What counts as up and what counts as down
You compare two numbers: the mid price at the moment you opened, and the mid price at the second of expiry. Higher means up. Lower means down. Exactly equal means the order is returned at cost, with no profit and no loss, and the receipt will show the identical prices that produced it.
Choosing the amount and the term
Terms run from sixty seconds to one hour in six steps, and the payout rises with the term because the platform's own uncertainty rises with it. Limits are per term, not global: a sixty-second order caps lower than a one-hour order. The terminal shows the exact figures for the term you have selected, before you confirm.
What happens at expiry
Settlement is automatic and takes seconds. The result, both prices, the direction and the payout are written to a receipt you can open from your order list at any time. Nothing needs to be closed manually, and there is no window in which you could intervene.
What you can lose
The amount you staked, and nothing more. There is no leverage, no margin call and no possibility of a negative balance. That is the entire risk model, and it is the reason the platform can be explained on one page.
What if the price is exactly equal?
You get your stake back. No profit, no loss, no house edge applied. Such ties are rare on gold at two decimals, but they do happen and the rule never changes to suit the platform.
Can I close early?
No, and this is on purpose. Offering an early exit at a variable price is the single easiest place for a platform to make the outcome depend on itself instead of the market.
Is there a house edge?
Yes, and it is published openly: the payout rate never reaches one hundred percent, which is the gap between the payout and the stake. What we will not do is hide additional edges in slippage, delayed fills or a revised settlement price.
Why sixty seconds rather than five?
Because below a minute the outcome is dominated by quote noise and sampling rate rather than by your judgement, and no published source can settle it fairly at that granularity. A sixty-second floor is honest; a five-second one would only look exciting.
Pick a direction
At expiry, if gold is higher than at entry it is up; lower, it is down. Two options, nothing more.
Set amount and term
1 to 500 USD per order. Six terms from 60 seconds to 1 hour, with the payout rising as the term lengthens.
Settled automatically
The system settles on the published source's expiry price. Result and receipt are generated together and can be checked at any time.