Weekend Binary

Game Review

This game utilizes candlestick charts for both strategy and enjoyment.

Candlestick charts are frequently employed in financial markets to interpret market movements and to predict future trends.

This game represents trends for roulette spins using candlestick charts, enabling bets on trend directions of roulette outcomes, instead of betting on the outcome of a specific spin.

The goal is to predict whether a chart will conclude higher or lower than its starting point after a chosen number of spins.

Return to player (RTP)

• The theoretical return to player (RTP) is 98.65% for both CALL/UP and PUT/DOWN trades on all three charts - Red/Black, Odd/Even and Low/High.
• The house edge on expired trades is 1.35%.
• A strategy of only Early Exiting has an RTP of 93.93%

Game Events are Roulette Results.

• A standard European roulette wheel - featuring alternating black and red numbers from 1 to 36, plus a green zero - is simulated using a random number generator (RNG).
• One roulette spin is generated every second – this is called a “tick”.
• Each roulette result then creates a tick candle. The candle has both a height and a direction. The height of the candle’s body ranges from 0 to 18 “pips” - with one pip defined as the gap between adjacent ball drop slots on the wheel – and the direction will be either up or down.
• The height in pips of each tick candle equals the distance between the current ball drop and the previous ball drop. If the ball drop repeats the previous drop, the candle height is 0. If the ball drop is zero, the candle height is 0, irrespective of the prior ball drop.
• The series of up or down candle heights results in either an increasing or a decreasing pip total.
• The game includes three candlestick charts - Red/Black, Odd/Even and Low/High – showcasing the fluctuating pip totals over time. Each chart is based on the same series of spins, but determines the candle direction based on specific rules –See Appendix R2.
• The spins stream to all open games, so all players view the same chart, giving the feeling of a shared trading environment.

Betting

• The objective is to predict whether a chart’s pip total will be higher (=UP) or lower (=DOWN) after a chosen number of spins.
  • Players place bets by submitting a trade.
  • To make a trade the player selects: one of the three charts (Red/Black, Odd/Even or Low/High), the number of spins (Seconds to Expiry as there is one spin per second), and the bet amount.
  • The player then submits his trade by selecting either CALL/UP or PUT/DOWN.
  • The trade opens at the chart index value when the trade is submitted.
  • The trade expires after the last spin.
• If the player bets CALL/UP, the trade wins if it expires with a chart index value higher than its opening value.
• If the player bets PUT/DOWN, the trade wins if it expires with a chart index value lower than its opening value.
• The payout for a winning trade is at odds 0.973 to 1. For example, a winning trade of $100 will return $197.30 (the stake of $100 plus winnings of $97.30).
• If the trade expires with the same chart index value as when the trade started, this is a PUSH, and the original stake is fully returned.
• Players can submit more trades on the same or another chart before their current trade expires, enabling multiple simultaneous trades across any of the charts.
• The game offers the player a payout to Early Exit each unexpired trade. This Early Exit payout is recalculated after each spin using the odds of the trade winning, less a 10% commission.
• Players can choose to ignore the Early Exit offer and let the trade run to expiry.
• Players must act quickly to accept the Early Exit offer before it changes. The speed of response will determine whether the Early Exit is accepted at the displayed payout, or is missed as the button updates, or the click lands on the updated offer.
• All payouts are rounded to the nearest currency unit.
• The game provides a player history of all open and closed trades.