Nine Lives: how FXNOD's Deriv Differs bot works

Nine Lives at a glance

What Nine Lives trades

Nine Lives trades one contract only: Differs, from Deriv's Matches / Differs family, with a length of one tick. The contract is decided by the last digit of a tick's price, which is its final decimal digit: a tick at 1234.56 ends in 6. A trade wins when the next tick ends in any digit except the one the bot bet against. Nine digits out of ten win, so a win pays a small fraction of the stake. A losing trade costs the whole stake. Deriv sets the payout, and each trade's result is listed on the run page.

When Nine Lives enters a trade

Nine Lives reads the last digit of every tick on its market. While neighbouring ticks end in different digits it does nothing. When two ticks in a row end in the same digit, it buys a one-tick Differs on that digit. The trade wins if the next tick ends in any of the other nine digits, and loses if the digit prints a third time.

Once the trade has closed the bot looks at the two newest ticks again. If they still end in the same digit it enters again at once; otherwise it waits for the next pair.

Nine Lives holds one trade at a time: it looks for the next entry only after the last contract has closed. The entry rule sets when the bot trades and how often. It does not make any single trade more likely to win.

How Nine Lives sizes its stake

Nine Lives uses a Martingale stake. After a losing trade the stake is multiplied by 16.43; after a winning trade it returns to the starting stake. Losses in a row compound: the stake after two straight losses is the starting stake multiplied twice, rounded to two decimal places.

The stop loss bounds the ladder. A stake is placed only if it is no larger than what is left of the stop loss; a step that does not fit is not placed, and the session ends there. The table shows the stakes of an unbroken run of losses from a session that is level. A session that is already in profit has more room, and one that is behind has less.

Read the first row like this: on the stop loss 20 plan, 2 losing trades in a row cost 17.43 in total. The next stake would be 269.94, which is more than the 2.57 left of the stop loss, so the bot does not place it and the session ends.

The plans of Nine Lives

Nine Lives is not given a stake, a stop loss and a profit target one by one. You choose a plan, and the plan sets all of them together. Plans are named by their stop loss. The amounts are in the currency of the Deriv account the bot trades.

When a session ends

• The profit target is reached. The bot stops with the session's profit at or above the plan's target.
• The stop loss is reached. No stake is placed that could take the session's loss past the plan's stop loss.
• You stop it. The Stop button on the run page ends the session at any time.

Nine Lives runs on FXNOD's servers, not in your browser. Closing the page or switching off your device does not stop it, and does not switch off its limits. Starting it again after a session has ended begins a new session with the full plan.

How to start Nine Lives

1. 1

   Open Auto Hub and choose Nine Lives

   The bot's page opens with a How it works panel that lists its rules in order.

2. 2

   Choose the market

   Nine Lives trades one market. The form suggests Volatility 100 (1s), Volatility 100, Volatility 75 (1s), Volatility 75, Volatility 50 (1s) and Volatility 50. Jump 100 is not offered for this bot.

3. 3

   Choose a plan

   Each plan card shows its stop loss, its take profit and its starting stake. Nothing on the card can be edited.

4. 4

   Check the account, then start

   The panel shows which Deriv account the bot will trade. On a demo account the button reads Start on demo. On a real account you tick a box to confirm that the bot trades real money, and the button reads Start with real money. The first time, Deriv asks you to approve FXNOD's automated-trading connection on its own page.