Deriv Asian options bots: how the average decides the trade

An Asian option on Deriv settles on where the last tick sits against the average of the contract's ticks. Asian Up pays if the last tick is above that average, and Asian Down pays if it is below. If the last tick equals the average, neither pays. Deriv lists these contracts as Asians. This guide covers how they settle, how they differ from Rise / Fall, and the Asians bots you can run free on BinaryTick.

How Asian Up and Asian Down settle

Rise / Fall compares the exit price with the entry price. An Asian contract compares the last tick with the average of the ticks inside the contract, so the path the price took on the way matters.

Say a contract's ticks come in at 640.00, 640.30, 640.25, 640.15 and 640.10. Their average is 640.16.

• The last tick, 640.10, is below the average, so Asian Down wins.
• Measured the Rise / Fall way, last tick against first, the same path is a Rise: 640.10 finished above 640.00.

The price climbed early and then gave ground back. Rise / Fall only sees that it ended higher than it started. The Asian contract sees that it ended lower than where it spent most of the contract.

Durations and payouts

On the synthetic indices Deriv sells Asians from 5 to 10 ticks. When we checked, a 1 USD stake paid 1.95 USD on Asian Up and on Asian Down, on Volatility 100 at 5 ticks and at 10 ticks, and on Volatility 25 at 5 ticks. There is no barrier to set, so the payout stays the same whichever side you buy.

The Asians bots on BinaryTick

BinaryTick has 7 Asians bots, all free, on the Asians page. All of them are in the Quick entries group, and all ship with a 5 tick contract. Asian Drift runs on Volatility 25; the other six run on Volatility 100. Each one buys Asian Up when its reading points up and Asian Down when it points down.

Bots that follow a trend.

• Asian Trend watches a moving average, the average price over the last 15 ticks, turn. A rising average buys Asian Up, a falling one Asian Down, once the slope clears the Minimum slope.
• Asian MACD compares a fast moving average with a slow one. The MACD histogram tracks the gap between them, and the bot buys when that gap sits on one side of zero and is still growing, a sign the drift is building.
• Asian Pressure reads RSI, a 0 to 100 score of how strongly recent ticks have pushed up or down. It buys Asian Up when RSI sits above the 50 midline and Asian Down below it, with a margin either side so it stays out while the reading sits on the line.

Bots that read the last few ticks or candles.

• Asian Run waits for 3 ticks in a row rising, or falling, and trades with them. If the run carries on through the contract, each tick sits above the ones before it, so the last also sits above their average. If it stalls after the entry, Asian Up can still lose.
• Asian Candle follows the last completed one-minute candle: a green one buys Asian Up, a red one Asian Down, as long as the body is at least half the candle.
• Asian Drift averages the last 12 ticks and buys in the direction of the newest tick once it sits far enough from that average, measured against the window's own range.

A bot that reads the range.

• Asian Spread finds where the price sits between its recent high and low. Near the high, it buys Asian Up; near the low, Asian Down.

Every bot explains its rule under How it works on its card, and every number it uses is under Settings.

The settings that matter

Duration (ticks). From 5 to 10. A longer contract averages more ticks, so a short spike moves the average less.

Martingale. These bots ship with a 2.1x martingale and a max stake of 5 USD. The ladder runs 1, 2.1, then 4.41 USD before the max stake sends it back to 1 USD. At the 1.95 USD payout, a win at 4.41 USD returns about 4.19 USD in profit, more than the 3.10 USD lost on the two trades before it. Untick Use martingale for a flat stake.

Max losses in a row, stop loss and take profit. The bots stop after 4 losses in a row by default, and once the session is 10 USD down or 10 USD up. Set them to amounts that suit your balance before you run.

The entry settings. Each bot has its own: Run needed on Asian Run, Body share on Asian Candle, Edge position on Asian Spread and so on. Each one's hint on the card says what moving it does.

Asians or Rise / Fall?

Both pay on direction, and both paid 1.95 USD on a 1 USD stake on Volatility 100 when we checked. Rise / Fall settles on the exit against the entry, so the last tick decides everything. Asians settle on the last tick against the average, so a contract that rises steadily wins Asian Up, and one that spikes early and fades can lose it while still finishing above the entry. If your read is about a steady drift, Asians fit. If it is about where the price ends up, see the Rise / Fall bots guide.

Run one now

Open the Asians bots and run one on your demo balance first. Asian Run is a good place to start: its rule is easy to watch on the chart, three ticks in a row and then a trade the same way. Then try a 10 tick Duration (ticks) and see how a longer average changes which contracts win. For how the martingale ladder works across BinaryTick bots, see the martingale guide.