From demo to live trading: What mentorship should cover

Most traders who blow up their first live account were profitable on demo. That gap does not come from a flawed strategy — it comes from everything strategy alone cannot teach. Whether your money will actually prepare you for live conditions depends almost entirely on what the program covers, and not every curriculum treats the demo-to-live transition as its own subject.

All investments carry some degree of risk, and how traders manage that risk under real conditions determines whether they...