Double after every loss and you never book a losing trade, until one streak asks for 256 times your first stake. We run the actual arithmetic on why martingale accounts always end the same way.
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There is a formula that tells you, before you place a single trade, the probability your account eventually dies. Most traders have never run their own numbers through it. Here it is, worked properly.
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Gold wrecks more retail accounts than any forex pair we see, and it's not bad luck. Contract size, margin load, spread spikes and gaps: here's the exact machinery, with numbers.
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Blowing an account hurts, but the real damage happens in the ninety days after, when the urge to win it back fast blows account number two. Here's the slower route that actually works.
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Blown accounts almost never die from one bad trade. They die from one bad response to it. Nine root causes we keep finding in wrecked trading histories, and the pattern that connects all of them.
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