Aurum Alpha

As first written on March 9, 2026:

I've been with this signal for over a month, and it's working well for me. As I recall, when I first subscribed in early February I wasn't getting any gold trades for a long while, which is understandable given elevated volatility of gold during this time. I was still getting currency pair trades. Then some gold trades came in, and resulted in losses, which were compensated by concurrent currency pair profits. Then finally highly profitable gold trades appeared closer to the end of the month, through multiple concurrent positions. So from this experience, and from reviewing this signal's history, it appears that you need to follow for at least a month to be consistently in profit.

I like that literally all trades have reasonable SL set, I think usually at around 2% of the opening price. Some have TP. However, these appear to be just for safety and extracting unexpected profits (e.g. as it happened after a weekend gap) - they're rarely actually hit. Most positions are closed somewhere within the SL to TP range.

I confirm that no grids are used. Multiple positions sometimes are used, but they're opened by different logic than a grid would use - e.g., extra positions opened when price is moving in our favor and profit is increasing anyway, not as a means to combat loss.

The platform asks me to rate 3 specific things - trade system reliability and description quality (this appears reliable and described well, even if very briefly), trade copying quality (no issues at all copying this to a different broker), and user support (I got prompt and helpful answers). So it's 5/5 for all of these.

There's no formal rating for performance, I guess assuming everyone can see it for themselves from the current metrics. A metric I use is average monthly growth vs. maximum drawdown over a longer period (but with greater attention to recent drawdown). Unfortunately, per this metric this signal isn't ideal - some older calendar months had a growth similar to or even lower than max drawdown (currently shown as 17.6% by balance), not much higher than it. Some others were in fact much higher. Recent results appear to be better, with growth for January and February 2026 at 60% and 23% respectively, vs. max equity drawdown under 12% during this period. That's acceptable for my use. I also consider that all calendar months so far (Sep 2025 to Feb 2026) were profitable. So I rate performance 4/5.

Update on April 1, 2026:

March was tough for many strategies. Many signals I watched or even followed have crashed, some of them to zero. This one signal demonstrated sufficient reliability to have only moderate losses - but nevertheless, it's a 14% loss for the month of March, and only slight growth for two months of my subscription combined. The all-time profit factor for all trades combined is currently 1.4, which isn't too bad, but for XAUUSD alone it's only 1.17 per my calculation. Recovery factor reported by the platform is only 1.25, but that must be because of skewed calculation given the large addition of funds and thus increase in trade sizes before the recent losses. A subscriber following this signal for months and not adding funds would have a much higher recovery factor, so I'm not as concerned about it as I would otherwise be. Even disregarding the misleading recovery factor, I wouldn't be subscribing to a signal with these recent parameters, so I'm going to switch to trying another signal in its place now.

I still like a lot about this signal - strict SL on all trades, moderate loss when many others failed, the diversification from gold, and that it managed to show a profit for all other calendar months so far. So I'll keep watching its further development, and may resubscribe later. I encourage others reading this review much later to consider whatever the signal's recent performance will be - not what it was in the likely most difficult month of March 2026. For now though, seeing that there may be entire months with losses, I have to downgrade the reliability to 4/5.