Gold Trend Long H1

Moderate significance

by qkt Labs (house research)

A long-only trend-following Gold strategy on 1-hour bars, with a protective stop and a profit target on every trade. Every figure below comes from a full tick-data run with spread, commission and swap charged.

Approach: Trend following · XAUUSD · H1
Tested on ticks: Jan 1, 2020 → Dec 31, 2025
Publishing checks: 11 of 11 passed
Overfitting guard: 3 variants declared · deflated Sharpe 77%
In-sample, $100k: +16.7% · max drawdown 24.0% · 150 trades
Version: 4, published Oct 6, 2026 · future versions included

Included with the strategy

The exact .qkt strategy file, its detailed explanation, the cost profile it was tested with, and every raw report the pipeline produced (trades, equity, orders), each with its SHA-256.