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title: "Martingale - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Doubling position size after each loss so that one win recovers the sequence. The required size grows exponentially, so the strategy needs unlimited…"
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Strategy and performance

# 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.

GFN’s figure

A martingale sequence starting at 0.5% risk on a $100,000 GFN account reaches the 2 Step 8% floor after five losses - 0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 8% together exceed the $8,000 available.

In detail

## Martingale, explained

Martingale produces a long, smooth run of small wins followed by a single catastrophic loss. It is not a strategy with a low probability of a bad outcome; it is one that concentrates the bad outcome into one event.

On an account with a fixed drawdown floor it fails faster than on a live account, because the floor arrives long before the capital does.

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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.

- [Grid trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/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.
- [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.
- [Risk of ruin](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/risk-of-ruin) - The probability that a sequence of trades takes an account to its breach level before it reaches its target, given a win rate, a reward-to-risk ratio and a risk per trade. It is driven mostly by position size.
- [Maximum drawdown](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/maximum-drawdown) - The total loss an account may take before it is failed. Expressed as a percentage of the starting balance, it sets a floor: touch it and the account breaches, whatever the account has made up to that point.
- [Position size](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/position-size) - How many lots a trade is placed in. It is calculated from the dollar amount being risked and the stop distance, not chosen first - which is the reverse of how most traders approach it.

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