How Does a Fixed Time Trade Work Step by Step?

Choose the trade

The first three decisions all happen on the same screen: which asset you want to trade, what its chart is doing, and which direction you are willing to back over the next stretch of time.

Selecting an asset

The asset list sits at the top of the trading screen and groups instruments by type — currency pairs, commodities, indices, individual stocks and crypto. Tapping one loads its chart and its current reward rate into the panel.

For a first live trade, a major currency pair is the usual starting point. Those markets are heavily traded, they quote continuously through the trading week, and their behaviour is documented everywhere you might want to read about it. Thinly traded instruments and assets with restricted trading hours introduce quirks that are unhelpful while you are still learning where the buttons are. Whichever you pick, check the reward rate attached to it, because that rate is not uniform across the list.

Reading the chart

The chart occupies most of the screen and can be displayed as candles, a line or bars, over a timeframe you set independently of the trade duration. Indicators can be layered on top from the tools menu.

What you are looking for at this stage is context rather than a signal: is the price drifting in one direction, oscillating in a range, or sitting on a level it has bounced off repeatedly? A directional call made without that context is a coin toss with a fee attached. One point trips up almost everyone at the start — the chart timeframe and the trade duration are separate settings. Studying a chart drawn in hourly candles and then opening a two-minute trade means you formed your view on one scale and are being scored on another.

Picking a direction

Two buttons carry this decision. Up commits you to the price being above your entry when the countdown ends; down commits you to it being below. There is no partial or hedged version of the choice.

Write down, at least mentally, why you chose the side you chose. A reason you can articulate is testable later — you can review whether that kind of reasoning worked. An impulse cannot be reviewed, and a session built from impulses gives you nothing to learn from afterwards.

Pick one asset and stay with it for your first sessions, because a beginner who keeps switching instruments never accumulates enough observations of any single market to tell good reasoning from luck.

Set the parameters

Two numbers finish the setup: how much you are committing and how long the trade runs. The platform then displays what a correct call returns, and only after that does the trade need confirming.

Entering the amount

The amount field takes the sum you are committing to this trade. It is deducted from your available balance when the trade opens and it is the maximum the trade can cost you — there is no margin call on this mode and no exposure beyond the figure you typed.

Because a losing outcome takes the whole of that figure rather than a fraction of it, the sizing question is blunter than on products with a stop-loss. The amount should be one you would shrug at losing outright, repeated across however many trades a session contains. Deciding that figure before you open the app, rather than in the moment with a chart in front of you, is what keeps it stable.

Choosing the expiry

Next to the amount sits the duration selector, offering everything from very short intervals up to considerably longer windows. This choice is as consequential as the direction and gets far less thought from most new traders.

Very short durations are dominated by tick-level randomness — whatever analysis you did barely has time to matter. Longer windows give a directional view room to express itself, though they also expose you to more that can happen along the way. Match the duration to the reasoning: a view drawn from a longer-term chart pattern needs a longer window to have any chance of playing out.

Seeing the potential payout

Before you confirm, the panel displays the reward a correct call returns on this specific trade. It reflects the asset you chose, the duration you selected and current market conditions, and it is the figure that applies to this trade regardless of what is offered a minute later.

Read it every time. Rates differ across assets and durations, and the reward on a winning trade is always smaller than the cost of a losing one, so the number in front of you is directly shaping how often you need to be right for the approach to hold up. Once you confirm, these parameters are locked and the countdown begins.

Set the amount and the duration before you look for a trade rather than after you find one, so that a promising-looking chart never talks a new trader into a bigger stake than planned.

Wait for settlement

From confirmation onward the trade runs itself. The countdown ticks, the price moves, and nothing you do influences the result — the comparison happens automatically at the deadline.

The timer counts down

The open trade appears on the chart with its entry level marked and its remaining time displayed. You can watch the price move around your entry, and it usually will — crossing back and forth across that line several times on a short window is completely normal and means nothing until the clock stops.

The platform may make an early-exit tool available on some trades; its own help pages set out when that applies and on what terms. What you cannot do is push the deadline outward. A trade that looks wrong with seconds remaining cannot be given more time.

Price at expiry decides

At the instant the countdown reaches zero the platform takes the asset's price from its market data feed and compares it with your entry price. Only that single instant matters. A trade that was comfortably ahead for most of its life and slips across the line in the final seconds settles as a loss, and the reverse is equally true.

This catches people out, and it is worth internalising early. You are not predicting that an asset will move in a direction. You are predicting where it will be at one specific moment, which is a narrower claim.

Win or lose the stake

Settlement is immediate and the balance updates without any action from you. A correct call returns the stake together with the reward that was displayed at confirmation. An incorrect call means the stake stays gone. There is no third result and no scaling by how far the price travelled.

• Watching the countdown changes nothing about the result, and watching it constantly tends to make the next decision worse rather than better.
• The result screen states the outcome and the balance movement; log the reasoning alongside it while it is fresh.
• The urge to open a replacement trade immediately after a loss is the most expensive habit this mode encourages.

Once the countdown starts, your only remaining job is to not react to it, since the impulse to place a corrective trade mid-countdown is where most beginners lose control of their session plan.

Understand the outcome

The result screen shows one of two states, but reading it properly means understanding the asymmetry between them and what that asymmetry does across a run of trades.

Payout below 100%

A correct call returns your stake plus a profit that is smaller than the stake. That is the shape of the reward on every fixed-time trade, and the exact rate for any given trade is the one that was on screen when you confirmed it.

Nothing about this is concealed — the rate is disclosed before you commit, which is more than several comparable products manage. The point to absorb is that the gain on a win and the loss on a loss are not the same size, so a run of trades split evenly between the two does not leave you where you started.

Full-stake loss

The other state takes everything committed to the trade. Missing by the smallest measurable amount produces exactly the result that missing by a wide margin produces. There is no gradient, which means there is also no early warning built into the outcome — you cannot be a little bit wrong.

That is the argument for keeping individual stakes small enough that any single loss is unremarkable. It is also the argument against increasing a stake to recover a previous loss, a pattern that turns a manageable sequence of small losses into one that is not.

The edge over time

Put the two states together and the structural picture is clear. Because a win pays less than a loss costs, the payoff structure favours the platform over a long enough run of trades, in the same way a spread favours a conventional broker. It is how the product is monetised and it is disclosed rather than hidden.

The practical consequence is that volume without skill is corrosive. Someone placing trades at random does not hover around breakeven — they trend downward, and faster the more trades they place. This is the well-known structural reality of short-horizon fixed-payoff products, and it is why most retail traders of them lose money over time. Selectivity, a documented reason for each trade and a hard limit on session size are the only things a trader controls in that equation.

Reading the result correctly means noticing that wins and losses are different sizes, a detail that stops a newcomer from assuming a fifty-fifty hit rate is a break-even one.

Step-by-step takeaway

The full sequence is short enough to memorise, and running it end to end on the demo account is the fastest way to make each step feel automatic before real money is involved.

A simple flow

1. Open the platform and switch to the demo balance if you are practising, which is where every new trader should begin.
2. Select an asset from the instrument list and let its chart load.
3. Read the chart for context, keeping the chart timeframe and the trade duration deliberately aligned.
4. Choose a direction and note the reason for it before you touch anything else.
5. Enter the amount you decided on in advance, not one adjusted by how confident the chart makes you feel.
6. Select the duration that matches the reasoning behind your directional call.
7. Check the displayed reward for a correct call on this particular trade.
8. Confirm, after which the parameters lock and the countdown starts.
9. Wait without reacting to the price movement, since nothing you do now affects the settlement.
10. Read the result, record what you concluded, and decide whether your session plan allows another trade.

A high-risk result

The flow is easy; the outcome it produces is not gentle. Every trade risks the entire amount committed, the horizons are short enough that randomness dominates individual results, and the reward on a correct call is smaller than the cost of an incorrect one. Trading involves risk of loss and this mode concentrates that risk into repeated all-or-nothing events.

Whether the product is available to you depends on where you are. Regional rules vary and change, so the platform's own terms — which list the regions it does not serve — and your national financial authority's published position are the two places that answer that question.

A concise summary

Four inputs, one automatic settlement, two possible states. Learn the sequence on the demo account until placing a trade takes no thought, then spend all your thinking on the part that actually decides the result: whether the directional call and the duration make sense together. Platform details here were checked against the operator's own published pages on August 12, 2026, and the operator can change them at any time, so confirm current terms and rates there before you trade.

Run the whole sequence with virtual funds until it bores you, because muscle memory for the mechanics is what frees a beginner to concentrate on the forecast, which is the only part that decides results.