As part of the changes in our product line-up, we are closing Options Accounts belonging to our clients in Europe.
You are no longer able to trade options on any of our platforms. Also, you can’t make deposits into your Options Account.
Withdraw all your fundsYou will lose access to your Options Account when it gets closed, so be sure to withdraw all your funds. (If you have a CFDs Account, you can also transfer the funds from your Options Account to your CFDs Account.)
A binary option is a type of option with a fixed payout in which you predict the outcome from two possible results. If your prediction is correct, you receive the agreed payout. If not, you lose your initial stake, and nothing more. It's called 'binary' because there can be only two outcomes – win or lose.
Aside from the simplicity of its 'yes or no' proposition, binary options trading is also very flexible. It gives you the ability to trade:
Trade on underlying markets that include forex, stock indices, commodities, and more.
Predict market movement using up/down, touch/no touch, and in/out trade types.
Take a short-term or long-term view with trade durations from 10 seconds to 365 days.
Earn payouts up to 50,000 USD. Losses are limited to your initial stake and nothing more.
Enjoy an award-winning online trading platform with trading conditions that are ideal for new and experienced traders.
Award-winning online trading platformBinary options trading is relatively easy. You can purchase a contract in just three steps:
Choose the market, trade type, duration, barrier, and payout.
Receive instant prices based on your position.
Buy the contract or re-define your position.
The first step is to set the parameters of your trade. There are five trade parameters you need to adjust in order to receive a price for the contract:
Choose from four available markets:
Choose from three main trade types:
Aside from the three main trade types above, you also get Asians and Digits trade types exclusively with our Synthetic Indices.
Set the length of your trade from 10 seconds to 365 days, whether you have a short-term or long-term view of the markets.
Set barrier(s) to define your position and trigger the payout you'll receive.
Choose the payout you wish to receive from correctly predicting this contract.
The price of the contract is automatically calculated by our patented pricing technology based on the parameters you've defined in Step 1. Our prices are benchmarked against the interbank options market, so you always get the most competitive prices. This means that you'll always receive fair and transparent pricing, whatever your position.
When you are satisfied with the price that you receive, execute your trade immediately. With our unique platform, there's no risk of 'slippage' or gaping markets. And most importantly, there are no hidden fees. You can also sell back any long-term trades at any time to profit from favourable market conditions.
Binary.com offers the following trade types that will help you execute your market view or strategy:
There are two types of Up/Down trades:
Predict that the market will touch or not touch a target any time during the contract period.
There are two types of In/Out trades:
Predict that the market will end higher or lower than the average price.
Predict the last decimal digit of the spot price with Digits. There are three types of Digits trades:
There are two types of reset trades:
At reset time, if the spot is in the opposite direction of your prediction, the barrier is reset to that spot.
Purchase High Tick/Low Tick contracts to predict the highest or lowest tick among the next five ticks.
Available trade types:
Please note that Asians, Digits, Reset Call/Reset Put, High Ticks/Low Ticks, and Only Ups/Only Downs are available exclusively with our Synthetic Indices.
Binary options allow you to trade on a wide range of underlying markets. One of the advantages of trading binary options is that you are not buying or selling an actual asset, only a contract that determines how that asset performs over a period of time. This limits your risk and makes it easy for anyone to start trading.
Major pairs, minor pairs, and Smart FX indices.
Major worldwide stock indices sourced from the OTC market.
All four precious metals, plus energy.
Synthetic indices that mimic market volatility.
Trade popular major and minor currency pairs, plus Smart FX indices – weighted indices that measure the value of a currency against a basket of major currencies.
There are four types of Smart FX indices that you can trade:
Enjoy exciting opportunities to trade stock indices with the benefit of real-time charts and pricing.
Our stock indices are sourced from the over-the-counter (OTC) market – sources outside of the centralised exchanges. Please note that due to their OTC nature, the prices of our stock indices may differ from their counterparts on centralised exchanges.
We offer all four precious metals – gold, silver, palladium, and platinum – as well as energy in our list of commodities.
Binary.com's Synthetic Indices are synthetic indices that mimic real-world market volatility and are available for trading 24/7. They are based on a cryptographically secure random number generator audited for fairness by an independent third party.
Synthetic Indices give you exclusive access to various trade types, such as Up/Down, Touch/No Touch, In/Out, Asians, Digits, Lookbacks, Reset Call/Reset Put, Call Spread/Put Spread, Only Ups/Only Downs, and more.
Synthetic Indices are further categorised into two classes:
The barrier of a binary option trade is the price target you set for the underlying. You can choose trades that stay below or go above a price target, or stay between two targets.
A binary option is a contract purchased by a trader, which pays a pre-determined amount if their prediction is correct.
Commodities are resources that are grown or extracted from the ground, such as silver, gold and oil. On Binary.com, they are priced in US dollars.
The contract period is the timeframe of a trade. It is also called the duration.
A derivative is a financial instrument whose value is determined by reference to an underlying market. Derivatives are commonly traded in the inter-bank market, and binaries are one of the simplest forms of derivatives.
The duration is the length of a purchased trade (see 'contract period').
An Ends Between trade pays out if the market exit price is strictly higher than the low price target AND strictly lower than the high price target. An Ends Outside binary pays out if the market exit price is EITHER strictly higher than the high price target OR strictly lower than the low price target.
The entry spot price is the starting price of the trade purchased by a trader.
The expiry price is the price of the underlying when the contract expires.
In foreign exchange markets, traders can enter contracts based on the change in price of one currency as it relates to another currency. For example if a trader selects Rise in the EUR/USD market, they are predicting that the value of the Euro will rise in relation to the value of the US dollar.
GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, the official time used in the UK during winter. In summer, the UK changes to British Summer Time, which is GMT + 1 hour. All times on the Binary.com site use GMT all year round.
These are trades where the trader predicts if a market will finish higher or lower than a specified price target.
Stock market indices measure the value of a selection of companies in the stock market.
These are trades where the trader selects a low and high barrier, and predicts if the market will stay within these barriers or go outside them (see also 'Stays Between/Goes Outside trades').
The market exit price is the price in effect at the end of the contract period.
These are trades where the trader selects a price target, and predicts that the market will never touch the target before the expiry of the trade.
These are trades where the trader selects a price target, and predicts that the market will touch the target before the expiry of the trade.
The payout is the amount paid to an options trader if their prediction is correct.
Pip stands for 'percentage in point' which is generally the fourth decimal place (i.e. 0.0001).
The profit is the difference between the purchase price (the stake) and the payout on a winning trade.
The synthetic indices simulate various real market situations and provide an ideal platform for getting used to trading and testing strategies under various market conditions. These indices depend on volatility and drift, and help users to try out scenarios like - high volatility, low volatility, bullish and bearish trends.
The resale price indicates a contract's current market price. Resale prices are on a best-efforts basis and may not be available at all times after purchase. See 'Sell option' for more details on selling contracts before expiry.
The return is the money realized when the contract expires (see 'Payout').
These are trades where the trader predicts if a market will rise or fall at the end of a selected time period.
It is sometimes possible to sell an option before the expiry of a trade, but only if a fair price can be determined. If this option is available, you will see a 'Sell' button inside the popup window, after clicking on the 'View' button next to your trade in the portfolio.
This is the current price at which an underlying can be bought or sold at a particular time.
The stake is the amount that a trader must pay to enter into a trade.
A Stays Between trade pays out if the market stays between (does not touch) BOTH the high barrier or the low barrier at any time during the period chosen by a trader. A Goes Outside trade pays out if the market touches EITHER the high barrier or the low barrier at any time during the period chosen by a trader.
A tick is the minimum upward or downward movement in the price of a market.
Each binary option is a prediction on the future movement of an underlying market.
In the EU, financial products are offered by Deriv Investments (Europe) Limited, W Business Centre, Level 3, Triq Dun Karm, Birkirkara, BKR 9033, Malta, regulated as a Category 3 Investment Services provider by the Malta Financial Services Authority (licence no. IS/70156).
Outside the EU, financial products are offered by Deriv (SVG) LLC, Hinds Building, Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Deriv (V) Ltd, Govant Building, Port Vila, PO Box 1276, Vanuatu, regulated by the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission (view licence); Deriv (BVI) Ltd, Kingston Chambers, P.O. Box 173, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, regulated by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (licence no. SIBA/L/18/1114); and Deriv (FX) Ltd, Lot No. F16, First Floor, Paragon Labuan, Jalan Tun Mustapha, 87000 Labuan, Malaysia, regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority to carry on a money-broking business (licence no. MB/18/0024).
Deriv Limited — 13 Castle Street, St. Helier, JE2 3BT, Jersey — is the holding company for the above subsidiaries.
This website's services are not made available in certain countries such as the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, or to persons under age 18.
Deriv Investments (Europe) Limited, W Business Centre, Level 3, Triq Dun Karm, Birkirkara BKR 9033, Malta, is licensed in Malta and regulated by the Malta Financial Services Authority under the Investments Services Act to provide investment services in the European Union (licence no. IS/70156). It is also authorised and subject to limited regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK. Details about the extent of our authorisation and regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority are available from us on request.
In the rest of the EU, Synthetic indices are offered by Deriv (Europe) Limited, W Business Centre, Level 3, Triq Dun Karm, Birkirkara BKR 9033, Malta; licensed and regulated by (1) the Malta Gaming Authority (licence no. MGA/B2C/102/2000) and (2) the Revenue Commissioners for clients in Ireland (licence no. 1010285). View complete Regulatory Information.
Deriv Limited — 13 Castle Street, St. Helier, JE2 3BT, Jersey — is the holding company for the above subsidiaries.
Binary.com is an award-winning online trading provider that helps its clients to trade on financial markets through binary options and CFDs. Trading binary options and CFDs on Synthetic Indices is classified as a gambling activity. Remember that gambling can be addictive – please play responsibly. Learn more about Responsible Trading. Some products are not available in all countries. This website's services are not made available in certain countries such as the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, or to persons under age 18.
Trading options may not be suitable for everyone, so please ensure that you fully understand the risks involved.
CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 66% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with Deriv Investments (Europe) Limited. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.
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As part of the changes in our product line-up, we will be closing Gaming Accounts belonging to our UK clients.
You can no longer trade digital options on any of our platforms. You also can’t deposit funds into your Gaming Account.
Any open positions on digital options have been closed with full payout.
What you need to do nowPlease proceed to withdraw all your funds from your Gaming Account before 30 November 2021.
As part of the changes in our product line-up, we will be closing Options Accounts belonging to our Isle of Man clients.
You can no longer trade digital options on any of our platforms. You also can’t deposit funds into your Options Account.
Any open positions on digital options have been closed with full payout.
What you need to do nowPlease proceed to withdraw all your funds from your Options Account before 30 November 2021.
