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Perpetual futures on indices, FX, energy, and stocks.One evaluation. Up to a 90% profit split.

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Meet Vig

Your AI quant, built into the terminal.

Vig lives in the terminal. It reads your account, your fills and the chart you have open, answers in plain words, finds setups and works out the trade with you. No add-on, no subscription.

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  • Explain

    Why a stop filled where it did, where your P&L came from, why an order was refused.

  • Coach

    How far you are from your target and your floor, and patterns in your own trading worth fixing.

  • Describe the chart

    Trend, levels and indicator values on the chart you have open, in plain words.

  • Opportunity scanner

    A ranked shortlist across the markets you trade, filtered to what your limits allow.

  • Pattern analysis

    Flags, ranges, breakouts, double tops and divergences, found by tested code and drawn on your chart.

  • Trade cards

    Entry, stop, target and size worked out against the room left before your loss limit. One tap fills the ticket; you confirm.

  • Draft your idea

    Type “buy 2 NQ, 20-point stop, 40-point target” and Vig fills in the ticket. You press Buy.

  • Standing instructions

    “Move my stop to breakeven at +15 points.” The engine carries them out, within limits you set.

How It Works

Set the level. Cap the risk. Let it run.

Every trade is one order — entry, stop loss, and take profit placed together. The position has no expiry: it runs until you close it or the target fills, with the cost of carry locked upfront at entry.

Risk is defined the moment you enter. The stop loss sets the most the trade is designed to lose, the take profit only has to be touched once, and every tick moves a known dollar amount — no funding payments, no overnight surprises.

Unparalleled research

Know the market before you trade it.

Every contract opens into a deep research panel: three months of price, the key statistics that matter, seasonality by hour and weekday, and every daily return of the last quarter. One keystroke from your chart, and Vig can read all of it with you.

NQ
NQ · E-mini Nasdaq-100
Futures50×Market open
28,390.75
−256.00 (−0.89%)
BuySell★ WatchlistAsk Vig
OverviewStatisticsNewsCalendarContract
PRICEO 28,531.00 H 28,577.50 L 28,180.00 C 28,391.751D5D1M3M
32,00031,00030,00029,00028,00028,390.75Aug 5Aug 17SepSep 13OctOct 13Nov
KEY STATISTICS
27,615.7531,616.50
Last28,390.75
Change−256.00 (−0.89%)
Open28,663.00
Prev close28,646.75
Day range28,180.00 – 28,668.50
90-day range27,615.75 – 31,616.50
ATR (14d)632.25
Realized vol (20d)20.8%
5 days−0.53%
30 days−8.18%
90 days−0.61%
Spread now1.00
Volume today44.4K
SEASONALITY · AVERAGE RETURN BY HOUR (NEW YORK) AND WEEKDAYbp per hour, last 90 days
MonTueWedThuFri0003060912151821
−15.0 bp+15.0 bp
DAILY RETURNS · LAST 13 WEEKS35 up · 30 down
MonTueWedThuFriAug 4Sep 1Sep 29Oct 27
−3.14%+3.14%
RETURN DISTRIBUTION · 90 DAYS
−3.1%−1.1%+1.0%+3.0%
CORRELATION · 30 DAYS, DAILY RETURNS
ES0.90
YM0.36
RTY0.57
CL−0.28
GC0.54
GRAYBOOK POSITIONINGall traders, now
61% long39% short
Traders holding27
Long share, 24h change+4 pts
Most traded on Graybook#1 of 500+
NEWS · NQ
2dNasdaq-100 tumbles into its third correction this year as AI worries mountMarketWatch
2dTraders rushing into a leveraged ETF to make a bullish bet on the Nasdaq-100 just got burnedMarketWatch
3dNasdaq and S&P 500 roll over, turn negative, as rotation out of tech continues: Live updatesCNBC
5dAnthropic's path to the Nasdaq just got a lot bumpierCNBC
5dinvestingLive Americas FX news wrap 30 Oct: It's a wrap: Nasdaq tumbles as AI costs worry investors; Fed speakers keep hikes in playForexLive
1hAustralia's trade surplus jumps to A$2.8 billion, a seven-month high, on LNG and metalsForexLive · Market news
1hThursday's big stock stories: What's likely to move the market in the next trading sessionCNBC · Market news
2hJapan services PMI edges up to 51.7, but composite slips to five-month low as hiring slowsForexLive · Market news

Sources: Benzinga (via Alpaca), CNBC, MarketWatch, ForexLive, Investing.com · headlines open the publisher's site

ECONOMIC CALENDAR · RELEVANT TO NQ
WHEN (EST)EVENTIMPACTFORECASTPRIOR
Wed 08:15 AMUSD ADP Non-Farm Employment ChangeLow67K90K
Wed 08:30 AMUSD Trade BalanceLow−107.9B−105.6B
Wed 09:45 AMUSD Final Services PMILow57.957.9
Wed 10:00 AMUSD ISM Services PMIMed54.854.9
Wed 10:30 AMUSD Crude Oil InventoriesLow−1.7M−1.9M
Thu 05:30 AMUSD Challenger Job Cuts y/yLow—−19.9%
Thu 08:30 AMUSD Unemployment ClaimsMed197K194K
Thu 08:30 AMUSD Prelim Nonfarm Productivity q/qLow2.8%1.4%
Thu 08:30 AMUSD Prelim Unit Labor Costs q/qLow0.3%1.3%
Thu 08:50 AMUSD FOMC Member Hammack SpeaksLow——
Thu 09:10 AMUSD FOMC Member Barkin SpeaksLow——
Thu 10:30 AMUSD Natural Gas StorageLow81B80B
Fri 04:30 AMUSD FOMC Member Williams SpeaksLow——
Fri 08:30 AMUSD Average Hourly Earnings m/mHigh0.3%0.1%
Fri 08:30 AMUSD Non-Farm Employment ChangeHigh65K29K
Fri 08:30 AMUSD Unemployment RateHigh4.2%4.2%
Fri 09:10 AMUSD FOMC Member Musalem SpeaksLow——
Fri 10:00 AMUSD Prelim UoM Consumer SentimentMed48.146.3
Fri 10:00 AMUSD Prelim UoM Inflation ExpectationsMed—4.7%
Fri 12:15 PMUSD FOMC Member Bowman SpeaksLow——
Fri 03:00 PMUSD Consumer Credit m/mLow13.4B8.3B

Source: ForexFactory · times in New York

CONTRACT ON GRAYBOOK
InstrumentNQ-PERP
Tick size0.25
Multiplier$20 per point
Tick value$5.00
Leverage50×
Notional, 1 contract$567,815.00
Margin, 1 contract$11,356.30
Trading hoursSun 6:00 pm – Fri 5:00 pm New York, daily break 5–6 pm
Trading day resets5:00 pm New York
ExpiryNone (perpetual)
VIG ON NQ

NQ is down 8.2% over 30 days with realized volatility of 21%. It is trading 19% of the way up its 90-day range, and Graybook traders are 61% long.

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FAQ

In writing.

Straight answers about accounts, rules, trading and payouts. Every number here comes from the same rules the platform enforces.

9 of 9 questions

Is this live capital?

No. Every account is simulated; you never risk your own funds.

No. Graybook is a simulated trading environment: every account trades simulated capital, and you never risk your own funds in the market. You pay a one-time fee for the account, and payouts follow the program rules.

What's the difference between an Evaluation and a Rapid account?

Evaluation: pass a target first. Rapid: funded from day one.

An Evaluation account is the lower-cost path: hit a 10% profit target within the risk rules, and you're funded with an 80% profit split. A Rapid account skips the evaluation entirely: it's funded from day one, with no profit target, a 4% static max loss, a 90% profit split, and payouts on demand.

EvaluationRapid
Fee1% of balance4% of balance
Profit target10%None
Max loss5%, static4%, static
Daily max loss10%, trailingNone
Minimum trading days2None
PayoutsOnce funded: 80%, every 5 trading days90%, on demand
VigVig LiteVig Pro

What are the risk rules?

Evaluation: a 5% static max loss and a 10% trailing daily max loss. Rapid: one 4% static max loss.

Evaluation: a 10% profit target, a 5% static max loss, a 10% trailing daily max loss, and a minimum of 2 trading days. There is no consistency rule. Rapid: a 4% static max loss and nothing else — no daily loss limit, no profit target, no minimum days.

Example: a $25,000 account

Max loss (static)$24,000
Start$25,000

Rapid has no daily loss limit and no profit target.

How do perpetual futures work on Graybook?

Each contract tracks its market, with no expiry and no funding payments.

Each contract tracks an underlying market — an index future, a commodity, a stock, a coin, or a currency pair — with no expiry, so a position runs until you close it or it hits your stop or target. There are no funding payments: the cost of carry is fixed at entry, and every tick moves your P&L by a known dollar amount.

Re-anchored to the official priceUnderlying closed · the perp keeps tradingFriWeekendMonNQ-PERPNQ official priceNo expiry · no funding payments
Learn more: what are perpetual futures?

What happens when the underlying market is closed?

Graybook keeps trading 24/7, then re-anchors when the market reopens.

Graybook trades 24/7. When an underlying market closes — over a weekend or a holiday — its perpetual keeps trading and can drift with the flow. The moment the market reopens, the price is anchored back to its official exchange price.

Crypto
Forex
Futures
Equities
00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00
Underlying market openGraybook keeps tradingRe-anchored to the official price

What can I trade?

500+ perpetual contracts across five books.

500+ contracts across index futures, commodities, U.S. equities, crypto, and forex, priced on the official feeds of 8 exchanges.

Index Futures
NQESRTYYM+ more
Commodities
GCCL+ more
Equities
AAPLNVDAAMZNMETAGOOGLTSLAMSFTAMD+ more
Crypto
BTCETHSOLBNBLINKXRPDOGEAVAX+ more
Forex
AUDUSDEURUSDUSDCADUSDJPY+ more
See every market and its specs

How and when do I get paid?

Funded accounts pay out. Rapid: a 90% split, on demand. Be flat to request one.

Evaluations don't pay out: payouts come from funded accounts. Pass your evaluation and your funded account earns an 80% profit split, paid every 5 trading days. Rapid accounts are funded from day one and pay a 90% profit split on demand, whenever you request a payout. To request one you must be flat (no open positions); the minimum payout is $10 and the most you can take out is $10,000 a day.

Rapid: you keep 90%10%

Paid on demand, whenever you request a payout.

Funded: you keep 80%20%

After you pass an evaluation: paid every 5 trading days. Evaluations themselves don't pay out.

Be flatNo open positions when you request$10 minimumper payout$10,000 a dayat most

What is Vig?

Graybook's AI quant, built into the platform.

Vig is Graybook's AI quant, built into the platform. Evaluation accounts include Vig Lite and Rapid accounts include Vig Pro.

Why did my NQ stop fill at 28,986.75?
VIGThe bid dropped from 28,991.00 to 28,986.75 in one update, so it skipped your 28,990 trigger. Stops fill at the first price after a gap: 13 ticks of slippage.

Example conversation. Nothing Vig says is investment advice.

How do I pay for an account?

By card, or in crypto: USDC, USDT, BTC or ETH.

By card or in crypto (USDC, USDT, BTC, or ETH). A checkout stays open for 10 minutes once you choose how to pay, so crypto amounts and payment addresses are never stale.

CardPay by card at checkout.
CryptoUSDC, USDT, BTC or ETH, to an address shown at checkout.
10-minute checkoutAmounts and addresses are fixed while it's open, so they're never stale.
Still have a question?The knowledge base explains how every part of Graybook works. Once you're in, ask Vig inside the terminal.
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