Category: Binary Options

A CySEC license is the most popular license among binary options brokers. Let’s see what it is and if traders can trust brokers with this license. Binary options trading is much younger than Forex trading. Forex brokers have their regulators, conditions, and rules. Also, it is normal that traders checking a broker want to review their licenses, legal information, etc. Most binary options brokers are licensed by CySEC. Let’s take a detailed look at the CySEC license for brokers and traders. CySEC (Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission) is an organization…

Binary Options have been hit hard by the regulators globally recently, even CySEC considering to ban Binary Options. However it still remains a hot topic in many under-regulated countries. Surely, lack of knowledge and experience is the main issue when it comes to Binary Options and overall this misconception have direct impact for the rest of true retail financial markets. “Is Binary Options Gambling or trading?” – article aims to help traders and those who want to make side income online by defining if Binary Options is gambling or trading.…

Here’s a binary options dictionary for the benefit of newbies. This binary options dictionary will be constantly expanding and new definitions will be added to it. Binary Options Dictionary Asset: Otherwise known as the underlying asset; an ownership agreement on a digital option which gives binary option investors the right to buy or sell based on a predetermined agreement. ATM:  At The Money; a tie. Bearish market:  One of the three possible market conditions where the overall market conditions are decreasing in value and heading in a downward direction. Indicates…

Binary options are a fantastically simple investment tool, but numerous issues have held them back since their inception. Are there signs however, that some of those barriers are soon to be removed? I want to explain what is holding binaries back right now – and what might develop during 2016 to help move these simple tools, from relative financial obscurity, into the mainstream. First, the issues. Binary options have a poor reputation. The key point here however, is that the product itself – the ‘binary option‘ instrument – is not the…

Ladder options provide you a wide range of levels, basically there are five different levels of price ranges that are determined by pivot points, usually every pivot point is set by a support or resistance level so once it reaches the price level you trade, you will receive the payout. For example, looking at the image below, it enables you to trade by different price levels, for each level there is a different profit rate, where the most likely to happen gets less profit rate and vice versa, there are…

An option, as a financial instrument, has been used to carry out transactions since the mid-twentieth century, but only in the recent years has the development of internet technologies made it possible to significantly democratize the options market: individuals have become able to trade option contracts using the so-called digital or binary options (in the US they are also called FRO, Fixed Return Options, which means ‘fixed-income options’). A binary option is a specific case of the standard option contract which is structured so that the potential profits and potential…

1) What Are Binary Options? Binary options are estimates of underlying assets performance during a given time frame. To understand the beauty of binary options trading, let’s first take a look at how investment in other trading markets usually works. In most forms of investment the investors actually purchases the asset they invest in and the value of the profit and loss is determined upon the changing value of the asset. If the investor sells the asset back to the market whenever its value increases then they’re making a profit, and if…