Situation:
0.01 Lot is using $1218 of margin on Alpari UK Demo today. However, when I opened this account, it was a normal 100:1 leverage, allowing me to open 5.0 Lot with Only $5000 capital. Now I can not open any lot over 0.11 Lot with out getting the message ' not enough money'

I opened up a 0.01 lot and two orders of 0.05 lots before the Margin was maxed out Just now! and this also changed my Drawdown immediately.

Before this issue, drawdown was around 16% , but after me pushing the margin to the max, its at 50%, which doesn't make any sense either. Very Weird Indeed.

Has anyone else ever had this issue?


I understand, yeah it's just a demo account. Delete this one and start Over. It's no biggy really, but very odd.

Here is the Demo account.

http://www.myfxbook.com/members/pipinvestment0/attention-grabber-1/36114

The screen shot says'Fxpro- Metatrader' but it is a Alpari demo. I am just using the exe from fxpro with Alpari demo. srv file.

try oanda, really the 'best' broker i have experienced.
if you want to go with mt4 try ibfx e.g.

your learning gets a big boost when you trade real money. i do it that way with a small oanda account.
demo account just doesnt get you the feel of real money, you know? thats a big point in trading psychology!

You could try a centsaccount with Instaforex as well. Max leverage 1:1000.
And their 1.0 lot is 10'000 units where most other brokers 1.0 lot is 100'000.
On a centsaccount with min. 0.1 lot this is 10 unit trades - you can get a long with just 10 bucks :-)

Cheers

Soeren