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The first hour

Start here: install it, then learn where things live (Philippines)

One hour, one phone, nothing of yours involved. The order below exists because the app is easy to install and easy to misread — and the misreading is what costs people money later.

The first hour has one job: to end with you knowing which screen is which. Install from the official exness.com rather than from anything sent to you, sign in, and switch to a demo account — virtual balance, an email and a password, no documents, no time limit. Then find four screens and be able to reach each one without hunting: the account line, the quotes list, the order screen and the money section. Nothing real happens in this hour, and nothing needs to.

What is on the phone after each step

Six steps, and the single thing that should be true on your screen when each one is finished.

StepDone when the screen shows…Time it really takes
Getting the appThe download came from a page you typed the address ofMinutes
Signing inAn account name and a balance figure, whatever they sayMinutes
Switching to practiceA demo label beside the account, not a real oneSeconds, once found
Finding the four screensYou can reach each one in under two tapsMost of the hour
Reading one quoteTwo prices for the same name, not oneTen minutes
Opening the order screenThe fields visible — with nothing confirmedFive minutes

The hour in order

Skip a step and the next one still works — which is exactly the problem, because the skipped one shows up later at a worse moment.

  1. Type the address yourself, once

    Reach exness.com by typing the address yourself, and take the app from there. On a phone every other route — a search result, a message, a file someone forwarded, a lookalike page — looks identical to the real one at that size. Doing it by hand once is cheaper than checking forever.

  2. Sign in, then switch to practice before anything else

    The app holds demo and real accounts side by side. Move to the demo one first, so every tap in the next fifty minutes is free. Telling the two apart at a glance takes two seconds and prevents the commonest phone mistake there is.

  3. Find four screens and time yourself

    The account line, the quotes list, the order screen, the money section. Reach each one, go back, reach it again. On a small display, knowing the route matters more than knowing the theory — hunting for a menu while a position is open is where good decisions stop.

  4. Read one quote line properly

    Pick a single name and look at it until the two prices make sense. There are always two, and the gap between them — the spread — is what an opening costs. What one quote line states unpacks it.

  5. Open the order screen and confirm nothing

    Look at the fields, not the button. Size, direction, exit level: three decisions that belong to you and one that belongs to the market. The field-by-field walk-through is the next hour, not this one.

  6. Write down your two numbers

    Before any real screen matters: what share of an account one trade may spend, and how far the exit sits. The calculator turns both into a size; the safety page explains why they are decided away from the app.

Where to keep the notes when the notes are also on the phone

One note file, one line per session: date, what was tried, what the screen showed, what surprised you. It sounds fussy for an hour of tapping — until the second week, when a figure looks wrong and memory turns out to be a poor witness. Screenshots go in the same note, and since a device clock and a platform clock need not agree, write down which one the line used.

This site is an independent guide: it opens no accounts, takes no money and shows no balance. Registration happens only on exness.com, and everything above simply describes what you will find there — about this site, or what the sign-up form asks.

Six ways a first hour on a phone goes wrong

None involves the market. Each is about the device in your hand:

  • Installing from whatever appeared first. The address bar is short on a phone and a wrong page reads as the right one. Type it once, yourself.
  • Not checking which account is open. Demo and real look the same apart from one label — and the label is the only thing standing between practice and money.
  • Learning the app while a trade is running. Hunting for a menu costs nothing on a demo and quite a lot otherwise.
  • Deciding a size inside the app. The field offers a number; that number knows nothing about your month.
  • Turning every notification on. An hour later the phone is the one setting the pace, and the pace is not yours.
  • Signing up in a hurry to "see what is inside". Everything inside is visible on a demo account, which asks for no documents at all.

Questions about the first hour

Do I need a computer at any point in this hour?

No. The Exness Trade app on a phone covers all six steps. The Exness Terminal in a browser is an alternative on the same account, not a required stage.

Should I install anything before deciding I want to trade?

You can, and it costs nothing. A demo account exists precisely so the app can be judged before anything is decided.

How do I know the app came from the right place?

Because you typed the address rather than followed a link. That is the whole check, and it only works if it happens before the download, not after.

What if the phone is old or the screen is small?

Then the scrolling habits in step 3 matter more, not less. Nothing about the arithmetic of a trade depends on the device.

Is an hour enough?

For finding the screens, usually. For being ready to risk money, no — that part is measured in weeks of practice, not minutes.

Can the account type be chosen later?

It can. Standard names no minimum initial deposit, so the choice does not have to be settled in the first hour — see the account types page.

Does the identity check happen in this hour?

Only if you are heading for a real account. Verification is the check Exness runs before real trading, and it needs light and a flat surface rather than a spare minute.

What should be true at the end of the hour?

That you can name which screen is open without reading the title, and reach the other three from it.

Nothing makes sense yet. Is that a bad sign?

No. The vocabulary is the slow part — the words page keys each term to the label it wears in the app.

Where do questions go if a screen behaves unexpectedly?

Anything tied to an account goes to Exness support, which runs 24/7 in the app and the personal area. Anything about a word or a figure on these pages goes to the help page.

Where the second hour goes

The order screen

Four fields, one confirm — and the check that belongs before the thumb lands.

Walk the fields

Demo and real

Two accounts in one app, and the two-second habit that keeps them apart.

See the switch

Before the screen locks

What has to be settled while the phone is still in your hand.

Run the checks

The hour costs nothing at all

A demo account gives the same app, the same screens and the same order fields on virtual money: an email, a password, no documents, no time limit. The button opens the official exness.com sign-up through a partner link.

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