how much did you lose?
Luckily not a large amount because i live on a low budget. It was not a huge amount. Just the savings that i had managed to put away in my bank after bills and spending from the last ten years or so. It was only $2600. I traded for 7 weeks and have made a huge amount of trades but not so many big winners. I made some stupid mistakes like the 3 times i fell asleep while trading 1/3 of the account with high leverage.
There was the time i thought i was trading a few good gapers but i ended up getting sucked into the âcorrectionâ on 3 trades. That was almost $2000 lost by the time i ditched my apple stocks which i probably should have kept but i didnât know they would pop back so quickly or that the adjustment would at least loose pace (for now at least). Looks like a sideways trend starting in the stock market (ie. the S&P etc).
I even got into a bit of a depression and virtually started throwing money away at one point.
They say you should detach your self from money and any emotions attached to it but that was just crazy. You also should get sleep and perspective.
My two main problems has been not being able to ditch loosing trades fast enough. But i have done some very long HODLs which have come back around so sometimes it is worth opening up those stops to their widest limit but itâs not worth the risk for the times you just canât reach that far because after that you are wiped out (if you donât have the margin).
I know i can do ok because i have pages and pages where 90% of my history is in the green but not many big winners so i canât look at it as 90% profit by any means. Now i have lost most of it it feels difficult to do anything with the little that is left. Also itâs all in right now and stuck in a bit of a HODL 
Hopefully some of those will come good.
Anyway i didnât really feel like talking much about the problems i had with the site, i need a break from this as itâs starting to piss me off.
When you canât close trades and you just get the error message and you see the losses growing or when there is decent profit to close on but you just canât close it is more than frustrating.
When the charts are bugging it is very annoying and all of the TA you have done becomes useless. You might as well shut the computer or go to another site to read the charts but i donât have one setup where i can draw the TA on the charts.
Then when customer service dodge all of your questions or they close your ticket and you have not got an answer.
And when i scalp a load of trades pre market when i see price action pumping all night, all these i closed in green but one, yet they show as losses in my history. think it was around 8 shorts, average around $6 profit in the green but they are all showing as losses. Not a lot of money but it adds up, or takes away, more to the point.
Just the fact that when the site bugs is usually a time when volume, and price are really moving just doesnât seem right to me.
Seems like they donât want you to succeed.
I have a tonne of screen shots of other members complaining about the same things.
The copy trader thing was funny. I quickly rounded up a bunch of very successful looking high risk traders, many of them have impressive looking portfolios but i noticed they were all selling some cryptos during the time all cryptos were dumping. Wouldnât a smart investor sell here? I copied all of this selection of âpeopleâ into my virtual account to do a little experiment. I allocated all of them $1000 of virtual money and all but one guy have been in the red ever since. Even i could do heaps better then any of those âfake traders accountsâ They are obviously designed to make you lose money.
Another reason i am suspicious that eToro donât actually place your trade in the market but they know exactly how to best invest your money for a profit, they are pros after all (well some of them are, obviously).
Perhaps silver and gold members get treated differently?
The list goâs on but once again i am getting tired.
I remember one of the first tickets i opened was because the guide had opened me a trade with real money. I think this was the first time i became angry at eToro.
They say to use the virtual account when using the guide which is fine, so why not only have it in the virtual account? The problem was that the guide was bugging and i could not complete the steps. I tried a few times and eventually switched back to âreal viewâ Somehow i ended up making a real trade that i was not interested in. I would have not thought it possible that the guide would open an âopen tradeâ window that could actually place a real order
The time that i was trying to transfer another $250 from my credit card was a good one.
It told me the transaction could not be completed so i tried several times, over and over. Well guess what. I ended up emptying my bank account into my trading account. I think i had transferred the same amount 3 or 4 times instead of one. I opened a ticket for that but i think i decided in the end that it was ok, i would just trade larger sizes. HmmmmmmmâŚ
At the time, I wrote to them about it in a ticket immediately after the seemingly failed transactions as the money had gone from my bank.
Later i saw all of the money had actually appeared so i went all in and opened trades with everything.
Then a crazy thing happened. An EXTRA amount appeared in my available balance. I got cheeky and decided to open a trade with it. Then i noticed that my available balance suddenly changed into a negative value for that amount. I actually saw this happen in front of my eyes while i was looking at my PF.
Worried that i would get in trouble for placing a trade with money that was not mine and not knowing if there might be a consequence to having a negative balance i immediately closed a trade out to get rid of this negative value. I donât like being in debt!
I didnât do anything about this although i obviously lost out on the spread there. However i thought that customer service must have read my email/ticket and decided to manually adjust my account without talking to me beforehand.
Did i mention the time i left my phone number with CS and i started to get drop calls from Tunisia?
Freaky!
Anyway, enough of the stories. Iâm just a bit gutted iâm out of available balance and caught up in a load of HODL. I was hoping to make some cash back on the stock bounce.
I think the biggest stress for me trading right now is the psychological component. I need to remain calm and keep my emotions in a relaxed yet aware state. I need to trust myself and the patterns more often and i need to cut losses fast.
Unfortunately my experiences over the last two months have left me far from the above.
My life is suffering in many areas right now, including health and family situation.
Not to mention this has turned into a bit of an addiction. Itâs time to get out of this depression, get healthy and fit and spend more time doing family stuff. I was just hoping to win back some losses.
Typical. During the time it took me to write this message i closed a Dash short at a small loss to start to short ETC (i missed a small profit but i think there is more profit to come by the morning).
Now DASH has dropped a level so i would have made a small profit if i had not closed it.
I told myself i would not trade in Cryptos any more but decided that due to their 24hr timeframe that i might try to short them a bit. Perhaps getting a bit risky but i suppose they still have to go a bit lower over the next few weeks.
The problem is that i could not get to that money today as i was waiting for a few positions to hit the green. I was up for a while but expected more profit. Hopefully itâs coming now!
Right that was a long one in the end. Hopefully i will find a few good trades in the week. I have done ok with some stocks, commodities, FX, a bit of everything i guess.
Happy trading.
you know. everyone on this internet site will tell you the exact opposite of what i will tell you now.
you should give up the idea of trading for now. not because i think you are not capable of it or anything but by reading your text it is clearly visible that you are placing a lot of dreams/desires/wishes into the field of trading. you said stressed familiy situation, lack of money etc. trading will not solve this for you, not in the short run and not in the long run.
right now you are sitting home when you can find the time and read books and stuff that is supposed to make you a sucessfull trader. you are putting a lot of time into this, valuable time (and money as well) which cna be put into something else, something which might help you to get out of your situation quicker and in a more reliable way.
you can not start a new adventure/travel before you cleaned out your fridge of frozen stuff that should not unfreze. your life situation might not be the best to start something this new and something this far away from your original occupancy.
in trading/investing you cant generate any sicnificant gain/profits without already having a nice sumof money to back you up, and you can not focus your mind if you dont come from a clean background (without issues in family or money issue).
you know, sometimes the smartest way to not lose a game is by simply not playing the game. (im not implying or saying you are a loser in the trading field or anything, its just a saying)
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MrDE This is great advice. I am defiantly taking a break. Although i am not sure if i will quit trading altogether after putting this much work in.
Things had gone quite well at times but i made some huge mistakes, got messed around with and i feel i was a bit unlucky/greedy with the stock correction. I was expecting it to happen and i had not even had the chance to pick up many returns from stocks before i found myself trapped and pouring more money down the drain whilst trying to extend stops. I should have ditched the trades and written off the losses early.
Some time off to reflect and to educate myself some more should help me come back into the game with a much stronger position. Once i can decide on a broker that i can trust and that wonât mess me around i will feel much better about my situation. I will paper trade for a period, i feel i can improve a great deal on where i had gotten to already.
Every day i pick up new tips and learn something new.
Sorry if this means i will be bringing more competition into the market
It will defiantly become more and more difficult to take advantage of me as i become stronger than others less experienced than me. I guess itâs not easy to beat the pros and the bots but i hope to win back what i lost and then some.
But for now iâm having a rest.
Thanks for the great advice. I really appreciate it.
How long have you been trading and how did you find the whole journey?
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since 8 years. Let me put it this way, it is not possible to beat the pros. thats an idea you can immediately throw out of your head.
I have a MBA in economics and im reading daily new stuff since 9 years. you never stop learning. the market makers try to sell you the idea that you can get a year or two of some light basic introduction into the field and you can already quit your job and live happy ever after without worries in your life. its fallacy.
especially if you do not come from a economic background it can take you easily 10 years of extremely hard focused learning to get a grasp on how to and how to really earn money in this field, if you ever manage to. but nobody will ever tell you that, becasue if they told you this they could not make money on your savings. simple truth, im sorry mate.
take a few days off, do not watch any charts and news. and you will see how fast your thinking changes and your mind becomes easier, then in this brake (complete shut out of any charts, no demo trading, no news, no nothing, no babypips either) you will see your own mistkaes and your mind will process the quick action you went through. if you dont take a full break of few days your mind cant ease and a uneased mind doesnt perfom the way it shouldâŚ
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Well MrDE iâm glad your still going after 8 years. You must be doing something right. Ironically enough i have worked several times for JP Morgan but as a DJ for a Swiss staff party and as crew setting up for a couple of their christmas parties.
I am usually unaware of who the clients are at the time of the booking when going through a middle man which i had done for those bookings. So at least i got some money back out of them 
Iâm currently in Liverpool UK to help a friend build a set for some other corporate gig. Not huge $$ but it helps.
I have been watching some of Rossâs videos (Warrior Trading) he has had some amazing turn arounds. He seems so genuine.
Iâm happy for him if it is truly genuine. Seems that most well known traders spend more time selling stuff, such as lessons, books, videos than they do trading. Ross appears to do both but who knows. Perhaps he is just promoting the broker and the software but he does seem very genuine. Iâm not expecting to get anywhere near the successes that such traders appear to be having but it would be nice to at least average a break even for a while. Hopefully more.
Itâs been amazing what i have learned and crazy to look back on the mistakes i have made.
After this break we will see. I could do with some decent tools and a squawk box. Itâs quite fun trying to work out what the news means and if it is old news or still relevant. I have always been a bit anti news, but at least this makes the news a bit more interesting, in a way.
Do you have any good stories or discussions posted here? It might be nice to read some posts if you have any interesting links. Not to take up all of your time or anything.
Right this post is getting a bit sidetracked. Sorry guys.
Ps. I have been using investng.com for news and reports but sometimes i just wonder who they are linked in with.
How long had you been trading with them before you realised that it was a fraud, putting it mildly? anyway, even this broker must have a regulator you can apply to with such a question, mustnât he?
Hi Mike.
Well it is difficult to know at what point you come to realise this. I would say at the point that you feel you are getting ripped off or ignored.
Customer service like to close tickets if they think they gave you one decent answer for just about anything they feel like telling you about.
Whenever i ask or even accuse them of not having a suitable stable platform and or not trying to inform people that it might not be in their interest to be using the platform as itâs instability and unreliability will cause some people to loose more money than they should by statistic. They usually avoid answering this but once i was told that if i disable 3rd party add blockers that this might help.
I only use safariâs âblock pop up windowsâ. Perhaps this has something to do with it? Why should it take me 2 months with several painful experiences to even learn this? And now, do i disable this feature which may effect my experience in other web browsing scenarios?
Anyway i am not entirely convinced that this one feature has caused all of the listed problems.
Here is the thing. I would like to take them to the regulator, or apply for compensation, iâm not sure how it works exactly but i believe you must pursue unresolved tickets with customer care for at least 8 weeks.
But etoro are asking me to provide the position IDâs for any trades effected. Well it is difficult for me to prove where i would have been closing out my losses or taking my profits if i had been able to.
Even then it is difficult to find which positions those were exactly. There is a great deal of history to go through.
One case in particular would be difficult to provide evidence for.
When I had a crypto asset trade open and just before it soared my crypto asset changed into a different crypto asset class. I believe i ended up with extra LTC trades, itâs like it just changed from one to another class. So i canât find the position IDâs for the original, and i might have to guess which of the LTC trades it was, and the time of opening the trade might not have been around the same time the bugging starts. (itâs so frustrating when you are clearly still logged in and everything works as it is supposed to but you are unable to close/open or edit trades. You can see your loss or profit moving but you canât do anything about it. Then log in problems sometimes start.
Recently i found firefox to prove more reliable, but to be honest i have barely used the platform recently, i have a bit of money still in there but iâm hoping to win a few more trades at some point. Iâm having a break from trading right now. Eventually i will find a different broker and i am considering joining a small trading office.
But yes if i can find some relevant position IDâs and if i can tell them i donât want $25 for compensation then i can eventually take it to the next stage. From what i have seen they force $25 compensation onto you and close the case. So i need to say that i am not interested in such a small compensation. I believe that after 8 weeks of unresolved tickets with customer care you may then take it to the regulator.
Something like that.
Thank you for sharing!! this post will help a many people from being scam.I personally think etoro is not a reliable flatform and even some of the trader is fake their post those people who comment saying they make $60k its fake they made it up to attract new user to deposit more money.
take this people down they are scammer!
Sorry for bumping, but how did this end?
If they are indeed criminal like you say I assume you had lawsuit and won it?
Can you update us on it please? Seems like easy lawsuit to win if what you are saying is true.
me too. I can not trade , withdraw or do anything with my account because they donât verify for me . And when I report this issue to them , they just ignore it . Donât get the same mistake like me 
. I lost all my money because this platform . If you know how to use them please contact me .
I have been waiting them more than 10 days since I completed my profile, and they totally ignore me . Do you want to invest your money to the broker like that ? I paid my mistake , but you can avoid it .
So you traded there for how long? Without being verified AND you were able to lose ALL your money? That sounds quite weird. Can you give more info like when you started trading there?
Very possible, they also use their own platforms that they can manage as they want⌠
any updates on this?