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Capped modes

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Martingale recovery with a hard ceiling. The practical answer for live trading.

The mechanism

The grows like a martingale until the multiplier reaches a cap, then holds flat forever. That single change removes the blow-up mechanism: no matter how long the adverse run lasts, the per-level size cannot compound past the ceiling. You keep the fast averaging over the first levels — which is where most of the recovery benefit lives — and give up only the extreme tail.

Capped LinearΣ 20.0×Capped MartingaleΣ 38.0×Exponential MartingaleΣ 126.0×FixedΣ 6.0×per-level size, 6 levels, same base lot
Capped curves against reference modes, same base lot.

Martingale recovery with a hard ceiling on per-level size.

The trade-off

Gain
Most of a martingale's recovery speed with a guaranteed maximum per-level size.
Cost
Beyond the cap the behaves like at cap × base, so very deep ladders still cost cap × base per rung.
Tunable
The cap is a parameter. Raising it toward 32× or 64× progressively re-introduces exponential risk.

Modes in Capped

Cost is the size of a 10-level ladder, in base-lot units. ★ marks a practical pick.

Capped Martingale★
capped_martingale
Fast recovery without unbounded blow-up.
70.0×
@10
Capped Linear★
capped_linear
Arithmetic growth with a safety ceiling.
40.0×
@10

Choosing within the family

  • capped_martingale (doubling to a cap, default 8×) — when you want real recovery speed.
  • capped_linear (linear to a cap, default 5×) — when you want conservative, very predictable averaging.
★
Pro tip:If you were about to select an uncapped multiplicative , select the capped equivalent instead and raise the cap only if a backtest justifies it.

Capital across the families

2046×0ladder depth (levels 1 → 10)FixedCapped LinearLinear MartingaleExponential Martingale
How cumulative capital grows with depth — the constraint that decides most mode choices.

Related

  • 1.Grid Modes — Overview — Full catalog and the selection procedure
  • 2.Capital Allocation — The mode-aware capital formula
  • 3.Stop Loss — Bounding a growth curve's tail
  • 4.Reading the Ladder Plan — Verifying a curve before deploying

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