[Volatility 250 (1s) – Deriv Broker Warning for All Traders]
Dear fellow traders,
I’m sharing a real-time experience to help others avoid the same trap.
I entered a trade on Volatility 250 (1s) near 1106 points, and since then, the market has dropped to just 78 points — yet Deriv refuses to honor the TP or allow fair exit.
Deriv’s own WhatsApp support assured me the market won’t reach 0, and funds will be refunded if it ever does — but their own Terms & Conditions say the opposite: “If the market hits 0, all funds are lost.”
What kind of broker shows 60,000+ point market history, yet lets traders sell at just 78 points?
This is clear manipulation of synthetic indices.
I’ve already invested over $1,200, and received no fair resolution despite 30+ emails over 3 weeks to their CEO, compliance, and support. Most were marked “Resolved” without investigation.
Please be careful — Deriv’s synthetic markets like Volatility 250 are designed in a way that eats retail traders’ money slowly while showing fake assurance.
Protect your capital. Avoid synthetic traps.
Feel free to message me for screenshots or full proof.
Sorry to hear about your problems but manipulation is baked into synthetics.
All the price action you see in synthetics is created by a random number generator not transactions. There are no actual transactions between buyers and sellers, so any support/resistance, supply/demand, etc. are meaningless. Synthetics would have the same volatility even if you were the only person on earth trading at the time. They even tell you in the name that the market is not real (synthetic).
Being a fake market, Deriv will always be the counter party to your trade. How long do you expect them to let you take their money, when they literally control every aspect of the prices you see?
You’re better off trading a real market that actually has orders placed. Even regular CFD markets where you trade against the broker are better, since they are at least tracking prices close to a real market instead of randomly generated numbers and fake price action.
I trust Deriv about as much as I trust trading unregulated binary options.
Don’t feel embarrassed about getting caught out there by a sketchy broker. Hopefully this info keeps someone from making the same mistake and I hope Deriv sorts it out for you.
I’m sorry for your loss, but why on earth would you touch these things? There is no rhyme or reason for why they move, it’s random. TA and FA is irrelevant, it’s just a guess based on a randomisation algorithm.
Nothing about these instruments makes any sense why you would trade it. If fundamentals don’t move the market, there’s no analysis of market behaviour that makes sense and it is truly 100% gambling.
Are these well regulated? It screams scam to me. But I don’t really understand your problem here, you took out a long position and it went way down. You’d expect to be paid if you were the other side of that trade, and it could go down so why isn’t 78 short valid?
[Volatility 250 (1s) – Deriv Broker Warning for All Traders]
Dear fellow traders,
I’m sharing a real-time experience to help others avoid the same trap.
I entered a trade on Volatility 250 (1s) near 1106 points, and since then, the market has dropped to just 78 points — yet Deriv refuses to honor the TP or allow fair exit.
Deriv’s own WhatsApp support assured me the market won’t reach 0, and funds will be refunded if it ever does — but their own Terms & Conditions say the opposite: “If the market hits 0, all funds are lost.”
What kind of broker shows 60,000+ point market history, yet lets traders sell at just 78 points?
This is clear manipulation of synthetic indices.
I’ve already invested over $1,200, and received no fair resolution despite 30+ emails over 3 weeks to their CEO, compliance, and support. Most were marked “Resolved” without investigation.
Please be careful — Deriv’s synthetic markets like Volatility 250 are designed in a way that eats retail traders’ money slowly while showing fake assurance.
Protect your capital. Avoid synthetic traps.
Feel free to message me for screenshots or full proof.
