Open Demo Account

Before you open a live account with Straighthold Investment Group, we insist that you open a demo account beforehand. A demo account will enable you to test yourself in real Forex market conditions, to experience the trading platform possibilities, to try out your trading system without financial risk and to evaluate the Straighthold Investment Group operations and the LiteForex project.

A demo account does not differ from a live one except for the fact that you take no risks while trading, since you do not need a deposit on this account.

When you open a demo account you personally indicate the amount of your "virtual" deposit. But we strongly recommend that you indicate the particular amount you wish to credit your future live account.

Kindly remember that all trading and financial operations on the LiteForex project Lite group accounts are executed in cents (1/100 US dollar). So, you need to indicate the desired "virtual" deposit in cents.

To open a demo account you need to do the following:

download and install our trading terminal;

When you start the terminal up for the first time, you will be asked to fill out a registration form to open the demo account. Please, fill it out with your personal data, then choose a leverage size and indicate an amount for the desired "virtual" deposit, then press NEXT>. Next you will be asked to choose a trading server from the server list. You’ll need to select the server with the address SIG-Demo.com, then click NEXT>.

To be sure that your terminal is able to connect to a server, we recommended that you press SCAN before you choose a server.

After your successful registration, a demo account will be opened and you will see its number and two passwords: one for trader and for investor (without the possibility of trading). Please, remember this information and click on FINISH.

Your new account will appear in the NAVIGATOR window; your terminal will automatically connect to a trading server.

Within several seconds after you have opened a simulated account and connected to a server, you will receive notification of a new account and information about how to access it on your terminal, via internal e-mail.

You can change the language of the program interface. Enter VIEW->Languages and choose your language from the list. Close the program and restart it.

Trading Platform

Straighthold Investment Group, Inc. offers its clients the most popular and powerful platform - SIGTrader 4 Forex trading system - developed by MetaQuotes Software Corporation. The client terminal SIGTrader 4 is an online Forex trading broker system intended for online trading and technical analyses on the Forex, CFD and Futures markets. Some types of installed orders let you manage your trading activity flexibly.

Beside a number of technical indicators and online instruments, this Forex trading system terminal is also equipped with MetaQuotes Language 4, a customized language for trading strategy programming. This language will help you to develop Advisers and Expert Advisors - mechanical Forex trading system, Custom Indicators and Scripts. Advisers analyze the current market situation online and take decisions, place trading orders and open positions without trader participation. Custom and technical indicators can analyze market conditions and generate different signals. And Scripts are intended for one-time executed actions.

For clients who wish to remain online continuously, MetaQuotes Software Corporation has created the SIGTrader 4 Mobile terminal for Windows CE Pocket Computers. This terminal is used by Straighthold Investment Group, Inc clients free of charge and provides almost full functionality for PCs, including dozens of the most popular Forex trading system indicators, internal email, and the possibility to get news online and to complete all types of trading operations.

The smart phone version of the MetaTrader terminal - SIGTrader Smartphone Edition - is another option for mobile access to the trading terminal. It is almost as functional as the Palm version and makes you mobile anywhere, even if your normal computer or Palm are not available.

A Multyterminal is offereed by Straighthold Investment Group to those traders who work with more than one account simultaneously. Being void of the technical analysis function this terminal greatly facilitates analysis of multiple accounts making it possible for the trader to be connected to all accounts at the same time.

The main multiterminal field of application is the field of trustful management which presupposes trading operations on several accounts.

Getting Started

The first step to successful Forex trading lies in understanding the Forex market structure with its advantages and disadvantages, appreciating its reefs, studying analysis methods, market predicting and trading principles and creating personal Forex trading strategies.

A brief excursus into the Foreign Exchange market - Forex, as well as a description of trading principles, analysis and predicting methods can be found on our site, in the pages: Introduction to Forex, Understanding Forex, Forex Techniques, Forex Glossary, Forex Trading FAQ. Unfortunately, the information you find on our site is only a small portion of the vast volume of information available nowadays. But this information will help you get started.

The second step is implementing the acquired knowledge in practice - studying and using the Forex trading platform, placing, deleting and modifying orders, opening and closing positions and so on.

At this stage you need to practice on a Forex Demo Account. A demo account lets you develop your skills without financial risk as you do not need to invest. Demo accounts are free. Instructions for opening Forex demo accounts can be found on the page "Open Demo Account".

After the first positive results, many traders enter the real Forex market and do not succeed. That's why you need to get positive results that are stable first. The knowledge you gain, through correct trading with your own system, following your rules, developing steel logic and psychological stability, in absence of greed and following a money management system will all be determinant at this stage.

To assist new traders in accomplishing this difficult task, our company has prepared two special types of accounts - MINILIte and 100KLite.

MINILite accounts offer Forex beginners the possibility of starting real trading on Forex with real deposits. But keep in mind that profits and losses on this account will be minimal. Even stable profits cannot cover your Internet expenses.

A small starting deposit, which any Forex trader could lose absolutely painlessly, will help you overcome the very complex transitional stage of going from a demo account to a live account.

Since all Lite group accounts are in cents, Forex traders will practice working with amounts that have more and more zeros, like in US dollars. This helps prepare traders for the future and escape psychological pressure when trading on professional accounts.

Moreover, the MINILite Forex account can be used by skilled Forex traders for testing different mechanical trading systems

100KLite type accounts are the next step for Forex beginners. While trading on this account, traders learn how to achieve profit plans, and reduce risks.

After completing the above three stages - from a simulated account to a 100KLite account - you can decide whether you are ready for successful trading on the Forex market or not, and finally choose a professional level account - MINIForex or 100KForex, depending on your financial possibilities and interests.