Numbers without context mean nothing, so here is how the Smart Liquidity Gold backtest was built and what it shows.
Test setup
- Symbol: XAUUSD, M15
- Period: January 2024 to October 2026
- Modelling: every tick based on real ticks (100% quality)
- About 270 million ticks and 65,753 M15 bars processed
- Starting balance: $1,000
Results
- Final balance: $24,985 (net +2,398%)
- Total trades: 1,100
- Win rate: 85.09% (long 88.43%, short 81.60%)
- Profit factor: 1.49
- Sharpe ratio: 5.41
- Recovery factor: 4.93
- Max drawdown: 25.87%
- Profitable months: 28 of 34
- Every year (2024, 2025, 2026) closed in profit
How to read this honestly The drawdown is real. 25.87% means there were periods where the account was down a quarter from its peak. That is the price of a compounding risk setting. If that is too much for you, lower the risk per trade: the logic stays the same and the drawdown scales down.
Want to verify it yourself? Download the free demo and run it in your own Strategy Tester with real ticks.
Smart Liquidity Gold: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/201338
