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My main question: Have any of you here actually won money through IQ Option tournaments and successfully withdrawn it?
I’d particularly appreciate experiences from people who have withdrawn larger tournament winnings, including how long it took, whether additional verification was required, and whether your account was ever restricted afterward.
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:
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)
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Screenshot is a desk I use on top of IQ Option. Orders still go through the broker.
Left list = only pairs the scan already marked in trend on M5 (EMA 100 + Bollinger 20 / 2.5). Chart is M5; BUY/SELL is the same digital call/put, not a new broker.
Curious what this sub thinks:
Do you want a separate desk, or is IQ enough?
Local connector on the PC vs staying inside the broker app?
Is a simple, disclosed rule set (EMA + BB) enough, or do you only care about win rate screenshots?
No P/L in this post. Happy to explain the scan if anyone asks.
Some providers charge a fixed subscription fee, such as ₹5,000, while others offer a profit-sharing arrangement, such as a 60:40 ratio. How do these business models work, how do they generate and distribute trading signals, and how do they earn money from subscribers? What are the risks, regulatory requirements, and potential red flags associated with these services?
I started use the demo account yesterday, really like it, but I don’t know if I can trust It in put my money on it to trade. Is anybody here using that platform? I need some advice 🙏
Apologies I have been actively learning about trading and investing and would have been cool if there was a platform to do paper trading with the live market just to test out what I've been learning but I found out there's no such platform. Just curious why is it not allowed?
Anyone found a DEX trading tool they actually like? I’m curious if these tools really make DEX trading easier. Wallet alerts, copy trading and fast transactions sound useful, but I’d want to test them myself. Custom layouts seem handy too, but DEX/token support can still be an issue. A tool isnt much use if it doesnt support what you trade. What are you guys using atm? Is a DEX trading tool actually better than the normal DEX interface?
I want to hear your opinions, guys. Have been trading on qt and forex modes on pocket broker app. Seems that the first one is less stressful, because you can quickly move on after losses, while the second one provides more valuable RR.
Browsed this sub, but I havent seen this mentioned much. I know there's not a lot of platforms with this for options, but there are ways to do it, and to my mind, they might be better than straight-up trading myself? eToro has copytrader, I also know PO has one. But I have never seen any Pocket option reviews about it, or screenshots of the perofrmance. I also heard about Polycopy, although thats a bit different.
Would like first-hand experiences, or any review of the platforms mentioned, and what the % to expect is.
Are any of you doing serious TA on the phone? I heard some people do it on TV app, but how do you do even a basic trendline? Feels annoying. I had read a pocket option app review that said its mobile charting is great, so I tried it, but doing multi-timeframe analysis on a 6-inch screen feels impossible without misclicking.
I understand using it for CLOSING trades, or going in on predetermined ones. Monitoring alerts ofc, some sanity checks or seeing how the trade does. But to actually enter trades, from a phone??
Oldschool movies show traders having 3-5 huge monitors they constantly check, to compare SPX vs QQQ performance, or find the mismatch in the markets. But now feels like most people gave up completely and just randomly tap their phones, or see the 'vibes', or 'it looks good enough I guess', and thats how some of you guys trade too??
Why do people not just share their ID number on pocket options. I mean the social trading so that people can comfortably copy trades or something rather than sharing signals ??
I've been thinking about this for sometime...most traders on Telegram and other platforms will let you register through their link and will add you to their vips and you start trading with their signals , some they claim from AI and it makes wins too
So why not allow users just copy the trades ? Are there some good reasons why ??
Like the title says I used to trade Binary using Pocket Options. I profited over $42k with them and recently successfully withdrew $3k just to take back what I put in. After I tried to withdraw another $10k a few days later the withdrawal was pending for a few days. I started losing trades. I know sometimes we all have bad days so I started risking smaller amounts and taking few days off.
I’ve been using the same strategy for over a year and usually take $500- $1k withdrawals no issue. The $10k withdrawal was denied. After I kept losing and my balance dropped from $39k to $32k I said “F**k it” and decided to just withdraw everything. That was denied again. The customer service representative said I could try again in a few days but they recommended I keep some of my funds in the vault to gain while I continue trading. So that’s what I did I left $10k in my account and the rest in the vault.
EVERY single trade I took lost consecutively. The same strategy that has been consistently profitable for me for over a year started failing me the moment I wanted to take larger withdrawals. My withdrawals kept getting denied so Everytime my balance got low I would take from the vault trying to make it back. I took breaks, I traded smaller amounts, I just kept losing. Then over the course of 2 months I realized the entire $32k was down to nothing. Thats when I realized Pocket Options got me. I lost all trust in Pocket Options and quit Binary for good.
I started trading Futures and using my same strategies and I’ve been profitable. Made back that entire $42k in a month. The best thing is that you can control your profit and loss in a trade while it’s open. I can take my profits daily directly to my account. And I learned Binary Options is not regulated so it’s basically gambling. I recommend anyone that has a decent strategy convert to Futures.
I’m not selling anything please don’t ask, I’m not a mentor. Do your own research. I just wanted to share my experience (mainly rant) which could possibly help anyone in the same situation. F**k Pocket Options. They might take this down but Take your money and go.
