What is the difference between exchange demo and live trading?

Exchange demo

Demo uses an exchange test environment to check orders, positions and monitoring for a strategy instance. It does not trade real funds, and demo results do not represent live performance.

Live trading

Live trading uses a real account and can submit real orders. Review the strategy, exchange environment, capital and risk settings first. You must approve the live start.

How do Demo/live and computer/VPS choices relate?

Demo or live selects the trading environment; your computer or VPS selects where the strategy executes. These are independent choices. A VPS can run a supported exchange Demo or live trading after your approval. Deploying to a VPS does not automatically switch to live trading.

Your computer must stay powered on, awake and online for local execution. Strategies started on your own Linux VPS can continue after your computer shuts down, provided the server and exchange connection remain available. Configure API credentials for the selected Demo or live environment at either location. After migration, configure credentials again in the remote console.

During a run

Live monitoring shows positions, orders, P&L and run status, with options to pause or stop. Keep demo and live figures distinct; demo performance is not realized profit.