Gold (XAU/USD) — B2 trade #3
Side: SELL · 50 oz @ $3,926.80
GOLD B2 · THE PUBLIC PAPER RECORD
Our own gold strategy, traded on paper against a Hola Prime-style prop-firm challenge: the live record, the open trade, the lagged twin that measures what being late costs, and the 2-year backtest — kept in separate blocks so they can never be confused. Snapshot: October 31, 2026.
Record feed — not a copy feed. These are the operator's own paper trades on gold (XAU/USD), run against a Hola Prime-style prop-firm challenge on a $200,000 paper account — entries can't be copied in real time, so this page is a public record of the strategy, not alerts to act on. The rules: Our own gold strategy, traded on paper against a Hola Prime-style $200K challenge: follow the daily trend (last daily close vs its 50-day average), enter when an hourly candle breaks the prior day's high or low, risk 0.5% of the balance, target 3× the stop. The first three trades were taken under the retired v1 discretionary strategy and stay in the record — losses included. P/L is shown at the $200,000 scale (the sim was re-based from $100,000 on Oct 31, 2026; percentages never changed).
Side: SELL · 50 oz @ $3,926.80
| # | Strategy | Trade | Opened | Closed | Side | Size | Entry | Exit | P/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | v1 (retired) | Call #1 | Oct 19, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | BUY | 20 oz | $4150.00 | Closed at stop — $4,058.00 | $-1847.00 |
| 2 | v1 (retired) | Call #2 | Oct 22, 2026 | Oct 22, 2026 | SELL | 44 oz | $4040.00 | Closed at target — $4,000.00 | +$1744.60 |
| 3 | v1 (retired) | Call #3 | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 27, 2026 | SELL | 44 oz | $3985.00 | Closed at stop — $4,030.00 | $-1995.40 |
| 4 | B2 | B2 trade #1 | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | SELL | 46 oz | $4036.10 | Closed at target — $3,972.56 | +$2906.74 |
| 5 | B2 | B2 trade #2 | Oct 30, 2026 | Oct 30, 2026 | SELL | 56 oz | $3963.30 | Closed at target — $3,910.95 | +$2912.00 |
| 6 | B2 | B2 trade #3 | Oct 30, 2026 | — still open | SELL | 50 oz | $3926.80 | Stop $3,946.90 · Target $3,866.50 | ≈ +$2,080 (unrealized) |
Nothing to show yet — and we won't fake it. Gold Reality is a second paper account that mirrors every Gold B2 entry about 15–30 seconds late, at whatever price a follower reacting to a published signal would actually get, so the true cost of being late is measured in public. It starts with Gold B2 trade #4 — earlier trades are not backfilled — so at this snapshot it has no trades. The empty record is the honest record.
Backtest — this is NOT the live record. The figures below come from running the same B2 rules over historical hourly gold prices — a simulation of the past, modelled as a funded $200,000 account. No account, paper or real, traded these. They are shown separately from the live paper record above so the two can never be confused.
| Measure | Backtest result |
|---|---|
| Window | Nov 15, 2024 → Oct 28, 2026 |
| Data | Yahoo GC=F hourly candles (11,090) |
| Modelled account | Funded $200,000 account · B2 rules · 0.5% risk per trade · $0.35/oz costs included |
| Result | +$107,314.55 (+53.66%) |
| Final balance | $307,314.55 |
| Trades | 500 · 150W – 350L |
| Win rate | 30.0% |
| Profit factor | 1.24 |
| Worst point | -3.87% vs the start balance (lowest balance $192,268.67 on Jan 8, 2025, measured from the $200,000 start) |
| Challenge mode | Passed both phases in ~252 days (challenge-mode run, same window) |
| Average full month | +$4,917.08 gross |
Honest limit: free sources would not give us hourly gold data older than November 2024, so this backtest covers 2 years, not 5. The earlier years — including the choppy 2022–2023 stretch — remain untested on hourly data, and two friendlier years are not proof the strategy survives every kind of market.