In short: Midas is a doubling grid, so a long enough one-way move in gold can reach stop-out and lose the full deposit. With the calculator defaults ($1,000 cent account, base lot 0.01, 11 orders, step $1.95, leverage 1:2000) stop-out comes about $65.58 below the first order ($19.50 to open all 11 orders plus $46.08 more); a larger balance per lot gives more room, but no balance removes the risk.
This page exists because it should. Grid and martingale-style systems have a structural failure mode, and understanding it matters more than any single setting on the panel.
Midas opens a basket and, if price moves against it, adds a larger order at each subsequent step — a doubling grid. This is not a prediction that price will reverse soon; it is a bet that price returns to a profitable average before the account runs out of margin. Every order added makes the eventual breakeven price closer, but also makes the position larger and the potential loss on a further adverse move bigger.
The lock opens an opposite-direction order, so the floating loss on the locked portion of the basket stops growing while the lock stays on. The unlocked part and the spread paid on every reduction still count, and a stop-out remains possible. The lock does not create profit, and it does not guarantee you get the locked amount back — recovering it still depends on price coming back far enough, or on manually or automatically reducing the locked position over time (see the Autolock tab's reduce-while-locked settings in Panel settings explained).
Every broker forcibly closes positions once the account's margin level falls below a set threshold — this is the stop-out, and it is the broker's mechanism, not Midas's. It happens automatically, at whatever price is available at that moment, and it does not ask first. The panel's "room to stop-out" number on the hero card is an estimate of how much further price can move against the current basket before that threshold is reached; it is not a guarantee, because spread and slippage during a fast move can close the gap faster than the estimate assumes.
To see where stop-out comes for a given deposit, lot, step and leverage, use the grid & stop-out calculator.
Midas does not read an economic calendar. It reacts to price the same way at all times, which means a sharp move around a high-impact release can open several orders in quick succession, or arm the lock, faster than it would on an ordinary day. Nothing about the grid logic changes during news — but the speed at which it plays out can.
There is no recommended amount. How much balance a grid needs depends on four things: the base lot, the number of orders, the step and the leverage. Take the calculator’s defaults: a $1,000 cent account, base lot 0.01, 11 orders doubling the lot, step $1.95, leverage 1:2000. All 11 orders are open after a $19.50 move against the grid, the balance reaches stop-out after $46.08 more, and from that bottom price must come back $48.02 to reach break-even. A larger balance behind the same lot gives more room, a smaller one gives less, and twice the lot needs twice the balance for the same room. But no balance removes the risk of stop-out: a long enough one-way move takes any of them. Put your own numbers into the grid calculator instead of using a rule of thumb.
How to limit risk: protection and filters
Midas is a martingale-style grid strategy. Grid and martingale systems can and do lose the full deposit on a sufficiently large adverse move — this is a structural property of the approach, not a bug. Past behaviour in backtests or on any live account, ours or anyone else's, does not guarantee future results. Only trade with capital you can afford to lose, and size the deposit per 0.01 lot deliberately rather than by how much you happen to have.
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