Four minutes, four answers

Opening an account, and the answers nothing records — Ethiopia

Registration takes an email address, a password and a few minutes. Saying weeks later what each answer was betting on takes longer.

Registration asks for an email address and a password, and takes a few minutes. A demo needs no documents; a real account is verified before real money is traded. The screens are short; the four decisions taken on them are not. The account stores those decisions, never what they rested on.

Every answer given at sign-up is a forecast: nothing has been traded yet, so nothing can be observed. That guess is what a later reading needs, and the form has no field for it. It costs nothing to rehearse the whole thing on a demo account.

Four answers, and what each one quietly predicts

None of these are facts on the day. They are expectations, and the screens never ask for one.

Answered at sign-up	The expectation underneath	What later shows it was wrong
Demo or real	that practice is, or is no longer, needed	the demo still opened out of habit, long after it stopped teaching
Account type	that Standard, the usual starting point, matches how you intend to trade	how you actually trade drifting away from it
First deposit	that this amount could be lost entirely without it mattering	the balance checked more often than the reasoning
The stop-loss habit	that a loss halted at a level set in advance is acceptable	the level moved once the trade is open

The middle column is the whole page: obvious the day it is written, thin within weeks, then replaced by a reason assembled from the balance.

This site is an independent guide, not a broker: it opens no accounts, holds no money and takes no documents.

The one screen with nothing to predict

Verification is the exception. Before real money is traded, a document proving identity is asked for — a passport or national ID — and usually one confirming an address. Demo accounts skip it. It is the check banks run: rules against fraud and money laundering require brokers to confirm who their clients are, and it makes impersonation harder.

No choice sits inside it, so there is nothing to predict — only the date and what was sent.

Written before the screen, or not at all

A sign-up line expires with its screen, not on a date. Once the screen is behind you, the figure on it starts explaining itself.

The line	Written before the screen	Left until after it
The amount	a ceiling set against what could be lost entirely	a description of the figure that went in
The type	what it was weighed against, and why the rest lost	the name already on the account
Demo or real	what has to be true before the switch	the switch, written up as inevitable
The stop level	a distance you were prepared to lose	a distance defended because the trade is open

The deposit screen shows it plainly. The Standard account has no minimum deposit; other types have a region-based minimum, shown during sign-up before any money is sent. A minimum is a floor somebody else set, not a recommendation — the line worth keeping is your own ceiling. That ceiling comes from risk basics, the route the money takes from deposits and withdrawals, the types from account types.

Questions that come up while the form is open

Registration takes minutes. Why would writing it up take longer?

The form keeps answers, not grounds. Answers are safe without you; grounds have nowhere else to sit.

Every answer here is a guess. Is a guess worth writing down?

That is what makes it worth writing. A guess on paper can be checked; a remembered one adjusts itself.

Verification is a queue, not a decision. Does it need a line?

One: the date and what was sent. Nothing is predicted there, so nothing else can be lost.

Standard is the usual starting point. Does «usual» count as a ground?

It is a starting point, not a ground. Write what you expect to do on it.

What has to be written before the deposit screen rather than after it?

The amount that could be lost entirely. Afterwards the figure sent justifies itself, convincingly.

Which of the four answers deserves more than one sentence?

The one you hesitated over. Hesitation means a second option existed, and that option disappears first.

The demo came as the default. Was anything actually decided there?

What it was opened to find out. Virtual money, no documents, no time limit, no trace of the purpose.

Where these answers get checked

Your first trade

The first entry the sign-up answers get measured against.

See what it has to hold

Risk basics

Where the ceiling and the stop distance are worked out.

Set the two limits

Beginner mistakes

The ones that surface only across several entries.

See the patterns

Open the demo first, then write the four answers down.

No documents, virtual money, no time limit — being wrong on it costs nothing. When the sign-up page opens, check the address bar reads exness.com.

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