Understanding Vector Platinum

🚀 Quick Start Guide

📋 Getting Access

1. Claim your script access on Whop
   After purchase, check your email for instructions on how to claim access to the script via Whop. Follow the steps in that email to link your TradingView account.
   If you run into any issues claiming access, DM us directly and we'll get it sorted straight away.
2. Add to TradingView
   In TradingView: Indicators → Invite-only scripts → add Vector Platinum.
3. Verify installation
   You should see the strategy overlay on your chart along with the performance dashboard and metrics.

⚙️ Initial Setup (5 Minutes)

1. Add Vector Platinum to your chart
   Open your target instrument and timeframe (e.g. MES1! on the 5m chart). Add the indicator — the strategy will load with its default settings.
2. Let Auto-Detect apply the preset
   Open Settings → 🎯 STRATEGY PRESETS. If your ticker and timeframe match a built-in preset, it will be applied automatically — no manual changes needed. A mismatch warning will appear on the chart if you're on the wrong ticker or timeframe.
   Supported: MGC 5m · MES 5m · M2K 5m · MNQ 5m · BTC 5m · MCL 5m
   Leave the preset dropdown on "Custom" for Auto-Detect to work. Selecting a preset manually overrides it.
3. Run the backtest and review the results
   Open the Strategy Tester tab. Check Net P/L, Profit Factor, Win Rate, and Max Drawdown. This is your baseline — the preset is already optimised for this market.
4. Adjust contract size to match your account
   Presets ship with a default contract size, but you'll want to dial this to fit your own drawdown tolerance. In Settings → 🎯 STRATEGY PRESETS, enable the Contract Size ✏️ fine-tune override. This lets you change the number of contracts without affecting any other preset settings.
   🎯 STRATEGY PRESETS → Fine-Tune Overrides → Contract Size ✏️
   Start at 1 contract. Watch how Max Drawdown scales — if it's beyond your comfort zone, keep it at 1 until you've seen the strategy perform on live paper first.
5. You're ready
   That's it for a preset setup. The strategy is backtested, sized, and ready to run. When you want to explore further — adding confluence filters, adjusting sessions, or running walk-forward validation — use the full guide below.

🎓 Understanding Key Concepts

What is Confluence?

Definition: Multiple independent signals agreeing on the same trade direction.

Golden Rule: 2–4 confluence filters = optimal balance. More is not better.

What is Overfitting?

Definition: Optimising settings so perfectly to past data that they fail on new data.

How to avoid: Use OOS validation. If settings only work on the training window, they're overfit.

What is Drawdown?

Definition: Peak-to-trough decline in account equity.

What is Profit Factor?

Definition: Gross profit ÷ gross loss.

• PF = 1.0 → Breakeven
• PF = 1.5 → $1.50 earned per $1.00 lost
• PF = 2.0 → $2.00 earned per $1.00 lost

🎯 Strategy Presets

Presets are fully tuned configurations for specific instruments and timeframes. They override all relevant settings automatically so you can backtest instantly without manual configuration.

Available Presets

Auto-Detect

When enabled and the dropdown is set to "Custom", the strategy automatically applies the matching preset based on your ticker and timeframe. A mismatch warning label appears on the chart if you're on the wrong ticker or timeframe for the selected preset.

Override Toggles

Overrides let you customise specific sections while keeping the rest of the preset intact. Two types are available:

Section Overrides — replace an entire settings group with your custom inputs: Order Size & Risk, Long/Short Confluences, Entry Trigger, Additional Filters, Sessions & Manager, Risk Manager.

Fine-Tune Overrides — change a single parameter without affecting anything else: Contract Size, Risk:Reward, S/R Filter, Cooldown, Trailing Stop, Dynamic Sizing.

🎯 Entry Triggers (Choose 1 / Off)

Vector Platinum supports multiple pullback trigger types. Set one Pullback Trigger for clean testing and predictable behaviour. Setting it to "Off" passes all bars through to confluence.

1. Keltner Channel

What it does: Enters when price touches the Keltner bands (EMA ± ATR envelope). An ATR touch buffer controls how close price needs to get.

2. Bollinger Bands

What it does: Two modes — Reversal (%B) fires when %B crosses back inside the OB/OS threshold; Breakout (Legacy) fires when close moves beyond the band by a set ATR amount.

3. EMA Touch

What it does: Enters when price touches a selected moving average. Supports EMA, SMA, WMA, HMA, and VWMA types with an ATR buffer for tolerance.

4. Fib Retracement

What it does: Enters when price touches a chosen Fibonacci retracement zone derived from recent swing highs/lows. ATR-based tolerance prevents false triggers from wicks.

5. PDH/PDL Touch

What it does: Enters when price touches the Previous Day High or Previous Day Low. PDL touches trigger longs (support); PDH touches trigger shorts (resistance). Direction can be restricted to one side only.

6. VWAP Reclaim

What it does: Enters when price crosses back above (long) or below (short) the daily VWAP after having been on the other side. Strict mode requires a full confirmed close across VWAP; loose mode allows an intrabar touch.

7. Breakout

What it does: Enters when price closes beyond a recent swing high (long) or swing low (short) by a configurable ATR buffer. In Reverse Trades mode, the logic is automatically flipped — the breakout becomes a fade entry (shorting breakouts up, buying breakouts down).

✅ Confluence Filters

Confluence filters are optional confirmations layered on top of your selected entry trigger. Long and Short filters are configured independently, so you can run completely different confluence on each side.

Count Mode vs AND Mode

The 🎯 Count Mode toggle at the top of the confluence section changes how filters are evaluated. In the default AND mode, every enabled signal must pass. In Count Mode, you set a minimum number of signals that must pass (e.g. "at least 2 of 5 enabled"), giving more flexibility.

🟢 Available Long Confluences

• Oscillators: RSI, Stoch RSI, MFI, CCI, CMO, Williams %R, Fisher, VWAP Z-Score
• Momentum/Trend: QQE, RVI, Wave Trend, TTM Squeeze
• Price Action: Stochastic (classic), Engulfing, Price Action (rejection)
• Multi-timeframe: MTF RSI
• Advanced: ARMI, EMA Stack (3TF)

🔴 Available Short Confluences

Identical set to Long — all signals listed above have a corresponding Short version with appropriate overbought/bearish logic.

⚡ Momentum Oscillators

RSI

Long when RSI is at/under OS; short when at/over OB.

Stoch RSI

Long when StochRSI K is oversold; short when overbought.

MFI

Long under OS; short over OB. Volume-weighted — more reliable on liquid instruments.

CCI

Long at/below OS; short at/above OB.

CMO

Long at/below OS; short at/above OB.

Williams %R

Long when deeply oversold; short when overbought (scale runs -100 to 0).

Fisher Transform

Long below OS; short above OB. Fast-reacting signal suited to short timeframes.

VWAP Z-Score

Fires when price Z-score crosses back inside the threshold from the extreme side — a mean-reversion signal relative to VWAP deviation. Bullish when re-entering from below; bearish when re-entering from above.

📈 Trend & Momentum

QQE (Quantitative Qualitative Estimation)

Long when QQE trend is bullish; short when bearish. Smoothed RSI derivative — less noise than raw RSI.

RVI (Relative Vigor Index)

Long when RVI is above its signal line; short when below. Measures close-to-open strength relative to high-low range.

Wave Trend

Long when TCI is below the OS level; short when above OB. Configurable overbought/oversold thresholds.

TTM Squeeze

Fires on histogram direction change while in or just exiting a squeeze (Bollinger Bands inside Keltner Channels). Bullish when histogram turns upward from negative territory; bearish when it turns downward from positive.

🔬 Price Action & Pattern

Stochastic (classic)

Long when both K and D are oversold; short when both are overbought.

Engulfing

Long on confirmed bullish engulfing candle; short on bearish engulfing. Best paired with SR or PDH/PDL triggers during liquid sessions.

Price Action (rejection pattern)

Detects rejection candles with a dominant wick and strong close. Bullish: green body, lower wick > upper wick × ratio, close in top 25% of range. Bearish: red body, upper wick > lower wick × ratio, close in bottom 25% of range.

🧠 Advanced Signals

MTF RSI (Multi-Timeframe RSI)

Long when RSI is oversold on the chart, a medium timeframe, and a higher timeframe simultaneously. Short when all are overbought. Requires strong cross-timeframe agreement.

ARMI (Adaptive Relative Momentum Index)

An efficiency-ratio adaptive oscillator that speeds up in trending conditions and slows down in choppy markets. Long when ARMI ≤ OS; short when ARMI ≥ OB. Naturally complements the Market Regime Filter.

EMA Stack (3TF)

Requires Fast > Mid > Slow EMA alignment across three timeframes simultaneously for a long signal (reversed for short). Provides strong structural trend confirmation across the timeframe ladder.

⚖️ Additional Filters

These filters sit outside confluence and can block entries even if your trigger and confluence are valid. They evaluate broader market conditions rather than individual signal states.

Volume Confirmation

What it does: Requires volume at entry to exceed a multiple of the recent average. Uses current volume vs. moving average spike detection.

HTF Trend Alignment

What it does: Filters entries based on the slope and distance of a Higher Timeframe EMA. Bullish when the HTF EMA is rising or price is not too far below it; bearish when falling or price not too far above.

Market Regime Filter

What it does: Calculates a composite regime score (0–100) from ADX trend strength, ATR expansion, volume momentum, and Bollinger Band width. Filters out dead/choppy market conditions.

Only Trending OFF (recommended): avoids only confirmed chop — still trades transitional conditions. Only Trending ON: trades only when the regime score is above the trending threshold.

Supertrend Filter

What it does: Restricts entries to the Supertrend direction — longs only when Supertrend is bullish, shorts only when bearish. An independent Supertrend calculation separate from any Supertrend entry trigger.

Market Structure Filter

What it does: Tracks swing-based market structure breaks. Longs are favoured after a bullish structure break (price breaks above a swing high); shorts after a bearish break (below a swing low). A memory window defines how many bars the bias remains active.

S/R Zone Filter

What it does: Only takes entries when price is near a confirmed support or resistance zone built from clustered pivot points. Sensitivity controls lookback depth and the minimum touches required before a level qualifies.

HTF SR Overlay

What it does: Overlays SR levels calculated from a higher timeframe directly on the chart. Can optionally be used as a filter (entries only near HTF S/R zones).

Trade Direction + Reverse Trades

Trade Direction restricts entries to Both, Long Only, or Short Only.

Reverse All Trades flips every signal — a long trigger becomes a short execution and vice-versa. Used in conjunction with the Breakout trigger for fade/mean-reversion approaches, or for regime-specific research.

🛡️ Risk Management

Vector Platinum includes layered protections to control daily behaviour, trade management, and account-level drawdown.

Daily Profit Target

Blocks new entries once the combined closed + open P/L for the trading day reaches your target. Resets at the configured Trading Day Start hour.

Daily Loss Limit

Blocks new entries once the daily P/L falls below the negative limit. Also resets at the Trading Day Start hour.

Move to Breakeven

When price reaches a configured R:R multiple from entry, the stop loss is automatically moved to entry price plus an optional offset. Disabled automatically when Trailing Stop is active.

Trailing Stop

Trails the stop loss tick-by-tick as price moves into profit. The trailing gap equals the initial SL distance plus your offset. No take-profit is used — the trade rides until the trailing stop is hit. Breakeven is disabled when trailing is active.

Cooldown Between Trades

Forces a minimum wait (in bars) after a trade closes before a new entry is allowed.

Consecutive Loss Pause

Pauses new entries after N consecutive losses. Resumes automatically after the configured pause period expires. Resets at the start of each new trading day.

ATR Spike Filter

Blocks entries when the current ATR is more than X times its 100-bar average — filters out erratic high-volatility bars where entry quality degrades.

Rolling PF Risk Reduction

Monitors the rolling profit factor over the last N closed trades. When PF drops below your threshold, position size is automatically reduced to 1 contract to limit drawdown during underperforming periods. Sizing resumes normally when PF recovers. This never hard-blocks entries.

Performance Kill Switch

Monitors equity drawdown from its peak. When drawdown exceeds the dollar limit (with tolerance), all positions are closed and trading is paused until you manually re-enable it.

🚨 Emergency Stop (Prop Firm DD Limit)

Tracks intraday peak equity including open P/L. If drawdown from peak exceeds the limit, the strategy immediately closes all positions and blocks all entries for the rest of the trading day. Resets automatically at the next Trading Day Start.

📈 Dynamic Sizing (Win Streak Sizing)

Increases position size automatically based on consecutive wins, bounded by configurable min/max limits. Only operates in Contracts sizing mode.

1. Enable Win Streak Sizing.
2. Set Trigger Wins — how many consecutive wins to step up one level.
3. Set Add Contracts — how many contracts to add per level.
4. Set Base Size, Max Size, Min Size — bounds on position size.
5. Set Max Levels — caps the number of step-ups.
6. Enable Reset to Base on ANY Loss to immediately drop back to base size after any losing trade.

⏰ Trade Manager

Trade Manager controls when entries are allowed: sessions, blackout zones, and trading days. It also defines the trading day boundary used for daily P/L tracking.

Session Time Filter

When enabled, entries are only allowed during the selected sessions. Multiple sessions can be active at once.

• NY Session (09:30–16:00 ET)
• London Session (03:00–12:00 ET)
• Asian Session (20:00–05:00 ET — spans midnight)
• Futures Session (18:00–17:00 CT — spans midnight)

Blackout Zone 1 & 2

Two independent blackout windows that block new entries and close open positions within a defined time range around a centre point. Useful for avoiding market opens, news events, settlement windows, or any scheduled volatility period.

Trading Days Filter

Restricts entries to selected days of the week. Enable/disable Mon–Sun individually.

📅 Trading Day Definition

Defines when a "trading day" starts and ends for daily P/L tracking, drawdown monitoring, consecutive loss resets, and blackout zone resets.

Default is Start = 17 (5 PM ET) and End = 16 (4 PM ET), matching the CME futures session. Adjust for your market — crypto traders may prefer midnight-to-midnight.

📊 Dashboards & Display

All display options are controlled from a single section. You can show or hide each dashboard independently and set their positions and text sizes.

Performance Dashboard

The main on-chart dashboard showing real-time strategy metrics. Sections include Performance (Net P/L, Profit Factor), Statistics (Win Rate, Max DD, day streaks), Live Status (regime, edge health, daily DD), and Position (live P/L, trade state, daily P/L).

Mobile Mode

A compact dashboard designed for mobile screens. Shows only essential live metrics: Status, Contracts, Net P/L, Daily P/L, Max DD, Edge Health, Win Rate, Profit Factor, and Trade State — all in a condensed two-column layout.

Rolling Stats

A separate table showing performance over the last N closed trades: Win Rate, Profit Factor, Win/Loss counts, Net P/L, and average Win/Loss sizes. Helps you spot recent edge degradation faster than full-history stats.

P/L Tracker

Optional on-chart tracker showing historical P/L by day or by month.

• Daily (7 Days) — shows the last 7 trading days plus Today and a Week total.
• Monthly (12 Months) — shows the last 12 calendar months plus the current month.

WFA Dashboard

When Walk Forward Analysis is enabled, the main performance dashboard gains a dedicated WFA section showing: current phase (In-Sample/OOS), cycle number, IS vs OOS win rate comparison, returns, drawdown, profit factor across cycles, best/worst cycles, percentage of profitable OOS cycles, and a Robust/Marginal/Overfitting verdict. Requires OOS Validation to be configured — see the Walk Forward section below.

🎨 Visuals

Controls chart overlays, entry/exit colours, fills, and candle coloring.

Display Toggles

Entry Labels, Exit Dots, Win Streak label, Trend Background, Shade Blackout zones, and Shade Cooldown periods can each be toggled on or off independently.

HTF Candle Coloring

Colours each candle based on whether price is above or below the HTF EMA — blue/bull or red/bear by default. Configurable timeframe, EMA length, and colours.

Previous Day High/Low (PDH/PDL)

Draws the previous day's high and low as shaded zones with a precise centre line. Box height is ATR-scaled. Useful as a visual reference even when the PDH/PDL trigger is not enabled.

HTF EMA Line

Plots a smoothed version of the HTF EMA used by the HTF Trend Filter. Supports multiple smoothing algorithms (SMA, EMA, SMMA/RMA, WMA, VWMA, Double EMA, Triple EMA) and an optional colour-transition gradient when the trend direction changes.

📊 Walk Forward Analysis & Out-of-Sample Validation

Walk Forward Analysis (WFA) validates your settings on unseen data to detect overfitting. It requires two sections to be configured together: the WFA dashboard toggle, and the OOS Validation settings.

Step 1 — Enable WFA Dashboard

Toggle Enable WFA Dashboard in the Walk Forward Analysis section. This activates the WFA panel inside the main performance dashboard and enables period tracking. The Backtest Bars setting limits how far back the strategy calculates — reduce this to improve loading speed on large datasets.

Step 2 — Configure OOS Validation

Choose a Validation Mode in the 🎯 OUT-OF-SAMPLE VALIDATION section.

Disabled (Default)

No split is applied. All data is treated as training. Use only for initial exploration — WFA metrics will be inactive.

Single Date Cutoff

Splits the chart at a single date. Everything before = training; everything after = validation/holdout.

1. Set the cutoff date (Year / Month / Day).
2. Enable Training Set Only so new entries are restricted to the training period.
3. Optimise your settings on the training data.
4. Turn OFF Training Set Only and review whether performance holds in the holdout period.

Best for a quick one-time OOS check or annual validation splits.

Repeating Pattern (Recommended)

Automatically alternates between training and validation windows using a repeating calendar pattern starting from a chosen date.

• 1 Week Train / 1 Week Test — balanced, recommended for 5m intraday
• 2 Weeks Train / 1 Week Test — more data for optimisation
• 3 Weeks Train / 1 Week Test — better for slower/swing strategies
• 1 Week Train / 2 Weeks Test — stricter validation emphasis
• 10 Days / 5 Days — suited to 24/7 markets like crypto
• Custom — define your own train/test day counts

1. Set a Pattern Start Date and choose your pattern.
2. Enable Training Set Only and optimise across multiple training windows.
3. Turn OFF Training Set Only to review walk-forward metrics across all OOS segments.

Best for robust validation across changing market regimes.

Visual Markers

Optional chart markers and labels show which periods are training (blue shading) vs. validation (green shading, or red when Training Set Only is ON). Boundary lines and period labels appear directly on the chart.

🤖 Webhook Automation

Vector Platinum can send JSON webhooks to TradersPost, 3Commas, or any custom broker/execution platform.

Step 1: Enable Automation

Toggle ON "Webhook Automation" in the Automation section.

Step 2: TradersPost Setup (Recommended)

Why TradersPost?

• Extensively tested with Vector Platinum
• Supports bracket orders (entry + SL + TP in one request)
• Works with most brokers (TradeStation, Tradovate, Interactive Brokers, TD Ameritrade, and more)

Configuration Steps

1. Create an account at traderspost.io.
2. Connect Broker — go to Connections and link your broker account.
3. Create Strategy — define your asset class and tickers, then copy your unique Webhook URL.
4. Create Subscription — link the strategy to your broker account. Enable signal override so the strategy controls all opens and closes.
5. In TradingView, create an alert on the Vector Platinum indicator. Set Condition to "Alert() function calls only". Under Notifications, paste the TradersPost Webhook URL.

JSON Templates & Placeholders

Four JSON templates are configurable: Long Entry, Short Entry, Long Exit, Short Exit. Placeholders are replaced at runtime by the strategy.

⚙️ Advanced Parameters

These settings control the raw calculation inputs for every confluence indicator. Only adjust them if you understand the effect — changing parameters without retesting introduces hidden risk.

📐 Momentum Parameters

• RSI: Length, Overbought, Oversold
• MFI: Length, Overbought, Oversold
• CCI: Length, Overbought, Oversold
• CMO: Length, Overbought, Oversold
• Williams %R: Length, Overbought, Oversold

📐 Oscillator Parameters

• Fisher: Length, Overbought, Oversold
• QQE: RSI Length, Smoothing Factor, Threshold
• RVI: Length, Signal Length
• Wave Trend: Avg Length, EOT Length, OB, OS
• Stoch RSI: RSI Length, Stoch Length, K/D Smoothing, OB/OS
• Stochastic (classic): Length, K/D Smoothing, OB/OS
• VWAP Z-Score: Length, Threshold
• TTM Squeeze: BB Length/Multiplier, KC Length/Multiplier

📐 ARMI & EMA Stack Parameters

• ARMI: Length, Oversold, Overbought
• EMA Stack: Fast/Mid/Slow EMA lengths, TF2, TF3

📐 MTF RSI & Price Action Parameters

• MTF RSI: HTF Timeframe, MTF Timeframe, OB, OS
• Price Action: Min Body %, Wick Ratio, Require Strong Close

⚙️ Universal Optimization System

🔄 The Optimization Loop

1. Baseline Backtest

• If your ticker has a preset, start with it loaded. Otherwise, load factory defaults.
• Run the Strategy Backtest and record: PF, Win%, Max DD, Total Trades.
• Screenshot the equity curve — this is your baseline to beat.

2. Single Toggle Testing

3. Systematic Enable/Disable Protocol

1. Start with entry trigger only (no confluence)
2. Test ONE filter at a time
3. Compare metrics — Better? Keep. Same/Worse? Disable.
4. Max 4 confluence filters total
5. Recheck baseline after each accepted change

4. Backtest Monitoring Checklist

5. Parameter Dialing

6. Cross-Instrument Validation

Settings should work on 2+ uncorrelated markets to be considered robust.

7. Decision Matrix

📊 Equity Curve Red Flags

• J-Curve: Flat then vertical spike → reality-check needed, likely overfit
• Sawtooth: Constant boom/bust cycles → entry logic too noisy
• Long Flat: >3 weeks no trades/profit → over-filtered
• One Big Win: 50%+ of profit from a single trade → not statistically valid

🚀 Instrument-Specific Starting Points

• Micro Futures (MES/MNQ/MGC): VWAP Reclaim + Volume + HTF Trend (use preset as base)
• Forex: EMA Touch + QQE + no Volume filter
• Crypto: VWAP Reclaim + Stoch RSI + 10-day WFA pattern
• Indices (cash): Breakout + Market Structure + ATR Spike Filter

Discord #settings: Share your iteration tables for community review and feedback.

📞 Support

• Discord: Join our community for live discussions, strategy reviews, and direct support
• Settings Library: Tested configurations and community-verified presets are shared in Discord
• Monthly Reviews: Strategy performance updates and market condition analysis
• Email: [email protected]

🔧 Troubleshooting & FAQ

No signals appearing

• Too many confluence filters: disable them one-by-one and retest — AND Mode requires every enabled signal to pass simultaneously.
• Regime / MSB / HTF / SR filters blocking: temporarily disable each additional filter to isolate the culprit.
• Session filter or Blackout Zone active: check Trade Manager — you may be in a blackout window or outside your session hours.
• Consecutive Loss Pause active: if you recently hit the loss trigger, the strategy is paused for the configured number of bars.
• ATR Spike Filter blocking: current volatility may be too high — check the ATR spike multiplier or temporarily disable it.
• Rolling PF Risk Reduction: if recent PF is below threshold, entries are still allowed but size drops to 1 contract — check the dashboard.
• Training Set Only is ON: the strategy won't enter in OOS periods. Turn it OFF to trade across all periods.
• Daily limits hit: disable Daily Profit Target and Daily Loss Limit temporarily to rule these out.
• Emergency Stop triggered: look for the 🚨 warning on the dashboard — use "Reset Emergency Stop" to resume.

Wrong ticker / timeframe warning on chart

A preset is active that was optimised for a different ticker or timeframe. Either switch your chart to the expected ticker/timeframe, or select "Custom" from the preset dropdown to clear the preset.

Preset settings not applying

Check that the preset dropdown is not set to "Custom" when relying on Auto-Detect. Also verify that none of the Section Override toggles are ON — an active override takes priority over the preset for that section.