OptionFair

OptionFairLaunched back in 2010, OptionFair is a popular and well-established binary options broker online.

The platform is available in several different languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Arabian, and Japanese.

A negative aspect of OptionFair is the 200 USD minimum deposit.

The owner of OptionFair also owns the 24Option site. The company is based in the British Virgin Islands, but operates with a license from the Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySEC).

Option Fair

Bonus

OptionFair runs time-limited bonus campaigns for welcome bonuses, loyalty bonuses, and more. The terms and conditions vary, but you will usually be required to make a first deposit of 250 USD or more to get any welcome bonus.

Campaigns with “risk free” purchases are common. If you lose your money, you get them back from OptionFair – but in the form of bonus money that can’t be withdrawn until certain conditions have been fulfilled.

Sometimes, OptionFair runs extra payout campaigns. Example: Deposit 500 USD and get a 50% deposit bonus + 1% extra payout on all binary options during the campaign.

Account types

When there is a queue to the OptionFair support, VIP account holders are helped first, then Platinum account holders, and so on. Standard account holders receive no priority.

Standard account

If your first deposit to OptionFair is less than 500 USD, you will start out with a standard account.

Silver account

If your first deposit to OptionFair is in the 500 USD – 1,999 USD span, you will get a silver account. This will give you silver account perks, including 1% extra payout on all binary option payouts.

Gold account

To start out with a gold account at OptionFair, your first deposit must be within the 2,000 USD – 14,999 USD span. You get access to gold account perks, including 2% extra payout on all binary option payouts.

Platinum account

The platinum account is your starting point if your first deposit to OptionFair is within the 15,000 USD – 49,999 USD span. You get access to all the great platinum account perks, including 4% extra payout on all binary option payouts.

VIP account

A 50,000 USD deposit is required if you want to start out with a VIP account from scratch at OptionFair.

If you are a large-volume trader, you can get upgraded to a VIP account later. The decision to upgrade is made on an individual basis.

With a VIP you get amazing VIP perks, including 6% extra payout on all binary option payouts.

Trading platform

The trading platform at OptionFair works well and is easy to use.

Mobile trading

Mobile OptionFair trading apps are available for iOS and Android. You can download the iOS app from Apple’s App Store, and the Android app from Google Play.

Binary option types

Examples of binary option types available at OptionFair are Up/Down, Range and One Touch.

Some of the binary options give huge payouts when they expire in the money, e.g. 500% payout or even more.

Lifespan

The binary options with the shortest lifespan at OptionFair expire 30 seconds after being purchased. There is also a pretty good selection of 1 minute long binary options available for us who like super-short binary options. Of course, OptionFair also sells binary options with medium long to long life spans.

For most binary options at OptionFair, you can elect to close your open position prior to the binary option expiring.

Underlyings

The largest category of underlyings at OptionFair is the share category, followed by the currency pair category. The categories for indices and commodities are considerably smaller.

Examples of shares available as underlyings

  • Amazon.com, Inc
  • American Express
  • Apple Inc
  • AXA
  • Baidu, Inc.
  • Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
  • Barclays PLC
  • BNP Paribas
  • British Petroleum PLC
  • Citigroup Inc
  • Coca-Cola Company
  • Exxonmobil
  • Facebook
  • Fiat
  • France Telecom
  • Google Inc
  • IBM
  • ICICI Bank Limited
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  • McDonald’s Corporation
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Nike, Inc.
  • OAO Gazprom
  • Société Générale S.A
  • SONY
  • Sumitomo
  • Tata Motors Ltd
  • Telefonica
  • Vodafone Group Plc

Examples of currency pairs available as underlyings

  • AUD/JPY AUD/USD
  • CAD/JPY
  • EUR/CAD
  • EUR/CAD
  • EUR/GBP
  • EUR/JPY
  • EUR/NOK
  • EUR/TRY
  • EUR/USD
  • EUR/ZAR
  • GBP/JPY GBP/USD
  • NZD/USD
  • USD/CAD USD/CHF
  • USD/JPY
  • USD/NOK
  • USD/RUB
  • USD/TRY
  • USD/ZAR

Examples of indices available as underlyings

  • Dow Jones-30 Future
  • Nasdaq-100 Future
  • S&P-500 Future
  • S&P CNX Nifty-Future
  • FTSE-100 Future
  • IBEX-35 Future
  • CAC-40 Future
  • SMI-Future
  • Tadawul
  • Tel-Aviv 25
  • ASX-200 Future
  • Nikkei-225 Future
  • Hang Seng Index

Examples of commodities available as underlyings

  • Coffee
  • Maize
  • Gold
  • Gold/EUR
  • Gold/JPY
  • Gold/Silver
  • Silver
  • Copper
  • Crude oil

Banking

Minimum deposit: 200 USD

Examples of accepted transaction methods: Bank transfer, VISA, MasterCard, Maestro, Western Union, WebMoney, Neteller, Skrill, CashU