Try it on a demo account with Oanda. I don't know of any other US-based companies giving free accounts so there may be much better ones. (I'm based in the UK.)
www.tradindex.co.uk do a demo account, but it closes daily at 9pm GMT which may be a problem for you. Also, it isn't very good but does have access to thing other than currency and gold & silver.
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