Gold RSI Trend Rider

A long-only gold futures system that enters on RSI momentum or a lower Bollinger Band reclaim, gated by the band midline so it only buys in an uptrend, then rides winners with a trailing stop.

Last updated July 15, 2026

Key Metrics

All Time Return: +141.9%
1Y Return: +32.6%
Max Drawdown: -15.5%
Sharpe Ratio: 1.05
Win Rate: 39.0%
Profit Factor: 1.34

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About this strategy

The idea

Every strategy write-up opens with the edge the system is built around: what it trades, when it enters, and why that behavior has persisted across the tested window rather than being an artifact of one lucky stretch of market.

How it works

Entry: the exact condition that opens a position, with no discretionary judgment left to the reader.
Position sizing: how much of the account each trade risks and how that scales as equity grows.
Stop loss: where the strategy admits it is wrong and how tight that threshold sits against typical daily range.
Take profit: the target that banks the winners and the reasoning behind its distance from entry.

Parameters to tune

The write-up closes with the handful of settings worth adjusting before running the strategy yourself, what each one trades off, and the ranges the backtests actually explored.

Where do these positions come from?

Every position follows from the strategy's written rules: the entry conditions, the exit conditions, and the position sizing you see on this page. Nothing is hand-picked, so the strategy holds exactly what its rules would have selected at each point in time.

When you copy a template into Horizon, you can tune every one of those rules before running it. The backtest then applies your version of the rules to 20 years of historical market data.

How do we calculate performance?

Horizon calculates performance by tracking how a strategy behaves over time: its entries, exits, position sizes, rebalancing activity, and market price changes. For backtests, performance comes from historical data. For live strategies, it comes from real broker-synced activity and current market data.

Performance covers return, drawdown, win rate, Sharpe ratio, profit factor, exposure, and other risk-adjusted metrics. Together they show not just how much a strategy made, but how much risk it took to get there.

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