Limitations

What Vektor does not do.

If you read one page of these docs, make it this one. Vektor is structure, not certainty — here is exactly where the line sits.

The hard limits

No guarantees. Stated without flinching.

It does not guarantee profit #

No system does, and one that claims to is lying to you. Vektor will take losing trades — regularly — and can go through losing months. Its case rests on rules you can verify, not outcomes anyone can promise.

It does not predict anything #

It recognises trends that already exist and follows rules about them. It knows nothing about news, halvings, central banks, or tomorrow. When conditions change faster than a trend system can react, it loses — that is part of the deal.

It does not trade for you #

It signals on your chart and through your alerts. Reading, deciding, and executing are yours, and so is the responsibility for every order — including any automation you build on top of the alerts.

It does not remove risk #

The exit line defines risk before entry; it cannot cap it absolutely. Gaps, news wicks, thin liquidity, and outages can fill you beyond the line, and the tester does not model liquidation, margin calls, or funding costs. See risk basics and the risk disclosure.

It is not financial advice #

Vektor is a technical-analysis tool and educational software. Nothing on your chart, in these docs, or from our support is a recommendation to buy or sell anything.

Where it struggles

Every edge has a bill. Here is this one's.

Trend following has a known shape. Vektor inherits all of it.

It lags in chop

In a sideways, whippy market, breakouts fail and the trail gets clipped — a string of small losses while the system probes for a real trend. The filters cut this down; nothing eliminates it.

It gives back at the turn

The trail confirms a trend is over by being hit, which always costs a slice of open profit at the top. Exiting the exact high is not possible without predicting — see above.

It can trail a smooth grind

In a long, calm climb with no crash to dodge, buy-and-hold can simply win. Vektor earns its keep on big moves and by standing aside in the drops — and the benchmark table will tell you plainly which regime you just lived through.

Past and future

The backtest is evidence. Not a forecast.

Past performance does not predict future results #

This is not boilerplate; it is mechanically true. A backtest shows how the rules handled markets that already happened. Future markets can behave differently for longer than any test window covers, and an edge can shrink or vanish. Verify the history yourself in the tester — then hold it as evidence about the rules, never as a promise about next year.

Backtest fills are cleaner than live fills #

The tester charges realistic commission and slippage, but live trading adds the frictions it can't fully know: your broker's spread at 2am, a fill through a news wick, an outage at the wrong moment. Expect live results to run somewhat below the test, and treat any leverage as amplifying exactly that gap.

So why trust it at all? #

Because everything above is checkable. The rules never repaint, the full history is on your own chart, and the benchmark table shows the losses and the lagging periods as plainly as the wins. Trust built on verifiable behaviour — including its failures — is the only kind worth having in this category.

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