Real walk-forward research on our official datasets. Selected by fixed robustness rules out of 87 research runs, not by profit.
Rules, set before looking at the results: plateau >= 11/16 windows, beats >= 80% of fixed variants, PF >= 1.15, >= 100 OOS trades, max DD <= 25%, trading costs included.
T01 Trend ยท Gold (XAUUSD) H4
Trend following on gold, 4-hour bars, trading costs included. Gold was first explored by hand; this run puts every setting we tried into the grid (EMA 10-60 / 160-400, risk/reward 1.5-2.5), so the walk-forward made all the choices. 9 of 16 windows were profitable and most of the gain comes from the strong trends of 2025. The downloadable EA was checked in the FTMO MT5 tester (10 of the 12 trades of the last window). Warning: with the last window's settings kept fixed since 2020 it lost money in 2021-2022 and had a 27% drawdown at 1% risk. Re-run the research every 3 months and keep the risk low.
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