In just one week, options contracts with an expiration of 20 minutes have become the second most popular offering on trading platform Nadex , as investors seek faster and faster gratification. The contracts were launched last week with little fanfare by Nadex, the leading provider of binary options in North America.

The company offers options with many durations and did not expect the tremendous level of early interest it's seen. Hourly contracts remain the most popular kinds of options on the company's platform.

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Twenty-minute options account for 15 percent of total volume on Nadex today. Binary options differ from vanilla options because they have only two outcomes: Read More Warren Buffett's 9 rules for running a business.

Critics argue these kinds of options, especially ones with such short time horizons, amount to little more than buying a lottery ticket and have no basis in the fundamentals.

The overall binary options market is growing at a faster pace than the rest of the options market. Nadex traded 3 million contracts so far in , already more than the 2. Overall, options trading is up 5 percent in over last year, according to Options Clearing Corp.

He said he sees continued growth for his company, especially as such options become better known in the U. Read More 19 trades, 85 seconds: How to play Alibaba. In the United States, many binary options are offered on the Internet without regulatory oversight. The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission have warned investors about fraud by some of those sites.

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Short attention span trading: How to play Alibaba Binary options are more commonplace in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. John Melloy Investing Editor of CNBC.

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