When synthetic indices first appeared, I was baffled by their lot sizes. I came from forex, where 0.01 is the base lot, so seeing V75 start at 0.001 felt alien. Then Boom & Crash indices use 0.20 minimum lots—yet their price moves at a snail’s pace. I remember comparing a 0.2 lot on Boom 100 […]
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Back in 2016 I stumbled onto Deriv’s synthetic indices and thought, “Trade 24/7 with zero news noise? I’m in.” As a forex-and-binary options guy, the idea of pure algorithm-driven markets sounded both crazy and brilliant. Nearly a decade later, I’m still trading these things every day—watching new synths launch, old ones retire, and setups evolve. […]
