GLDETFsBalance
Trading Gold in a sideways market
Strategy #56 · Market Wave · 1 Week chart
Strategy+50.4%
Buy and hold GLD+25.0%
Backtested · 1 Aug 2011 – 11 Mar 2024
GLDETFsBalanceShort term
Profiting from Gold while prices are high
Strategy #55 · GLD 1D · Market Wave · 1 Day chart
Backtested As of 8 Jul 2026 · 1 Apr 2025 – 8 Jul 2026 · $100,000 starting capital
Strategy return
+20.7%
Buying GLD monthly
+2.7%
CAGR
16.0%
The chart
Every trade from the backtest, straight from TradingView.
Against its benchmarks
GLD 1D+20.7%
Buying GLD monthly+2.7%
Total return over the test period, backtested.
Past and backtested performance does not guarantee future results.
Results at your account size
$
Net profit
+$20,699
Ending value
$120,699
Cash profit
+$33,376
Asset accumulated
326 GLD
How it trades
- Algorithm
- Market Wave
- Chart
- 1 Day
- Horizon
- Short term
- Aim
- Balance: aims for a mix of cash profit and more of the asset
- Test period
- 1 Apr 2025 – 8 Jul 2026
- Starting capital
- $100,000
- Fees and slippage
- Not stated
- Data source
- TradingView backtest
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