The space Pol dCP d of all complex-valued binary forms of degree d (considered up to a constant factor) has a standard stratification, each stratum of which contains all forms whose set of multiplicities of their distinct roots is given by a fixed partition μ d. For each such stratum S μ , we introduce its secant degeneracy index μ which is the minimal number of projectively dependent pairwise distinct points on S μ , i.e., points whose projective span has dimension smaller than μ − 1. In what follows, we discuss the secant degeneracy index μ and the secant degeneracy index μ of the closureS μ .