Strategy

A long-short Gold strategy built around controlled execution and disciplined risk.

The objective is not maximum aggression. It is a systematic Gold trading strategy designed to capture recurring asymmetric opportunities through controlled medium-frequency execution.

Execution Profile

The framework is active and selective. Frequency comes from valid setups, not from a need to appear constantly in the market.

Market focus

Gold is the sole focus because it offers deep liquidity, strong global participation, and repeatable reactions around macro positioning, volatility shifts, and directional extensions.

Trade frequency

The strategy typically averages roughly 300 to 500 trades per month, while keeping individual trade risk controlled relative to account capital.

Execution quality

Entry timing, risk carrying, and consistency of implementation matter as much as directional bias. The objective is quality of execution rather than random activity.

Risk Management Framework

Risk-adjusted thinking matters more than headline returns. The strategy is intended to be followed in a measured way, with the expectation that compounding only works when losses remain survivable and exposure remains controlled.

Risk is assessed continuously at both trade level and portfolio level, not through fixed stop-loss placement alone.

Each trade is evaluated in the context of total exposure, rather than as an isolated position.

Leverage is used as an execution tool, not as a mechanism for excessive aggression.

Drawdowns and flat periods are a normal part of real trading and should be expected, communicated clearly, and managed properly.

Leverage and Position Sizing

Position size is tied to account capital rather than arbitrary aggression. The framework is built around standard allocation or half allocation, with leverage and margin used to execute exposure sensibly rather than to force oversized risk.

Allocation first

Trades are sized relative to account balance, so exposure stays linked to the account’s actual capital base rather than arbitrary notional ambition.

Leverage as a tool

Margin and leverage are execution tools, not mechanisms for excessive exposure. A £50,000 account with 20:1 leverage on Gold can use around £2,500 of margin to achieve roughly £50,000 of notional exposure.

Scaling gradually

We recommend scaling into the strategy rather than deploying full capital immediately. This allows investors to observe the system through live reporting, flat periods, and drawdowns before increasing allocation.

Why Demo First

Our public account uses a demo Pepperstone Raw Account. We have a live fund that contains investor capital. In this account, investors depost funds and we withdraw our management fees. Having the public account demo makes the public record easier for you to audit as results are not distorted by changes in capital. It is not because we are not confident in the strategy.

Public reporting stays clean, easier to interpret and represents true performance.

Internal live capital can continue separately without distorting the public metrics

Our objective remains to be fully transprent at all times.

Broker Considerations

Execution conditions matter

Broker selection has a direct effect on real trading conditions. Spread, swap, and commission structure all influence net performance over time, especially in an active strategy.

We favour brokers offering tight raw spreads, low overnight swap charges, and zero commissions where possible.

That is why Pepperstone Raw & BlackBull Standard are the preferred brokers for execution of this strategy.

Broker selection has a direct effect on trading conditions, especially when spread and overnight costs accumulate over time.