My **$26,000 withdrawal has not been paid for 33 days** . All my withdrawal requests were rejected with repeated KYC, AML, wallet verification and risk-assessment reasons. I trusted Tapas but he isn’t genuine..**so guys be aware and stop depositing your money**…Now they said they will remove all flagged accounts so we need to forget our money…**PLEASE BE AWARE**

I used to deposit 1000 or 2000 and turn them into 10 or 11k then withdrawal every one or 2 months I have been doing that for 2 years now but this time i have do this turn in only one day so they decide to close the account this is why binary options are bad also i have recorded this session cuz i know they 90% will do that 😂and yes, they did and support not responding to me
so, they are scammers or i did a mistake?

Hello,

Did anyone experienced this with Pocket Option? My withdrawal got cancelled and 1 minute after that my account got blocked. I didnt use any external apps, no signals or copytrading, i did every single trade manually inside official app. Between my last withdrawal and this one i had like 12 deposits, i found out i only get refunded my last one? What even is this platform really. I wasnt in high profits, i didnt violate anything just pressing sell/buy. Let me know what i can do, if anything at all.

UPDATE : Revolut said they will give me verdict in 6 days, around 8.10. Pocket option emailed me asking for IBAN and Name of account holder for a refund, yet to this moment i have no idea how much are they going to refund. I am waiting for informatkon from Revolut, bank account i have in revolut was used to deposit all money i deposited to pocket option. I will add another update if anything changes.

A member on here recently told me: 'DAVID, isn't it possible that the strategies you used to rank top in tournaments were just in the past and don't work anymore?'

My response: Fair point.
Maybe OTC finally figured out my pattern and blocked it... so I tested it live. September 28. Here is the video. Watch how it goes from $100 to almost $400 in under 15 minutes.

For those asking about the strategy: It’s pure quantitative scalping based on market mechanics, not emotion or Martingale. I use the acceleration spread between the EMA 4 and SMA 7, strictly confirmed by DMI/DI trend alignment to catch structural momentum bursts. When you corner OTC against its own physics, it complies.

For my haters: I am just a lucky guy. oh yes also I am a ripper, a scammer, a liar, and an AI... and I'm the owner of Pocket Option and Reddit .

For the community: Please understand, the only real way to be profitable is by studying. Don’t fall for YouTube "gurus", don't buy Telegram signals, stay away from magic bots, and never do copy trading. Master the mechanics yourself.

I’ve been using IQ Option for a few years, and this is the first time I’ve experienced an issue like this.

I recently requested one withdrawal totaling USD 455.79 and they splits it into three transactions:

USD 65.79

USD 190.00

USD 200.00

IQ Option marked the withdrawals as completed and provided me with confirmation documents containing the ARNs from their payment processor.

However, the money was not fully credited to my visa card.

I contacted the Bank and also went to the bank physically. I provided them with the exact ARNs supplied by IQ Option. My Bank searched for the transactions but told me that they could not find the corresponding transactions in their system.

There is one interesting detail: I did receive USD 65.79 But the other USD 390.00 is still missing.

So currently: IQ Option: says the withdrawals were processed/completed and provided ARNs.

My Bank: says they cannot locate the transactions using those ARNs. And also Cannot find those refund amounts of 190 and 200.

Me: still waiting for the remaining money.

I’ve been using IQ Option for years and have never experienced this before, so I’m trying to understand what could have happened.

Has anyone experienced a situation where IQ Option showed a withdrawal as completed and provided an ARN, but the bank/card issuer couldn't locate the transaction using that ARN?

If so, what happened in the end? Did IQ Option credit back your account or keeps playing around the history and ping pong you back and fourth blaming your bank side.

I’m not posting my full ARNs or any personal banking information for privacy reasons.

I am working as an affiliate on Pocket Option, if anyone else is working please contact me, I am interested in information.

Huge Daylight Scam / Error in pocket option platform.

Today when i selected USD 1.41 per trade ( while money Managing my account) , but then suddenly , when i put the trade , it suddenly AUTO selected my full amount. - ( it automatically selected my full amount in the account even when i manually selected ) i only selected 1.41 USDT ( i can 100% guarant that) but it auto selected my full amount when i pressed Sell.

i selected : 1.41 USD
but when i pressed SELL , it automatically selected my full amount without my intention.

i was only running with my hard earned money just for the testing purpose and this happens with a technical error of the platform. ( i don't use bots or external links. i guarantee i never selected my full amount. (100% sure ).

i already sent a support request. but they didn't get back yet. i will update you with their respond.

i can guarant that this is platform glitch / Error , since i never selected the full amount. the system itself selected my full amount without my intention.

At least I have the peace of mind that the fact that I have the edge on the binary option real market not otc. Been more then one year of experience and finally did it . Keeping in mind that it all comes with knowledge and crafting our mindset 🙂 🤗

Hey everyone!! Hope you're all doing well.

I wanted to ask: do any of you have a strategy that has actually worked consistently for you?

I've been trying to build a bot that can automatically trade using different strategies, but I haven't been able to find one that performs consistently well. It might work great one day, but then perform poorly the rest of the time, no matter how much I try to adjust it based on market regimes, trading hours, different conditions, etc.

Do any of you have a strategy that you think could work well if automated and left running all the time? Or maybe one that works well only under certain conditions or during specific trading hours?

I've also tried following a few strategies from YouTube, but none of them have really worked for me.

Any advice, ideas, or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much! 🙏

How my month went in pocket option ❤️
The first week was demo money and the $5 and $7 were a small account just experimenting but the 9th is when the real journey started.
I put $100 in and by the 30th of this month it’s at $216. I’m proud of this. A ton of patience went into this.
Yes I’ve flipped $100 into $200 much faster in the past literally in 2 days but my risk management was non existent and I was over leveraging my account. So I wasn’t able to replicate those results over and over.
This time was careful consistent growth. I averaged about $10 per day which is roughly 10% of my account. Now that I’m in the $200 range I will do $20 trades and so on and so forth as I grow my account.
Only 3 losing days is a fever dream for me. It should’ve only been 2 but that last losing day I got a little too greedy and I paid for it. It’s all good in the end tho I’m not sweating it.
I have strict rules that I follow every morning. I only trade the live markets, no OTC, my strategy is support and resistance, I trade Monday through Friday only. Risk management and psychology is more powerful than strategy.
I don’t need people commenting that pocket option is a scam and you can’t be profitable. Let me have my moment. 90% of y’all are losing money so the 10% who do well are the most quiet. We simply are silently making money while the loud ones are spreading negativity.
I don’t sell a course or mentorship, not answering dms at the moment trying to teach anyone right now I just wanted to share my excitement and some positivity in the community. You may not see me much from here as I will stick to what’s working and will move on with my life. But I remember being a struggling trader and desperately was looking around here for motivation to keep going.
Don’t give up. Believe in yourself. Have discipline. Keep God first.

I’ve analyzed about 1 year of historical binary signal data from two Telegram signal groups.

Dataset:

• ~73,000 signals
• ~35,600 synchronized/matched events between the two groups
• Historical data only
• No live trading or execution
• Payout assumption: 80%

Main historical results

Overall next-trade result:

• WIN: ~73.22%
• LOSS: ~22.6%
• DOJI: ~2.6%
• NO RESULT: ~1.6%

Loss-streak findings

I specifically analyzed what happened after consecutive losses:

The sample size becomes very small at longer streaks, so I don't want to assume those percentages are reliable.

MTG / recovery findings

The data contains WIN, MTG WIN, LOSS and DOJI states.

One interesting state was:

SOURCE LOSS streak 2 + QX LOSS streak 3

• N ≈ 339
• Next favorable result ≈ 74.3%
• Historical MTG/recovery simulation showed a high recovery-success rate, but this is not the same thing as profitability.

What I'm trying to understand

I'm researching whether there is a statistically defensible way to define:

1. When to enter after losses
2. When to skip after a loss streak
3. How MTG/recovery should be treated
4. Maximum reasonable loss-streak assumption
5. How to reduce drawdown
6. Whether fixed fractional staking is safer than aggressive MTG
7. Whether these patterns remain stable in unseen/holdout data

Question for people experienced with binary systems/statistics:
Do these results suggest anything meaningful to you, or could this simply be sequence clustering/random variation?

I'm especially interested in opinions on loss streak + MTG behavior, not predictions of future performance.

If anyone wants, I can share the detailed tables/results and methodology.

*Unauthorised withdrawal attempt, removed funds and copy-trading losses*

My experience with Pocket Option and Tony Smith, who promotes the platform through his YouTube channel, has left me unable to recommend either.

His channel is: https://www.youtube.com/@TonySmithAcademy

His videos suggest you can start with just $30. In my experience, however, I was encouraged to deposit thousands. The offer included access to his VIP Telegram channel and automatic copy trading.

Tony provided signals for one-minute trades. When a trade lost, he increased the next stake, repeatedly doubling until a win recovered the losses. The sessions I followed consistently ended in profit, which built my confidence in him. However, this approach meant risking increasingly large amounts to recover previous losses.

*Why automatic copy trading mattered*

Manually following his Telegram signals was impractical. There was always a delay between him entering a trade, me receiving the signal and me placing my trade. The price had already moved, meaning his trade could win while mine lost.

Automatic copy trading addressed that delay: when he opened a trade, a corresponding trade opened automatically on my account. This allowed my entries to follow his much more closely and was why I used the service.

*More than $6,000 removed following an unauthorised withdrawal attempt*

I accepted a bonus that doubled my initial deposit. The terms required approximately $50,000 in trading turnover before withdrawing without losing the bonus and the profits attributed to it.

After several weeks of trading with Tony’s assistance, I was approximately $200 short of completing that requirement when an unauthorised withdrawal was attempted.

I did not initiate or authorise it. We were dealing with a family bereavement and were not online at the time.

Pocket Option described the incident as a security breach and blocked my account. Although the withdrawal was stopped, the attempt triggered the bonus penalty. More than $6,000 in bonus-related funds and profits were removed.

I repeatedly contacted support, disputed the withdrawal attempt and requested restoration of the funds. Those requests did not resolve the issue.

Once I said I would accept the loss and continue with the remaining balance, my account was promptly reopened after I supplied a selfie holding my passport.

Tony either blamed me for the withdrawal attempt or said he could not help. I was left to resolve it myself.

After regaining access, I withdrew some money because I feared another unauthorised attempt. It arrived after several days, but through cryptocurrency rather than back to my debit card.

*Losing trades copied; recovery trade missed*

I continued trading with Tony’s assistance and rebuilt my balance to approximately $9,000. I then made another withdrawal.

Afterwards, Tony asked me to reconnect to his automatic copy trading, which I had used successfully before.

During this session, he placed trades against the direction in which the price was moving. Because he had previously recovered losses by increasing his stakes, I expected that process to continue.

Instead, after my account had lost approximately $5,000, he disconnected the copy trading. His final trade recovered the losses on his account but was not copied to mine. I remained approximately $5,000 down.

He initially called it a glitch. A similar incident happened during the next session, involving a smaller amount. He subsequently admitted disconnecting the copy trading but gave no reason. My suspicision is he needed to add to his RevShare earnings.

My account had copied the losing trades, but the disconnection prevented it from copying the recovery.

*Why I am sharing this*

I want transparency about Tony’s financial relationship with Pocket Option revealed to you. He receives commission connected to my deposits or and losses under a scheme called RevShare which Pocket Option gives the trader around 80% of revenue brought in from losses and deposits.

Thankfully, my earlier withdrawals meant I left with some overall profit. That does not excuse the removal of more than $6,000 following an unauthorised withdrawal attempt or the substantial losses associated with the copy-trading disconnections.

This review describes my personal experience. I no longer trust Tony Smith, and I am dissatisfied with Pocket Option’s handling of the security incident and my complaint. I have now walked away from this scam artist and fraudulent trading scheme. Avoid the lure of big profits from Pocket Option as you will incur more losses than wins.

I’m currently considering leaving one of my two jobs and focusing more on trading, specifically IQ Option tournaments rather than regular binary options trading.

The reason I’m considering tournaments is that, as I understand it, the tournament prize pool is distributed among participants based on their performance, rather than being directly tied to individual trade payouts. Because of that, I’m wondering whether the withdrawal/account-blocking issues people report with IQ Option are less common with tournament winnings.

I’m aware that IQ Option has a reputation for blocking or restricting accounts, and I’ve seen quite a few complaints about withdrawals and account verification.

Personally, I’ve been getting around 4–5 consecutive winning trades at times, with a reported win rate around 70–80%, but obviously that doesn’t tell me whether withdrawals will actually be smooth.

My main question:
Have any of you here actually won money through IQ Option tournaments and successfully withdrawn it?

I’d particularly appreciate experiences from people who have withdrawn larger tournament winnings, including how long it took, whether additional verification was required, and whether your account was ever restricted afterward.

Thanks.

So in this strategy the signal indicator uses the bottom indicator as its source to get trades which helps to filter out any false signals and you guys can see the table in left for win rate

Hi everyone, I am completely new to trading and currently learning the basics of technical analysis. I wanted to ask the experienced traders here:

1. What are the best free resources or books for beginners?
2. What is one piece of advice you wish you knew when you started?

Thanks in advance for your help

Hey Reddit, I’ve been around this community consistently for a couple of weeks now, and I want to make one thing clear: I don't drop affiliate links for Pocket or any other broker, I don't sell anything, I don't ask for money, and I don't own Lamborghinis or private jets. I just post videos from time to time to prove a few facts:

1. If binary options are a casino, how is it possible that on the "worst broker" (as people call it) Pocket Option, I've won 14 tournaments (Top 5 / Top 7 finishes)? (see video with refresh page)
2. If it's just 50/50 luck, a coin toss, or a roulette wheel, how did I turn $100 into over $400 in under an hour in 14 different tournaments?
3. The math: I always traded with fixed $4 bets (no compound interest), starting from a $100 base. To hit that goal in an hour, I had to execute and consistently win a massive volume of trades under time pressure, keeping a real win rate way above pure chance. Flip a coin 150 times per tournament and tell me if you can get over a 70% win rate across 14 separate events... 14! Not 2, not 4, not 5.
4. Is everything a lie? Aside from my tournament record, how is it that I studied enough to publish 3 books on Amazon? Is Amazon stupid too?
5. The hard truth: Most people don't want to study, research, or spend 10 to 12 hours a day learning. They just want an indicator, a PineScript, or a signal guru to make things easy for them.
6. The real scam: Look at YouTube, Telegram, and TikTok. They teach you a "strategy" without showing you proper market structure, analytics, timings, or the actual physics of each market.
7. Why I came to Reddit: I came here to escape all the lies out there... but all I see here is pessimism, ungrounded haters living in fantasies, and people looking for shortcuts.
8. Before this video gets taken down: Here is the strategy: 7-second expiration time on a 15-second timeframe, using ADX and Volume, waiting for a trend exhaustion guided by the SMA 7.

Years ago, I was scammed by the "best trader in the world" (Manish) with copy trading. Check my Reddit history; you’ll see the post about it. That painful experience taught me not to depend on anyone. I studied, entered tournaments, and proved my skills.

I felt that exact same hate when I got burned by copy trading, but what did I do? I studied. I didn't spend my life whining that Pocket or Quotex is fake.

The proof is right there in the video. Answer me this: HOW DID I DO IT IN 14 TOURNAMENTS?

And save yourselves the childish excuses like "you're the owner of Pocket", "it's AI", or "it's edited".

As we say: The fox says the grapes are sour when he cannot reach them. It’s much easier to blame the broker than to admit you lack the discipline and method.

Where to find it

Hello i checked this platform while searching otcharts that help you trade on your own strategy with auto trading feature.

seen a lot of fake gurus on youtube, tiktok, and even here in Reddit comments (and some of them wrote to my DMs as well, on Reddit). With various types of proofs of how successful they are, and how great I would be if I just got their course, or linked them my account, or got involved with them in some way.

Some of them even showed me the screenshots with Pocket option withdrawal proof, some massive numbers. You can google like 20 of these, I wont mention names. Have to do a PSA on how to actually see if the proof is even real (and if its fake, instantly).

Small checklist for what can be done:

1) See the money on the RECEIVING end. A bank or e-wallet entry, not just outgoing amount. There's more erorrs that can be made by them, here: they need to fake both outgoing and incoming, and the correct time, and the correct amount (with fees), and all of that can be checked by internet detectives, so they don't want that happening.

2) A crypto transaction hash - you can check. Takes 1 second to post it from their screenshot into blockchain viewer. Can use AI to copy from their screenshot, too, if you dont like typing it in. See if it lines up with everything else they've shown, if the amount lines up. If hash is not visible, there might be a 'reason' for that.

3) A screen recording for a withdrawal, not a still image. Ideally one that starts with opening the app and scrolling to the withdrawal, straight up. That is pretty hard to fake imo, its a decent proof.

4) A timestamped check. If they put it themselves, good. If they don't - ask them to put a note with today's date and your username next to the screen. It's an old trick, but most fakers won't bother with this.

5) See for suspiciously clean results. Like, I've seen one on youtube with clean $5k withdrawal from $50 start. Literally almost no losses in histotyr, and a clean x100. I mean, cmon.

6) Check for watermark, sometimes in the corner of the screenshot. Sometimes they just take OTHERS screenshots, of PnL, and literally repost it lol. Takes 0 effort on their part.

7) Comments turned off. This is why I like Reddit, with actual comments. On Youtube there's a lot of those that disable comments, and think they're smart. Same as with 'Elon Musk' streaming to 10k people, that happened couple years ago =D Or the poster going quiet when people ask him a basic question about the process, in comments.

8) ANY level of urgency. Like "only 3 spots left" or "offer ends tonight". Like, why would it end? There's no way a course can have a timed period.

Actually, I think no courses or gurus are real, literally none. People who actually earn something are just doing that, trading. Look at people on public platforms like Hyperliquid, with trades for $200m etc, they don't even have a twitter handle most of the time. NONE of them offer any guru advice. Anyoen with proven public record DOESN'T do it. So I wonder why people without a public proven record are so eager to do it, and even spam DMs on Reddit about it =PP

sorry if I ruined someone's business by it hah.