Academy

18 short lessons on digits, bots and the maths behind every trade. Most take a minute.

The basics

What a trade is here

1 min

You predict something about the next price, such as whether its last digit will be even or odd.

You choose a stake. If you're right, you get your stake back plus profit. If you're wrong, you lose the stake. The trade ends on its own, often within a second or two.

Ticks and the last digit

1 min

A tick is one price update. The 1s Volatility markets update about once a second.

The last digit is the final number of the price. At 1409.04 the last digit is 4. Most tools here are built around that digit.

Watch live digits

Demo and Real

1 min

Your Deriv login has a Demo account with virtual money and a Real account. Both work the same way here.

Switch with the Demo / Real toggle next to your balance at the top of the workspace.

Trade types

Even / Odd

1 min

Even wins on 0, 2, 4, 6, 8. Odd wins on 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. Five digits each, so the payout is a little under double your stake.

Trade Even / Odd

Over / Under

2 min

Pick a digit. Over 2 wins on 3 to 9 (seven digits), so it wins often but pays little. Over 7 wins only on 8 or 9, so it wins rarely but pays a lot.

The payout always matches the chance: more winning digits means a smaller payout.

Matches / Differs

1 min

Matches wins only if the last digit equals your digit: one chance in ten, with a big payout. Differs wins on the other nine digits, with a small payout.

Which markets have which trades

1 min

Digit trades (Even/Odd, Over/Under, Matches/Differs) are offered by Deriv on the Volatility, Jump, Bull and Bear markets. Rise/Fall in ticks also works on the Step markets.

Forex, crypto, gold and stock indices are on the Chart. Deriv offers them with longer durations or as Multipliers, not as tick or digit trades.

Rise / Fall

1 min

Rise wins if the price is higher after your ticks, Fall if it's lower. It follows the price, not the digit.

Open live chart

Reading the tools

Digit circles

2 min

Each circle shows how often that digit appeared in the last ticks. Green is the most frequent, red the least.

Over many ticks every digit lands near 10%. Short-term leans are normal and change quickly.

See the circles

The Market Scanner

1 min

The Scanner shows every digit market (Volatility, Jump, Bull and Bear) side by side, so you can see where Even, Odd or Over is leaning right now, then tap Trade or Auto bot on that market.

Open the Scanner

Bots

How a bot trades

2 min

A bot checks its rule on every new tick. When the rule is met, it buys. It keeps going until it reaches your take profit, your stop loss, your maximum trades, or you press Stop.

Bots buy one contract at a time and wait for each result before the next.

Browse Free Bots

Build your own

2 min

In Bot Builder you write rules like: if Even is 55% or more of the last 25 digits, buy Even. Otherwise buy Odd.

Download your bot to keep it, and load it again any time.

Open Bot Builder

Several markets at once

1 min

In Bot Settings, set Markets to trade to All digit markets. The bot watches all of them and buys wherever its rule is met first.

The maths

Break-even

2 min

A payout of 1.82 on a 1.00 stake means you win 0.82 or lose 1.00. To break even you must win about 55 trades in 100 (1 ÷ 1.82).

That's why a strategy that wins 52% of the time still loses money over many trades.

Why patterns don't predict

2 min

Synthetic markets such as Volatility and Jump are generated to move randomly. After five Evens in a row, the next digit is still about as likely to be Even as Odd.

Streaks and leans happen all the time in random data. Use them to choose when to trade, not as a promise of what comes next.

Protecting your balance

Stake size and stop loss

1 min

A common rule is to stake 1 to 2% of your balance per trade. In Bot Settings you can set the stake as a % of balance.

Always set a stop loss on a bot: it's the amount you're willing to lose before it stops.

Martingale, honestly

2 min

Martingale multiplies your stake after each loss. At ×2 the stakes go 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64. Seven losses in a row, which does happen, costs 127.

If you use it, keep the multiplier low and the stop loss firm.

Deposits and withdrawals

1 min

Money moves only on Deriv. Use Deposit or Withdraw in your Deriv dashboard. DollarFlow never holds your money and will never ask you to send it anywhere.

Help & deposits

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