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 strategy re-tested on rolling windows: each fold trained on a year and tested on the next quarter it had not seen, stitched into one out-of-sample curve.