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Translated by “ProfitF”, source: binguru.net
Interview with founder of IQ Option
All questions are split into three parts:
You can see a lot of personalities on our new website. All of them are executives of our company. I also want to be transparent to traders, so you can find me on the website too 🙂
I can tell you that I’ve been in the online business for more than 10 years. I have a mathematics background. I like reading books on how to build a client-oriented service properly and make a business prosperous.
I’ve got to know about it in early 2013. I’ve noticed an advertisement about binary options services and took note of a solid technology gap between the related areas – Forex and gambling – at once.
Yes, of course. I registered with all large competitor companies, made deposits into my accounts, and received “funny” calls from people speaking in Russian-Israeli accent.
The companies serve as a “don’t do that” example 🙂
The idea was born in March 2013. There were several names of the company. I have just opened my notebook with potential names. Here they are: “optionGO”, “acceltrades”, “brisktrades”, “jetbinary”, “instaoptions”, “iqoption”. This is not the full list, but the last alternative was exactly “iqoption”, which we selected.
By the way, I expect that a powerful add-on for our new platform (along with the new platform) will be released in December. It will completely and totally justify the “IQ” prefix. 🙂
If to estimate efforts invested in creation of IQ Option Company in October 2013, then it was not difficult. However, if to consider the efforts spent since the beginning till February 2016, then it is a very difficult task.
And I wouldn’t try to establish the broker, if there were such strong competitors at that moment.
I went to Israel and met with “Tradologic” management. We paid them for their license and attempted to create a website. However, the idea was disgusting for me from the very beginning.
My partner insisted on the idea, but when he saw the source code of the platform and other things, we gave up the idea. We took the decision at the moment, when we had been developing our own platform.
The difficulties included complaints to CySEC, carders, making up for the shortage of staff, internal problems of interaction between departments.
According to the recent data, 1.5 million accounts, which deposits exceeded 0 dollar, were opened in the platform.
Very much. We withdraw all the money, except those stolen from someone else’s cards.
Our mission is to provide “Ultimate trading experience”. In other words, we commit to providing excellent services by offering our software and customer support. We strive to provide it for every trader. That’s why I would call all traders successful. Though our initial risk management policy was immature and unpopular among traders.
We changed a payout percentage for some traders – everything was transparent. However, traders were dissatisfied with it for obvious reasons. Thank God, we gave up the practice long ago and now we make more money with no issues whatsoever.
So, the answer to your question is as follows: 1.5 million traders minus 50 traders over 2.5 years 🙂
I trade by myself and advice my friends to trade too. I tested the new platform on the weekend and increased my deposit from $10 000 to $50 000. Then I told my wife, if I double my deposit now, I’ll give her $100 000 for shopping.
Eventually I didn’t double it. Better to give her $50 000 🙂
Yes. We often joke that somebody will get a reward on his deposit. In fact, many of our employees are engaged in trading. We give no-deposit bonuses to them every month for better understanding of our product.
We recruit employees in Russia on http://hh.ru/ website and through recruitment agencies in Cyprus. We look for professionals or people with fiery eyes.
We monitor how much the system earns. The system must earn 3% of the entire trading volume. If this percentage value differs, we shall change a percentage rate of return on assets.
The company will be a leader in binary options trading. Besides, we shall also widen our range of financial instruments a little and compete for the given market share.
It is a very interesting project. It is still in progress now, but I strongly believe in it. We assembled an incredibly great team, and we shall be able to do much and much good for trading.
As I said a year before, there will be competitors who will copy an interface of our platform and mechanism of its operation. THEY, but not the current leaders, will be our true competitors. I’m not going to give you their names, but our domestic companies can develop good software, as we are. We saw very and very good clones of our software in October.
Though they are offended at our calling them by this name. Never mind: they will not be able to compete with us in the nearest future, when the new version of our platform releases.
It will be WOW (it is one of values of our company)! The new version will operate much faster that the current version 3.0. The version will include stand-alone clients that are not only easy-to-use, but operate “on the fly”.
We hold an opinion poll among traders every month. A great deal of suggestions has been accumulated since March. So, a great many of them will be implemented exactly in version 4.0.
As with Forex industry, there will be many players in the market. However, leaders will be well ahead of others. We shall be among those leaders for sure, if we don’t go to heaven after a nuclear war 🙂
Israelis don’t change. They have been playing dirty and continue to play dirty. The industry is full of filth and fraud. Trading volume of the binary options market is not enough to set a global trend towards a proper behavior and honesty.
The reason is that any kind of trading is a zero-sum game in terms of mathematics. There is a trader, who won in a trade, and another trader, who lost in the trade, and a broker, who is always on the plus side.
However, trading is a great thing. If the right approach is applied, trading can be a huge world: analysis, news, gambling, intuition, and, of course, EMOTIONS.
I haven’t locked my profit earned in the company yet. I started to earn money in other industries long before a foundation of the company. However, I spend all my working time on IQ Option only.
License by CROFR is just a “paper”. Obtaining a license by CRFIN (http://www.crfin.ru/en/) is a little more difficult process, and we gave up on it. We were obtaining the license by CySEC during a year. We had to implement a great many restrictions imposed by the regulator, introduce a great deal of accounting procedures, freeze a good deal of money, etc.
We work closely with CySEC. They hold us as an example for other brokers, which traders filed complaints against them to CySEC.
We develop software and provide support to our clients. It is a usual limited liability company. A Cypriot company acts as counterparty to trades.
We went to USA recently and communicated with NADEX. It seemed to us that it was a short-lived thing that the US regulator hadn’t yet got his hands on.
By the way, Nasdaq is going to offer binary options trading next year. I don’t think that this kind of exchange will ever appear in Russia 🙂
Until recently, binary options were considered as a financial instrument in Great Britain. They can be still classified as a financial instrument, if a set of requirements is complied with.
By the way, our company has been included on the register of FCA this week. In the EU binary options already have a status of a real financial instrument and are subject to the MIFID directive.
We have a status of Cyprus Investment Firm with all the consequences that come with it and are subordinate to the EU’s superior regulators.
Truly speaking, CySEC experiences a pressure for the reason that it regulates a great number of unreliable Forex and binary options brokers. However, the regulator started to clear the market from such brokers more actively.
No, they won’t, because it will be our feature!
You can see it in the new version 4.0 of the platform! 🙂
Please read my previous answer.
We have a total and a fair statistics of payouts to all traders. You can see from it that traders raise good money.
Withdrawals were up to $50 000. Withdrawals of $10 000 were made several times per week.
The total sum is more than $300 000. However, it is not a substantial amount of money for that kind of people.
This is the risk management policy of the company.
Any feature can be added, and we aspire to doing it. The problem is that there are a lot of features suggested by traders, and we are sorting them by importance. At the same time we are extending our stuff number.
This is the risk management policy. We watch to make sure that the system earns 3-4% of the entire trading volume. Under such conditions successful traders will take money out of unsuccessful ones, and we shall make money on trading volume.
The business model of our company will be implemented in the new version of the platform.
I think it can be already exported in CSV format. Check out.
I understand what you’re driving at. You would better write to us what kind of analytics of your trades you want to see in the platform, and we shall certainly implement it.
No, it will not 🙂 It would be a shift in our focus. The principle of success is a focus.
We studied it very and very carefully and submitted requests to the Central Bank of Russia. We got the following answer: binary options are not covered by the definition of Forex dealers’ activity.
The law is aimed at driving small companies out of the market and initiated by three largest Forex brokers: A., T., F.
We have had it up to here with them. Maybe, some of our partners generate illegal website traffic. We are constantly dealing with the problem and having conflicts with them.
Yes, we can do it very soon!!! The feature is being tested right now, though.
Watch the new video in our new platform: I am in favour of transparency. Business model of the broker will be demonstrated in the video.
From a mathematics standpoint, binary options are certainly not a casino. The probability of winning at casino games is always a constant value. We can see from the VERY big statistical data that price movements on binary options chart are predictable. Somebody predicts these prices better than others. The average winning rate of trades is 52.03%.
Honestly speaking, casino is a very interesting kind of business, but it is different. Casino players, like binary options traders, lose their money and come back knowing that mathematics is not on their side.
You may not believe me, but I’m VERY concerned with this issue. We reshuffled staff in our affiliate department, and I hope that we shall not see these doorway pages again.
Please e-mail me links to such doorway pages at (the e-mail was hidden by interviewer), and I shall initiate an investigation. As for social media, I introduced penalties for advertisements promising whole mountains of gold, telling success stories, etc.
We shall most likely block the website traffic.
It’s a bad idea. They are bad partners, which we must get rid of. I’m deeply convinced that you can earn much more by telling truth and providing excellent services than by telling lies.
We are developing a project on the related subject that will be two times more effective. Heh, I have to disclose our secret: we are developing a robot builder, which task is to analyze the market fairly based on the developed algorithm and open a trade or generate a signal.
It’ll be just an instrument of automated technical analysis. I want to notify at once: it doesn’t change a game of the market. However, it allows you customizing a robot instead of sitting in front of your computer.
You’re evidently not our VIP-client or you were writing the question without studying the subject. It is a source of personal pride, our mission and a reason for contrasting us to Israelis.
Our primary principle is not to lie. We use a “self-deposit” model, enable to open a demo account and put $10 as the minimum deposit so that a man makes a decision by himself on how much money he wants to put at risk. Nobody will call him immediately after his registration and persuade him to deposit funds promising whole mountains of gold.
I do hope that the scheme of fooling clients will die soon, and all the companies will operate, like we do.
I think they will more likely die a natural death, and we shall drive the industry.
It hasn’t been so almost for 12 months. I’ve told you about it before. We practiced it very actively earlier. After we had given up the policy, we only gained from it eventually.
Of course, I don’t. In that case CySEC will block our access to the binary options business.
No, I don’t know. We cannot keep it under control.
Honestly speaking, we followed an example of “Anyoption” in 2013. Its license is just a nice advantage that helps to avoid a headache. The true regulator is CySEC.
It is far from true. The superior bodies tell CySEC off for complaints, and CySEC, in turn, tells brokers off for these complaints. Guys from CySEC are slowpokes, and it’s true: they sent us 117 complaints in June accumulated since February. By the way, it is a negligible quantity as compared to our competitors.
It is not the illusion. For example, these guys forced us to pay out money to a group of illegal intruders, who hacked our system and traded “backwards” (i.e. they made trades using quotes provided in the past time). We had to pay out $40 000 to some Moldavians. I don’t like them 🙂
I think that lie is a primary problem of the industry. It is not typical for casinos and betting providers, where much more money circulates. In binary options industry fooling every client and pursuit of here-and-now profits fell into a habit. They would better develop good software and services.
It is a very hot topic. The only way to solve the problem is to show a good example of doing business properly or withdraw from the dirty market. However, I believe in the forces of good.
Yes, you are right. There are more fraudsters in the industry than, for example, in the Forex market, because it is easier to establish a brokerage company here. Although in general expenses are heavy, and you have to conclude agreements with banks, etc.
This is why those who act illegally (fools clients) will not be able to buy website traffic: they will play with the traffic and lose it.
Google that nevertheless allows us buying website traffic from other countries and likes us very much says that it is “the internal policy of the company”. They are very nice guys, and we can’t complain about them.
Thank you, Dmitry, for your time and answering all the questions. It was a very interesting and a useful interview.
Afterword
After the interview was published, Dmitry contacted me, and I showed him numerous examples of doorway pages that were mass-produced by some guys to redirect website traffic to IQ’s website. Frankly speaking, I was 100% sure that IQ’s management is aware of it: the traffic is being redirected to their website, and it makes no difference to them, where it is from.
As it turned out, it was not so. Dmitry was very concerned about the issue. I can see now that these sources of website traffic are blocked one by one now. Thus, the interview was of great practical use.
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