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quote That doesn't make sense to me. With martingale, you're just ever risking more equity to recoup losses and return to breakeven; while you're winning, and the account is growing bigger, you're merely betting the beginning bet. Moreover, the beginning stake has to be lower than with a non-martingale if you would like the account to endure a high number of doubles (and much more so, if you're withdrawing cash), therefore the growth is slower, and exponentially so due to the compounding (for instance, 0.1% will probably compound more than 10x slower...