Volatility 100 (1s) Index Pip Value Calculator
Synthetic Indices
Volatility 100 (1s) Index is one of Deriv's own synthetic instruments — it only trades on Deriv's platform, not through a standard MT4 forex broker, so this calculator uses a periodically-updated reference price rather than a live feed. The math below still matches exactly what you'd see sizing a real position.
How do I calculate pip value for Volatility 100 (1s) Index?
VOLATILITY-100-1S moves in whole points, with this site treating one point the same way it treats one pip elsewhere — the figures below are already converted to Deriv's own 1-unit contract size for this instrument.
Take a trade at 0.50 lots, a stop 124 points away and a target 248 points away:
How does the Volatility 100 (1s) family behave?
Volatility 100 (1s) Index is built to hold a fixed, constant volatility level around the clock — unlike a real-market instrument, it never calms down or speeds up with the news cycle. The number in the name (10 through 250) is that fixed annualized volatility figure itself: a higher number means consistently larger average price swings, not an occasional spike.
Can I size this the same way I would size a normal forex trade?
Be careful — synthetic indices are engineered to include sudden, outsized price movement as part of their own design, not as a rare tail event the way a real-market shock is. Treat your usual forex risk-per-trade habits as a loose starting point only, and consider sizing VOLATILITY-100-1S more conservatively than a comparable forex position, since a single adverse spike or jump can move price by many points in one tick.
Conclusion
1 unit per lot is Deriv's own stated contract size for VOLATILITY-100-1S — confirm it against your own Deriv account's contract specification before trusting this figure for a real position, the same discipline that applies to any other instrument on this site. See the Pip Value calculator hub and Deriv's own overview of its synthetic indices.
Contract specification
Point value and minimum lot step vary by broker on index/CFD instruments — a mismatch here is a common, avoidable cause of an unexpectedly large loss. Confirm this instrument's contract specification in your platform before sizing a real trade.
Frequently asked questions
What is a pipette?
A pipette (fractional pip) is one-tenth of a pip — the fifth decimal place for most forex pairs, or the third decimal for JPY pairs. Synthetic indices like this one are quoted to their own precision instead, with one point already treated as the smallest meaningful unit.
Why doesn't this page show a live price for VOLATILITY-100-1S?
VOLATILITY-100-1S only trades on Deriv's own platform, which isn't part of the MT4 feed this site otherwise uses — the reference price here is a periodically-updated snapshot for worked examples, not a live tick. The pip/point value math itself doesn't depend on the live price at all.