At CTI, we want traders to succeed through skill, consistency, and responsible risk management.
Two trading styles—Martingale and Grid Trading—are known to create extreme, uncontrolled risk.
Because of this, CTI restricts how these methods can be used.
Below is everything you need to know.
🔷 Martingale Trading Style
(Prohibited — Except on the 1-Step Challenge)
What is Martingale according to CTI?
Martingale is a high-risk strategy in which a trader keeps adding more positions (regardless of position size) when the market moves against them, hoping the price eventually retraces. Once the price retraces, the trader closes all positions to recover losses.
Why it’s risky
Martingale relies on unlimited margin and assumes the market will reverse, which is often not true. In strong trends, this strategy almost always ends in a margin call and a wiped-out account.
CTI’s Martin Gale Rules
✅ Martingale is allowed on the 1-Step Challenge, provided the total risk on the trade idea doesn't exceed 2%.
❌ Martingale is NOT allowed on:
2-Step Challenge.
Instant Funding.
Instant Funding Pro.
What is still allowed on all programs?
CTI permits limited scaling into a losing position as long as it remains controlled and responsible:
You may layer up to 2 positions into a losing position.
The maximum combined risk on the 3 positions must not exceed 2% risk of the Initial account balance.
More than 3 positions taken as the market moves against you will be classified as Martingale.
🔷 Grid Trading Not Allowed — All Programs
What is Grid Trading?
Grid trading involves placing multiple buy and sell orders above and below the current price, forming a “grid.” As prices move, orders get triggered at each level.
Why it’s risky
Grid trading can look safe during quiet markets, but when markets trend strongly in one direction, the losing side of the grid builds up rapidly, leading to oversized risk and eventual account failure.
CTI Grid Trading Rules
❌ Grid Trading is NOT allowed on:
1-Step Challenge.
2-Step Challenge.
Instant Funding.
Instant Funding Pro.
🔷 Why These Rules Exist
These strategies
Can generate unrealistic profit curves.
Cannot be monetised in real markets.
Do not reflect the trader’s actual skill.
Carry a very high probability of blowing the account.
Make risk impossible to model or replicate reliably.
CTI focuses on identifying traders with controlled, repeatable, and scalable trading behaviour. Martingale and Grid strategies don’t provide that.
⁉️ Need Help or Clarification? ⁉️
If you're unsure whether your strategy is permitted, contact us anytime at:📩 [email protected]. We’re here to help you trade responsibly and sustainably.