Guides
How Deriv bots actually work.
Plain explanations of the strategies, the maths behind them, and the settings that put every one of them in your hands. Free to run, on a demo balance or a real one.
Deriv bot guides
How the free bots on BinaryTick work, how to pick one, and how to build, import and tune your own.
The best free Deriv bots to start with, and what each one does
A guide to the free ready-made Deriv bot strategies on BinaryTick, what rule each one trades, how their payouts differ, and which to run first.
5 min read
Do Deriv bots actually work?
What automated trading on Deriv actually does for you, why win rates are the wrong thing to shop on, and how to get real value out of a free bot.
3 min read
How to upload and run a Deriv bot XML file
Where Deriv bot XML files come from, how to load one into BinaryTick and run it free, and how to read a strategy file you were given before you trust it.
3 min read
Deriv digit bots explained: Over, Under, Matches, Differs and Even Odd
How last digit contracts work on Deriv synthetic indices, what each digit strategy is actually betting on, and how their payouts compare.
4 min read
Under 8 bot settings: three setups for Deriv
Every setting on the free Under 8 bot, what moving each one does, and three setups with exact numbers: as shipped, for a 10 USD balance, and for a faster pace.
5 min read
Staking and strategy guides
Martingale, win rates and the session limits that keep every run inside a number you choose, worked through with real figures.
What a win rate does and does not tell you
Hit rate and average return are different things. Here is the arithmetic, using real digit strategies, and why the highest win rate is not the best pick.
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How the martingale multiplier works, and how to bound it
What the martingale setting does to your stake, the arithmetic of a losing run, and the four controls that keep the sequence inside a limit you choose.
5 min read
Deriv last digit analysis: what the digit stats show
How last digit analysis works on Deriv, what 10,000 real ticks show about hot and cold digits, and how BinaryTick's digit bots use it to time trades.
5 min read
Oscar's Grind on Deriv: how the stake moves, step by step
How Oscar's Grind raises the stake after a win and holds it through losses, worked through with real Deriv payouts, and how to run it free on BinaryTick.
5 min read
D'Alembert strategy on Deriv: how the stake moves, step by step
How the D'Alembert strategy adds one step to the stake after a loss and takes one off after a win, worked through with real Deriv payouts, and how to run it.
7 min read
Deriv market guides
The Volatility, Crash, Boom, Jump and Step indices: how each one moves and which bots suit it.
How to trade the Volatility 75 index on Deriv
What the Volatility 75 index is, how it differs from V10 and V100, which contract types and bots suit it, and how to run a strategy on it free.
5 min read
Deriv synthetic indices explained: Volatility, Crash, Boom, Jump and Step
What synthetic indices are, how the Volatility, Crash, Boom, Jump and Step families differ, and which behaviour suits which kind of bot.
4 min read
Best time to trade synthetic indices on Deriv
Is there a best time to trade Volatility 75 or any Deriv synthetic index? What 30 days of hourly data show, and what actually shapes a bot session instead.
4 min read
Digit bots on Deriv's Jump indices: what changes
How Deriv's Jump 10 to Jump 100 indices compare with the Volatility indices for digit bots: tick speed, decimals, the jumps, payouts and how to switch.
4 min read
Digit Differs on Volatility 10, 75 or 100: does the market matter?
What changes, and what does not, when you run a Digit Differs bot on Volatility 10, 75 or 100 on Deriv, and how to pick the market for your next session.
3 min read
Deriv contract guides
What each Deriv contract pays, how its risk is capped, and how to trade it on BinaryTick.
Accumulators, Multipliers, Turbos and Vanillas explained
What each of Deriv's four leveraged contract types actually does, how the risk on each one is bounded, and which suits which kind of trade.
5 min read
Deriv Over / Under bots: how the barrier works and which bot to run
How Over and Under contracts settle on the last digit, how the barrier digit sets which digits win and what each win pays, and the Over / Under bots you can run free on BinaryTick.
5 min read
Deriv Even / Odd bots: how the contract works and which bot to run
How Deriv's Even and Odd contracts settle on the last digit, why the index and tick count do not change the payout, and the free Even / Odd bots on BinaryTick.
6 min read
Deriv Matches / Differs bots: one digit, two very different trades
How Matches and Differs contracts settle on a single digit, why one wins on nine digits out of ten and the other pays about nine times the stake, and the bots you can run free on BinaryTick.
5 min read
Deriv Rise / Fall bots: direction, duration and the bots to run
How Rise / Fall contracts settle against your entry price, why duration and market matter more here than on digit contracts, and the Rise / Fall bots you can run free on BinaryTick.
5 min read
Getting started with BinaryTick
Sign in with Deriv, start on a demo balance and have your first bot running in a few minutes, on desktop or phone.
How to practise Deriv trading on a demo account with virtual funds
What a Deriv demo account gives you, how to get a bot running on virtual funds in a couple of minutes, and how to use the practice so it teaches you something.
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How to run Deriv bots on your phone, with nothing to install
Running automated Deriv strategies from a mobile browser: what works, what to set before you start a session, and why there is no app to download.
4 min read
Deriv bots with $10: settings for a small account
How much a BinaryTick bot can use in one session at its defaults, and the two settings that let you run any bot from a 10 USD Deriv balance.
4 min read
Deriv bots in Kenya: fund with M-Pesa and start trading on BinaryTick
How to open a Deriv account from Kenya, fund it with M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Equitel or a card, and run free Deriv bots on BinaryTick from your phone.
3 min read
Deriv bots in Nigeria: funding options and how to start on BinaryTick
How to open a Deriv account from Nigeria, fund it with OnlineNaira, a card, Deriv P2P or USDT, and run free Deriv bots on BinaryTick.
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