GooeyTrade (gooeytrade.com) Scam Warning: AFM Flags Trading Platform

GooeyTrade presents a more complicated risk picture than the typical investment website that disappears almost as quickly as it appears. Its trading technology has a visible footprint across mobile applications and third-party trading businesses, and traders can encounter the GooeyTrade name through established platform technologies such as DXtrade, cTrader and MatchTrader.

That visible infrastructure can create an important assumption: if the software exists, appears in an app store and is being used by multiple trading businesses, the financial operation behind it must have regulatory approval.

That assumption is unsafe.

On August 27, 2026, the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) warned consumers not to accept offers from GooeyTrade. The regulator identifies the exact websites gooeytrade.com and trade.gooeytrade.com and says it suspects the operation of being a boiler room—a form of online investment fraud.

The regulatory alert has also been reported through IOSCO’s International Securities & Commodities Alerts Network (I-SCAN), giving the Dutch warning international visibility.

AssetVault Recovery considers the GooeyTrade operation identified by the AFM at gooeytrade.com and trade.gooeytrade.com a scam investment operation. The existence of functioning trading software does not override an official warning against the domains through which that operation is conducted.

If you deposited or traded through GooeyTrade and cannot withdraw your money, preserve the complete payment trail, trading records and communications and submit them for review and recovery options.

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What Exactly Did the AFM Warn About?

The Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) published its warning on August 27, 2026 and identifies:

• Name: GooeyTrade
• Main website: gooeytrade.com
• Trading portal: trade.gooeytrade.com
• Email: support@gooeytrade.com

The regulator advises consumers not to accept offers from GooeyTrade and states that it suspects the company of being a boiler room.

A boiler room is not simply a badly performing investment. The term is used for fraudulent investment operations in which consumers are approached or persuaded to place money into supposed investments, frequently through aggressive sales techniques, misleading claims or an appearance of professional financial infrastructure.

For GooeyTrade, the exact-domain identification is particularly significant. This is not a warning involving an unrelated business with a similar name. Both the primary website and its DXtrade trading portal appear directly in the AFM warning.

The warning has also been circulated through IOSCO I-SCAN. IOSCO explains that I-SCAN distributes alerts supplied by member regulators. The underlying regulatory finding in this case remains the warning issued by the AFM.

GooeyTrade Is Not Just a Simple Trading Website

One reason this investigation deserves closer attention is GooeyTrade’s technology footprint.

A GooeyTrade-branded DXtrade application is available through Apple’s App Store. The application is described as a mobile trading platform offering charting, order execution and market-monitoring functionality.

The provider listed for the application is GT Tech, LLC, with a Boca Raton, Florida address. The listing also provides the same support@gooeytrade.com email address identified by the AFM.

This matters because victims often use visible technical infrastructure as evidence that a financial business must be legitimate.

But an application being available through an app marketplace does not mean a securities regulator has authorised the underlying investment service. App-store distribution and financial-services regulation answer completely different questions.

The same distinction applies to professional-looking trading terminals. Software can display prices, charts, positions and account balances without proving that the entity taking an investor’s money is authorised to provide the financial service being offered.

DXtrade, cTrader and MatchTrader Connections Need to Be Understood Correctly

GooeyTrade infrastructure appears in connection with several recognisable trading technologies.

Third-party trading businesses publicly instruct customers to access platforms through GooeyTrade URLs, including:

• DXtrade: trade.gooeytrade.com
• cTrader: app.gooeytrade.com
• MatchTrader: mtr.gooeytrade.com

These references establish that GooeyTrade has been used as trading infrastructure. They do not establish that DXtrade, cTrader, MatchTrader or every business using that infrastructure participated in the conduct that caused the regulatory warning.

That separation is important.

AssetVault does not treat the presence of third-party technology as evidence against the technology provider, nor do we assume every prop firm or trading business that has used a GooeyTrade interface is part of the same operation.

The confirmed regulatory fact is narrower and stronger: the AFM specifically warns against GooeyTrade and identifies gooeytrade.com and trade.gooeytrade.com.

Who Is GT Tech, LLC?

The GooeyTrade DXtrade application introduces another name investors may encounter: GT Tech, LLC.

Apple’s application information identifies GT Tech, LLC as the provider and gives a Florida business address, telephone number and support@gooeytrade.com contact address.

This establishes a public association between GT Tech, LLC and GooeyTrade’s application infrastructure.

What it does not establish is financial regulatory authorisation.

An incorporated technology company, software provider or app publisher is not automatically an authorised broker, investment firm or custodian. Investors need to distinguish the legal entity supplying technology from the entity contracting with them, receiving their deposits and providing the regulated financial service.

That question becomes even more important after a regulator has issued a boiler-room warning against the exact trading domain.

A Real Trading Interface Does Not Prove Your Funds Are Safe

Investment scams have evolved far beyond crude websites containing obvious spelling errors and unrealistic photographs.

A sophisticated operation may provide a trader with an actual mobile application, live market prices, professional charts, order tickets and an apparently functional account dashboard.

None of those features independently answers the most important question:

Where did the investor’s money actually go?

If €20,000 was transferred to a bank account, the beneficiary record matters more than the sophistication of the trading interface. If cryptocurrency was deposited, the receiving wallet and subsequent blockchain movement matter more than the account balance shown on screen.

This principle also appears throughout AssetVault’s AW Limited investigation, where a displayed trading balance must be separated from independently verifiable assets and actual payment records.

Was GooeyTrade Authorised to Offer the Investment?

Investors should not confuse the existence of GT Tech, LLC, downloadable applications or third-party platform integrations with permission to provide regulated investment services in their country.

AssetVault searched for additional exact-domain regulatory warnings during this investigation. We did not establish a separate FCA, FINMA, BaFin, CNMV or FSMA warning specifically naming gooeytrade.com that could responsibly be attributed to the operation at the time of publication.

That does not weaken the Dutch warning or amount to approval from those regulators.

The AFM’s finding is explicit: consumers should not accept offers from GooeyTrade, and the regulator suspects the company of operating as a boiler room.

Anyone approached by a person claiming that GooeyTrade is licensed should request the regulator’s name, the exact legal entity, licence number and official register entry. That information should then be checked directly on the regulator’s website rather than through a link supplied by an account manager.

Third-Party Firms Using GooeyTrade Require Separate Investigation

The presence of GooeyTrade infrastructure across other trading businesses creates an additional issue for victims.

A person may not remember deliberately choosing “GooeyTrade.” Instead, they may have registered with another broker, proprietary trading firm or investment business and subsequently received GooeyTrade credentials to access a trading terminal.

If that happened, preserve both identities.

The company that solicited the investment may be different from the technology or trading portal used to display the account. Recovery analysis therefore needs to identify:

• the company that contacted the investor;
• the legal entity named in the account agreement;
• the company shown on invoices or deposit instructions;
• the bank account or cryptocurrency wallet receiving funds;
• the GooeyTrade login domain used;
• the person acting as account manager; and
• the entity named when withdrawal was requested.

These details can reveal whether GooeyTrade was the direct counterparty, technology infrastructure or one component in a larger network.

Withdrawal Problems Change the Investigation

For an investor who has already deposited money, the practical issue is no longer whether the website looked convincing when the account was opened. It is whether the funds can actually be returned.

If a withdrawal has been rejected or delayed, preserve screenshots showing the request and its status.

Be particularly cautious if the withdrawal suddenly produces a demand for an additional payment described as:

• tax;
• AML verification;
• insurance;
• liquidity;
• account activation;
• withdrawal commission;
• security deposit; or
• regulatory clearance.

A demand should not be considered legitimate merely because it appears inside a professional trading interface.

If a representative claims a regulator requires the payment, ask for the exact rule and verify it independently with that regulator before transferring anything further.

What Evidence Should GooeyTrade Victims Preserve?

A useful recovery file should reconstruct the complete movement of money rather than simply documenting the account’s displayed balance.

For bank transfers, preserve the beneficiary name, receiving bank, account number or IBAN, SWIFT/BIC, transfer reference, amount and date.

For cryptocurrency, preserve:

• the cryptocurrency transferred;
• blockchain network;
• receiving wallet address;
• transaction hash or TXID;
• sending exchange or wallet;
• amount and timestamp; and
• screenshots of the deposit instructions.

Also retain emails from support@gooeytrade.com, account-manager correspondence, telephone numbers, WhatsApp or Telegram conversations, trading statements, account agreements and every withdrawal request.

AssetVault used the same transaction-first approach in its Vaulterro investigation: a dashboard can be controlled by the platform, whereas blockchain transactions and banking records provide independent evidence of where money travelled.

Why the AFM Warning Matters Despite GooeyTrade’s Public Footprint

GooeyTrade demonstrates why investors should not use online visibility as a substitute for regulatory verification.

There is a real GooeyTrade-branded application. GT Tech, LLC is publicly identified as its provider. Third-party businesses have documented GooeyTrade integrations, and recognisable trading technologies can be accessed through GooeyTrade subdomains.

Those facts make the operation look more established than many websites appearing in boiler-room investigations.

They do not cancel the regulatory warning.

The Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has identified the exact GooeyTrade domains and told consumers not to accept offers from the company because it suspects a boiler room.

That is the fact investors should place at the centre of their risk assessment.

AssetVault’s Assessment of GooeyTrade

AssetVault’s conclusion is based primarily on the exact-domain regulatory warning, not simply on online complaints or the appearance of the website.

The AFM names GooeyTrade, gooeytrade.com, trade.gooeytrade.com and support@gooeytrade.com and suspects the operation of being a boiler room.

The warning has also been reported through IOSCO I-SCAN.

GooeyTrade’s app-store presence and trading-platform infrastructure should not be misinterpreted as regulatory approval. Nor should the involvement of third-party trading technologies automatically be treated as evidence that those technology providers participated in the conduct behind the warning.

AssetVault Recovery considers the GooeyTrade investment operation identified at gooeytrade.com and trade.gooeytrade.com a scam. Investors should stop sending additional money where withdrawals are blocked or further payments are demanded and should instead preserve the underlying transaction evidence.

Lost Money Through GooeyTrade? Trace the Actual Payment Route

If you deposited money through GooeyTrade or accessed an investment through trade.gooeytrade.com, establishing who actually received your funds is the first recovery question.

The trading interface may be only one part of the transaction chain. Bank beneficiary records, cryptocurrency wallet addresses, TXIDs, deposit instructions and communications can help identify the entities and services through which the money moved.

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Disclaimer

This investigation is provided for scam-awareness, investor-education and informational purposes. The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) identifies GooeyTrade, gooeytrade.com and trade.gooeytrade.com and states that GooeyTrade is suspected of being a boiler room. Reporting through IOSCO I-SCAN represents international circulation of regulatory warning information and is not described as a separate IOSCO enforcement action. References to GT Tech, LLC, mobile applications and third-party trading technologies are included to explain GooeyTrade’s publicly visible infrastructure and do not constitute allegations against unrelated technology providers or every third-party business using GooeyTrade systems. AssetVault Recovery’s scam assessment concerns the GooeyTrade operation identified in the regulator warning. AssetVault Recovery is not a financial regulator, law-enforcement authority or court. Case assessment does not guarantee recovery of lost funds.