Layer gold entries across a zone without managing five trades

Your VIP group posts a sell with two layers above it, and now you have three entries to place, three stops to set and three sets of TPs to manage. Price spikes into the top layer while you're still typing the second one, and you end up with a stop in the wrong place on one leg and a runner nobody is watching.

How the ladder works

On a signal group, this lives in the group's Signal settings. Tap Signals in the bottom bar, or go to Auto → Telegram Signals, then tap Edit on the group's card. Under the zone entry setting, choose Ladder the zone (on screen: "Split the size across several orders through the zone"). How many orders in the zone sets the count, from 1 to 5, and the default is 3.

It takes the size you mapped for that pair and shares it across separate limit orders, spread evenly through the group's band. The legs always add back up to your size, so 0.04 over 3 legs is 0.01, 0.01 and 0.02. Every order uses the signal's own stop loss and take profits.

It also reads how layering groups write their cards. A card that lists extra entries as layers, like "4146.5 Sell / 4150 & 4153.5 layers", is treated as one zone, running from the first entry to the deepest layer. "Relayer 4167,4170" works the same way. A later "3rd layer in" opens nothing extra, because the zone already covers it.

If your group posts single prices but you still want to layer, choose Split the size across several orders on every signal, including single-price ones. It builds its own band from the entry, a quarter of the way toward the stop, and spreads the orders through it. The signal needs a stop for this to work.

When the legs are too small to scale out on their own, the exits are shared out across them. The worst-priced leg exits at TP1, the next at TP2, and the best-priced one rides furthest. Once a filled leg hits TP1, any legs that haven't filled yet are cleared.

On the chart you see one band, labelled "LADDER ▲ BUY · N legs", not a pile of separate tickets. Drag an edge to spread the legs out again, or grab inside the band to move the whole ladder. Dragging the stop moves every leg's stop, and on a phone it asks "Move stop loss to X on all N legs?" first. × CLOSE ZONE ENTRY cancels every leg at once, with no confirmation step.

For trades you place yourself from the chart, a preset can do the same thing. Set Entry type to "A zone, split across several orders", then set Zone width and Orders in the zone. The width is the total span, so three orders across 300 points sit 150 points apart. If the preset uses Risk per trade, the percentage is shared across the orders, so the whole entry risks that figure once rather than once per order.

A ladder does not add exposure. The total is worked out once and then divided, so it never risks more than entering in one go, and usually risks less. It is not a way to double up on a call.

The edges worth knowing

Layering trades on gold signals this way has a few limits:

• Broker minimum. Each order has to be at least 0.01, so 0.02 with 5 orders requested places 2 legs of 0.01. A 0.01 trade can't be split at all. That's the broker's rule, not a fault.
• Several small orders in MT5 is normal. Each leg shows as its own order, and together they add up to your mapped size.
• "TP1" can mean two different prices. A leg's only target might be the group's TP2 or TP3. When the group says "TP1 hit", that doesn't move a leg to break-even if that leg's own target is further down. With cancel-at-TP1 and break-even-at-TP1 both on, a laddered follower can bank less than a single entry on the same signal.
• A move that runs away fills one leg. If price never comes back into the band, only the first order fills, and that order carries the first take profit.
• The chart padlock. While the chart is locked, the band edges and × CLOSE ZONE ENTRY don't respond. Press and hold the padlock for 1 second to unlock it.