Why bother demo trade 'Live' when..

you could backtest? Why demo trades for at least 3 months (and wait for that long period). Now, I'm not quite saying I'm impatient, but to speed up the learning process, can't we backtest instead of demo test in realtime? What's the difference? Missing fundamentals? I'm sure I could backtrack that too.

Anyway so I've heard about backtesting, but I'm not entirely sure how to set it up properly so that I can treat it as its actually happening..

Because it's always easy to spot good signals when you have the whole chart infront of you when you do a visual backtests.
In realtime you still don't know where price will go.

There are no short-cut'z in the learning process, and it will be always a learning process no matter where you at on this journey. Just roll with good MM and master your setup and master yourself

Is it possible to say begin backtesting year 2000, jan 1st. the backtester won't display anything in future so we wont have any information there. and i go step by step forward, as if, i control time and time, i control it at whatever pace i want to up until today.

its as if, i went back in time to the yesteryears. and i begin there, all except, im in control of time. am i missing something still? I do not want to see the future unless i move 'forward'

good feedback so far, keep it coming. thanks!