The Demo Balance Can Be Refilled Anytime
How the refill works
Restocking is a normal platform function rather than a support request, and it puts the account back to where it started.
One-tap restock
The refill lives in the account area of the platform, next to the practice balance itself. It is a deliberate action rather than an automatic one, so an emptied account stays empty until you decide to restock it, which is a small but useful pause.
Nothing about the process involves support, approval or waiting. Because no payment network is touched and no real value is created, the restock is a change to a number the platform already owns.
Resetting to the start
The reset returns the balance to its opening figure rather than topping it up by an arbitrary amount. That behaviour matters more than it sounds: it means every experiment you run begins from the same base, so two rule sets tested on separate resets can be compared on equal terms.
Follow the same order every time and the results stay comparable:
- Finish the experiment. Close any open positions and stop trading before you touch the reset.
- Write down the outcome — number of trades, ending balance, and the one thing that surprised you.
- Restock the balance from the account area of the platform.
- Confirm the figure matches the starting amount before placing anything.
- State the next test in one sentence before the first position of the new run.
Because the reset is deliberate, an emptied practice account is a moment worth using. The balance sitting at zero is the only signal the demo will ever give you that something in the approach is not working, and restocking immediately erases it. Leaving the account empty until the next session is a small trick that turns the reset into a decision.
No cost or limit
There is no fee and no published cap on resets. We say "no published cap" rather than "unlimited" because the operator does not document the behaviour anywhere we could check, and stating a limit that does not exist is as unhelpful as ignoring one that does. In ordinary use the refill has always been available when needed.
A reset is free, immediate and returns you to the starting figure, which makes it a testing tool as much as a rescue.
When to refill
Three situations justify it: the balance is gone, the experiment is finished, or the account has drifted so far that percentages stopped meaning anything.
After a blown balance
The obvious case. The balance has reached zero or fallen so low that position sizes would be distorted, and there is nothing further to learn from the current state of the account. Restock, but only after the diagnosis in the next section.
Starting a fresh test
The more valuable case. If you are comparing two approaches, running each from the same starting balance is what makes the comparison mean something. Fifty trades of rule set A from the opening figure, a reset, then fifty trades of rule set B from the same figure, produces two results you can actually put side by side.
There is a fourth case that is really the third in disguise. If you have changed anything material about the method, a reset gives the new version a clean run rather than a balance carrying the scars of the old one. Comparing a revised rule set against a depleted account tells you about the depletion, not the revision.
Rehearsing a new plan
The third case is drift. A practice balance that has doubled or halved changes what a percentage-based stake represents, and a rule expressed as "one percent of the balance" quietly becomes a different trade. Reset before the drift is large enough to distort the test rather than in the middle of one.
- Reset before a test, never during one.
- Reset after a wipeout, but write down the cause first.
- Reset on drift when the balance has moved far enough to change what your stake rule means.
- Do not reset simply because a session is going badly and you want the number to look better.
Reset at the boundaries of an experiment, not inside one, and the practice account starts producing comparable results.
Using resets wisely
Impose the consequence the platform will not: count them, log them, and treat a reset as a result rather than a fresh start.
Treat play money seriously
Trade the practice account at the stake you would actually fund. If your live plan is a $20 position, place $20 positions in practice rather than $500 ones. The results become far less impressive and far more useful, and the balance stops emptying every few days.
Seriousness here is a practical instruction rather than an attitude. Place the position at the time your rule says, at the size your rule says, and close it when your rule says, even though nothing hangs on it. A practice session run that way is worth ten sessions of exploratory clicking.
Track results anyway
Keep a log across resets rather than starting a new one each time. Date, number of trades, ending balance, and one sentence on what happened. Read back over four or five entries and the pattern is usually obvious in a way no single session ever is.
Simulate real limits
Give yourself the constraints a funded account would impose:
- A daily stop. Three losses in a row ends the session, exactly as it would if the money were yours.
- A reset budget. One per week. Reaching it means the stake size is wrong, not that the week is over.
- A fixed stake in money, not as a percentage of a balance that keeps being restored.
- A written entry rule that has to be satisfied before any position, with no exceptions for a strong feeling.
Those four constraints turn the practice account back into something that can teach you about risk. Without them it teaches you about clicking. If you want to run the exercise properly you can open the free demo and set the rules before the first position rather than after the first bad session.
The reset is only useful once you have supplied the consequence the platform deliberately removed.
Refill takeaways
Free, instant and unlimited in practice, the refill is the most convenient feature on the account and the easiest one to misuse.
Unlimited resets
There is no fee, no approval and no documented cap. The balance returns to its starting figure and you continue. As a mechanic, it is exactly what a practice account should offer.
A double-edged feature
As a habit, it is the reason many practice accounts teach so little. A reset ends the story before the lesson lands, and repeated often enough it converts a strategy problem into a routine. The feature is not the issue; using it as a substitute for a diagnosis is.
Discipline still matters
The single question to answer before every restock is what emptied the balance. Almost always it is one of three things: stake sizes too large for the account, trading to recover a loss, or no written rule at all. Naming the cause turns the reset into the end of an experiment rather than the start of another round of the same one.
When resets become rare on their own, that is the clearest signal the practice account has done its job, and our page on knowing when to leave the demo behind picks up from there. Platform facts on this page were checked against Pocket Option's own pages on August 2, 2026; the operator does not publish reset rules, so nothing here states a limit as fact.
Refilling is free; the only cost is the lesson you skip when you press the button without asking what happened.
What readers ask about the demo
How do I refill my Pocket Option demo balance?
The restock control sits in the account area of the platform, alongside the practice balance. It is a normal platform function that needs no support request and no approval.
Is there a limit on how many times I can reset the demo?
None that Pocket Option publishes. We describe it as having no published limit rather than claiming it is unlimited, because the operator does not document the behaviour anywhere we could verify.
Does resetting the demo cost anything?
No. Practice funds are virtual, so restocking creates no charge and touches no payment method. The only cost is the diagnosis you skip if you reset without asking what emptied the balance.
Does the refill top up my balance or reset it?
It returns the account to its starting figure rather than adding an arbitrary amount. That behaviour is what makes it useful for testing, since every experiment can begin from the same base.
How often should I reset the demo balance?
Set a budget of about one reset a week and treat exceeding it as evidence that your stake size is too large. Reset at the boundary between experiments rather than in the middle of a session that is going badly.