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Before you begin

You need:
  • An email address you can open.
  • An authenticator app on your phone, such as Google Authenticator, 1Password or Authy, if you plan to deposit real money.

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Open an account and trade

1

Create your account

Go to app.xblu.io and click Open an account. Enter your email, choose a password of at least 8 characters, choose the ACCOUNT CURRENCY your accounts are held in, accept the terms and click Create my account.
The Open an account form
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Choose how to start

The app asks How do you want to start?
  • Practice with paper: paper money, real prices, no risk. You can trade right away.
  • Trade with real money: you make a deposit first. See Deposit.
The How do you want to start? screen
3

Follow the guided tour

The terminal opens with a guided tour: your account, the chart, a first trade and the layout. It never places an order for you. Click Skip the tour to leave it. Guided tour, at the top, plays it again; on a phone, it is in the ☰ menu.
4

Place your first order

Pick an instrument, choose Long or Short, set the size, and click the order button. Check the estimates, then confirm. See Place an order.
Start in paper. A paper account trades the same instruments at the same prices, under the same rules, as a live one. See Paper trading.