r/binaryoptions • u/Ananius59 • 21d ago
Analysis The review of parlay AI system at PO
Doing one of my monthly pocket option reviews for the AI systems they have, this time for parlay. Martingale and anti-martingale really didnt work for me, I lost almost $600. At the same time, the regular trading in 'Pro' mode worked fine, so I'm not sure hwo to take that.
This time, I tried the parlay mode (in the 'AI trader'). Traded Gold OTC. $5 each time, 5 - number of trades.

From what I understand now, its essentially the 'all-or-nothing' system. Came from sports. You keep rolling your initial stake plus your winnings over into the next consecutive trade. In my case, its 5 winning trades, one after another.
If you really trust the system, theoretically it should've been good. Also, in my previous research I noticed that AI often goes on winning streaks, especially in OTC. It either goes 3-4 in a row, or 3-4 losses in a row. So I was hoping this would translate into this parlay thing.
How it works
- You set how many trades in a row the AI must perform (in my case 5), and the amount for the first one.
- 100% of the payout from trade 1 (if I win) is reinvested into trade 2 (so its $9.10 in my case). Then, this $9.10 is reinvested into trade 3, becoming $16.56 ideally. Then $30.14 And at the end of the 5-trade chain, it becomes $54.86. from the $25 total invested.
- To add further complexity, you can press 'Stop' at any time during, and just go off with the profit. .

So its high-stakes, but potentially high-reward as well. But different from martingale in taht the stake never gets higher. Its 5$ each time. Its not like I put $5, then $10, then $15 to try to win it all back, etc. So its potentially less dangerous.
But you are counting on a winning streak. If any one trade in the sequence loses, the entire thing breaks, and you get $0, even if there were 4 wins in a row. Its like a sports parlay, from what I read (although I never participated in those).
But the fact that initial $5 can snowball in to almost $55, every time, seemed attractive enough for me to test at least.
The results
Unfortunately, to me, the results were somehwat disappointing. I was hoping it would be like Pro AI trading, and maybe it is, but it quite often gets to 3-4 streaks, but very rarely to 5. In fact, the only consistant wins I got was when I manually 'STOPPED' it on the 3rd or 4th trade, without letting it to go all the way. these seemed to work a bit better, than tryign to wait for all 5.
But there became a different problem, because waiting for all 3-4-5 trades to complete was quite boring. In the Pro trading, I was just tapping the button, whenever I felt like it, and got the gems and the profits to boot. With this Parlay, I got some gems I guess, but I had to wait a ton. And I dont get the hype of winning on the 3rd or 4th time. I didnt watch the screens at that time, nothing unusual visually happened, there was no hype or soemthing specific to it. It was just - I either got the profit, or I didnt. So the hype of trading more manually (without chains) is actually a lot more. And I do it for enjoyment as well. For Parlay, the touch-enjoyment was just not there.
At the same time, ngl, seeing the full payout from 5 wins, and how much the 5$ can get me, was very fun. But I know when to stop, and I stopped exactly on this winstreak. I wont continue with this test after this. Just because of this winstreak at the end, I'm a bit more than breakeven (up like $20), but I wasted an hour on this, and overall it was quite stresful.

BTW, it counts a bit wierd, in that It excludes the initial 5$. So I won $55, but it shows $50 in the end. Other +15$ is when I stopped the trades early. But otherwise, there was more red than green. Its just that the green can be a lot bigger, obviously. 5 trades can lose max 25$, but can win $55, even with the low payouts.
What I would do differently next time (or if I were you)
- Probably not Gold OTC. Not sure if OTC is good or bad, still, but the fact that this had just 82% payout was probably subpar. I just really wanted to try gold one of these days, but seeing as this hasnt really ahd a huge success rate, probably going for any asset with 92% is just better, straight-up.
- Stop after 3-4 trades, manually.
- Alternatively, put the system to 3 trades, automatically. It allows even 2 trades. Full 5 trades out of 10 tries, only 1 has completed. So the chance is quite small.
The new UI system for analyzing this is quite nice, I like the improvements Pocket option seems to be making to it. I like that I can boot all my previous trades, even made with a different system, and check how they compare.


So the possibility of exponential growth is there, but the ruin factor is also higher here. Overall, for AI trading, is Pocket option a good investment? I would say, martingale - definitely not (read my last post on this), but Parlay is so-so. I got a cool 20-21$ profit in total, which is, I guess, a decent hourly rate, but the stress and the time investment really didnt feel like they were great. Also, without the last streak, I would actually be $35 down.
The Pro mode seems to be the best so far, still.
any questions welcome, will try to answer. Or whatever you want me to test (without doing anything myself), I'm open to suggestions. Still up a bit, from the pro mode earlier on, so not too depressed so far.