u/throwawaybcrp

Hey guys, this is so hard to write but I have nowhere else to share it and this is to throwaway accounts because no one really knows I’m a trader and I have family and friends in my other account.
So basically I’ve been trading futures and Forex since 2018, and between 2023 and 2026 I made well over $2M from payouts and personal accounts the problem is I never found a way to withdraw the money to my bank account because trading is a gray thing in my country, and if you wanna pay taxes, there is no category for you to be in so what I did as I skipped all of that and was only doing Binance P2P through my bank account, and for larger amounts I sometimes did cryptoforcash transactions in person.
Over the years, I bought two houses completely in cash, worth around $500K combined, and built a life that I genuinely thought was secure.
I never paid taxes on any of it, and now the government has seized basically everything I own and I’m back at $0.
Also, this June I decided to take a break from trading and I withdraw everything I had in personal accounts to my bank account which was also seized.
I already talked to a lawyer who would be working on commissions since I don’t have money to pay him and he told me that the government will mainly freeze my assets for six months to a year until they investigate and I would mainly pay a percentage which can be from 30% to 40% of what I own plus a fine for committing tax fraud, and dealing with crypto, which is actually illegal in my country
What makes this so scary is that I’ve never had a normal job, trading has been my entire life, and as a girl, I honestly don’t know what to expect and what’s happening out there also I don’t have anyone financially supporting me or a safety net to fall back on.
I know I made mistakes, and I’m not looking for sympathy. I just genuinely don’t know what rebuilding from $0 looks like when you’ve never had to start over before.
I know I’m capable of making money again. I just dont know where or how to start again.
I also maxed out payouts with almost all futures prop firms so its hard going though the props again.
**Any advice would be so helpful.**
Thank you and sorry for the long read.

Hey guys, this is so hard to write but I have nowhere else to share it and this is to throwaway accounts because no one really knows I’m a trader and I have family and friends in my other account.
So basically I’ve been trading futures and Forex since 2018, and between 2023 and 2026 I made well over $2M from payouts and personal accounts the problem is I never found a way to withdraw the money to my bank account because trading is a gray thing in my country, and if you wanna pay taxes, there is no category for you to be in so what I did as I skipped all of that and was only doing Binance P2P through my bank account, and for larger amounts I sometimes did cryptoforcash transactions in person.
Over the years, I bought two houses completely in cash, worth around $500K combined, and built a life that I genuinely thought was secure.
I never paid taxes on any of it, and now the government has seized basically everything I own and I’m back at $0.
Also, this June I decided to take a break from trading and I withdraw everything I had in personal accounts to my bank account which was also seized.
I already talked to a lawyer who would be working on commissions since I don’t have money to pay him and he told me that the government will mainly freeze my assets for six months to a year until they investigate and I would mainly pay a percentage which can be from 30% to 40% of what I own plus a fine for committing tax fraud, and dealing with crypto, which is actually illegal in my country
What makes this so scary is that I’ve never had a normal job, trading has been my entire life, and as a girl, I honestly don’t know what to expect and what’s happening out there also I don’t have anyone financially supporting me or a safety net to fall back on.
I know I made mistakes, and I’m not looking for sympathy. I just genuinely don’t know what rebuilding from $0 looks like when you’ve never had to start over before.
I know I’m capable of making money again. I just dont know where or how to start again.
I also maxed out payouts with almost all futures prop firms so its hard going though the props again.
Any advice would be so helpful.
Thank you and sorry for the long read.