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title: "Virtual Accounts: trade risk-free and share verified results"
slug: "virtual-accounts"
kind: "WHATS_NEW"
category: "whats-new"
locale: "en"
canonical: "https://app.forecastcity.com/help/whats-new/virtual-accounts"
published: "2026-10-26T22:48:06.739Z"
updated: "2026-10-27T16:28:32.754Z"
description: "Trade live prices with virtual money and real fees, forward-test your strategies, practice prop rules and share a verified track record."
---

# Virtual Accounts: trade risk-free and share verified results

Standard broker demo accounts do not prepare you for real market trading. Practice trades and serious tests get mixed together, there are no daily risk limits, and profitable runs leave no credible proof of your track record. [Virtual Accounts](<https://app.forecastcity.com/journal/virtual-accounts>) are now live in **AI Trading Journal**, working side by side with **AI Strategy Studio**. You can trade live market conditions with real costs, test your strategies, and build a verified track record without risking a dollar of real capital.

## Live strategy runs and manual trading with real market costs

In virtual accounts, you can run strategies built in **AI Strategy Studio** on live market prices (forward testing). Compare how each strategy performs across accounts with real spread, commission and overnight swap costs. Manual paper trading right on the chart is also coming soon so you can practice and follow your own manual trades with zero financial risk.

## Compare your real result against untampered strategy execution

Whenever you intervene manually in a strategy trade (for example, closing a trade early or moving the stop loss), the system tracks the strategy's original trading plan in the background. It shows clearly **how many dollars your manual changes added to or took from the untampered strategy result**.

## Practice prop-firm challenges and set protective risk limits

Before paying for a prop-firm challenge or trading real capital, set a daily loss limit and a maximum drawdown limit on your virtual account. You can also enter challenges and competitions to test your trading discipline under real rules.

## Share a tamper-proof public track record to prove your skill

When you reach steady profits on a virtual account, you do not have to rely on screenshots that anyone can question. Turning on a virtual account's public page gives you a verified link where every trade is locked in a tamper-proof cryptographic chain. Investors, prop firms and the trading community can verify that no losing trade was deleted or altered, while your strategy rules and private notes remain completely private.

## Start today and read the main guides

Open the [Virtual Accounts page](<https://app.forecastcity.com/journal/virtual-accounts>) in **AI Trading Journal** and create your first virtual account. To learn how every part works, read the main Help guides:

-   [Virtual Accounts: start here](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/virtual-accounts/virtual-accounts-start-here>)
    
-   [Create virtual accounts, set cost profiles and risk limits](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/virtual-accounts/create-and-manage-virtual-accounts>)
    
-   [Manual paper trading, chart management and shadow trades](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/virtual-accounts/manual-paper-trading-and-shadow-trades>)
    
-   [Prop challenges, competitions and SHA-256 verified pages](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/virtual-accounts/prop-challenges-competitions-and-verified-pages>)
    
-   [Run your strategy live on a virtual account](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/strategies/run-strategy-on-virtual-account>)
    
-   [Check strategy adherence and cost per part in AI Trading Journal](<https://app.forecastcity.com/help/strategies/strategy-check-and-costs-in-journal>)