Quaterna Gold and Nasdaq

Launch price 599 USD for the first 10 copies, then 999 USD; final price 2 499 USD.

Live signal: my real account, where these strategies trade alongside my other ones: Gold Nasdaq and Yen Portfolio

Quaterna runs four independent strategies on gold (XAUUSD), and two of them also on the Nasdaq 100, from one chart. That makes six streams of trades that win and lose at different times, so the account does not depend on a single idea. Every trade opens with its stop loss and take profit already set. No grid, no martingale, no averaging down, no trade without a stop.

The four strategies are not new. They come from my own portfolio, which trades a real account at the Medium risk level. Strategies A and B have run there since 28 September 2026 on gold and the Nasdaq 100 at 0.35% per trade: 35 closed trades up to 8 November, +218 USD on a 3 500 USD account. C and D belong to the same portfolio but have not traded on that balance yet, because the broker's minimum gold lot is larger than 0.35% of 3 500 USD allows.

Why sell it? My own account is small: selling the strategies can earn more than they make on 3 500 USD, and it changes nothing for that account, which keeps trading the same rules.

Backtest, January 2019 to October 2026

All six streams together, 10 000 USD, MT5 Strategy Tester, "every tick based on real ticks", the broker's spreads, swaps and commission:

• Medium (0.35% per trade): net profit +58 224 USD (+582%), largest equity drawdown 20.1%, profit factor 1.35
• Low (0.20% per trade): +182%, largest equity drawdown 11.1%
• High (0.70% per trade): +3 758%, largest equity drawdown 38.4%. Only for money you can watch fall by 38%.
• 2 481 trades, about 6 a week
• 8 of 8 calendar years and 62 of 94 months profitable at Medium

Per year, Medium: 2019 +11.0%, 2020 +43.2%, 2021 +11.8%, 2022 +1.1%, 2023 +41.2%, 2024 +33.9%, 2025 +77.3%, 2026 to October +13.3%.

What to expect

• About 27% of trades win. The winners are several times larger than the losers, so strings of small losses are normal: the longest was 22 in a row.
• The deepest fall of the balance at Medium was 18.2%, and the next new high came 20 months later (July 2021 to March 2023). A system like this has to be left alone through periods like that.
• Most of the profit came from buy trades, and the years 2023 to 2025, when gold rose strongly, made the largest part of it. Strategies C and D only buy gold. A long fall in gold is the main risk; the Nasdaq streams help because they follow a different market.
• On the test server the broker's real tick history for gold starts in 2023; for 2019 to 2022 the tester builds the ticks from 1-minute bars. The same test on the "1 minute OHLC" model gives +675%, and with a random execution delay +565%.

Prop-firm accounts

The backtest trades were replayed from each of 2 495 start days since January 2019, with a 10% maximum loss and a 5% daily loss limit (open trades counted at their full stop), for firms without a time limit:

• Medium: reached a +8% target from 86% of the start days, median 11 weeks; a +5% target from 89%
• Low: +8% from 99% of the start days, median 24 weeks
• High: +8% from 64% of the start days, median 4 weeks

The daily loss and maximum drawdown protection below can be set to your firm's numbers.

Features

• Attach to one gold chart. Quaterna finds your broker's gold and Nasdaq 100 symbols by itself (XAUUSD, GOLD, USTEC, NAS100, US100 and other names, with any suffix). You can also type the names, or switch a market off.
• Switch each of the four strategies on or off.
• Risk per trade: Low 0.20%, Medium 0.35%, High 0.70%, or your own percentage of balance. The lot is calculated from each trade's stop distance, so every trade risks the same share of the account.
• Small accounts: when the broker's minimum lot is more than the chosen risk, Quaterna uses the minimum lot only while its loss stays within a limit you set (default 3 times the chosen risk), and otherwise skips the trade and shows why on the panel.
• Optional account protection for prop-firm rules: a daily loss limit (closes and pauses until the next day) and a maximum drawdown limit (closes and stops), both measured on account equity.
• Checks trading hours, spread, the broker's stop and freeze levels, volume limits and free margin before every request. Nothing is sent while a market is closed.
• Survives restarts: open trades are recognized by their magic number and managed as before.
• On-chart panel with the state and open trade of each stream, and one journal line per closed trade.
• No DLL, no internet connection, no external files.

Recommendations

• A hedging account, so the four gold strategies can hold positions at the same time. On a netting account Quaterna runs one strategy per market and says so.
• 10 000 USD or more at Medium, or 5 000 USD at High, for the risk settings to work as chosen. With less, the minimum gold lot is too large for some trades: in 2025 and 2026 a 3 000 USD account at Medium could take about 4 in 5 gold trades, a 1 000 USD account about half. A cent account solves this. The Nasdaq streams work at any account size.
• A broker with gold and the Nasdaq 100, and a VPS so Quaterna runs all week.
• Test it yourself: Strategy Tester, your broker's gold symbol, any timeframe, from 2019, 10 000 USD, "every tick based on real ticks". All six streams are tested together in one run. Your broker needs Nasdaq 100 history for the Nasdaq streams.

Important

• Past results do not guarantee future results.
• Losing months are normal: 32 of 94 were negative in the test.
• Quaterna has no strategy settings to optimize, so there is nothing to fit to the past: what you test is what runs.