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title: "Free demo: practise under real challenge rules"
url: "https://smpfund.com/help/free-demo"
language: "en"
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# Free demo: practise under real challenge rules

Start a free demo account with one click — no payment and no card. It follows the same rules as a paid challenge, but it is for practice only: no payouts, no funding and no scaling.

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## Step 1: Read what the free demo is

Open the [Free demo](https://smpfund.com/free-prop-firm-challenge) page (also the Free Demo Account button on the home page). It shows the account size, how many days the demo lasts, the profit target, the daily and maximum loss limits and the platforms, and compares the free demo with a paid challenge.

The demo is a real MetaTrader demo account checked by the same rule engine as a paid challenge, so breaking a loss limit ends it just like a real challenge. Reaching the target does not give you a funded account — for that, buy a challenge in the [Shop](https://smpfund.com/shop). The free demo is not offered in every country.

![Annotated screen: Read what the free demo is](https://smpfund.com/help/screenshots/free-demo-page.webp)

- Start your free trial

## Step 2: Start it from your dashboard

You need a website account with a verified e-mail and your country and date of birth in [Profile](https://smpfund.com/account/profile) — see [Create a website account](https://smpfund.com/help/create-account). Then, on the [Trader dashboard](https://smpfund.com/account) (or on the free demo page while signed in), the Free demo card lets you pick MetaTrader 5 or MetaTrader 4 and press Start free demo. There is no cart and no checkout.

Keep the page open for a few seconds while the account is set up; you are then taken to the new account. If it takes longer, the login also arrives by e-mail and on [Credentials](https://smpfund.com/account/credentials). The demo's days start when the login is delivered. Connect it exactly like a paid account: [Connect MetaTrader 5](https://smpfund.com/help/connect-mt5).

You can have one open free demo at a time. When it ends — time is up, a limit is broken — you can start a new one 24 hours later; the card shows the exact time.

![Annotated screen: Start it from your dashboard](https://smpfund.com/help/screenshots/free-demo.webp)

- Start free demo

## Open these pages

- [Free demo](https://smpfund.com/free-prop-firm-challenge)
- [Dashboard](https://smpfund.com/account)

## Related guides

- [Create a website account (step by step)](https://smpfund.com/help/create-account): First you only create a login for this website (email + password, or Google). That is not a MetaTrader account and not a purchased challenge. Confirm the email or the trader panel stays locked.
- [Buy a challenge when you have never done it](https://smpfund.com/help/buy-a-challenge): A challenge is a paid test account, not a live bank deposit and not MetaTrader access yet. Pick a program and size, pay the exact crypto amount, then wait. Fees are generally not refundable; a refund is possible only in special cases with admin approval. A challenge reset is a self-service discounted rebuy.
- [Credentials vault: where the MetaTrader password lives](https://smpfund.com/help/credentials): This is the only panel page that can show the trading password. Reveal asks for extra proof (site password or email code). Never paste that password into any other website.
- [Log in to MetaTrader 5 (first time ever)](https://smpfund.com/help/connect-mt5): Website Sign in and MetaTrader login are two different doors. After we issue the account, copy three fields from Credentials, install official MT5, then File → Login to Trade Account and search the exact server name.