The setup path
Never traded before? Start here.
Five steps from nothing to an expert advisor running on MetaTrader 5 — broker, hosting, platform, installation, first run. Complete and honest whether or not you ever subscribe to anything, and taught demo-first throughout.
Total setup time ≈ 70 minutes, spread over a day or two
Before you risk anything — read this once, properly
This path teaches you to run automated software that trades foreign exchange using leverage, meaning you borrow from your broker to control positions larger than your deposit. Leverage magnifies losses as well as gains, and if you eventually go live, real money is at stake. That deserves respect rather than fear: read the five guides in order, practise every step on a demo account, and understand each risk control before it is needed. Grit Markets is software sold by subscription, not an investment service.
The strategy uses Martingale-style position sizing, and you should understand what that means before spending anything. After a losing trade the next position is larger, so losing streaks compound in size while your account absorbs a growing drawdown. The typical pattern is frequent small wins punctuated by occasional deep drawdowns, and in a bad enough sequence total loss of your capital is possible; no built-in cap or equity stop removes that possibility. The simulator on our home page shows these mechanics, including the ugly sequences, before you pay anything.
Be equally honest about capital. Money placed in a live account running this software must be money you can afford to lose entirely, without consequence to your household. The base lot, the recovery levels you allow, and the margin your broker requires for the largest position in a sequence are linked: a bigger base or more levels means a far larger worst case your account must carry. We make no income claims of any kind, and nothing you see in a simulator or backtest is a promise about your account.
The rule of this path is demo-first: complete every one of the five steps on a demo account, where prices are real and the money is not. Only consider a live account after weeks of watching the software on demo, including at least one deep drawdown, and only once you can explain every risk control to someone else. If that standard feels slow, it is working as intended. Nothing on this site is investment advice; it is documentation for software.
Want to see the risk before reading another word? Run the Martingale simulator — it exists for exactly this moment.