# Binary Options

Skill · Finance and Accounting

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Binary Options are a type of financial derivative in which traders bet on whether the price of an underlying asset will be above or below a certain level at a set expiration time, with a fixed payout if correct and total loss of the stake if wrong. They are traded on specialized platforms and are considered high-risk, short-term speculative instruments, often criticized for their resemblance to gambling and association with fraudulent brokers in some jurisdictions. Financial traders and risk professionals should understand their regulatory status varies significantly by country.

Related skills: [Risk Management](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/risk-management), [Technical Analysis](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/technical-analysis), [Options Trading](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/options-trading), [Forex Trading](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/forex-trading), [Derivatives Trading](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/derivatives-trading)

## Open roles requiring Binary Options (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.