Scaling up

Scaling up used for Dukascopy(safe account)

Important points :

1. Trading system must have a high winning percentage - above atleast 70%.
2. The risk to reward ratio should be atleast 1:4 including the spread. The spread and commissions should always be covered.
3. If 30 minute chart agrees with the direction of trade then the risk to reward ratio should be increased to 1:8.
4. Scale up after winning 2 trades.
5. Scale down after losing 1 trade.
6. After achieving the target of atleast $40000 go back to 1a.
7. Never ever scale up if the SL of current trade is more than last trade. Reduce the lot size or leverage depending upon the situation
Current Balance - $81,580

Starting lot - 2000 X 50 = 100000
Pip value - $10

Scaling scalehypothetical SL and TP as the values have been different so far)

1a. 10/40 --------------------> $100/$400 --------------------> 400
1b. 10/40 --------------------> $100/$400 --------------------> 800

2a. 10/40 --------------------> $200/$800 --------------------> 1600
2b. 10/40 --------------------> $200/$800 --------------------> 2400

3a. 10/40 --------------------> $300/$1200 --------------------> 3600
3b. 10/40 --------------------> $300/$1200 --------------------> 4800

4a. 10/40 --------------------> $400/$1600 --------------------> 6400
4b. 10/40 --------------------> $400/$1600 --------------------> 8000

5a. 10/40 --------------------> $500/$2000 --------------------> 10000
5b. 10/40 --------------------> $500/$2000 --------------------> 12000

6a. 10/40 --------------------> $600/$2400 --------------------> 14400
6b. 10/40 --------------------> $600/$2400 --------------------> 16800

7a. 10/40 --------------------> $700/$2800 --------------------> 19600
7b. 10/40 --------------------> $700/$2800 --------------------> 22400

8a. 10/40 --------------------> $800/$3200 --------------------> 25600
8b. 10/40 --------------------> $800/$3200 --------------------> 28800

9a. 10/40 --------------------> $900/$3600 --------------------> 32400
9b. 10/40 --------------------> $900/$3600 --------------------> 35000

10a. 10/40 --------------------> $1000/$4000 --------------------> 39000
10b. 10/40 --------------------> $1000/$4000 --------------------> 43000

Aggressive Martingale for IB brokers(very aggressive)

Important point:

1. Do not have more than $5000 in IB account.
2. After every loss scale down and after every win scale up.
3. Rest same as Duka account rules.

Pip value : 5000*50=250000/10000=25

1. 10/40 --------------------> 250/1000 --------------------> 1000

2. 10/40 --------------------> 500/2000 --------------------> 3000

3. 10/40 --------------------> 1000/4000 --------------------> 7000

4. 10/40 --------------------> 2000/8000 --------------------> 15000

5. 10/40 --------------------> 4000/16000 --------------------> 31000

6. 10/40 --------------------> 8000/32000 --------------------> 63000

7. 10/40 --------------------> 16000/64000 --------------------> 127000

8. 10/40 --------------------> 32000/128000 --------------------> 257000

9. 10/40 --------------------> 64000/256000 --------------------> 513000

10. 10/40 --------------------> 128000/512000 --------------------> 1025000


Results so far

Dukascopy:
Cycles = All 3 scale up cycles completed.
Time taken = Approx 5 months

IB brokers :

Reached level 7 and then blew the account for first cycle.
Useless scale up system as slippage starts happening even in a broker like IB.
Next cycle try to cap at pip value of 1000 and run it 10 times there-after.

impressive you do it on demo our real ?

I replied on another thread Dukascopy is on real account IB was a under 25 account was blown. It was the $3000 minimum balance one with 5000 more kept in for next cycle and for safety but as soon as I blew it I panicked and withdraw all. I have set new rules as stated above for my next cycle but it's unlikely I'll be doing the next cycle because Dukascopy one is going great. On IB, the system I used was 1 minute on USD/JPY and Eur/USD which gave me trades with SL as low as 5 pips and take profit at 25-30 pips. I was really picky and yet I blew the account when I hit a rough patch. At levels where pip value was above $100 I noticed a little slippage which messed with my stop loss. Scaling up IB style is not for me atleast for now. Dukascopy scale up strategy has been a revelation for me but it's very irritating and requires patience and discipline. For example on my first cycle on 2a I lost once which is ok but on 4b I lost 3 in a row which meant I had to scale backwards as per rules and coincidentally there was not enough trade setups during this period so I ended up getting frustrated.


In theory the IB style is possible but in practice it extremely stressful and one wrong move and boom whereas Dukascopy one has been perfect. Infact my next scale up method will be an aggressive version to replace the IB method.