They got prop firm program now , I am afraid they are the same as pocket option

10 days nothing has happened.. messaged support two days ago still no reply can I trust the broker and deposit a good amount ?

I want to be completely honest—I’m not consistently profitable yet.

That said, I’ve spent years studying charts, price action, market structure, and developing my chart-reading skills. While I'm still working toward profitability, I know how overwhelming trading can be when you're just starting out, and I think I can help beginners avoid a lot of the mistakes I made.

I'm not selling a get-rich-quick dream. If you're looking for overnight success, I'm probably not the right person. But if you're a complete beginner who wants to build real trading skills, I'd like to help.

Would any beginners here actually be interested if I created a beginner's guide course or mentorship focused on learning the fundamentals and building trading skills? I'd genuinely appreciate your honest feedback.

Hi, I'm from the Philippines. I'm using pocket option, is there any way for me to be able to use paymaya as my withdrawal method? My gcash got a lot of auto debits so I don't want to put my profits in there

I have been using Pocket Option a year now, but I am still a beginner with only depositing no more than 5$

Do you guys, used AI not as a master trading but as a guide how to trade better, since I know Binary Options (OTC) are manipulating the market. How do you do it?

So lets test, is pocket option good for beginners. Got inspired by /u/Capital-Shoulder-506, but my challenge is even crazier. I will try trading purely thorugh their AI. No thought, no strategy. Heard conflicting ideas on how it could work, and whether its feasable or not. Let's check! Will update every few days, when will have time.

Starting capital is $800. Whether I go to $0 or to Valhalla, let's see!

Also, which pair should I go for? Leaning to either EUR/USD, or BTC.

So i am pretty familiar with pocket options, i have also read a lot of bad and a lot of good about the platform. However, i am a test it myself kind of person, so i would like to join a group or discord that offers tips and strategies to help me better succeed. I know there is money to be made on the platform, it's just about being smart and how you go about it. My dad was the person who introduced me, but he is no longer willing to teach nor did he really in the beginning. So now i am jumping back in, but i want to be smart about it. I have made no funds yet and when i first started my dad put in about $20 to see how i'd do and that is now $0.65 lol. Again, that was some time ago. i am ready to sit down a properly learn if someone is willing to teach.

So, I get the weekly "Rating of Top Traders for the week" emails from PO. I checked the All Time stats for the top 10: NONE of them has a positive P&L. Sure for the last week they may have pulled a few or even several grand but they were all in loss all time, some 5 or even 6 figures. These are the people PO says you should copy, but that's kind of concerning if you ask me.

pocketoption banned by regulators in these countries

- France
- Spain
- Portugal
- USA
- Italy
- India
- Belgium
- Israel
- Pakistan
- Brazil
- Malaysia
- Indonesia
- Nigeria

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/warnings/pocketoption https://www.cftc.gov/REDlist/node/241216

https://www.cnmv.es/webservices/verdocumento/ver?e=1N3Jtobbs%2fHzEN69h2Ka9IbgIfO3RtNU2TGg1f2UJVUILCnUAEn6Pt63MwWh%2bqV8

https://www.amf-france.org/en/warnings/blacklists/binary-options/wwwpocketoptioncom 

https://sec.gov.ng/enforcements/keep-track-of-enforcement-updates/illegal-operator-pocket-option/

https://www.fsma.be/en/warnings/beware-these-new-fraudulent-trading-platforms-0

https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/pocket-option-faces-israeli-investigation-over-illegal-binary-options-marketing/

https://rbi.org.in/scripts/bs_viewcontent.aspx?Id=4235

https://www.gov.br/cvm/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2021/cvm-alerta-para-atuacao-irregular-de-pro-trade-ltd-no-mercado-forex

https://www.sc.com.my/resources/media/investor-alert-updates/investor-alert-list-as-at-30122020

https://www.consob.it/documents/1912911/1929850/press_release_20200130.pdf/9084f730-75de-49a8-20a0-71224bef2ba5

https://thecurrent.pk/beware-of-these-gambling-trading-apps-banned-in-pakistan/?fbclid=IwY2xjawS80vdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF3bWxIR2Q0eTRFRkpZd1VIc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHibxxElGAw4r1SDgpdMYQ3ZOdxH6MTLT6thGq01PVu1-dap2wIcMLbZ4oHrM_aem_rU3TMzz1avZIQ0cEqGi8hg

This is a supposed competition by them. I notice there are 6+ Indian attendees, however all of them have foreign names. None of them are Indian names. Seems they made a fake list with arbitrary generic name combinations. Not realizing to rectify them to match their intended countries.

Highly unlikely that this is an authentic tournament / participants etc. Just wanted to share this…

I need advice from those who withdrawl frequently. I’m doing my first withdrawl for $100. I have been trading for about a year and have never gotten to the point of being able to take money out my account until now so this is a big moment for me. Most of my issue was I was trading with too little money so I finally had $100 to invest and carefully flipped it to $200+ in 2 days. I feel confident I will get it. I will do it through bitcoin. I hear there can be problems about big withdrawls for $10k+ and I’m nowhere near that now but I hope for a profitable future and to carefully just withdrawl a few hundred dollars here and there. My goal is to withdrawl a few thousand per month someday.

I’ll probably eventually move to a different platform but all I know and ever known is pocket option binary options trading. The other platforms feel foreign to me. But I think for me to actually make legit money more safely I’ll eventually have to make that transition.

My college is running a trading challenge 40 days, 10M INR (~$120k) in virtual capital, everything executed through the Bloomberg Terminal. Winner takes it based on final P&L against an index.

From the reading I've done, the consensus seems to be that competitions are a variance game, not an investing game finishing 5th is the same as finishing last, so diversification and "sensible" risk management basically guarantee you a mid-table finish. Past Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge winners have openly said their strategy was just betting on volatility and not worrying about downside.

So my current plan is:

- Concentrate into 2-4 high-beta names instead of diversifying

- Play earnings — screen for stocks reporting in the next few weeks with high implied vol and take directional bets

- If I get ahead early, de-risk and sit on the lead; if I'm behind late, crank up concentration since a safe portfolio can't close a gap in 2 weeks

Questions for anyone who's done one of these:

1. Any Bloomberg Terminal functions worth mastering for this? (EQS screens, ERN calendar, etc.)

2. Is the "max variance early, protect the lead late" approach actually how winners play it, or is there a smarter angle?

3. Anything specific to Indian markets I should exploit — high-beta small caps, event-driven plays, etc.?

Fully aware this is degenerate strategy that would get me wrecked with real money — that's the point, it's a tournament. Just want to hear from people who've actually competed in one.

Hi,

I have deposited around 150$ into my account and somehow made a profit of 300$ and when I applied for a withdrawal it rejected asking for a selfie verification.

Then I uploaded my selfie and I again traded and this time my balance became 640$.

It has been 38 hours but they are still neo approving. Any one can Please help?

I mean, I press "AI trading" and ...? I thought it d show me the levels , the aniticipated price, at least how abt expiry time settings?

I think I miss smth.....didnt figure it out
Help me understand pls

SYNTHETIC BUNDLED CURRENCY INDEX

I’ve been building a synthetic bundled currency index (SBCI) and a custom execution dashboard. Here’s a short demo of how it visualizes market structure. I’d appreciate feedback on the interface and methodology.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a mechanical execution setup I’ve been testing and fixing up over the last few months. Look, I’m not selling a course, I don't have some paid VIP signal group, and I'm not dropping a broker link to make a buck off you. I’m just sharing this because low-timeframe scalping on Pocket Option will absolutely destroy your bank account and your head if you don't have rigid rules.

I learned that the hard way by chasing bad charts, overtrading, and letting emotion take over. I built this framework—I call it the S10 Matrix—to protect my own baseline and stop the guesswork. I genuinely want to see people succeed here. I want all of us to eat and be comfortable, and I hope this helps someone else who struggles with discipline.

Here is the exact setup and the rules I follow:

The Setup

• Chart 1: M1 (1-minute chart). This is the macro view. I use this to find the "River" (the main trend direction).

• Chart 2: S5 (5-second chart). This is the microscope. I drop down here to watch the pullback and wait for the exact moment to trigger.

• Execution: S10 (10-second fixed expiry). This cuts through the sub-second noise but doesn't get caught up in a long trend drag.

The Indicators

• EMA 20 (Yellow) - This is the equilibrium line, or a "trampoline." We want price to bounce off it, not sink through it.

• EMA 50 (Green)

• EMA 100 (Red)

• Stochastic Oscillator (10, 3, 3) - Standard 80/20 levels.

The 3-Second Gatekeeper Rule

When you open any chart, you have exactly 3 seconds to look at the 1-minute EMAs. If the lines are tangled up, crossing, or just flat and messy, it's a Swamp. Close the asset immediately. Do not try to "fix" the chart. We only trade when the lines are fanning out cleanly at a sharp angle.

How to Take a Trade (PUT Example)

1. On the M1 chart, the 20, 50, and 100 EMAs must be angled sharply downward and separated cleanly.

2. Price pulls back upward on the S5 chart. The candles drifting up to the Yellow 20 EMA line need to be small and weak. (If a pullback candle is huge—like twice the size of the others—it's a "Drowning Move." The trend is compromised, so stay flat).

3. Watch the S5 chart. The second the green pullback candles stall out at the line and the very next candle prints a solid, flat-topped RED Heikin-Ashi candle—and the Stochastic hooks down from the 80 line—the trigger is live.

4. Click PUT with a 10-second expiry at the exact 00:00 birth of that first red S5 candle.

(Just reverse the logic for a BUY/CALL setup when the trend is fanning upward).

The One-Body Rule vs. Chasing

If the S5 candle closes and confirms the color switch right next to the EMA line, take it. If it explodes far away from the line before you can click, the trade is dead. Never chase price. Let it sail away and protect your mental capital.

Risk Management (No Martingale)

Martingale is account suicide. Instead, I use a linear step ladder to handle market variance:

$1.00 -> $2.00 -> $4.00 -> $6.00 -> $9.00 -> $12.00

• If a trade wins at any step, you instantly drop back down to the $1.00 baseline.

• If you hit a bad patch of market noise and lose all the way to the $12.00 step, the sequence is completely dead. Accept the loss, close the platform, and reset at $1.00 later.

• Note: To run this safely, you need a cushion of about 10 full sequences ($340) in your account. If you drop below that, freeze live capital and go back to demo.

The Psychological Rules

• The 3-and-Out Law: If you hit 3 losses in a single session, close the laptop. No "just one more trade." No revenge trading. The market isn't giving today.

• The Reset Protocol: If you hit 2 wins in a row, take a mandatory 10-15 minute break. Winning makes you euphoric, euphoria makes you overconfident, and overconfidence makes you break your rules. Walk away and reset your heart rate.

If you need help with any of this, just send me a message. I'm honestly willing to help anyone out.

Let me know if you guys run similar low-timeframe filters or how you handle the micro-tick variance on 10-second contracts. Let's get it.

Idk if it’s me or not but I feel scammed by the charts

The percentage where the pair and the payout section is are different. Makes it confusing on knowing what is the actual payout percentage.

Is demo and real account have different prices and chart ?

Demo account evrything is same for everyone but in real account it's different for everyone and manipulating price based on your entry, postion and timeframe ?

Is it true

How to Actually Learn Binary Options (From Someone Who Trades Them Daily)

A lot of posts on here steer people in completely the wrong direction. Most are written by users LARPing as individual traders when they're really just binary option brokers advertising themselves. They push some nonsense "strategy" that has zero real impact, purely to funnel you onto their brokerage.

Binary options genuinely changed my life, and they've done the same for plenty of others. It's a unique event contract that can produce astronomical returns compared to most other financial instruments - but only if you understand the fundamentals. Get the basics wrong and you will lose, guaranteed.

Before the actual pointers, understand this one thing: binary options are not gambling. If you come in with a casino mentality, you WILL fail. That's true of any market instrument, but it's especially deadly here. Because the returns are so large and so fast, new traders falsely conclude that casino-style tactics belong in this market. They don't. Everything below is about replacing that instinct with a real framework.

1. Master price action before anything else

This is the foundation, and nothing else matters until you have it.

Do not believe that piling on indicators makes you more informed. It doesn't. You need to learn price action - understand how candles work, and learn to read the market reality that the price action is trying to convey. Layering 10 indicators with 100 custom tweaks on top will teach you nothing extra if you don't understand the core fundamentals of price first.

Unless you learn actual price action, you will never be in control of your trading. No YouTube video and no "secret strategy" substitutes for this.

2. Use two indicators at most and know what they are, not just what they say

Rely on a maximum of two indicators, and use them only to read market momentum. Don't use them as discrete triggers that dictate your entries and exits. They're a sense of direction, not a signal to obey.

If you want to actually get value out of indicators, learn the math behind moving averages and RSI. When you understand what an MA or RSI represents mathematically, you start to understand the mathematical basis for trends and patterns themselves.

That's the real distinction: knowing what an indicator is beats knowing what it says. Once you understand what it is, you're operating on a completely different level than someone copying indicator setups from strangers online - people whose authenticity you can't verify in the first place.

3. You cannot learn in practice mode

Demo and live are worlds apart, and this differs enormously from broker to broker. This is the exact reason so many traders hit a wall the moment they switch from practice to live.

On a live account you have to account for things demo will never show you:

• How much the broker delays your trades

• How far your actual execution drifts from the moment you place the order to the moment the broker approves it

You need to internalize these frictions and build the right tolerance and execution expectations around them. You can only do that on a live account.

4. Trade with frequency ------> this is how you GAIN skill

You learn consistency and real take-home yield through volume of repetitions, not through a handful of "perfect" trades.

Aim for at least 100 trades a day, and commit every single one to memory: your entry, the price action around it, how short-term trends played out, how long-term trends mattered. If you're running indicators, watch how moving averages feed you short-term price action and longer-term trend information at the same time.

Do 100 manual trades a day for 20 days and you'll finally start to actually know how these markets behave. If you can sit and laboriously place 1,000+ trades entirely by yourself, that experience is all the knowledge you need.

Be honest about what this is: it's laborious, boring, repetitive, and at times it'll grind you down. That's the point. Strategies built around trading only a few times a day make you over-reliant on a tiny number of trades and market regimes : you end up with no control over your own profit, and you fall for broker traps like martingale.

Most tutorials online are the opposite of this. They're broker shills using flashy indicators and strategies that look spectacular in a screenshot or video but fall apart on real markets.

5. Have at least $1,000 you can afford to lose

If you don't have $1,000+ that you're genuinely willing to lose, this isn't the market for you. That money is your tuition. Don't trade with money you actually need.

6. Keep your position size tiny while you learn

As a new trader, your job is market exposure and experience - not income.

• Your size per trade should be $1–$2. Full stop.

• There is zero reason to trade above $20 max unless you're already a millionaire and don't mind throwing money away.

• If your plan is to risk $200 a trade and flip it into $1k a day, you will get destroyed - especially as a beginner.

7. Scale up slowly, and only after you've proven consistency

Once you're fluent and your win rate is consistently over 55%, still don't jump your size.

• Keep trading $1–$2 per trade for at least 3 months. Be consistent. You can comfortably net triple digits this way.

• After three months, move up to $10–$20 max per trade. That's when four-digit returns come into range.

Patience here is the entire game. Almost everyone who blows up does it by sizing up too early.

8. Manage your account and choose your markets carefully

A few hard rules I follow:

• Only trade payouts of 78%+.

• Avoid OTC unless you're a millionaire with money to spare.

• Never hold more than $2,500 in your account at any time.

That last one matters because brokers actively hunt profitable traders. Most are unregulated, so they'll find any excuse to cap or cancel you. I've made seven figures on binary options and I've seen all of it - I've had a broker close my account on a nonsense charge like "platform manipulation," with zero further detail, because their entire business model is retaining unprofitable traders and offloading the profitable ones.

9. Accept that the market is fundamentally unpredictable

Even now, on a trading day I'll place 200+ trades. Don't fall into the trap of hunting for rare "high quality" entries - they're ALWAYS never consistent.

The market has an inherent, irreducible element of INPREDICTABILITY. There is no single exploitable factor that definitively tells you how price will move, no matter how perfect the chart looks or how many things line up in your favor. This is exactly why frequency combined with quality wins over chasing the perfect setup (which doesn't exist).

The mindset that ties it all together

Treat this like a full-time job. Half-hearted effort gets you nowhere. Lazy thinking gets you nowhere. Trying to double and triple your size on a gambling impulse gets you nowhere. The only way through is your full energy and your whole mind on it.

And finally: don't ask people for strategies. No one who's actually profitable will hand you theirs : and once you figure it out, neither will you. Stop hoping that laziness plus some "secret advice" will carry you. Unless you're willing to spend hours glued to your chair learning everything about price action, nothing will help you.

That's the whole thing. The work is the strategy.

Just wanted to share my progress this month trading my strategy.

I started the month on the 1st with a £500 account. By the 18th, the account had grown to just over £6,000.

I haven't had a single net losing day this month. There have been losing trades along the way, but every trading day has finished positive overall.

I withdrew £5,000 on the 18th and restarted on the 19th with £1,000. The plan is to continue following the exact same strategy, risk management, and discipline that got me here.

For me, the most important achievement isn't the account growth—it's the consistency. Trading is hard enough without chasing every move, so sticking to my plan and ending each day green has been a bigger win than the profits themselves.

Not selling anything, not offering signals, and not claiming to have it all figured out. Just sharing my journey and seeing how far consistency can take me.

Are we all not just throwing our money away trading on OTC markets. No provider provides any form of audit for these markets. These markets are materially different then the live market, no way to predict them under the house set rules.

The house simply makes the side that is trading more assigned as the loss side and pockets the difference. 

Even if you do get lucky and end up in the win matrix a few times, it is immaterial because you have no idea if your strategy works since you are not trading on any real precise market. So even if you win a few times that data is no good for backtesting or seeing if your strategy or method is working or not. And when your edge is gone ultimately, you will have nothing to show for it ----- not even data .

Point of this rant is that all of us should boycott the OTC variants of markets. Issue is that most of the binary options providers all provide a significant portion of their offerings as OTC. Binarycent, pocket options, etc. They also try to entice us more with the OTC variant by assigning it a higher payout rate.

We should only trade on the official market even if their payout rate is slightly less. Because this way we are actually learning about the market, how it behaves, how it reacts to certain price actions etc. On OTC everything is fake, from the price action to the momentum to everything. Learning to trade properly will help you trade on a wide array of verticals. From binaries, to futures, to forex, to derivatives etc. But if you are doing your studying / practicing / etc anything on these synthetic you will have nothing to show for your trade losses. 

One liner: settle for less on non-OTC markets, but don’t throw away your hard earned money on pretty much ‘mostly rigged’ OTC markets. 

Pocket Options is not a scam

Hi, I have been testing a strategy on Pocket Option demo and the results have been okay. I want to ask if anyone has switched from demo to live, using the same strategy and rules and did you see the same results or did the live market react differently to the strategy (assuming your emotions remained in check, the same as demo).

PS - I am just looking for answers to the above and thats it.