Is this a genuine live account?

Guys, a strange request.

Could this screen shot be a genuine live account or is it using Strategy Tester and “funny money” on MT5 as there is a Strategy Tester box at the bottom of the screen. I’m not familiar with MT5

thanks

m

strategy tester here say nothing about this topic thats just an addon for testing programmed strategies.

your picture can be demo account or live account.

in general: never ever believe anyone until you did see the account in person (pictures dont say anything, so many fakes unfortunately)! there should real private account (no demo account or account not yourself ),with bigger money inside (so account is not worthless for this person and hurts when he lose it) and many thousand history trades over some years (so you have statistic relevant data).
other accounts are total useless and you dont know anything about this trader (when someone want to sell whatever: when someone has no prove he dont have it because it does not exist). never judge when you dont have enough information's about to can judge!

Thank you for your reply Trader191, I appreciate it.

m

no problem.
metatrader topic is complex.
you can never know easy if there is a live or real account just from a picture.
even when you see its a live account, it can still be a demoaccount, because this person just did buy a metatrader server, then you are your own broker and can fake any trade and change anything inside your account. so to avoid this you need to check if this broker is a bigger broker and not can be a fake broker owned by someone.
and never trust pictures, always see in real , and with real i dont mean by video thats easy to fake too (but this we had already).

believe results of other people is very difficult topic. most easy you can see by what people write and how they think about trading, in this you can see how successful can be traded. but i met so many who talk the standard basics knowledge but did only lose by using it. thatswhy is the rule for coaches, always ask for live account to see performance so he can show he can use his own informations for profit and its not useless talk. and for live account he should have a lot of money in (or he dont believe in his strategy and experience and all he teaches or opened a lot of accounts and just show you one running ok), traded it some years already (or he was losing in this time and want hide the fact by presenting new account, or he dont have any longer experience then you should avoid him for sure too), with a lot of trades inside (so you know that he dont have negative edge with what he teaches and was maybe only in luck - 99,9999999999% have only losing accounts or luck accounts with not even 5-20 years running with many thousand trades, so from 100.000 people trading some will always by luck make a lot of win and sell this useless shit then as knowledge).

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen those million dollar fake live accounts with some unknown broker. Looks like somebody got hold of a Metatrader license on the cheap to scam people.

unfortunately a lot doing this.