Volatility 75 index explained for Deriv traders

Here is the volatility 75 index explained in plain terms. It is one of Deriv's synthetic indices, known on the platform as R_75. It is not a stock index and it does not track any company, commodity or country. It is a price series generated by Deriv that runs every day of the week, and traders buy contracts on whether it will rise or fall. It is traded on Deriv, on the Deriv chart or through a tool that signs in to a Deriv account, and nowhere else.

The volatility 75 index explained as a number that moves on its own

R_75 produces a new tick continuously. There is no opening bell, no closing bell and no weekend gap, because there is no underlying market to close. That is the first thing to understand about it. The news does not move it. An earnings report does not move it. It moves because it is built to move.

The 75 in the name is the label Deriv gives this member of the family. The family runs Volatility 10, 25, 50, 75 and 100, and each of those also has a one second version that ticks faster. Traders usually describe the higher numbered ones as the livelier ones, and the numbers from a live reading below support that picture.

What R_75 looked like on the chart today

These figures were taken from Deriv's live feed at 2026-09-25 15:04 UTC, over the last 1000 ticks, from 14:31 to 15:04 UTC. They describe one half hour window on one day. They are not a forecast and the next half hour can look nothing like this.

In that window R_75 went from 43801.9028 to 43476.9435, a fall of 0.742%, with a high of 43992.176 and a low of 43474.5912. The distance between that high and that low was 1.191% of price, the widest of the five in this sample. Volatility 10 covered 0.098% in the same half hour. That is the practical difference a trader feels: on R_75, the same stake and the same contract duration are exposed to a much larger swing.

The big price number is not the same as the big move

R_75 quotes in the tens of thousands while Volatility 50 quoted at 86.7191 in the same window. That tells you nothing about which one moves more. What matters is the percentage. R_75 moved 0.742% and R_50 moved 0.393%, and that comparison is the one worth reading. Traders new to synthetics often assume a large price means a large risk, and it does not by itself.

Runs are worth watching too. In that window the longest unbroken run of ticks in one direction on R_75 was 10. A streak like that can look like a trend while it is happening and end a tick later. Volatility 50 ran 12 ticks one way in the same window, so the longest run is not simply a function of how volatile the index is.

Last digits on R_75 sit close to even, with drift

Digit contracts pay on the final digit of the quoted price rather than on direction. Over those 1000 ticks the digit shares on R_75 were: 0 at 9.3%, 1 at 7.7%, 2 at 10.9%, 3 at 11.5%, 4 at 10.7%, 5 at 10.6%, 6 at 10%, 7 at 8.1%, 8 at 11.4%, 9 at 9.8%. The most common digit was 3, the least common was 1, and the spread between them was 3.8 points.

That is what a sample looks like. Over a thousand ticks, digits drift away from an even split, and the gap you see is a description of what already happened. It does not tell you what the next tick does. The Deriv analyzer tool page goes into what those counts do and do not mean.

Where volatility 75 is traded and what the contracts are

R_75 is traded on Deriv, using Deriv's own contract types. Those include rise and fall, higher and lower, and the digit contracts. A trader picks a stake, a duration in ticks or in time, and a direction or a digit, and the contract settles itself. There is no third party quoting the index and no other venue where the same series exists.

BancaBot sits on top of that. It is not Deriv and it is not a broker. A trader signs in with their own Deriv account through Deriv's OAuth screen, and the permission requested is trading only, which lets BancaBot read the balance and place trades. It cannot withdraw and never sees a password. Real and demo accounts both work.

What BancaBot shows on R_75

The AI Signals screen gives one read per market, R_75 included, with the reasoning shown next to it. The trader decides what to do with it. Auto Trader can place trades from those signals and stops at the limits set beforehand, including a loss limit and a target. Digit Trader reads the last digits and shows one pick for the next tick, with every card that fed into it. Bot Forge holds a block based builder and a library of free bots, which read bot files from the older builders.

None of that removes risk. An index that can travel over a percent in half an hour can go against a position just as fast as it goes with one, and trading loses money for many people. A loss limit set before the first trade is worth more than any read of the chart.

If you want to watch R_75 with the reasoning written out beside the price, open the signals screen on a demo account first.