Trading is not prohibited, but no binary options product is licensed by the UAE CMA, the DFSA or the FSRA for retail clients.
Archive notice: this page was written in 2012, before binary options were banned for retail clients across the EEA, the UK and Australia. It is kept for reference. For the current position, see Legal status by country.
Highlights of This Trade
1) There was no need to conduct a great deal of market analysis. The indicator had already been primed to use price action analysis to give us a trade signal, which it did. 2) The only area where some analysis was required was in setting the expiry time. The indicator we used works best on hourly charts. When used on an hourly chart, it usually aims to take profits of a maximum of 50 pips. This is not so far away from the entry point, so a careful note was made of the market conditions to see if the price would stay above entry point by the end of one hour. 3) When we were sure that one hour was enough time to deliver profits, a one hour expiry was chosen and the trade was executed in the direction of the signal. 4) We chose the Rise/Fall trade contract type because this is the only contract type that allows a one hour expiry on Betonmarkets. If our analysis was done on a daily chart for instance, this would have allowed us to choose more tradeFunding and withdrawals in United Arab Emirates
Local rails here are card, local bank transfer and e-wallets; some banks decline speculative-trading merchant codes. Deposit method decides whether money can come back out: card payments carry a chargeback route with a time limit, transfers to an offshore entity generally do not. Confirm the withdrawal method, minimum, fee and stated processing time in writing before funding an account. Profits are generally taxable, with FTA the relevant authority.
Brokers accepting UAE clients
Ranked by our published methodology, which weights licensing at 35% — on an unsupervised counterparty every other quality is contingent. Ratings are derived from the sub-scores, not assigned.
| # | Broker | Rating | Entity holding your funds | Min. deposit | Payout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deriv | 7.9 | Deriv (BVI) Ltd / Deriv (V) Ltd | $5 | up to ~95% on synthetics | Visit |
| 2 | IQ Option | 5.1 | IQ Option Ltd (international) — unregulated | $10 | up to ~95% | Visit |
| Regulated alternative — does not offer binary options | ||||||
| — | Exness | 8.8 | FSCA (South Africa) — ODP · FSP 51024 | $10 | n/a — CFDs and FX only | Visit |
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Risk warning: binary options are high-risk speculative instruments and most retail accounts lose money. Nothing on this page is investment advice or a recommendation to trade.