@anosocialnet, that is the reason why some of us are still traders. I really wonder how many people would have had anything to do with Forex, most especially the poor traders that can't afford to lose their money to Forex in the learning stage.
Please take a look around, and feel free to .
Definitely we surely needs to practice on the Demo Account most often than Real Account, but loss is inevitable, so loss is part of Forex Trading. But thoroughly consistency practice in the Demo Account, we can minimize the loss and Educate ourselves the more.
Many sides to the Demo account is just the economic nature of it. Since the trader has nothing to lose by investing in it, it is a choice everyone wants to take advantage of. It doesn't matter the level of skills that trader has as even a pro can still use it to develop his skills.
Demo accounts gives trader the exposure to the real market, without risking his capital.
Some experienced trader that like using ea, hence demo account is very valuable for backtest ea, because if likely trader created new ea hence also need to test first whether worked or can't work, but also will look on drawdown usually before forward test on real account