你已經在模擬賬戶交易一段時間了，並且你覺得是時候開始真實賬戶交易。但是，你是如何知道的？
雖然你過渡到真實賬戶沒有特定的標準，但是有一些因素可以很好的顯示你是否達到要求。讓我們看其中的一些…
你的準備時間是否充足?
沒有一個特定的時間規定你需要在模擬賬戶上交易多久才能開始真實賬戶交易。但是很明顯，你不想過快地進行真實賬戶交易，就像你也不想過長時間地交易模擬賬戶一樣。
如果你打算開一個模擬賬戶，進行1~2筆交易後第二天便開始真實賬戶交易，那麼，你就很有可能沒有足夠的時間來了解這個系統是如何運作的。相反地，如果你在一個月時間内頻繁地交易模擬賬戶卻沒有取得任何的成功，那麼你就應該考慮交易是否適合你。
通常，交易者在進行模擬賬戶1個月交易之後，他們可以很好地理解市場是如何運作的、他們的策略是如何起作用以及他們對實際盈利的期望。
你情感方面是否註備好？
模擬賬戶與真實賬戶沒有實質性的差別，它們都有同樣的特點與功能。當你決定過渡，唯一的差別是你在使用自己的資金而不是虛擬資金。但這是一個很大的差異——在做出交易決策時，它會增加你的精神負擔，並且可以改變你的交易方式。你投入的資金越多，你所付出的情感也就越多。
理想情況下，你可以完全抛棄情緒化，並對你所有的交易都保持客觀的態度。但是，除非你使用EA，否則人類的情感因素將始終地影響你。所以，在做出交易決策的時候，你需要控制自己的情感。比如，如果你在模擬賬戶上交易很成功，那麼你就沒有理由不相信，真實賬戶中使用同樣的交易策略也可以獲得同樣的成功。了解你的個性以及交易心理如何影響你的交易風格，這一點無論在模擬賬戶還是在真實賬戶交易中都很重要。
你是否可以承受損失？
你在模擬賬戶任何一次虧損交易都不會實際上讓你損失什麼。但是真實賬戶中，你虧損的是自己真實的資金。不管你多麼堅信自己會遵循模擬賬戶的交易方法，事實上你很有可能不會100%執行。你需要接受的是，由於所有交易的風險都是固定存在的，所以虧損是交易的一部分而且每位交易者都會面臨。
虧損最重要的一部分是你是否能夠負擔得起。如果不能，你需要重新考慮你是如何以及什麼原因交易的。但是如果你已經做好了虧損的準備並且可以接受虧損，學習它並利用它，使自己成為一個更成功的交易者。
你做好適應的準備了嗎？
如果你發現自己的真實賬戶無法像模擬賬戶一樣的有效交易，你將準備如何改變交易方式？理想情況是，你已經在模擬賬戶中可以熟練地使用一種交易策略，如果你堅持的話，將會最終獲得盈利。但是，如果不是這樣的話，你就需要進一步的了解模擬賬戶並改變交易方法。很有可能，通過簡單地減少交易手數或在市場平靜期交易，你就可以樹立自己的信心。
When to Transition from Demo to Live Trading
So you’ve been trading for a while on your Demo account and you feel the time is right to move into a Live trading account. But how do you know?
While there are no set conditions you need to meet before you make the change, there are factors that will help provide a good indication. Let’s look at some of them...
Have you done your time?
There’s no specific amount of time you need to trade on a Demo before making the move to a Live account, but it stands to reasons that you don’t want to change too quickly - just as there’s little point in waiting a long time.
If you were to open a Demo trading account, do one or two trades and change to a Live account the next day, you probably haven’t spent enough time getting to how the system works. Conversely, if you’re trading regularly on the Demo account for months on end without any success, you should consider whether trading is for you.
At MXT, our free Demo trading accounts are available for 30 days. We find that if clients are trading regularly on a Demo account for about a month, they get a pretty good understanding of how the market works, how their strategy works and what they can realistically expect to achieve.
Are you emotionally ready?
A Demo account is fundamentally no different to a Live account as it has all the same features and functionality. When you make the transition, the only difference is that you’re using your own funds instead of virtual funds. But it’s a big difference – one that attaches an emotional weight to your trading decisions and can alter the way you trade. And the more you place on a trade, the more emotionally involved you’ll be.
In an ideal world, you could completely remove emotion and be objective about all your trading decisions. But - unless you’re using an EA - that human element will always have some effect and you might need some emotional reinforcement in your decisions. For example, try to remember that if you’ve been trading successfully on the Demo account, there’s little reason to doubt you can trade successfully in a Live environment by applying the same strategy.
It is extremely important to look at how your personality and trading psychology will affect your trading style - whether it be live or demo trading.
Can you afford to lose?
Any time you lose a trade on a Demo account, it doesn’t cost you anything. But on a Live account, when you lose a trade you lose real money. And regardless of how much you believe you’ll trade in the exact same way in the Live account as you did in the Demo, you probably won’t (refer to "Are you emotionally ready?", above). So you need to accept that, due to the risk inherent in all trading, some loss is a part of trading and it happens to every trader.
The fundamental part of loss is whether you can afford it in the first place. If not, you should consider how and why you’re trading. But if you’re prepared for loss, you can accept it, learn from it and use it to become a better trader.
Are you ready to adapt?
If you find you’re not trading as effectively in the Live account as you were on your Demo account, how prepared are you to change the way you’re trading? Ideally, you’ll have honed a strategy in the Demo environment which, if you stick with it, will lead to profit in the long run. But if that’s not the case, your experience with the Demo account should still have set you up with the fundamentals you need change your approach. Perhaps it’s something as simple building confidence by trading smaller lot sizes or trading in less volatile periods.
本文翻譯由兄弟財經提供
文章來源：http://www.fxstreet.com/education/forex-basics/when-to-transition-from-demo-to-live-trading/2014/08/08/