Panel settings explained

Grid tab

Controls the doubling basket itself: how it starts, how far apart the orders sit, and when it's allowed to open a new one.

• Start lot — the size of the very first order in a basket. Every following order doubles from this, so this one number effectively sets the size of the whole basket.
• Orders in grid — the maximum number of doublings before the basket stops adding new orders (the "ceiling" order count).
• Grid step, $ — the price distance between one order and the next.
• New baskets, server hour — the hours (in the broker's server time) during which Midas is allowed to start a brand-new basket. Outside that window it keeps managing whatever basket is already open, but won't start another.

The tab also shows the arithmetic for your current settings directly: the full grid's total lot size, the loss at the last order if price never turns back, and the room left (in dollars of price movement) after all orders are filled before the account would be forced out. Change a number and those three lines update immediately — before you apply anything.

Autolock tab

Controls whether — and when — the lock arms itself, without you pressing the button by hand.

• Arm condition — off, or trigger by basket loss in dollars, by order number, or by remaining room to a stop-out.
• Threshold — the specific number for whichever condition you picked (e.g. "arm at −$300").
• How much to lock — a fraction of the basket (1/4, 1/2) or the whole thing (1:1).
• Warn before — an optional earlier heads-up (an alert, not an action) before the lock arms.

This tab also holds the reduce-while-locked settings: once a lock is standing 1:1, you can define a docup lot and a target to reduce the whole locked position down to, in small steps, instead of releasing it all at once.

Exit tab

Controls how a basket closes once it's in profit.

• Close the whole series — a target for the series total (floating basket + lock + anything already realized combined) that, once reached, closes everything.
• Take-profit & trail follow series total (advanced) — whether the trailing exit tracks the combined series number rather than just the raw basket.

Alerts tab

Controls what gets pushed to you and where.

• Where to send alerts — sound in the terminal, a push notification to your phone, or both. See Monitoring & alerts for how the phone side is wired up.
• Alert on order # — get notified once the basket reaches a specific order number, so you find out it's getting deep before you'd otherwise check.
• New adverse peak / Reversal from peak / Price returned to lock — event-driven alerts around how far price has moved against a standing lock.

The rule: deposit per 0.01 lot

Every Grid-tab number above (start lot, step, order count) ultimately compresses into one question: how much deposit backs each 0.01 lot of base size? That single ratio decides whether a given adverse move is a drawdown you recover from or a stop-out. We don't publish a rule-of-thumb number here until it's backed by our own audited live logs — see the placeholder table below and Risk, plainly for the full explanation.

Style	Base lot	Deposit per 0.01 lot
Conservative	0.01	$4,500
Balanced	0.01	$1,800
Aggressive	0.01	$900