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if you are worried about other person's money - just return it
if i ever-ever take somebody's money i'll make completely sure that that person understands that he/she will likely never see that money again (so for them it's a sort of gambling - i will either make a million, or loose it all)
do not trade other peoples's money - why would you want to do it in the first place? there's no minimal account size with oanda.
if it's your wife's money - then just trade your own - after all if you have a system that makes money it will be enough for both of you - and if you don't you will just lose half of it
i myself is trading $500 - just learnign not to enter stupid trades, learning the platform, spreads on varous pairs, leverage varies from pair to pair, charts can be customized, etc, etc.
and your story sounds like an overtrading/not controlling emotions/trying to get back what you lost story all the way - classic - was there done that - nobody is immune - just learn your lessons and move along
by the way - sitting in front of the monitor and being afraid to enter a trade is another classic behavior
you probably traded way too long with fake money - another proof that fake money trading has very little with real money trading (emotions are a killer)
i learned 3 lessons with fake money:
1. do not enter trade too early
2. do not marry a trade and become an investor (margin call cleared my lunacy)
3. pairs are correlated
and then i opened a real account (albeit small)
and after 1 month i'm still trading - though paid $90 for tuition (but was $180 down at some point)
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