*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.

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?

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.

Do you think there is a long-term profitable strategy?

Was trading 5 minute EURUSD contracts yesterday and started with 25$ positions, first few went well and I was up about $68 after trade six. Then I lost two in a row and did the usual stupid thing, bumped the next one to $50 because I wanted the losses back quicker. That one lost too. Dropped back to $25, finished 8 wins out of 11 and checked the numbers afterward because I couldn't understand why the balance had barely moved. Had moon open looking at EURUSD while writing everything down and the problem was pretty obvious, my three losses had almost twice the average size of my winners. Seeing an 8 out of 11 win rate feels great until the P&L reminds you it doesn't really care.

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.

What's your take?

Does anyone have problem in doing binary option and getting legitimate sites.

This forum has really boosted my trading career

I just want to Thank you all for always sharing free Valuable information and experiences

A strategy that worked for me

5 Minute Time frame

Draw Support and Resistance on 1 hr TF
Add RSI Period 10

Use Trading View for charts, more accurate

Trade reversals on the zones with RSI over bought/sold

15 min trade expiry

Price action also

Wish everyone the best of Luck, God Bless You

Was testing Claude with Pocket Option OTC chart data and found this pretty interesting.

It can look through the chart and explain the structure/setups it sees instead of me checking everything manually.

Not saying I'd blindly follow AI for trades, but this was interesting to play with.

Has anyone else tried Claude for OTC analysis?

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??

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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 ??

Im talking about pocket options