FundingPips grades the book, not your average price
Phase 1's 8% target tempts averaging because the hole looks temporary. Phase 2's 5% target is smaller, so the same grid fails faster. 2-Step Pro's 6% max fails it faster still. None of those phases need a named martingale clause for the NAS100 path to print a fail, but FundingPips already wrote the clause anyway.
The $5,400 NAS100 path versus a $5,000 daily cap
1.00 lot at -40 points (-$400), 1.50 added at -40, 2.00 added at -80, 4.50 lots combined. One hundred twenty more points of continuation is about -$5,400. FundingPips Standard daily is $5,000. The evaluation is over while the original thesis was a 40-point fade. That is not a black-swan news story. It is inventory. If any of that inventory is still open at 00:00 UTC+3, tomorrow's 5% recasts from a worse mark.
Guard the combined inventory without a grid EA
The 2,000-request cap also hates grid EAs that modify every add. Do not automate averaging and then call it a trade manager. If you need a second entry, it must be a new, pre-planned zone with combined risk still under 0.50%. Full auto bots already need source-ownership proof. A grid you copied from a Telegram channel fails both the method ban and the ownership test.
One idea, one ticket, including Flex and Zero
If the first ticket is red, the second ticket is a new evaluation of structure, not a repair. After two adds, pause for the day. You still need 3 trading days. Burning one of them on a grid wastes the calendar and the $399 fee. Flex's 12% max looks roomy until the 5% daily still trips. Zero Instant trailing plus a grid is how a trailing floor walks into the inventory you just grew.