Vector III

Order positioning & strategy:

No martingale / no grid / no arbitrage
I do not offer insane equity curves through high-stakes mathematical risk-statistics.
I offer the use of a stable and simple market edge with the goal to diversify risk of retail traders' funds or add to an already diversified portfolio.
No guarantees, but a strategy made for results long-term.

My strategy is simple: An untouched market momentum vector area indicates the likelihood of continued momentum.
The momentum is recognised within a price leg, verified with a value gap pattern analysis and accepted when surrounding market confluences are within threshold limits. Through this confirmation logic, I enter a position.
I exit a position by initial SL or a trailing stop that protects profits. This trailing stop loss is based on the ATR of recent candles to snipe extended market movements but also to protect my profits during uncertain situations.

Since I have four talons on both paws, I can firmly grasp four timeframes. Through the wind of three timeframes, I search for opportunities. Through one timeframe, I strategise my attack.
The user can define which three (or 2 or 1) timeframes I check for momentum recognition, and which timeframe I check for entries on this momentum vector. 

I draw gaps, highs and lows and candle structure shift indications on the charts, if the user wishes. This allows the user to freely check what my flight looks like.

Falcons don't hunt through numbers; I dive for my prey based on my instincts. Therefore, I do not execute my attacks based on numbers, all of my code translates to concrete concepts;
there are no hard-coded numbers within the execution calculation modules. All numerical inputs are manageable by the user.

Account types:

You can apply me to all hedge account types, I recommend raw spread accounts (ECN). You can also attach me to prop firm accounts where news trading and overnight/weekend holding are allowed (swing accounts).
The leverage requirement on prop firm accounts fits the commonly offered swing account types. (1:15 for NAS100).
The low leverage requirement also allows me to work without trouble on European broker accounts (e.g., IC markets) where leverage is not allowed beyond 1:30 for retail traders.

The attached backtests are calculated on Vantage ECN (live) and FTMO (demo) swing accounts.

Default settings & backtest notes:

The default EA settings can also be applied to other timeframes, yielding great recovery factors + proving the market edge that this EA exploits. See the attached surface chart for the standard settings applied to other timeframe combinations.
The EA settings that are best in current market regime (2024-2025 & 2026 to date) are applied to 2022 & 2023, this shows that an ill market will does cause the EA to blow your funds.

EA pricing

Starting price = $375.
The cost of this EA will increase by $75 every 5 sales (starting after 10 sales) and $150 with every new strategy input set that beats the current strategies over 2024-2026, see surface chart.
This new strategy will be added to the falcon's instincts in an update of the EA.
Such new input sets may or may not apply to new symbols, but they should diversify risk such that there is little to no relation between entries of different Vector-III strategies.

Future prospects:

My developer will continue to improve my code through the efficiency of profit protection and calculation accuracy of correct entry environments.
I also hope to receive features that are requested by those who purchase and use me and I hope to have more fields to hover over than just NAS100's!

Developer's greeting:

Hi, I am Martijn from the Netherlands.

I code MT5 EAs full-time. Vector-III is my first published EA. I published it to show that structured, risk-aware automated strategies can be made accessible to retail traders.
By “stable,” I do not mean a perfectly smooth equity curve. I mean a rule-based strategy designed around capital protection, disciplined execution, and a long-term market edge.
I believe that using code to execute trades can help remove emotional decision-making and reduce the screen time normally required from retail traders with regular jobs.
Many settings can be adjusted. I recommend testing the EA carefully, experimenting with the inputs, and understanding why the strategy behaves the way it does before using it live.
You may even find a better symbol, entry, or exit configuration than the default settings.
I see room for a lot of improvements, within the strategy logic and in the user interface. As I will continue to work on this code, I hope other users will give feedback to me of their findings or comments.
Please contact me if you have questions or recommendations!

Greetings from the Netherlands.

UPDATE NOTES:

• V1.0 - RELEASE of Vector-III

• This version includes the initial EAs settings, testing for a recovery factor > 5 over ~three years of backtesting on NAS100 30M timeframe.
  The 2022 period shows the strategy protects capital in unfortunate market regimes (volatility, global insecurity); will not blow a trader's funds to the moon...
  This is shown in the backtest results, where the EA is applied to 2022-mid2023 with the ATR exit settings that are best in current market regime (2024-2025 & 2026 to date).
• Enjoy the default EA settings. If risk-diversification / application to other symbols is desired, the developer's recommendation to users is to optimize for other symbols or TFs through backtesting.
• This EA will continue in later revisions with expectedly different Vector-III strategy input sets.

• V1.1 - Rejection candles
• A confirmation rejection pattern is present in V1.0 value gap pattern verification. This pattern is recognised and used in entry verification.
  

• preV1.2 - User friendliness update - soon
• Percentage based risk setting
• Activate trail stop based on bars elapsed in current TF
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