“Demo” can sound like fake charts, random numbers or a toy version of a product. That is not what useful demo trading means.
A trading demo can follow real market prices while using simulated money. The price movement is real market information. The balance, fills and financial outcome are not real money.
What is real in Chilla Demo?
Chilla Demo follows real market prices. Chilla can carry supported demo work against those prices and keep the resulting activity available inside the product.
That means the market can move for real while Chilla is working. You can see how the product behaves, what it reports back, and when it acts or stays out without putting real funds at risk.
What is simulated?
The Demo balance is simulated. It is not money held for you by Beaverly, it cannot be withdrawn, and demo activity does not create a real financial gain or loss.
Demo execution is also handled inside Chilla rather than being sent as a live order to an external trading-account provider.
So is Chilla Demo a fake account?
No. “Simulated” and “fake” are not the same thing.
The useful distinction is simple: real market information, simulated capital and simulated execution. That is what makes a demo useful for understanding the product without pretending the result is live money.
What changes when Chilla works live?
Live work uses a supported external trading account with real funds. Those funds remain with the provider hosting the account.
Once a provider is involved, real execution conditions matter too. A provider can have its own prices, spreads, minimums, latency, order handling, rejection rules and other execution conditions. A demo cannot reproduce every provider-side condition perfectly because it is not actually sending the order there.
That is why a good demo is useful evidence of how the product behaves, while still not being a promise that live outcomes will be identical.
Do I have to use Demo before going live?
No. Chilla Demo is optional.
You can start by telling Chilla what you are working towards. When the work needs an account, you can use Chilla Demo or a supported live trading account.
What is Demo actually good for?
- Seeing how Chilla works without using real funds.
- Understanding how Chilla reports activity back to you.
- Watching how a supported style behaves against real market prices.
- Learning the product without treating the simulated balance as withdrawable money.
- Comparing the Demo experience with live provider execution later, if you choose to go live.
What Demo cannot prove
Demo results do not guarantee live results. They do not remove market risk, and they cannot perfectly reproduce every provider-side execution condition.
The value of Chilla Demo is simpler: it lets you experience Chilla working against real market prices while keeping the money and execution simulated.
The short answer
Yes, demo trading can use real market prices. In Chilla Demo, the market data is real while the balance and execution are simulated inside Chilla. The balance is not withdrawable, and no live order is sent to an external provider.
When you choose live work, real funds remain with the provider hosting your supported trading account and provider execution conditions become part of the experience.