12 Apr A Very Interesting System on Gold
A Very Interesting System on Gold
Apr. 12, 2024
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While working on Bollinger Band™ systems for this week’s Newsletters, I came across something very interesting.
True to what we’ve talked about, I wanted to put our Band framework on an instrument that actually trends.
What has trended hard in the past (and is trending hard right now)?
Gold.
So it seemed to me that putting a breakout strategy on Gold would work. I had no idea it would work this well.
Keep in mind, I did do a little bit of optimizing.
For the Fx strategies, I used the 30M chart. For Gold, I’m using the 120M chart.
Why? Because the volume on 30M bars was too sparse.
And I changed the Upper Band and Lower Band standard deviations slightly. Upper is 2 and Lower is -3.1.
Otherwise, I kept the same Band length and the same 3:1 positive reward to risk parameters.
How did it do?
On a hypothetical $20k account from 2002-2024, the Curve looks like this (via Portfolio Architect):
It’s up around 900% (with trading costs built in). And it has only one tiny losing year:
This is a great example of everything we’ve discussed.
One, Bollinger Bands™ continue to be awesome for breakouts.
Two, put trend following strategies on instruments that trend.
Doing that led me to one of the best Gold Equity Curves I’ve ever seen. (Elite Members will get this code for free.)
I’ll be watching it going forward.
Talk soon.
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