Trading Martingale System - Two Sides

Martingale - a bid management system in gambling. This type of strategy is very popular in roulette. But this forex martingale principle is not bypassed.

What is so good principle of the Martingale? The test strategy Martina titled "Two Sides of the martingale." Variety martingale I will show in this article.

History Martingale first recorded this way betting system in the middle of the 18th century. The principle is that after every loss, the trader doubles the bet, so that in case of profit - to pay back all the previous losses. After arrived, lot next trade should be equal to the initial lot. Details of the scheme described in Wikipedia .

In order to have an idea of the classic Martingale You can try counselor called LightMartingail . But in this article we will go ahead and offer you a different kind of trading system.

The following tests were carried out on the famous platform MetaTrader4 from Alpari .

Let us examine the trading strategy by Martin with an unusual method - Two sides.
The method consists in the fact that at the beginning of the start advisor, we open two opposite BUY and SELL. The initial stop loss should be equal to the take profit. For example:

StopLoss = 100;
TakeProfit = 100;

In this case, the foot of one order we get the profiles of other warrants. Thus the output to 0.
Then open the next series of transactions, but on one condition. Offer the following transactions of one type = * Offer martingale. And in the future, we will block the loss of the first set of the transaction and earn a profit of 100 points. On the example of the adviser :

1 2013.01.02 9:00 buy 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32616 1.32816
2 2013.01.02 9:00 sell 2 0.10 1.32712 1.32812 1.32612
3 2013.01.02 9:03 s / l 2 0.10 1.32812 1.32812 1.32612 -10.00 9990.00
4 2013.01.02 9:03 t / p 1 0.10 1.32816 1.32616 1.32816 10.00 10000.00
5 2013.01.02 9:03 buy 3 0.10 1.32820 1.32720 1.32920
6 2013.01.02 9:03 sell 4 0.20 1.32816 1.32916 1.32716
7 2013.01.02 9:06 s / l 3 0.10 1.32720 1.32720 1.32920 -10.00 9990.00
8 2013.01.02 9:06 t / p 4 0.20 1.32716 1.32916 1.32716 20.00 10010.00

Trading scheme is described in the following screenshot:

Overall picture of the test is as follows:



A trader who sent us a strategy assures that the use trallingstopa in this strategy, we are able to collect more revenue than the classic example. Let's try to make out the same transaction only with trawls:

StopLoss = 100;
TakeProfit = 0;
TrailingStopUSE = true;
IfProfTrail = true;
TrailingStop = 100;
TrailingStep = 10;

1 2013.01.02 9:00 buy 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32616 0.00000
2 2013.01.02 9:00 sell 2 0.10 1.32712 1.32812 0.00000
3 2013.01.02 9:03 s / l 2 0.10 1.32812 1.32812 0.00000 -10.00 9990.00
4 2013.01.02 9:03 modify 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32808 0.00000
5 2013.01.02 9:03 modify 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32812 0.00000
6 2013.01.02 9:03 modify 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32816 0.00000
7 2013.01.02 9:03 modify 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32820 0.00000
8 2013.01.02 9:03 modify 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32824 0.00000
9 2013.01.02 9:03 modify 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32829 0.00000
10 2013.01.02 9:03 modify 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32833 0.00000
11 2013.01.02 9:03 modify 1 0.10 1.32716 1.32837 0.00000
12 2013.01.02 9:03 s / l 1 0.10 1.32837 1.32837 0.00000 12.10 10002.10
13 2013.01.02 9:03 buy 3 0.10 1.32841 1.32741 0.00000
14 2013.01.02 9:03 sell 4 0.20 1.32837 1.32937 0.00000
15 2013.01.02 9:06 s / l 3 0.10 1.32741 1.32741 0.00000 -10.00 9992.10
16 2013.01.02 9:06 modify 4 0.20 1.32837 1.32744 0.00000
17 2013.01.02 9:06 modify 4 0.20 1.32837 1.32738 0.00000
18 2013.01.02 9:06 modify 4 0.20 1.32837 1.32731 0.00000
19 2013.01.02 9:06 modify 4 0.20 1.32837 1.32725 0.00000
20 2013.01.02 9:06 s / l 4 0.20 1.32725 1.32725 0.00000 22.40 10014.50

The scheme of this type of martingale is shown in the following screenshot:

Overall picture of the test is as follows:

As we can see from the trading system is the result. We got more profit.
According to reports, the tester for the period 2013.01.02 09:00 - 2013.01.09 23:45 , where the tested strategy, we can also note that:

Trailing Stop method without Trailing Stop method
Net profit 1847.89 2192.02
Profitability 1.16 1.18
Absolute drawdown 2267.83 2068.81
Expected payoff 4.64 5.56
Profit trades (% of total) 190 (47.74%) 183 (46.45%)

Reviews martingale quite negative among traders, but often each player uses 3 in their system - the principle in one form or another. Therefore, it is not immediately chop Martingale shoulder. I would point out two main points of the strategy:

Martingale type of trading is risky. At one point, you could lose everything.
Martingale type of trading is fast enough. On the day you can earn 100%.

At the same time, I want to note that a martingale must learn to work . To stop in time, do not play on the news, think about every action. As an example of these words, I will show that you can earn per week and drained for the second week of the system:

We have earned 100% of the initial deposit for 1 week of trading:


During the second week of trading we have merged and are 100% and 30% of the initial deposit:

Advisor martingale is not able to think for you. That you have to take into account, but the counselor respond faster algorithm than you. doing routine work for you, you only have to watch him, and when to stop. According to this strategy, written adviser . The archive contains a file advisor + 2 Set the file used tactics.

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Good luck and profits.