Vortex : Currency Program

Summary

The Vortex Currency Program is a short to medium-term systematic strategy trading the world's most liquid currency pairs. Currencies give investors a global footprint and the opportunity to profit from most major international economic and geopolitical events. The program also provides essential diversification from all traditional asset classes. A leveraged version of this program is available to investors with a higher risk appetite.

Investment Strategy

The proprietary Vortex System has been developed and refined over two decades. It is based on extensive experience trading different markets and analysing market behaviour, as well as robust mathematical and statistical principles. The Vortex System combines elements of trend following, mean reversion and contra-trend, acting like a multi-strategy. By being 100% systematic, we avoid the pitfalls of human emotion and psychology in trading, especially greed and fear. The Vortex Currency Program is a short to medium-term strategy, meaning the holding period for profitable trades ranges from a few days up to several weeks. Unprofitable trades usually exit after several hours or days. Our timeframe makes us uncorrelated to longer-term fund managers, as well as to intraday strategies. We let our profits run and cut our losses short, resulting in a return profile that is positively-skewed. Vortex are also the inventors of the well-known Vortex Indictor, a technical trend indicator published in 2010 and used worldwide by funds and trading platforms. We apply unique and proprietary versions of the Vortex Indicator within the Vortex System.

Risk Management

Vortex produces consistent and repeatable results year-on-year. This is accomplished by 3 pillars of risk management. 1) Dynamic exposure per trade to equalise risk in different market conditions: during times of high volatility, we trade smaller positions, while larger positions are traded during low volatility. 2) Religious use of stop losses: two types of progressive trailing stops are used with every position. 3) Letting profits run to their maximum extent: this is an essential part of our money management.