Six gold strategies. Built for you.

Good at

• Trending gold years
• Always-on, several independent positions in one basket
• High share of winning trades

Who should run this

For traders who want a diversified, hands-off gold basket and accept sharper swings when the trend turns.

Who can run this

• $25,000 or more
• Hedging MT5 account
• Any broker offering XAUUSD
• VPS recommended (runs around the clock)
• Prop-firm: check the firm's drawdown rules first

• It reads gold's direction and turns with it, running several independent positions side by side instead of resting everything on one reading of the market.
• Each of them makes its own call, so one can be wrong while another is right; what the account sees is the combined result, not any single opinion.
• When a move goes the other way, the position that was wrong is closed and re-opened facing the new direction, a limited number of times before it stands aside.
• It is always on while the market is open, and every position is closed by the plan rather than left for someone to deal with by hand.

• StandardDefault

  The configuration behind the published figures, at the size they were run at.

  HelixBasket-Standard.set

• Light

  The same basket at the smaller size the desk also tested, for a more cautious account.

  HelixBasket-Light.set

Strategy Tester · 2026-01-01 to 2026-09-07 · $25,000 account.

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Good at

• Patient trading on the Steady and Balanced profiles
• Steady and Balanced: positive in every year 2023 to 2026 in our backtests
• Smaller accounts on the Steady profile

Who should run this

For patient traders with $25,000 or more who want rules that were tested across four years, not one.

Who can run this

• $25,000 or more on Steady and Balanced
• Deep Margin: $100,000 or more and only after your own multi-year test
• Hedging MT5 account at any broker offering XAUUSD
• VPS recommended
• Not for prop-firm evaluations

• It waits for gold to move decisively away from where it has been resting, and only then does it get involved.
• Once it is in, it works that position patiently and books the result when the market gives enough of the move back.
• On the Steady and Balanced profiles every sequence it opens is bounded: it takes the outcome, good or bad, and steps away.
• It looks for work only inside a fixed window of the trading day, and sits out the rest of it.

• SteadyDefault

  The default, and the one the published backtest was run with: the shallowest of the three and the only one meant for a $25,000 account.

  AurumRecoil-Steady.set

• Balanced

  Reads the market more slowly and closes a sequence sooner than Steady, with fewer and larger swings along the way.

  AurumRecoil-Balanced.set

• Deep Margin

  The house configuration. It works a longer day for smaller profits, and it is the one profile with no depth limit and no cap on how long a sequence runs. The desk's multi-year study of this configuration on a $25,000 account ended in account loss in 2023, in 2024 and in 2025; only the 2026 window is published here. Read the Deep Margin note before you consider it.

  AurumRecoil-DeepMargin.set

Strategy Tester · 2026-01-01 to 2026-09-07 · $25,000 account.

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Good at

• One position at a time
• A fixed amount of money at risk on every trade
• Prop-firm evaluations: lower the risk per trade first

Who should run this

For hands-off traders who want a simple, single-position approach with a known risk per trade.

Who can run this

• $25,000 or more at the default risk per trade
• Hedging MT5 account
• Any broker offering XAUUSD
• VPS optional; it can run on your own machine
• Prop-firm evaluations: lower the risk per trade first

• It reads the direction gold has been travelling in over the longer run, and only looks for trades that go the same way.
• When price finally breaks clear of the range it has been sitting in, it takes a single position in that direction.
• It holds one position at a time and never adds to a trade that is going against it; the money at risk on each is a fixed amount you set.
• A trade that is working is given room to run, and is handed back only once the move it was riding turns.

• StandardDefault

  The settings this Product was tested with: one position at a time, and a fixed amount of money at risk on each.

  MeridianTrend-Standard.set

Strategy Tester · 2026-01-01 to 2026-09-07 · $25,000 account.

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Good at

• Riding one clear gold trend at a time
• A high share of winning trades in our own testing
• Few trades a week, nothing to watch between them

Who should run this

For active traders who follow the trend and can sit through deeper pullbacks.

Who can run this

• $100,000 or more (at $25,000 the tested drawdown passed half the account)
• Hedging MT5 account
• Any broker offering XAUUSD on MetaTrader 5
• A VPS is recommended: it runs around the clock
• Prop-firm: check the firm's drawdown rules first

• It follows the direction gold is travelling and stays with it, holding one position at a time and letting a move run rather than taking a quick profit.
• When the market turns against the direction it was following, it closes out and turns with it, so it is never left arguing with a trend that has changed.
• It works on its own around the clock and asks nothing of you between trades; a losing stretch ends rather than running on indefinitely.

• StandardDefault

  The settings the published run on the strategy page was proved with; the only set this Version ships.

  HelixTrail-Standard.set

Strategy Tester · 2026-01-01 to 2026-09-07 · $100,000 account.

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Good at

• Shallow drawdown in our own testing
• Rare, large winning trades
• A handful of trades a month

Who should run this

For patient traders who accept many small losses for the occasional big winner.

Who can run this

• $10,000 or more
• Netting or hedging MT5 account
• Any broker with XAUUSD
• VPS optional
• Prop-firm friendly

• It waits for gold to be clearly moving one way, then leaves the pause that follows alone rather than chasing the move.
• When that pause ends and price turns back the way the market was already going, it opens a single trade and holds it.
• Most trades are closed again quickly for a small amount; the rare one that keeps running is given room and followed out.

• RunnerDefault

  The default. Nothing is taken off early, so a trade that keeps going is left to keep going.

  Reclaim-Runner.set

• Steady

  Part of a winning trade is taken sooner and the rest is no longer at risk of a loss. Smoother, smaller.

  Reclaim-Steady.set

Strategy Tester · 2026-01-01 to 2026-09-07 · $25,000 account.

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Good at

• Intraday trading only, flat every evening
• No overnight or weekend exposure
• Prop-firm evaluation accounts

Who should run this

For day traders who want every position closed before the session ends.

Who can run this

• $10,000 or more
• Netting or hedging MT5 account
• One robot per account — nothing else trading gold
• VPS optional (it trades session hours only)
• Prop-firm evaluations are suitable

• It sits out the opening of each trading day, letting gold settle and show where it is willing to trade before anything is risked.
• When price finally breaks clear of that early zone, and only when the wider daily direction agrees, it opens a single position.
• The exit levels are fixed the moment the trade opens and are never moved afterwards, so the worst case is known from the start.
• Everything is closed before the trading day ends: nothing is carried overnight, over a weekend, or into the next session.

• StandardDefault

  The settings the strategy was built and proved on, and the ones the published tester report was produced from.

  Dawnbreak-Standard.set

Strategy Tester · 2026-01-01 to 2026-09-07 · $25,000 account.

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