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Funding your trading account from South Africa has just become easier and faster. South African traders can now make instant deposits to their IQ Option trading accounts with the following local banks:

The forex market is not entirely as volatile as at some stages during the last 10 years. There is some pretty good news, however. IQ Option has increased the leverage on some if its currency pairs to 1:1000. This enables traders to gain considerably from small price changes in the forex market. Of course, leverage also magnifies losses, so it should be used responsibly.

Traders from Colombia can no longer use the following methods to make deposits to IQ Option

AstroPay Card is a virtual prepaid card that can be used to make deposits and withdrawals online. It is accepted by numerous online businesses around the world and is popular due to its instantaneity, confidentiality, and security.

IQ Option has increased the leverage for stock CFDs from 10x to 20x. This new investment multiplier (another term for leverage) applies to non-regulated traders (residing outside of the European Union) and pro traders from the European Union. Although retail traders from the European Union do not have access to 20x leverage due to ESMA restrictions, they can luckily still trade with 5x leverage, which is still a good amount of leverage when it comes to stock trading.

Stocks are generally considered to be a volatile asset class. The last week or two has been no exception, with stocks actually being exceptionally volatile. Worries about higher interest rates in the U.S. sent Wall Street sharply lower last week, with the largest decline being on Wednesday, the 10th of October.

Residents from Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka could possibly encounter some difficulty with Mastercard deposits to IQ Option. A different Merchant Category Code (MCC) for transactions was assigned by Mastercard to all online trading companies, including IQ Option.

Are you trading cryptocurrencies with IQ Option? A special TRON instrument is now available with BIG leverage of 50 times.

As you may know, IQ Option frequently makes new trading instruments available to their clients. Right now, IQ Option has 16 extra digital options to choose from!

IQ Option is a strong leader in the online trading industry and is quick to adapt to changing conditions. The new ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) regulations have made IQ Option’s binary and digital option products inaccessible to retail traders from the European Union, except those traders who have pro trading accounts.

The 27th of March 2018 saw ESMA (European Securities and Market Authority) agreeing on the measures to restrict CFDs and ban Binary Options in order to provide security to the retail investors. The market of Binary Options is experiencing the effect from 2nd July 2018 while that of CFDs will be affected from 1st August 2018.

IQ Option has added commodity CFDs to the list of trading opportunities. On one hand, the ESMA regulations have prohibited Binary Options trading for the retail investors under the European Union legislation. The retail investors as well as the professional traders can take part in CFD trading using the IQ Option platform.

A new asset Bitcoin ×100 that includes a multiplier of ×100 for bitcoin trading has become available to non-EU users.

40 new currency pairs have been recently added on the IQ Option platform. Here is the overview..