Helix Trail
Strategy Tester report: Helix Trail
This is a simulation over past prices. Nothing on this page is live trading, and no figure on it comes from an account of ours.
The run
- Period
- 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-07
- Symbol
- XAUUSD
- Chart
- M15
- Starting balance
- $100,000
- Leverage
- 1:500
- Tick model
- every tick based on real ticks (IC Markets demo; ticks before 2026-04-21 synthesised from M1 bars)
- History quality
- 63%
- Costs
- $0 in the tester; real trading costs about $7 per lot round-turn
- Run id
- run_c9d5172ae886
Equity curve
The figures
- Net return
+32.7% · $32,744.30
What the account ended with against what it started with. The money beside it is the same thing in dollars.
- Profit factor
1.27
Gross profit divided by gross loss. Above 1 means the winning trades brought in more than the losing ones took out.
- Sharpe ratio
2.5
Return measured against how much it moved around on the way. The tester computes this per trade, not per year, so read it against the other runs here rather than against a fund’s.
- Recovery factor
1.45
Net profit divided by the deepest drawdown: how many times over the run earned back its own worst moment.
- Max equity drawdown
19.3%
The furthest the account fell from a high point, measured on equity — open positions counted, not only closed ones. This is the number to size an account against.
- Trades
259
How many trades the run closed. The same percentage from sixty trades and from six hundred are not the same evidence.
- Winning trades
66.8%
The share of those trades that closed in profit. On its own it says nothing about size: many small wins can still lose to one large loss.
Settings used
- Preset loaded
- HelixTrail-Standard.set
- Profile
- Standard
- Sizing
- as the preset ships it
- Magic number
- your build’s own
- Order comment
- your build’s own
Those four are the only inputs the build you buy exposes. Everything else this run used came out of the preset named above.
Run it yourself
The demo is the same strategy with live trading compiled out. Load the preset above, pick your own window and your own broker’s ticks, and hold what you get against this page.
Free. No card, no email needed.
Risk
Trading gold, foreign exchange and CFDs on margin carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for every investor.