Gold Trend Following
Built on the legendary Turtle Trader breakout method — it captures gold's biggest multi-week moves and holds as the trend runs to new highs.
- ✓ EasyLanguage source code (.ELD)
- ✓ TradeStation workspace (.TSW)
- ✓ Quick start guide
- ✓ Back-test report
- ✓ Lifetime updates — free
- ✓ Q&A access with Kurt
A full back-test report — profit factor, net profit, drawdown, win rate and trade statistics, with modeled commissions & slippage — is included with your purchase. Hypothetical results have inherent limitations; past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
The logic behind the edge.
Gold is one of the most trend-persistent markets a retail trader can access, and this strategy is built to exploit that. Using the time-tested breakout-and-breakdown logic that made the Turtle Traders famous, it identifies the start of an extended directional move in gold futures (@GC) and rides it systematically — holding for weeks as the trend runs to new highs. Volatility-adaptive position sizing scales exposure to current market conditions, and a volatility-based stop cuts losers fast while letting winners run. Developed and rigorously tested in 2012, it has continued to perform in real-time since. Because most markets share the same underlying structure, the code can be adapted and re-tested on other commodities — oil, silver, copper — and even individual stocks.
- Gauges the dominant trend in gold using a multi-week look-back.
- Enters long on a Turtle-style breakout to new highs, sizing the position to current volatility.
- Holds as the trend runs — potentially weeks or months — and exits on a breakdown through the look-back low, with a volatility-based stop cutting losers short.
Every strategy in the RelaxedTrader store is back-tested across a minimum of 10 years of historical market data, with estimated commissions and slippage, before a line of code is sold. If it doesn't hold up under rigorous testing, it doesn't make it to the store.
You receive the complete, fully-annotated EasyLanguage source code — no black boxes, no compiled files. You can read every line, understand every decision, and modify it as your knowledge grows.
New to this approach? Read the full breakdown in our Trading School: Original Turtle Trading Rules – Do They Still Work? →
What you get with every purchase.
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