How to Connect a Deriv Account to DONKOFX

Deriv is a broker that offers synthetic indices: computer-generated markets that run every day of the year, including weekends. DONKOFX uses Deriv for its digit bots, which trade very short contracts on those indices, and for strategy bots that can trade Deriv synthetics through Multiplier contracts with a fixed take profit and stop loss.

For forex and gold through MetaTrader 5 or cTrader, you connect a different broker account, and the broker directory explains how each one links to DONKOFX. This guide covers Deriv only.

DONKOFX uses Deriv's official authorisation flow. It is the same kind of sign-in you use when an app asks to "continue with" another service. You log in on Deriv's own page, Deriv asks whether you want to give DONKOFX access, and if you click Authorize, Deriv sends DONKOFX a token that lets it trade on your behalf within the permissions you approved.

This design means DONKOFX never sees or stores your Deriv password. The flow also uses a security step called PKCE, which ties the approval to the browser that started it, so an approval cannot be intercepted and reused by someone else.

DONKOFX asks for trading and reading access only. It can place and manage trades and read balances and history. It has no withdrawal access, so it cannot move money out of your Deriv account.

If the original DONKOFX page does not update after you approve, return to it and refresh. Some browsers separate the two tabs for security reasons, and the connection may already be saved.

A single Deriv login usually includes a demo account loaded with virtual money and one or more real accounts. After connecting, DONKOFX lists them separately and marks each one as demo or real. Check the label, the currency and the balance carefully before starting any bot, because the start screen uses the account you select.

Start with demo. A demo account behaves like a real one but cannot lose real money. Use it to learn how a bot starts, how its activity feed reads, how a session stops at its limit and how you stop it yourself. Run several sessions, including at least one that ends in a loss, so you know what that feels like before money is involved.

When you move to real money, start with a small balance you could lose entirely without it affecting your bills or savings.

There is no switch to flip. Your real account is already linked from the same approval, so moving to real money means starting a bot with the real account selected instead of the demo one. Because nothing else changes, it is worth slowing down at this moment.

Before the first real session, write down three numbers: the balance you are prepared to lose in full, the session loss limit you will use and the stake. Then compare them with what you saw on demo. If a demo session ever lost more than you would be comfortable losing for real, reduce the stake or the number of recovery steps before you start. Keep the same bot and settings you tested; changing everything at once makes it impossible to tell what caused a different result.

For the first week, check the activity feed after every session. Once the real account behaves the way the demo did, a daily check is enough.

When you press Start, DONKOFX first asks Deriv for the account's current balance, so that your loss limit and stake checks use the real figure rather than a figure saved earlier. If the account has no balance, the start is refused, because a bot cannot size risk on an empty account.

For digit bots, DONKOFX then calculates the full worst case of your configuration, including every recovery stake, and refuses to start if it does not fit inside your session loss limit. Once the bot is running, it trades on Deriv from DONKOFX servers, so your phone or computer can be switched off.

You can stop DONKOFX from using a Deriv account in two ways. Inside DONKOFX, remove the account from Accounts. Any bots running on it will be stopped. On Deriv, open your account settings and revoke DONKOFX's access to the app; this cancels the token at the source, so it can no longer be used at all.

If you only want to pause trading, you do not need to disconnect. Stop the bots instead and reconnect later only if Deriv reports that the access has expired.