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Reading the Ladder Plan

Reading the Ladder Plan

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The ladder preview is not an illustration — it is the plan, computed with the engine's own sizing and pricing math from the settings you have entered.

What is being drawn

Everything in the preview and the expanded modal comes from one derivation: per-rung price from the spread steps, per-rung size from the 's , per-rung exit from that rung's own fill price, and the from the running sum. Because the inline preview, the expanded and the capital estimate all read the same derivation, they cannot disagree with each other.

priceBASE (L0) — market buytake-profit +target%L1 limit buy−1 × spread%L2 limit buy−2 × spread%L3 limit buy−3 × spread%L4 limit buy−4 × spread%spread
Blue rungs are entries; the dashed line above each is its take-profit.

The colour language

Blue bar
An entry rung. Bar LENGTH encodes the size the assigns to that level, scaled against the deepest rung of the whole ladder — so paging does not rescale the .
Green line / tick
A take-profit, one target step from its own entry.
Red dashed line
An init target — an exit on the opening market position, NOT a ladder rung. Drawn differently on purpose.
Solid grey line
The base, level 0: where the opens and the ladder is .
Amber dotted line
Break-even: the volume-weighted average entry once every rung has .
Solid red line
The . Rungs beyond it are dimmed because they would never fill.
Opening position — init lots × market fill @ baseL0target 1 · +1 × target%T1target 2 · +2 × target%T2target 3 · +3 × target%T3
Init targets stack above the opening position as red dashed exits.

Paging the ladder

A grid can have up to 200 levels, so the preview pages rather than truncates. Choose 10, 25, 50 or 100 per page and step through with the arrows; the counter shows exactly which rungs you are looking at. Bar stays to the full ladder so level 40 does not suddenly look as as level 1.

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Pro tip:Page to the bottom of the ladder before deploying. That is where a martingale 's size is concentrated and where the becomes uncomfortable.

Per-row columns

Entry
The of the resting order at that rung.
Exit
Where its take-profit goes once it .
Size
Total size multiplier for the rung, relative to the base lot.
Notional
Size × , in the currency.
Cum. cap
Running margin commitment from the top of the ladder down to this rung.
Orders
How many orders this rung places. Greater than one only for multi-order modes.

The expanded plan

The Expand control opens the full with three :

  1. 1
    Shape
    A price- diagram of the whole ladder: entries, exits, init targets, the base, break-even and the stop line, all positioned by real price rather than by row order. Bar length still encodes size, so you can see the and the price geometry at once.
  2. 2
    Execution plan
    Five phases, in the order the engine performs them: open the base, place the ladder, cycle each rung, the fully- state, and the . Every phase quotes your actual numbers.
  3. 3
    Every row
    The complete — base, init targets and all rungs — with entry, exit, distance, size, orders, , margin, margin and profit at exit.

Summary statistics

Ladder cost
Σ of every rung's size in base-lot units. This is the number the capital formula uses.
Capital needed
Total ÷ leverage. red when your is below it.
Avg entry / break-even
Where the fully- position breaks even. it against the chart: it is the price the market must reclaim.
Coverage
levels × spread — how much adverse move the ladder absorbs, and the price of the deepest rung.
Orders
Resting entry orders, and the number of exits the will carry.
Cycle profit
Profit if every rung completes one full cycle, and that as a of committed capital.
size per level — Linear MartingaleL11.00×L22.00×2 ordL33.00×3 ordL44.00×4 ordL55.00×5 ordL66.00×6 ordL77.00×7 ordL88.00×8 ordL99.00×9 ordL1010.0×10 ordcumulative capital → 55.0× base
Size per level plus the cumulative ramp — the two curves the summary condenses.

Two honest caveats

  • Placeholder base — before the symbol streams a price, the anchors on an illustrative base and says so. Sizes, ratios, order counts and capital are already exact; only the printed prices rescale.
  • No frictions — fees, slippage and funding are not modelled. Cycle profit is gross. Subtract your -trip fee per cycle to get the real number.

Related

  • 1.Grid Structure — The fields that shape the ladder
  • 2.Spacing & Targets — Where entry and exit prices come from
  • 3.Capital Allocation — Reading the capital ramp
  • 4.Stop Loss — The red line and the dimmed rungs

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