Aurelius Vector

Aurelius Vector is a quantitative trend-opportunity Expert Advisor designed for XAUUSD and commonly used gold symbols.

The EA uses completed M15 candles as its primary decision basis and internally combines multiple timeframes to evaluate trend direction, market conditions, volatility, and trading opportunities. Users do not need to switch timeframes manually.

Aurelius Vector is not designed to pursue an extremely high win rate. The system places greater emphasis on per-trade risk, payoff structure, overall account exposure, and consistent execution across different market environments.

Its core trading principles are:

• When trade conditions become invalid, predefined protection mechanisms are used to limit per-trade risk;

• When the market develops favorably, profitable positions are managed through target management, trailing protection, and conditional exits;

• Position size is controlled through fixed-lot or percentage-risk sizing;

• The EA does not automatically increase the next trade size simply because the previous trade was a loss.

Trend-based strategies may experience consecutive losses, periods without trades, sideways market phases, and temporary drawdowns. A relatively low short-term win rate does not necessarily indicate that the EA is malfunctioning, while historical performance cannot guarantee that future trading will produce the same payoff structure.

Main Features

The EA is intended for accounts with stable gold trading conditions and relatively low spreads.

A VPS may be used for long-term operation to reduce interruptions caused by local network failures or computer sleep. However, a VPS cannot eliminate slippage, liquidity limitations, or differences in broker execution.

Strategy Method

Aurelius Vector primarily looks for two types of trading opportunities:

1. Directional opportunities following a valid change in trend conditions;

2. Pullback-continuation opportunities within an existing trend.

The EA evaluates normal entry conditions only when a new M15 decision cycle begins, and its primary signal calculations use completed candles.

The system also considers higher-timeframe trend context, current volatility conditions, market location, and trading costs before allowing a new position to be opened.

A trading signal does not necessarily mean that an order will be executed.

When one of these conditions occurs, the EA skips the order and records the main reason in the MetaTrader 5 terminal log.

Therefore, a period without trades does not necessarily mean that the EA has stopped working.

Position Management Mechanism

Aurelius Vector does not use a position-sizing mechanism that automatically increases risk after a previous losing trade.

When a new and independent strategy opportunity appears, the EA may open an additional position, but the position remains subject to the following controls:

• Additional position size;

• Maximum positions in one direction;

• Maximum total open positions;

• Maximum total open lots;

• Per-trade risk limits;

• Internal risk budget for additional opportunities;

• Estimated margin requirements.

Therefore, operating multiple positions does not mean unlimited averaging and does not represent a traditional Martingale structure based on continuously increasing losing exposure while waiting for recovery.

Risk Management

Percentage Risk Mode

When Risk percentage is selected, the EA calculates order volume according to account conditions, stop-loss distance, and the current symbol specifications.

The risk-capital calculation uses the lower of account balance and account equity, helping prevent new-order risk from being calculated from a higher balance while the account is already experiencing floating losses.

Base risk per entry

• Current default: 0.50%

• Maximum allowed value: 3.00%

Actual order size may be reduced further by signal-quality adjustments, drawdown protection, additional-position sizing, total-lot limits, or margin restrictions.

Percentage risk represents a planned risk amount and does not represent an absolute maximum possible loss.

Market gaps, slippage, insufficient liquidity, or abnormal execution may cause the actual loss to exceed the planned risk amount.

Fixed-Lot Mode

When Fixed lots is selected, the base position size is determined by Fixed lot size.

Current default:

0.10 lot

Per-trade risk checks remain active in fixed-lot mode.

If the selected lot size exceeds the permitted risk under the current account balance and stop-loss conditions, the EA may reduce the lot size or skip the order.

Therefore, fixed-lot mode does not disable risk management.

Pre-Trade Protection

Before submitting a new order, the EA checks:

• Whether the current quote is valid;

• Whether the symbol permits the required trade direction;

• Minimum volume, maximum volume, and volume step;

• Stop-loss distance and freeze-level requirements;

• Current position count and total open volume;

• Estimated margin level;

• Whether the account and terminal permit automated trading;

• Whether the current spread meets the protection conditions.

If an order does not meet the required conditions, the EA skips the trade and records the corresponding status in the terminal log.

Position Management

Depending on the type of trading opportunity and current position status, Aurelius Vector may use:

• Initial protective stop loss;

• Volatility-based protection distance;

• Trailing protection as the market moves favorably;

• Early exit when conditions are no longer valid;

• Maximum holding-period limits;

• Optional profit protection;

• Safe retry logic after an unsuccessful exit attempt.

Some trades may have a defined target price, while others may be managed mainly through trailing protection and conditional exits.

The actual exit mechanism depends on the corresponding strategy opportunity and current market conditions.

Profit protection is disabled by default.

When enabled, the EA performs a protective exit only after the position reaches the specified trigger level and the corresponding exit conditions are also satisfied.

Main Input Parameters

Runtime Settings

Position Sizing

Trade Protection

Position Management

Risk Reference

The following values are provided only as starting references for Base risk per entry. They are not separate built-in EA presets and do not represent any performance guarantee.

For first-time use or long-term operation, consider starting with 0.50%–0.75% and perform sufficient testing using the historical data, contract specifications, spreads, and commissions of the intended broker.

As the risk parameter increases, account volatility, losing-streak impact, and drawdown will generally increase as well.

There is no guaranteed fixed relationship between the selected risk parameter and actual drawdown.

Operating Requirements

Aurelius Vector supports selected common gold symbol suffixes.

Different brokers may use different symbol names, contract sizes, minimum volumes, volume steps, tick values, stop distances, and trading hours.

Therefore, the EA should be tested in the intended broker environment before live use.

Running multiple instances with the same EA identifier on the same account and symbol is not recommended, because instance-safety checks may prevent later-loaded EA instances from starting.

Suitable Users

Aurelius Vector may be suitable for users who:

• Understand drawdown and losing streaks;

• Do not use win rate as the only performance criterion;

• Can accept periods without trades and sideways phases in trend-based strategies;

• Prefer rule-based position and risk management;

• Are willing to test the EA in their intended broker environment before live use;

• Can select position-sizing parameters according to their own risk tolerance.

Users for Whom This Product May Not Be Suitable

This product may not be suitable if you require:

• Profit every month;

• An extremely high win rate;

• Almost no account drawdown;

• Immediate recovery after every losing trade;

• A fixed-income or capital-guaranteed trading product;

• No consecutive losses or temporary account fluctuations.

Historical Testing

Any Strategy Tester results shown on the product page are historical simulation results and are not live-account trading records.

Historical market data, quotes, spreads, commissions, contract specifications, and execution conditions may vary between brokers and may produce different results.

Users are encouraged to test the Market Demo version in their own intended broker and trading environment.

Historical tests are provided to illustrate past strategy behavior and risk characteristics and cannot guarantee or predict future returns.

Risk Disclosure

Trading gold, forex, and CFDs involves significant risk and may not be suitable for all investors.

Historical backtests and historical trading statistics do not guarantee future results. Actual performance may be affected by spread expansion, slippage, insufficient liquidity, market gaps, network latency, trading hours, commissions, swaps, and broker-specific rules.

Aurelius Vector is automated trading software and does not constitute investment advice, a performance guarantee, or an invitation to trade.

Users are solely responsible for deciding whether to enable the EA, which risk parameters to use, and how much capital to allocate, and they accept responsibility for the resulting trading outcomes.

Do not trade with money you cannot afford to lose.

Before live use, sufficient testing in Strategy Tester and on a demo account is recommended.