Staking Strategy Guides
A staking strategy decides how much to stake on each trade. These guides explain how each one works, with a worked example. No strategy creates an edge: they only reshape how much you stake.
Loss-based progressions try to recover losses with a later win. Stakes can grow fast in a losing run.
Raise the stake after a loss
- MartingaleMultiply the stake after each loss. See what it does to your stakes over a losing run.
- d'Alembertd'Alembert is a gentler cousin of Martingale: it moves your stake up and down one unit at a time instead of multiplying it.
- Labouchere (Cancellation)Labouchere, also called the Cancellation system, sets each stake from a list of numbers. Wins cross numbers off, losses add one.
- FibonacciFibonacci stakes follow the sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and so on, moving forward after a loss and back after a win.
- Grand MartingaleGrand Martingale is Martingale with an extra step: after a loss you double the stake and add one more unit.
Win-based progressions press on after wins and fall back after a loss, so a losing run costs less.
Raise the stake after a win
- Oscar's GrindOscar's Grind targets a small profit of one unit per cycle. It keeps your stake the same after a loss and raises it only after a win.
- ParoliParoli is a reverse Martingale: it doubles your stake after a win and drops back to the base stake after a loss.
- Reverse LabouchereReverse Labouchere flips the Cancellation system: wins add to the list and raise your stakes, losses cross numbers off.
- 1-3-2-61-3-2-6 is a fixed four-step plan for winning streaks: stake 1, 3, 2 and 6 units on consecutive wins, then start over.
- Reverse FibonacciReverse Fibonacci uses the same sequence as Fibonacci, but moves forward after a win and back after a loss.
- ParlayA parlay reinvests your winnings: the stake for the next trade is the last stake plus the profit it made.
These plans set the stake from a fixed amount or from the money you have, not from the last result.
Size the stake from your bankroll
- Flat stakingFlat staking is the simplest plan: the same stake on every trade, whatever happened last time.
- Percentage of bankrollPercentage staking risks the same share of your balance on every trade, so stakes shrink as you lose and grow as you win.
- Kelly CriterionKelly sizes each stake from your estimated chance of winning and the payout. If it finds no edge, the stake is zero.
- Fractional KellyFractional Kelly takes the Kelly stake and scales it down, for example to half, to make your balance swing less.
Try a strategy on a Deriv demo account first.
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