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title: "Grid trading - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Placing orders at fixed intervals above and below a price so that positions accumulate as the market moves. It profits from oscillation and accumulates…"
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Strategy and performance

# Grid trading

Placing orders at fixed intervals above and below a price so that positions accumulate as the market moves. It profits from oscillation and accumulates exposure in a sustained trend.

GFN’s figure

Accumulating grid exposure is measured against GFN's equity-based limits in real time: 3% on Instant, 5% on the 1 Step and 2 Step, with floating losses counted while positions are open.

In detail

## Grid trading, explained

A grid without a hard stop is a martingale with extra steps: exposure grows in one direction exactly as the market keeps moving that way. Most grid failures are a single directional run, not a series of bad trades.

Grids are usually automated, which makes the account's exposure a function of code running unattended - and on an equity-monitored risk limit, an unattended position is still counted every second it is open.

[Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More strategy and performance](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/strategy)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Martingale](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/martingale) - Doubling position size after each loss so that one win recovers the sequence. The required size grows exponentially, so the strategy needs unlimited capital to survive a long enough losing run.
- [Averaging down](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/averaging-down) - Adding to a losing position to improve the average entry price. It lowers the break-even level and raises the size of the loss if the position keeps moving against you.
- [Algorithmic trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/algorithmic-trading) - Trading decisions and execution driven by code rather than by a person. It covers everything from a single automated entry rule to a fully systematic strategy running unattended.
- [Equity-based drawdown](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/equity-based-drawdown) - A drawdown measured against live account equity, which includes the unrealised profit and loss of every open position. The breach level can be touched while a trade is still running, before anything is closed.
- [Expert advisor](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/expert-advisor) - A program that places trades automatically according to coded rules. It executes a strategy without a trader present, which removes hesitation and removes judgement at the same time.

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