Trading Edge #49
Instrument/asset
The gold price (GLD)
Trading rules
The trading rules of the edge read like this (please also backtest yourself – you might find a way to improve it):
- Buy at the close of the year; and
- Sell N days later.
Results
This is the performance 1-30 days later into the new year (gold price 1980 until today):

If we exit after 15 trading days we get the following equity curve:

