Exploring the Anti-Martingale System – Trading Strategies – 9 November 2023

The Anti-Martingale System.

The simple idea behind the Anti-Martingale money management method is to double your stake/lot size after a win, and keep the same amount after every loss.
If by using the Martingale you always win a small amount, but in a losing streak you may lose enough money, then in the Anti-Martingale you will always lose a small amount of your account balance, and when a winning streak of your choice is achieved, you can take your profits and start again. In other terms you change places with the broker or the casino.

Let’s see the above example by using the Anti-Martingale (and a few more lines):

As you can see, if we are able to succeed some times in a raw, we can achieve high profits, with our risk remaining very low. If we want to continue our streak, we should stake 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 and so on.. But remember, you need to stop somewhere.

Examples using the Master Oscillators EA

Let’s now see some practical examples.

In this case we are gonna use the Master Oscillators EA (MT5). A trading robot and tool designed to give you absolute freedom to create your own strategy, without overwhelming you with too many inputs (ok ok it has many inputs but it could be worse). You can download the demo for free in order to play around and explore the Anti-Martingale system using the backtester.
With this tool you can select between the RSI, CCI or Stochastic oscillator for the basic signal, and use several filters such as MA filter, time and day filters, dynamic SL and Lot size and much more, but for this example we are gonna keep things very simple.

We are gonna use the CCI (Period 20 – typical price), SL and TP set to 1*ATR (a dynamic way to risk around one candlestick’s width), we are not gonna close at opposite signal, or after a MA cross, and we are not gonna use any other technique that is gonna change our 1:1 RR.

We are gonna enter the market when the price is reversing, so the selected levels are gonna be when crossing above -210 for buy and when crossing below 210 for sell.
We are using EURUSD H1. This is not the best possible set, but we want to test how the Anti-Martingale performs in a real, slightly profitable, strategy.

For the Anti-Martingale we just need to scroll at the corresponding field, enable it (true) and select the streak that if achieved, we will restart our stake.

First let’s take a look at the results without using the Anti-Martingale. From the 1st of January of 2023 until the 9th of November 2023. 

Initial balance (demo): $10,000
Lot size: 1% of our account balance
Model: Every tick based on real ticks

Profit: $2,329.46

Profit Factor: 1.66

Balance Drawdown Maximal: 6.95%

Let’s now enable the Anti-Martingale:

Profit: $10,201.41

Profit Factor: 2.21

Balance Drawdown Maximal: 9.13%

I noticed a good winning streak of 7 during May, so let’s try this month just from curiosity. (Note that in the previous example when we reached our 4 wins in a row, we restarted our lot size)

Profit: $12,139.32

Profit Factor: 11.02

Balance Drawdown Maximal: 4.01%

Conclusion