Velocity Trading System

Velocity — Strategy Overview

• Universe: BTC/USD
  Style: Systematic, intraday, long/short time-series momentum
  Execution: Fully automated via MT5; client-held accounts, no pooled capital
• Velocity is a rules-based intraday momentum strategy targeting Bitcoin, the highest-liquidity digital asset. It exploits the time-series momentum effect — the empirical tendency for an asset's own recent price trend to persist over short horizons. The strategy generates long, short, or flat signals from price-based momentum factors, sizing positions according to signal strength and prevailing volatility.
• Risk management is integral rather than bolted on. Each position carries predefined exposure limits, and sizing is governed by rules designed to keep per-trade risk controlled across changing volatility conditions. As an intraday strategy, Velocity manages positions within the session and is not designed to carry indefinite directional exposure, which limits overnight gap risk relative to longer-horizon approaches.
• All execution is systematic and reproducible — identical inputs always produce identical decisions, with no discretionary override.

Multi-Asset Algorithm — Strategy Overview

• Universe: Gold (XAU) and  index CFDs
• Style: Systematic, intraday, long/short time-series momentum
• Construction: Per-instrument signals, independently sized and executed
• Execution: Fully automated via MT5; client-held accounts, no pooled capital
• The Multi-Asset Algorithm extends Apex's momentum framework from a single instrument to a basket of structurally different ones. Rather than concentrate risk in one market, it deploys the same time-series momentum logic independently across gold and the major equity index CFDs, treating each as its own self-contained book.
• Mechanically, every instrument produces its own long/short/flat signal from price-based momentum factors, and exposure is taken and sized per instrument with no netting or cross-asset ranking. The practical consequence is a portfolio whose net positioning shifts continuously with each market's own trend — frequently mixed in direction, occasionally concentrated, never discretionary.
• The rationale for trading several lower-correlated markets through one engine is signal diversification: drawdowns in any single instrument's momentum profile are less likely to coincide, which can smooth the aggregate return stream relative to a single-market approach. Position-level risk is bounded by predefined exposure limits and volatility-aware sizing, and the intraday horizon keeps the book from carrying open directional risk indefinitely, reducing exposure to overnight gaps.
• Execution is fully systematic and reproducible — identical inputs yield identical decisions.