Who faces whom
The other side is other participants. The stake enters the pool on Higher or Lower and stays there until expiry.
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P2P binary options
The contract is short. You pick the expiry and the direction. The pool settles it on an external quote. The house is not in the trade.
What you see before the click
The pair, the expiry and the payout percent are already on screen. The credit is calculated in advance and does not change while the contract runs.
Where the price is
The chart on the home page and the terminal chart read one feed. Entry is compared with the quote at expiry.
What the contract is
A P2P binary option here is not a day forecast and not a leveraged position. You pick the asset, the term and the side against the price of your own entry. The other side is found among the other people in the pool.
Three things are already on screen before the click: the pair, the expiry and the payout percent. The credit is calculated from the stake and that percent. While the contract is open, the percent is not rewritten.
How a stake runs
Funds leave only after your Higher or Lower. If someone else entered first and marked a side on the chart, that is their contract. It does not touch your account until you place a stake yourself.
From the moment of entry the amount is frozen. The floor of the term is 30 seconds, the ceiling is one hour. That amount cannot be withdrawn before expiry. The free balance that did not enter the trade stays on the account.
How the term closes
At expiry the pool reads the external feed and server time. The browser clock does not settle the trade. A quote above entry on Higher, or below it on Lower, returns the stake and the percent that was already known.
A quote against the direction leaves the amount in the pool. A quote equal to entry is a tie: the stake returns in full and the percent is not paid. Demo and the real account count this apart. The return lands where the stake left.