Usually, in order to be confident in the strategy, I first work on a demo account of the AMarkets broker. It really allows me to get more experience.
Demo experience will make a trader have so much confidence in themselves it will even prompt so much motivation that a trader will feel handling a live account is much easy. I am not saying Demo account don't help but in real world the way brokers handle their spread and volatility in Live account is different from Demo, Brokers tend to manipulate Live accounts too often