Gold Miner XV – Long-Only XAUUSD Breakout Strategy for MetaTrader
🎯 Ideal For
- Traders seeking a long-only gold trading strategy with proven historical performance.
- Those looking for a strategy that avoids grid or martingale tactics, ensuring safer trading practices.
🔍 Features
- Platform Compatibility: MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5
- Instrument: XAUUSD CFD
- Timeframe: M30
- Strategy Style: Breakout/Swing
- Stop Loss: Yes
- Trading direction: Long only
- Money Management: Fixed or Dynamic lot size
- No Grid or Martingale
🧾Backtest Conditions
- Period: From 2009-01-01 to 2025-01-01
- Spread: 20 ticks
- Commission: Included in spreads/slippage
- Slippage: 20 ticks
- Lot size: 1% of account, max 5 lots (no optimization tricks)
📈 Performance Metrics
- Total # trades: 734
- Average Trades/Month: 3.8
- Start capital ($): $10,000
- Accumulated Net Profit ($): $100,835
- Accumulated Net Profit (%): 1008%
- Average Annual Profit (%): 63.0%
- CAGR: 15.54%
- Market Exposure: 0.50%
- CAGR / Exposure (Efficiency): 3108%
- Max Drawdown: 15.89%
- Average Stop Loss (pips): -391
✨ Key Features
- Long-only strategy suitable for US-based traders (no hedging).
- Compatible with both MetaTrader 4 and 5 platforms.
- Employs a breakout/swing trading style on the M30 timeframe.
- Incorporates stop loss for risk management.
- Offers both fixed and dynamic lot sizing options.
- Avoids grid and martingale strategies for safer trading.
📊 Performance Summary
Over a 16-year backtest period, Gold Miner XV achieved a total of 734 trades, averaging 3.8 trades per month. Starting with a capital of $10,000, it generated an accumulated net profit of $100,835, equating to a 1008% return. The strategy maintained a low market exposure of 0.50% and demonstrated a high efficiency ratio (CAGR/Exposure) of 3108%. The maximum drawdown observed was 15.89%, indicating a strong risk-reward balance.
⚙️ Requirements & Setup
- Broker offering XAUUSD CFDs.
- Safe for US-based traders (no hedging).
- Works with standard, ECN, or raw spread accounts.
- Not sensitive to spread or commission.
- Recommended Leverage: 1:100 (risk 1% per trade).
- Easy installation with step-by-step guide included.
🔐 Licensing & Support
- License: Lifetime, with 3 different account activations per key.
- Support: Email-based installation support included.
- Refund Policy: No refunds.
- Note: Strategy logic not disclosed to protect IP.
🧠 Development Approach
All our algorithmic trading strategies are the result of over 20 years of trading experience, combined with advanced AI and machine learning development techniques. Every strategy undergoes:
- Thorough robustness testing to avoid curve fitting.
- Backtest verification on MT4, MT5, and proprietary platforms.
- Minimum 12 months of live forward testing before release.
🔗 Learn more
- Compare all our EAs for MetaTrader on the EA Ranking page where you can also download a demo version of each EA.
- Learn more about our development methodology and robustness testing process.