confidence in the results due to the unreliability of the demo trading experience. From some of the posts on here I know that I am not alone in feeling like this.
