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Back Testing Gold Trading System Signals
Generating Gold Trading Signals with a trading system is one of methods to trade gold - it is one of the ways that a beginner trader can attempt to determine the direction of the trend with a good level of accuracy - and with a little gold practice and back testing on xauusd practice trading account so as to gradually increase the level of accuracy of this gold trading system through practice gold trading using the xauusd trading system.
The best technique of how to backtest a gold trading strategy is by following these 2 steps:
- Gold Paper Trading Method
- XAUUSD Demo Trade Technique
Gold Paper Trading - gold paper trading method of testing a gold system involves placing your trading system on a gold chart - then take the chart back to a particular date - for example 3 months back, and then using this gold chart price history to determine where your system would have generated buy signals, sell signals and exit gold signals. Write down these points on a gold journal and also write the profit per gold trade or loss per gold trade and then calculate the total profit of loss after you have recorded a good number of xauusd trades generated by the gold trading system such as 20 paper trades xauusd trades and determine if your xauusd trading system is overall profitable or not, the win ratio of gold trading system, the loss ratio of your xauusd system & the risk:reward ratio of your trading system.
This is an ancient method of testing gold trading systems that was used by traditional traders when there was no online gold markets or computers for that matter, the trader would use something like the A3 or A2 paper, graph format paper and draw the gold charts manually (Imagine drawing the charts on your gold trading platform by hand every day or every hour, would you as a trader be ready to do that? - doubt it!) Those traders were hardworking than most, anyway for our paper trading method example, just a sample data of 20 xauusd trades is all we need.
A good gold trading tool to use to backtest your xauusd trading system is the MetaTrader 4 Gold Trading Step by Step Tool. Found in the MetaTrader 4 charts toolbar of MT4 software - If you want to find the charts toolbar on the MetaTrader 4 platform it is at the top of MT4 platform. If the charts toolbar is not there: Click View (next to file, tops left corner of MT4 platform)>>> Toolbar >>> Charts. Then click the Customize button >>> Select Gold Trading Step by Step >>> Click Insert >>> Close.
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Once you get this MetaTrader 4 tool you can move your gold chart backwards, & use this MetaTrader 4 tool - gold trading step by step gold trading tool - to move the charts step by step while at the same time testing when your gold trading system would have generated either a buy signal or a sell signal, and where you would have exited the trade, then write down on a gold trading journal the amount of profit/loss per gold trade and out of a sample number of xauusd trades you would then calculate the overall profits/losses generated by the gold trading system.
If your xauusd trading system is profitable on the paper trade method then, it's time to open a gold demo account - demo gold trading trade and test if your xauusd trading system is profitable on the real trading market as it's on the paper trading method. This is known as the process of testing a trading system or back testing a trading system.
Writing a Gold Trading Journal
Write a Gold Trading Journal to keep track of the profitable xauusd trades and use the gold journal to determine why these trades were profitable. Also keep a log of all losing xauusd trades and use the gold journal to determine why these trades made losses so as to avoid making these same mistakes the next time that you are trading using your trading system.
Tweak your gold trading system until your gold trading system gets a good risk: reward ratio - with the gold trading signals that you generate with it. Aim to get a good risk: reward ration of 3:1 and a win ratio of above 70% for your xauusd trading system is a good ratio, with proper gold money management guidelines even a gold trading system with a win ratio of even 30% than is less than half of your trades make profit you can still make a profit using the proper gold money management guidelines. You might want to learn the topic gold money management to know what the illustration below is all about: Risk : Reward Ratio.
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A manual xauusd trading system is still the best way to generate gold signals compared to automated trading systems, a manual xauusd system is a better technique and is also much simpler to implement.
However, other gold traders prefer automated gold trading systems and for those gold traders - they can check the automated gold trading data on this learn gold trading webpage MQL5 Gold Expert Advisors and Automated Gold Trading Systems.
You can also learn other gold trading strategies to use in your gold trading system from our list of gold trade strategies topics that provides you with various methods of how to generate buy signals & sell signals using various technical analysis methods - Gold Trading Strategies List.
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