In answer to the question why I started withdrawing my funds without placing even a single trade with 10Brokers:
For these simple reasons: when Victoria phoned to say she would give me trading signals to help me grow my capital I replied that due to my job I was always home at different times of the day. She replied, this would be no problem, I would simply have to contact her when I was available. She said she was going to send me an e-mail with all her contact details etc. That was 17th July - this e-mail I've never received to this very day !
Anyway I made my deposit and waited for her contact details - in vain. After a day I wrote to Paola Miller, the receptionist, requesting Victoria's (I still don't even know her surname) contact details . Two days later, on 19th July, I got this e-mail from 10Brokers:
Dear Martin,
This is a presentation email . I’m Simon Klain , your senior account manager here at 10brokers.
I wanted to inform you that I will be the one that will follow you up during your trading experience with us since Victoria left yesterday to Cyprus for a seminar . I will provide you all the tools that you need to be successful in this business . Can you please set up an appointment so we can get to know each other .
Kind regards,
Simon Klain
I later learned that Victoria was in Malaysia (not Cypress) and that she had been fired. This was too much: too many lies, contradictions, too many arrangements being thrown overboard, too many things that just didn't tally (like everyone from 10Brokers all using the same e-mail address ! Especially not being able to contact anyone, neither by telephone, nor Skype, nor e-mail (except for the receptionist). That's when I decided to take my money and quit, without placing a single trade. . When people aren't open and honest with you, you don't feel inclined to entrust your hard-earned money with them.