Fintokei is not a broker, we don’t offer any regulated financial services and we don’t execute any of the trades on your account in the real market.
What we do provide is a virtual demo trading environment—built to simulate real market conditions as closely as possible.
Why? Because we’re here to evaluate real trading skill, not how fast someone can click on demo buttons.
💡 Why we simulate live market conditions
Our accounts run on demo servers from our partner broker. These accounts are designed for education and evaluation, but they are powered by systems that reflect real-market behavior, including:
• Live data feed & pricing from our partner broker, with variable interbank spreads and fixed commissions—just like in real trading.
• Realistic trade execution, including slippage and execution delays, especially during volatile moments or with large order sizes.
This setup ensures that your trading results reflect how your strategy would perform in real-market conditions—not in some artificially perfect demo world. Slippage, execution delay, and variable spreads are part of real trading—so if we want to evaluate your potential for managing real capital, we have to simulate them too.
⚠️ What is slippage?
Slippage means your order is executed at a different price than the one you requested. This happens both in live trading and in our simulated conditions.
It can be:
• 🔺 Negative slippage (worse price)
• 🔻 Positive slippage (better price)
Slippage happens for two key reasons:
1. Time delay – It takes milliseconds (or longer) to execute a trade and match it with a counterparty. During fast market movements (e.g. macro news), prices can change rapidly even during such short time windows when the order is filled.
2. Trade size vs market depth – Real markets work with liquidity tiers, and the “top of the book” price is not available for infinite trading volume. The bigger the trade, the more likely it’ll eat into deeper (less favorable) pricing tiers, and the final price can therefore be different then the “top of the book” price that you are seeing in the platform.
Our system simulates both of these effects to create an environment that’s as close to real trading as possible, including the positive slippage.
🎯 Can slippage be avoided?
No, not completely. Slippage is normal, expected, and not a system error, especially during high-impact news or with large position sizes. But you can minimize it. 👀
• First of all, there will always be some time delay in fulfilling your order. So you can try to avoid trading during the volatile market events, when the price moves quickly even within milliseconds.
• Secondly, in case you want to trade with larger volumes, you can divide them into multiple smaller positions, so they get a better price, closer to the top of the book.
• Alternatively, you can use a cTrader platform and Limit orders instead of market orders there. The Limit orders in cTrader work as “only get me into the trade if the price I get is at this level or better”, which means you avoid the negative slippage. But you risk a chance of no execution, in case the price movement is very quick and short, and then retraces back, and your order doesn’t get a chance to get filled completely for the requested price.That’s something to consider.
🧪 Test it risk-free
We never promise fixed pricing or guaranteed spreads.
Everything is transparently explained in our materials, and every trader can test the platform using our free trial account. (Please note that on free trials the simulation is only set on Platform 5 and cTrader accounts)
If you’re trading during high volatility, or using large position sizes, you should expect slippage. That’s part of trading—even in live accounts at real brokers.
✅ Bottom line
We built this environment to reflect real-world trading—because that’s the only way to find real-world traders.
If you want a game-like experience with zero slippage and perfect fills, Fintokei’s probably not the place for you.
But if you want to prove your skills in a realistic, professional setup, we’re ready to evaluate and reward you. 🚀