Payouts Across the Nairobi Trading Day (Kenya)
What a payout percentage is, how it differs by account level, and why the hour a contract lands in changes the trade far more than the percentage does.
Open a Binomo demo →A Binomo payout is the percentage added back to a stake when a fixed-time contract settles in the direction that was chosen; a contract that settles the other way forfeits the stake in full. The advertised ceiling belongs to the account tier — up to ~85% on Standard, ~86% on Gold and ~87–90% on VIP — and it reads the same whatever the date or the hour in Nairobi. What the trading calendar decides is a different fact: whether an asset can be traded at all. Kenya keeps East Africa Time, UTC+3, all year with no seasonal adjustment, and a weekend or a foreign holiday takes assets out of what is open rather than moving the percentage attached to them.
How a payout is worked out, session by session
- A payout is the share added to your stake when a fixed-time call comes in right
- Standard advertises up to around 85%
- Gold advertises up to around 86%
- VIP advertises up to around 87–90%
- A losing call forfeits the stake, and no percentage is promised in advance
Advertised payout, level by level
| Account | Advertised, up to |
|---|---|
| Standard | ~85% |
| Gold | ~86% |
| VIP | ~87–90% |
A ceiling that does not move with the hour
The percentages in the table above are properties of the account tier. Read at 06:00 in Nairobi or at 23:00, on a Monday or on a Friday, they are the same numbers, because nothing in the tier structure is indexed to time. It is worth saying plainly, because questions that begin with when are often answered with percentages, and on this page the two things do not meet.
The calendar governs a narrower question, and it governs it completely: whether a market is open, and therefore whether the asset that depends on it can be traded from Kenya at that moment. An asset that is not trading has no contract to open and no percentage to apply to one. Availability comes first in the order of things, and the tier ceiling only becomes relevant once availability is settled. The tiers themselves sit side by side on the account types page.
A closed market subtracts assets, not percentages
When a market is shut — over a weekend, or on a date its own exchange treats as a holiday — what shrinks is how much is available to trade, not the terms on whatever remains. There is no weekend rate and no night rate. An instrument that is still open on a Sunday evening in Nairobi carries the ceiling its tier always carried, and an instrument that is closed carries nothing at all, because nothing can be opened on it.
That makes a thin choice of assets and a poor percentage two separate complaints, and only the first one has anything to do with the clock in Nairobi. Gold and the currency pairs follow the calendars of the markets standing behind them; the daily themes on the market trends page come and go for the same reason. None of that is a statement about when trading is worth doing — only about what is open.
Nairobi keeps one clock while London and New York move theirs
East Africa Time is UTC+3 and stays there through the year: there is no summer adjustment to make and no date on which Kenyan readers change anything. London and New York each shift by an hour twice a year, so the local Nairobi time at which those markets open and close is not fixed. The distant clock moves; the Kenyan one does not.
In round terms this puts the start of the London trading day in the late Nairobi morning, and the start of the New York equity day in the late Nairobi afternoon, with its close falling late in the Nairobi evening — roughly an hour later in each case during the northern winter. These are facts about when something is open, not suggestions about timing, and none of them moves an advertised payout percentage.
A holiday in Nairobi is not a holiday for the market
Kenya's public holidays are Kenyan dates. The exchanges and currency markets behind the assets on Binomo do not observe them, so a day off in Nairobi is an ordinary working day almost everywhere the assets come from. The reverse holds just as firmly: a public holiday in the United States or the United Kingdom, an unremarkable Tuesday in Kenya, can close markets that a reader here would otherwise expect to find open.
The asymmetry is easy to miss, because the platform is reached from Kenya while almost nothing traded on it is Kenyan. The dates that matter are foreign dates, decided by foreign exchanges, and they arrive without any local announcement. What they change is how much is open on a given morning; the tier ceilings stay exactly where they were.
What has to be true before a percentage applies at all
- The date — a weekend, or a holiday kept by the market standing behind an asset, closes that market for the day.
- The market — with it closed, the asset depending on it is not available to trade from Kenya, and no contract can be opened on it.
- The duration — a contract's length is fixed at the moment it is opened, from one minute upward, and it has to fall inside the stretch that is still open.
- The tier — only at this point does the advertised ceiling matter: up to ~85% on Standard, ~86% on Gold and ~87–90% on VIP.
- And regardless of all four, the ceiling applies to winning contracts only, while a wrong call forfeits the whole stake — on every date and at every hour.
The calendar decides what is open; it does not raise or lower an advertised ceiling. Fixed-time trading carries a high risk of losing money.
Set by the calendar, set by the tier
| Question | What settles it |
|---|---|
| Whether an asset can be traded at this moment | The calendar: the trading week, weekends, and holidays kept by the market behind it |
| The advertised payout ceiling | The account tier — up to ~85% Standard, ~86% Gold, ~87–90% VIP |
| How long a contract runs | Fixed when it is opened, from one minute upward, inside the stretch that is open |
| What a wrong call costs | The full stake — the same on a Monday morning and on a Friday night |
| Whether the hour in Nairobi lifts the ceiling | Nothing lifts it: EAT is UTC+3 all year and the tier figure is not a function of time |
| Whether a Kenyan public holiday shortens what is open | Not by itself — the exchanges behind the assets do not keep Kenyan dates |
Advertised ceilings apply to winning contracts only. Fixed-time trading carries a high risk of losing money.