As someone who has spent years in the markets, reading about the Tadrus Capital case is a reminder of a lesson I wish more people, myself included earlier in my career, had learned sooner. Any time someone promises guaranteed monthly returns, especially wrapped in buzzwords like “algorithmic t

As someone who has been trading long enough to see scams repeat themselves in different disguises, this GO Markets impersonation case follows a painfully obvious pattern. Legitimate brokers do not onboard clients through Telegram, do not coordinate deposits in chat groups, and certainly do not ask f

As someone who’s been in the trading world long enough to watch marketing evolve from cold calls to Instagram stories, I honestly wish rules like Spain’s CNMV guidance had been made clear years ago. For a long time, social media blurred the line between education, opinion, and outright s

As someone who has spent decades in the markets, the FTC’s estimate that older Americans may have lost up to $81.5 billion to scams in 2024 is both shocking and painfully unsurprising. This isn’t about bad trades or market volatility, it’s about criminals weaponizing trust and tech

As someone who has been in the trading world long enough to see countless cycles of hype and collapse, the CBEX case in Nigeria follows a painfully familiar script. An unregistered platform, big talk about AI-driven profits, and a bold promise of 100% returns in 30–45 days is not a trading str

Crypto Doesn’t Create Scams, It Just Makes Bad Actors Faster and Harder to Catch As someone who has been in the markets long enough to see scams evolve from cold calls to crypto wallets, this India case is a textbook example of how old fraud wears new tech. Stock tips, FX schemes, fake

As someone who has been in the markets long enough to live through every type of “too good to be true” scheme, the CBEX collapse in Nigeria is sadly predictable. Any platform promising 100% returns in 30–45 days is not trading, it is bait. What stands out here is how aggressively C

As someone who has been trading long enough to see every kind of market “innovation”, let me be blunt: these slick app-based investment scams popping up in Singapore are nothing new, just more polished. Fraudsters have figured out that traders tend to trust anything that looks official,

From my experience in the markets, knowing how many actual trading days exist in a year isn’t just trivia, it directly affects how I pace my strategies and manage risk. On paper, a year sounds like 365 days, but in reality, most equity markets give us around 252 trading days once you remove we