# Recovery

Recovery controls how the EA manages trades when price goes temporarily against an entry. Instead of closing early at a loss, the EA can open **additional recovery trades** at calculated levels to improve the average entry price and aim for a cleaner exit when price corrects.

SmartChoise Recovery is designed to be **controlled and risk-aware** (it does **not** use martingale). Recovery decisions combine trend recognition, dynamic lot sizing within your risk profile, and adaptive spacing that reacts to volatility.

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#### **📘 How Recovery Works**

When the market moves against an open trade, the EA doesn’t immediately close it at a loss.\
Instead, it opens **additional recovery trades** at calculated points, often at better prices, to average out the position and **wait for a profitable or near break-even exit** when the market corrects.
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This approach combines:

* **Trend recognition from the neural network**
* **Dynamic lot sizing based on equity and risk**
* **Adaptive spacing** that responds to market volatility
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The EA does **not** use martingale.\
Each recovery trade’s lot size is dynamically adjusted within your set risk profile.
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#### **Best Practices**

* Keep `Recovery` between **5 and 10** for balanced performance.
* Use **Low or Medium risk** if you plan to enable full recovery.
* Allow **sufficient balance per chart** (e.g., $2,000–$3,000 for High/Extreme risk).
* Leave `MinRecoveryDistance = 0 (Auto)` unless you have advanced experience and want to fine-tune spacing.
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#### **Warnings**

* Too many recovery trades on small balances can limit free margin or increase drawdown.
* Reducing Min Price distance between Recovery Trades too much can cause trades to open too close together, higher risk during strong trends.
* Always match your **Recovery settings to your balance, risk level, and market conditions.**
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#### **💬 Summary**

**Max Recovery Trades** sets the maximum number of recovery orders allowed for that EA instance.\
Important: this limit applies **per chart / per EA instance**, not account-wide.<br>

Recovery spacing is one of the biggest drivers of risk. You can run spacing in **Auto** (adaptive) or make it more “rule-based” using distance limits.

* **Min Price distance between Recovery Trades**\
  Sets the **minimum spacing** required before another recovery is even considered.\
  For Gold/XAUUSD, this is measured in **USD price distance** (not points/pips).
* **Max Price distance between Recovery Trades**\
  Adds a **maximum-distance trigger**: if price moves far enough (in **USD**) from the last recovery entry, the EA is *allowed* to trigger the next recovery (still respecting internal filters/safety checks).
* **Fix Distance Between Recovery Trades (Points)**\
  Lets you override adaptive spacing and force a **fixed points distance** between recoveries (0 = disabled).
* **Fix distance multiplier**\
  When fixed spacing is enabled, this controls how spacing evolves after each recovery (same distance, expanding, or shrinking — “geometric spacing”).
* **Recovery lot size multiplier** controls how big recovery trades are compared to the “normal” calculated lot size (e.g., 0.5 = smaller/safer, 2.0 = faster but more exposure).
* **Min profit for recovery pairs** sets a minimum combined profit required before the EA closes an entry + recovery pair (0 = disabled). This helps avoid “closing too early” for tiny profit if you want higher-quality exits.
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### How to think about Recovery (simple mental model)

Recovery is basically three dials:

1. **Count** → how many recoveries (Max Recovery Trades)
2. **Distance** → how close/far recoveries can be (Min/Max distance, Fixed distance + multiplier)
3. **Size** → how much exposure each recovery adds (Recovery lot size multiplier)

Turn any of these up aggressively, and you’ll feel it in exposure and drawdown.
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### Safety notes (worth reading once)

* Tighter spacing or higher lot multipliers can stack exposure quickly during strong trends.
* If you run multiple charts, remember recovery limits are **per chart**, so total account exposure can be much higher than expected.
* Auto mode exists for a reason: it adapts spacing based on volatility and signals, while fixed rules are more rigid.
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