No. Martingale, grid trading, and similar strategies that progressively increase exposure or position size are prohibited across all Aurex programs, including both the evaluation and funded stages.
What is Martingale Trading?
Martingale is a strategy where a trader increases the size of a new position after experiencing a losing trade or adverse market movement, typically with the goal of recovering previous losses when the market eventually moves in their favor.
For example, a trader might:
0.10 lots → loss → 0.20 lots → loss → 0.40 lots → loss → 0.80 lots
The problem is that risk increases rapidly. Instead of accepting a controlled loss, the trader continues increasing exposure in an attempt to recover the loss with one winning movement.
Martingale does not have to involve exactly doubling the lot size to be considered prohibited. Consistently increasing position sizes or overall exposure as a trade moves against you in an attempt to recover losses may also be treated as Martingale-style behavior.
What is Grid Trading?
Grid trading generally involves opening multiple positions at predetermined or repeated price intervals as the market moves, creating a series or “grid” of trades.
For example, a trader buys XAUUSD and, as the market continues moving against the position, continues adding additional BUY positions at different price levels.
Having multiple positions open at the same time does not automatically mean you are grid trading. The concern is when positions are systematically stacked as price moves against the trader, particularly when the strategy progressively increases the account's total exposure.
Why Does Aurex Prohibit These Strategies?
Aurex evaluates traders based on risk management, discipline, and sustainable trading behavior. Martingale and aggressive grid strategies can create situations where a trader repeatedly increases risk rather than accepting a loss.
This can effectively turn the account into an all-or-nothing bet: either the market eventually reverses and the accumulated positions generate a large profit, or the account reaches its maximum drawdown.
That behavior falls under Aurex's broader prohibition against gambling-style trading.
Important: Adding to a position or using multiple entries is not automatically prohibited. Traders may scale into positions as part of a legitimate trading strategy.
What is prohibited is using progressively increasing exposure, systematic grids, or escalating position sizes to recover losses or aggressively depend on a market reversal.
Simple rule: You can scale into a trade with controlled, predefined risk. You cannot continuously increase your exposure because a trade is losing and rely on the market eventually reversing to save the position.