SpotOption’s New Digital Contracts, Warnings And More Spotoption just announced the release of their latest innovation, Digital Contracts. The Digital Contracts are another step toward providing the most transparent and regulator friendly binary options trading outside the US. This latest effort combines most of the aspects required by the CFTC and those changes proposed by […]
VIX Index Sending Signal Not Seen In 10 Years The month of May has been notable for many reasons. Trump scandals grew in proportion, OPEC extended its production caps, global equity markets hit all-time highs and volatility retreat to a low not seen since before the Global Financial Crisis. In most cases a low reading […]
Political Unease Leaves Markets Vulnerable Mounting unease has the market reeling. Scandal on Pennsylvania Avenue is taking on a life of its own and may embroil President Trump in an ongoing saga of accusations, investigations and possibly criminal proceedings. The story took a noted turn for the worse in early May with the firing of […]
Unregulated Brokers Slipping Through The Cracks In a report first broken by FinanceMagnates in an exclusive story unregulated brokers are switching tactics. At least, they are moving to new locales and targeting new markets with the same old tricks. The problem they faced, a crack down on non-regulated brokerages and on their marketing tactics, forced […]
Fighting A Flood Canadian regulators have long fought a rising flood of binary options fraud. Warning after warning from once province after another, backed up by more warnings from national level regulators have failed to curb what some in high position regard as nothing more than a transaction whose sole purpose stealing money. The latest […]
NADEX, Self-Regulated Safe Broker NADEX has provided an example of how a broker, and exchange and the binary options should operate; self-regulating. The exchange has recently banned a husband and wife team found guilty of operating a money-pass scheme. Money-pass, a practiced deemed unethical and illegal by NADEX and regulators, is a fraud in which […]
Market Recoils From All-Time Highs Just when you though it was safe to go back in the water… a brewing geopolitical storm has investors on edge. The S&P 500 has pulled back by -1.25% in the last week and more than -3% in the last 6 as it has continued to correct following the recently […]
Warnings, blacklisting, fines and more regulations continue to poor in. In the last week a minimum of 4 international regulators have announced new regulations, new scams or both. In most cases the regulators are beginning to turn focus to the marketing, forcing the brokers to take responsibility for the actions of their network and, hopefully, […]
The FBI Is On Full Alert The FBI, in an alert to investors, says that binary options fraud is a growing problem. Well no #$%&. Binary options fraud has been the name of the game since the game was first introduced. I’m not saying that the entire industry is a fraud because its not. Trading […]
As Regulators Crack Down The Investment Industry Pushes Back Canada’s regulators have long been counted among the most hostile toward binary options and there is good reason. The nations citizens have been targeted mercilessly by binary options scams and fraud leading to the suicide of at least one man. The problem is not that binary […]