2026 YTD Baseline Backtest

The latest audited baseline covers January 1 to September 25, 2026. It measures the Standard Trend technical engine with the optional external-data features switched off.

This is a historical simulation, not live account performance or a forecast.

Balance and Monthly Results

Al-Jamal Gold audited 2026 YTD baseline backtest

The curve shows balance after deals. Open-position equity fluctuations are not plotted; equity drawdown is reported separately from MT5.

Audited Results

  • Net profit after reported costs: $856.32 (+8.56%)
  • Final balance: $10,856.32
  • Profit factor: 1.29
  • Maximum equity drawdown: $822.89 (7.33%)
  • Maximum balance drawdown: $751.43 (6.72%)
  • Closed trades: 101 (43 BUY / 58 SELL)
  • Winning / losing trades: 62 / 39; win rate 61.39%

Test Conditions

  • XAUUSD, M30, Standard Trend; ICMarketsSC-Demo, MT5 build 6230.
  • Initial deposit $10,000; risk 1% per trade; leverage 1:100.
  • MT5 Every tick (Model 0): ticks generated from minute history, not recorded real ticks.
  • Latest available tick: September 25, 2026 at 23:56:59 broker server time.
  • 95,747,417 generated ticks; reported history quality 100%. History quality does not mean real-tick mode.
  • FRED, legacy macro switch, macro AI fallback, TE news shadow and FinBERT shadow: OFF.
  • The original high-impact news blackout is bypassed by the EA in Strategy Tester.
  • Reported commissions and swap included; no added execution delay or slippage stress.
  • No optimization or model training was performed for this run.

The run used the 1.16 source with an audit-only export hook. Release 1.17 retains the technical execution functions. The final customer input cleanup hides legacy/debug controls, disables research logging and adds direct optional Trading Economics API access and data-status display. Optional data features remain off. This is not a separate backtest of the final customer build.

Interpretation

The result is positive, with three losing months. Profit factor 1.29 leaves a limited margin for worse execution costs. This sample supports continued forward observation; it does not establish live profitability or validate the optional data filters.

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