Deriv launches Crash Boom Flip Indices
Deriv has launched Crash Boom Flip Indices, a new addition to its Derived Indices suite, and for the first time, every spike could go either way.
By the Deriv desk · 11 August 2026 · 4 min read
Deriv has launched Crash Boom Flip Indices, a new addition to its Derived Indices suite. For the first time, a single index produces both sudden drops and sudden spikes upwards — and which one arrives next is never predetermined.
Where a Crash Index always drops suddenly before rising slowly, and a Boom Index always spikes upwards suddenly before falling slowly, a Crash Boom Flip Index commits to neither direction permanently. Instead, it alternates between two phases: a Crash phase, where the price climbs upwards gradually while carrying the risk of a sudden drop, and a Boom phase, where the price declines downwards gradually while carrying the risk of a sudden spike upwards. Each large move is an event that may end the current phase and open a new one, or be absorbed, leaving the current phase in play.
What are Crash Boom Flip Indices?
Many indices in the Derived Indices suite are built around defined movement structures. A Crash Index always drops sharply before climbing steadily upwards; a Boom Index always spikes upwards before drifting downwards. Crash Boom Flip Indices depart from this structure. Rather than committing to a single direction for life, a Flip Index cycles between its Crash and Boom phases over time, with large moves serving as the potential turning points between them.
Not every large move flips the phase. Some drops end an upward climb and open a downward decline; others are absorbed and the upward climb resumes. You can tell which happened by watching whether the gradual drift changes direction after the move. That distinction — can turn, not will turn — is what makes Flip Indices a genuinely different instrument from anything else in the Crash/Boom family.
As with all Synthetic Indices on Deriv, Crash Boom Flip Indices run independent of real-world markets, news, or trading hours. They're available to trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week, driven by a secure random number generator.
Because the direction of each large move depends on the current phase, and the phase can change, the technical signals traders typically use to judge whether a price is overextended may not apply in the same way. A phase turn can arrive at any large move, with or against those signals.
Four symbols, four speeds
- Crash Boom Flip 150 Index
- Crash Boom Flip 300 Index
- Crash Boom Flip 500 Index
- Crash Boom Flip 1000 Index
The number in each symbol's name reflects the average tick interval between large moves, where a tick is the smallest unit of price movement. The lower the number, the more frequently large moves occur; the higher the number, the longer the typical interval between them, though moves at the higher end tend to be larger when they do arrive.
This creates a trade-off between frequency and magnitude.
| Index | Large moves | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Crash Boom Flip 150 | On average 1 every 150 ticks | Fastest — short phases, frequent potential turning points |
| Crash Boom Flip 300 | On average 1 every 300 ticks | Frequent large moves with room for trends to form |
| Crash Boom Flip 500 | On average 1 every 500 ticks | Balanced — clear trends, regular potential turning points |
| Crash Boom Flip 1000 | On average 1 every 1000 ticks | Slowest — the longest, cleanest phases |
You can choose the symbol that best matches your preferred pace, from the fast-moving Flip 150 to the higher-magnitude Flip 1000. The number describes a long-run average, not a fixed countdown. Large moves can cluster together or stretch out unpredictably, so no amount of tick-counting can tell you when the next one will arrive.
As with any Derived Index, trading Crash Boom Flip Indices carries risk. The two-phase structure gives it a different risk profile from a fixed-direction index like a standard Crash or Boom, position sizing and stop placement matter here exactly as much as they do on the classic family.
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