How it trades
No black box. These are the rules the EA follows with its default settings. Distances are in points: on gold, 100 points is $1.00.
Two engines on one chart
Apex Velocity runs two independent engines at the same time: “early take-profit” and “profit pursuit”. Each engine can hold one basket of buy positions and one basket of sell positions.
Entry and averaging
A basket starts with the initial lot, 0.01 by default. When the price moves 200 points ($2.00) against the basket, the EA adds a position 1.62 times larger than the previous one.
From level 5 the distance widens to 360 points. The maximum is 20 levels per engine.
| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lot of the added position | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 0.29 | 0.47 | 0.77 |
Default settings, initial lot 0.01. The first 10 of 20 levels.
Exit
When a basket is 150 points in profit on its average price, a trailing exit starts and follows the price at a distance of 30 points. Swap and commission are added to the target, so the trail does not close a basket below break-even including those costs.
Brakes
The EA does not open a new basket when one of these is true:
- the spread is above 70 points
- the margin level is 300% or lower
- the time is outside trading hours (MT4/MT5 server time 0:00 to 22:00 by default)
- the price has just spiked 800 points (10-minute pause)
- the profit target has been reached
A brake stops new orders. It does not close positions that are already open.
No stop-loss for a basket
The EA has no stop-loss for a basket. If gold keeps moving in one direction without a pullback, the EA keeps adding and the open loss keeps growing — until the price returns, the brakes stop new orders, or the broker closes the positions because the margin has run out. This is the main risk of the strategy, and the reason the deposit and the lot must stay in proportion.
Control from your phone
In the MT4/MT5 phone app, place a Buy Limit order on gold at one of the prices below. The EA reads it as a signal, acts, and deletes the order. These prices are so far from the market that the order is never filled.
| Buy Limit price | What the EA does |
|---|---|
| 1.00 | Closes all positions |
| 2.00 | Closes buy positions only |
| 3.00 | Closes sell positions only |
| 4.00 | Stops the EA: no new baskets and no averaging |
| 5.00 | Resumes the EA after 4.00 |
| 6.00 | Pauses new baskets only; open baskets keep running |
| 7.00 | Allows new baskets again after 6.00 |
Platform and running time
MT4 or MT5 (on MT5, a hedging account). Attach the EA to one M1 chart of gold. The platform has to stay open, so you need a PC that stays on or a Windows VPS.
Deposit and lot
Keep the deposit and the lot in proportion. A larger lot on the same deposit runs out of margin sooner.
| Deposit | Account | Initial lot |
|---|---|---|
| $700 | HFM Cent | 0.01 |
| $7,000 | HFM Cent | 0.1 |
| $70,000 | HFM Premium | 0.01 |
| $700,000 | HFM Premium | 0.1 |
On a Cent account, 1 lot of gold is 1 ounce — one hundredth of a regular lot. That is why $700 is enough for the default 0.01 lot. These figures show how the EA is configured; they are not advice for your situation.
Start with the account
The EA can only be approved on an account opened through our link, so the account comes first.