DiMARTI: This is the martingale story. Many people will tell you that Martingale is the sure way to kill your account. They may be right. It is like giving a child a tool that they cannot handle. If you understand it and use it wisely it comes to your rescue. Firstly the number you use is the multiplier to each level of trades. So if you set it to 2 it will double each subsequent lot. That is 0.01 becomes 0.02 then 0.04 then 0.08 then 0.16 etc so that at level 12 you would have a total of 40.95 lots open on one set of trades and double that for the counters. This is why it is critical that your grid settings be such that it can handle a runaway or a sudden spike and also that your martingale can handle the situation. I use 1.5