The Dow Jones includes thirty heavily industrial corporations, predominantly from the United States. Political events play a major effect on this index and binary options traders of the Dow Jones keep a keen eye on Washington.

Charles Dow, co-founder of the Dow Jones, and Wall Street Journal Editor, established the Dow Jones in 1896. It is generally considered a good yardstick of how the US economy is doing and is an extremely popular trading indices for binary options traders.

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The DAX 30 is a market index of the top 30 companies in Germany. Germany has for many years been the powerhouse of the Eurozone. Its economy is growing and flourished even when others around it have failed. This index calculates the performance of the 30 companies as measured by market capitalization and order book volume.

The Index provides options traders with the opportunity to trade a diversified set of stocks, representing a number of sectors. It is also a way to trade German productivity to a great extent. The companies listed on the D ... Read more »

Binary options are traded on a number of different asset classes. Perhaps one of the most difficult to understand for a beginner is a futures contract (FC). FCs are available on exchanges all over the globe. They assist us as traders in comprehending how experts believe an asset is going to fluctuate. They do actually operate as an asset for the purposes of trading. With the DAX Futures Contracts traders can view anticipated levels of the value of the DAX 30 in the future.

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Market Indices are a great asset class for binary options. These provide traders with the opportunity to access multiple stocks, from multiple sectors, in one single trade.

This CAC 40 index is a French index representing the top 40 companies in France. It was started in 1987 and is one of the main contributing indices to the Euronext.

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Binary options can be bought on a number of assets, including stocks, currencies, commodities and Indices. Indices provide well-diversified assets that tend to be some of the best reflections of overall economic performance in a geographical sphere. Experts in certain regions may use indices as a major part of their trading portfolio. Other traders may dip in and out of different indices, such as the NASDAQ 100, Nifty, TOPIX, Nikkei, Hang Seng and FTSE when they feel that events are making price movements predictable.

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The US is one of the drivers of the world economy, and since the end of the 20th Century Japan have taken on great significance on the world stage. With two companies of such important economic significance there is naturally a lot of interest from forex binary options traders.

Japan has gained massive credibility as a manufacturing and export company through brands such as Toyota automobiles and Toshiba electronics. Add to this companies like Cannon and you have an impressive suite of companies based in Japan. Japan has suffered from deflat ... Read more »

Currency trading is as old as money itself. Since 2008 binary options have been a new way to trade currencies and make huge profits. Binary options enable traders to profit form direction movements in currency pairings by placing put, call, boundary and touch/no touch trades. One currency pairing that gains a great deal of attention is the USD/JPY pair.

The Japanese economy is the third largest in the world. The United States is the largest economy in the world. One country is American the other Asian. However, there is a lot of interdepende ... Read more »

Binary options are available for a number of currency pairings. Different platforms offer different currencies. Some of the most popularly featured binary option currencies are USD, GBP, JPY, NZD, EUR, CHF, AUD and CAD. Choosing a currency pairing will depend on the types of research that you want to do and the duration of the trades that you select.

The Swiss Franc (CHF) is the fifth most traded currency on the globe. Switzerland’s economy has remained stable for a long time. The banking system is a preferred place for many to place e ... Read more »

Forex trading in binary options has been popular since the Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned the first binary options, in 2008. Many traders still actually believe that Binary Options are all about currency. In reality digital options are available on stocks, commodities, indices and currencies. One popular Forex that is available on the broker platforms is the USD/CAD binary.

America and Canada are two important powers in the world economy. As next-door neighbors one would expect them to be influenced by similar world factors. H ... Read more »

Currency trading is a popular binary options asset choice. New Zealand has a number of economic influences. Chief contributors to GDP include tourism, agriculture and film production. Although New Zealand did not escape the effects of the World Economic Recession, it, being down in Australasia, has been able to bounce back faster than most other countries of the world. Indeed, the close ties between Australia and New Zealand have meant New Zealand businesses are growing in the impact they have on the world stage.

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Currency trading is very popular on binary options platforms. It provides the opportunity to assess and judge the relative strengths of two currencies and make profits from correct analysis. The GBP JPY currency pair is an interesting one. It is highly volatile and brings together two of the most influential nations on the world stage. Trading this pairing is generally considered to be best for the more experienced traders due to the interesting relationship the YEN has with its economy.

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Trading GBP-USD

Trading currency has been a popular choice for binary options beginners and experts alike. Many traders have transferred from the realm of Forex Trading to binary options, attracted by the high rewards and controllable risk. The  ... Read more »

Trading EUR-USD

Trading EUR USD currency pair can be highly profitable. Entering the markets through Forex has been a ... Read more »

Trading EUR-JPY

Binary options provide the ability to trade a number of currency pairings. Traders can choose from USD/GBP, GBP/JPY, AUD/GBP, USD/NZD, EUR/GBP etc. An interesting but somewhat complex combination can be found in  ... Read more »

Trading EUR-GBP

It used to be the case that retail currency traders were limited to trading Forex Exchanges. Forex is still the most popular platform for currency pairings but retail traders are increasingly moving to binary options as their preferred medium to drive high profits. The  ... Read more »

Trading AUD-USD

The Australian Dollar and the US Dollar are two of the most traded currencies in the World. Traders looking to trade the  ... Read more »

How to trade Oil

When it comes to choosing an asset to trade binary (digital) options traders often look to Commodities, and in particular Oil, Gold and Silver. Most broker platforms offer these three commodities at the minimum.  ... Read more »

How to trade Silver

Gold and Silver have traditionally been safe assets that are turned to when the equity markets are not performing. Investors have seen the prices remain hold value and grow over a number of years, and have become more and more interested in including precious metals as part of t ... Read more »

How to trade Gold

Gold has been a favored investment and wealth protection asset for many years. The price has remained stable for many years such that an ounce of gold could buy a tailored suit in London a hundred years ago and can still do so today. Most  ... Read more »

Binary options are becoming more and more popular everyday because of their simplicity, and their ability to allow traders to earn high fixed rates of return with investments that have very short term periods.

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Expiration times are set after a trade is made specific to that binary option.  When a trader predicts whether the price of an asset is either going to go up or go down, that prediction has to happen at the time of expiration in order to be paid for that contract. There are three types of binary options:

One touch

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Trading Breakouts using Pivot Points

Binary options are a simple and exciting method of trading in today’s market. The only thing a trader has to do is predict whether the value of an asset is going to go up or down over a short time period. When a trader’s prediction is correct, huge profits follow, but if a trader’s prediction is incorrect, everything invested in that trade is lost. Binary options are very a lucrative trading option for experienced traders, but are considered very risky for beginner traders. E ... Read more »

Over time many tools have been developed to assist in trading binary options. These tools perform different tasks that provide useful and accurate information for successful trading. Here are two tools that we feel are extremely useful for binary options.

1) Cross market asset

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There are many variables that determine successful trades. The one at the top of the list is timing. Many factors can create volatility in daily market prices. Because binary options are based on the market price, volatility can have a negative effect even on a well researched and planned trade. On the other hand, if a trade is well timed, volatility can be in your favor, and bring you substantial returns. Assets react to the market differently. Studying an assets price fluctuation will help you know at what rate its prices change. Using this information w ... Read more »

There is no doubt that binary options are quickly gaining popularity because of their extremely lucrative profit potential. Because of their popularity, they attract many dishonest brokers that are simply trying to take advantage of new traders that might be less knowledgeable about the industry and less resourceful when it comes to finding a good broker.

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The pin bar method is a very popular binary options trading strategy among traders. One of the main reasons behind the popularity of this binary options trading strategy is the simplicity, which is very easy to understand even by the most novice traders.

What is a Pin Bar?

A pin bar is a price action (PA) bar that at first, goes in one direction, then suddenly go into the opposite direction, creating a long tail looking candlestick or bar pattern in the process. Regardless of the pin shape of the bar, the name “pin bar” actually derived from t ... Read more »