Why can I not trade?

There are many reasons why you are unable to trade your items. Please make sure to check all possibilities to resolve the issue.

Steam profile and inventory

To trade you have to set your Steam profile and Steam inventory from "Private" to "Public". You can do this in the Steam profile's settings. Please follow this guide to do this.

Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator

You need to have an active Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator on your Steam account for at least 7 days. Enable the Mobile Authenticator with this instruction.

Trade hold after activating Mobile Authenticator

Trades created within the first 7 days of adding the authenticator will still have up to a 15 day trade hold. You just have to wait to be able to trade again. Removing Steam Guard or disabling and re-enabling Steam Guard will also trigger this restriction.

Current trade or community ban

You also may be unable to trade or use the market if your account has been banned from trading by Steam Support. Depending on the severity of the violation, you may receive a temporary or permanent trade ban. You can contact Steam Support for more information.

VAC Ban

If a VAC Ban, cooldown or overwatch ban has been registered on your account, you will no longer have access to the CS:GO store, or be able to make trades for CS:GO items, and you will no longer receive item drops. Steam Support cannot remove a VAC ban.

Other Steam restrictions

There are other Steam restrictions which can prevent you from trading, we listed the most popular problems here:

• recent nickname changing - 2-4 hours trade hold
• recent password reset - 5 days trade hold
• recently cancelled an accepted trade - 7 days trade hold
• newly authorized device - 7 days trade hold
• newly added payment method - 3 days trade hold

Steam servers' issues

The problem with trading can occur if the Steam servers' are down. To identify if it's the issue, please read this instruction