A binary option quote from an external feed

Settlement looks at the same price as the candle. There is no internal trade price.

Entry

Higher or Lower is compared with the price at your stake. An earlier entry by someone else does not replace yours.

Expiry

The close is server time. The term runs from 30 seconds to one hour.

A tie

If the feed at expiry equals your entry, the stake returns. The percent is not paid.

Where the price comes from

The contract has no separate broker price. Entry and expiry both look at the external feed. The candle on the home page is the same source the terminal uses.

Changing the pair changes the chart, not the rules.

The two prices that count

The first is the entry price, in the second of Higher or Lower. The second is the feed price at server expiry. Everything between them does not vote: not a local high, and not a price that almost came back.

If those two prices are equal, it is a tie. The stake returns and the percent is not credited. Equality is checked on the feed quote, not on a screen rounding in your favour.

The time the price is tied to

Expiry lives on the server. From 30 seconds to one hour, that span cannot be cut short even if the candle has already moved far your way.

The laptop clock, a background tab and a delayed picture on the chart do not move settlement. What counts is the server mark and the feed quote at that mark.