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A yes-or-no contract on the future price of an asset. The payout and the loss are fixed before you enter, which makes the risk easy to read - and easy to underestimate.

At an 80% payout, a winning trade returns 0.80 of the stake and a losing one costs 1.00. You therefore need a win rate above 55.6% to break even before costs.

A demo account uses virtual funds. It validates the interface and the execution speed, but it never reproduces the emotional pressure of real money.

Binary options are banned for retail clients across the EU/EEA, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, Israel, Turkey and Singapore. Offshore platforms often accept those clients anyway, which is precisely why they appear on regulator warning lists.

Minimum withdrawal, processing delay, the method used (usually the same one as the deposit), identity verification requirements and any bonus turnover condition that locks the balance.