Unlike many traditional options, binary options are purely financial in nature in that there's no change of ownership of shares of stock or other underlying investments. The risk involved for the ...

Binary options offer a yes-or-no wager on a specific outcome of an event, typically over a short period such as a day. Binary options present a lot of risk in a fast-paced market that could quickly ...

Binary options are nowadays widely recognized as one of the most accessible ways of getting introduced to financial markets. The pace of penetration in the retail segment has been truly overwhelming ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

The State Corporation Commission cautions Virginians to be wary of online binary options schemes which, at best, are a big gamble and, at worst, can be outright scams. Much like bets, binary options ...

Recently, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) updated and expanded its 2015 advisory warning investors about online binary option schemes. NASAA offers the following ...

One simple twist makes these options very different from traditional options. Options allow investors to take positions based on their views of the direction a certain investment will move in the near ...