{"id":984,"date":"2017-01-20T18:31:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/?p=984"},"modified":"2017-01-20T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T22:23:07","slug":"binary-trading-epic-takedown-i-call-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/01\/20\/binary-trading-epic-takedown-i-call-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Binary trading scam: My epic takedown of binary trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I hate binary trading &#8211; I even go as far as to call binary trading a scam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now you may be thinking &#8216;binary trading scam?&#8217; isn&#8217;t that going a bit far?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well the dictionary definition of scam is;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;A dishonest scheme&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And, I certainly feel that Binary trading is presented in a very dishonest way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just look at these messages that \u00a0pop up in my Twitter and Facebook inbox<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-986\" src=\"http:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-20-at-14.59.18-300x99.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-20-at-14.59.18-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-20-at-14.59.18-50x16.png 50w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-20-at-14.59.18.png 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-985 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-20-at-14.56.33-e1484928438596.png\" width=\"206\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-20-at-14.56.33-e1484928438596.png 206w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-20-at-14.56.33-e1484928438596-42x50.png 42w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dishonest!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In this article I&#8217;m going to explain to you what binary trading is, why it&#8217;s a fool&#8217;s game and how dividend investing (the investing I advocate) is different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Binary trading does one of two things;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Give genuine stock market investors a bad name and make people think that<br \/>\n&#8216;<em>Investing is just like gambling&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">OR<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lose people a ton of money through fake &#8216;fool proof methods&#8217; and &#8216;millionaire strategies&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So, what is Binary Trading?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Binary trading is (in my opinion) a form of gambling where you bet whether a stock\/commodity\/currency will go up or down in the next &#8216;x&#8217; number of seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instead of making a really long winded takedown based on theory alone I decided to show you a binary trading platform and how it all works in this video;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/od-AVagOUuk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The maths of Binary Trading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So you heard me say in the video &#8216;you&#8217;d be better off playing roulette&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A bold claim surely, it can&#8217;t be true?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here&#8217;s the maths!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-993 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1.png 800w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/1-1-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-994 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-2-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-2-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-2.png 800w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2-2-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-995\" src=\"http:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3-2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3-2-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3-2-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3-2.png 800w, https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/3-2-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Maths never lies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Sure, you may get lucky and hit a winning streak but the longer you play the more the maths will catch up to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What about these &#8216;proven strategies&#8217; I kept getting told about?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Simply &#8211; they&#8217;re a lie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Think about it &#8211; if someone had found a way to beat the stock market by trading binary options<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Why would they tell you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Wouldn&#8217;t they be busy making money off their method instead of spending money marketing it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Simply &#8211; these strategies are a ploy to get you betting on their platform so they can make money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0How do binary platforms make money?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Binary platforms make money from the margin of your bet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Think about it &#8211; If you win, you gain 92% of your stake &#8211; the platform takes the other 8%<\/p>\n<p>If you lose, the platform doesn&#8217;t share your loss &#8211; You take 100% of the loss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE PLATFORM NEVER LOSES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chance and number of clients alone will always secure a certain number of winning bets for the platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They simply take 8% or usually more of your winnings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This doesn&#8217;t sound like a fair deal to me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How is investing any different? Isn&#8217;t that all chance and luck too?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A few weeks ago I was sat in the university library studying for some exams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I hear some chatter from the corner and after hearing the word &#8216;stock market&#8217; I can&#8217;t help but eavesdrop<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The conversation went a little bit like this;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8216;Yeah mate, to be honest, the stock market it just all luck&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;<em>I rather put down accas (accumulator\u00a0bets)&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;<em>Seriously mate, you should tell X to stop investing, I always see sh*t online about people losing thousands, even their houses&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And here we have the fudging of the lines between trading (especially binary) and investing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The truth is, binary trading is all luck &#8211; real investing isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The reasons that people often confuse trading and investing is that binary trading companies purposefully smudge the lines between them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Binary trading companies are very clever, they want to appear as reputable companies that help make wealthy, intelligent people money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We all strive to be these &#8216;people&#8217;, working from home, trading whilst making a cuppa before picking up \u00a0children from football practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After all, that&#8217;s what the ads show! Reality check: They are all actors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In reality, the only people on these platforms are;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1.People who want to &#8216;show off&#8217; and market themselves as high flying traders<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">2.Vulnerable individuals who have been tricked into signing up<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">3. Your average &#8216;bookies&#8217; punter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I can guarantee you that almost no &#8216;real investors&#8217; with any financial background are on these platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These investors are all in the world of\u00a0<strong>real investing<\/strong> &#8211; the buying and accumulation of assets<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You can check out my article that sets apart the gambling world of binary options and the world of intelligent investing here &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/10\/04\/investing-is-just-like-gambling-it-really-isnt\/\">the difference of &#8216;trading&#8217; and &#8216;investing&#8217; here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you&#8217;re a beginner and want to learn more about making intelligent investing decisions along with regular newsletters;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subscribe here;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0[contact-form-7 id=&#8221;372&#8243; title=&#8221;Contact form 1&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate binary trading &#8211; I even go as far as to call binary trading a scam Now you may be thinking &#8216;binary trading scam?&#8217; isn&#8217;t that going a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalstudent.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}