Grid Trading
The mechanics and the risk of grid strategies: spacing, lot multipliers, basket take-profit, and why drawdown in a grid grows the way it does.
Grid Trading · Guide
What Is Grid Trading?
A grid strategy opens positions at fixed price intervals and closes them together at a profit target. How grids work, why they win often, how they lose, and the numbers that decide which.
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Grid Trading Drawdown Explained
Why a grid's floating loss grows faster the further price moves, how to compute it at any distance, why balance and equity tell different stories, and how grids are stopped before the tail.
4 min read
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Grid Trading vs Martingale
A grid decides where positions open; a martingale decides how big they are. How the two differ, how they combine in most grid EAs, and what each does to recovery and to risk.
3 min read
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How Grid Spacing Works
Grid spacing is the distance between a grid's entries. How it sets the grid's span, how often baskets close and how fast losses build — with fixed, volatility-based and widening steps compared.
4 min read
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How Lot Multipliers Change Grid Risk
A lot multiplier makes each grid level bigger than the last. What it does to total exposure, to the retrace needed to recover, and to the loss at depth — ×1 to ×3 compared on the same grid.
4 min read
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XAUUSD Grid Trading: Mechanics, Risks and Considerations
Running a grid on gold: what 100-ounce lots do to grid maths, the hours and events gold grids handle worst, costs that add up on held baskets, and how to size a gold grid from its worst case.
4 min read