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:

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