On unregulated exchanges you can only get your money back while the piramid still goes on. Like you could get $75 back on an "exchange" that has a liquidity of $750,000. So to answer your question: does the broker you traded with have a liquidity of $7,500,000,000 (7.5B)?
I've no idea about binary options nor do I care about them but if you say Nadex is regulated, that seems fine so you're probably right.
Richard Stanley, What a terrible day that must have been. I am so sorry. I guess they do not have a telephone # or any name of the owner/CEO....etc. Are they still in business?...do they have a presence on the internet? Do they have a physical address? Who is next door to them? Can you fly to their location in person? When you try and withdraw what happens? When you try to email them or snail mail them what happens? Are there any adverse reviews on the internet that you can point me to? ES
My logic, perhaps flawed: 1) You're an idiot if you start with an account in the 100s of thousands of dollars at such broker. 2) You're not an idiot so you start small. Then unless you've one stroke of idiot's luck, it takes significant time to grow less than $100k to nearly 10x that. Enough time to WITHDRAW the original investment, if you don't do that you're so dumb you deserve being scammed. 3) You withdrew the original $100k so at this point you're risk free. Perhaps withdrew another 1 or 2 hundred thousands so you've actually made a good profit. Now you up your risk and go in the millions... and run into the withdrawal problem. Boo hoo... if you were smart, this is just life and you already expected it. Move on, nothing to do now.
People can get conned, even bright people can have too much confidence.. These Israeli scammers are experts at it. Do the basic research on how binary options was tackled in Israel (eventually). Of course they guys just moved out to other jurisdictions. https://www.timesofisrael.com/13-sickening-truths-about-israels-huge-binary-options-fraud/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/binary-options/ The few decent people & level headed victims who campaigned against it will have better info on what works. Class actions, FBI etc. Seek them out.
"Can US Traders Invest In International Binary Options Brokers? No, it is illegal for any traders from the US to deposit money into an international binary options broker, even if they are located in the EU or other jurisdictions." if your story is true you may have committed an illegal act.
I like the Doctor MD who borrowed money from mates who trusted him and gave a Nigerian scammer over 1Mil ££'s to secure a bogus in heritance, he couldn't accept he was wrong and kept going and going, FOOL!!
5 pages of talking to a brick wall. Troll Stanley is not interested, a two post marathon runner. But he'll be back with a new alias and a new boo hoo storey to pull at our heart strings somewhere down the track.