As indicated above, simulated trade results on demonstration ("demo") accounts may be inaccurate and misleading -- they may not reflect the actual results the user would see on a real account (using real-money). For example, demo accounts cannot reflect factors such as trade execution "slippage", which occurs on real-money accounts but not on demo accounts. Slippage is the difference between the expected price of a trade (market price), and the price the trade actually executes at. Slippage often occurs during periods of higher volatility when market orders are used, and also when larger orders are executed when there may not be enough interest at the desired price level to maintain the expected price of trade (known as the "lack of liquidity"). These types of adverse factors must be dealt with in a real-money account, but they are usually not reflected in a demo account environment. Thus, it is entirely possible that a trading robot shows profits on a demo account, but performs poorly on a real-money account. Unless otherwise specified, all trading results shown on this site are from demo accounts.