Not an index or a pair
Gold trades on its own hours and reacts to its own drivers. Keeping it in a separate lane stops a currency-pair rule being applied to it by accident.
XAUUSD is not a currency pair with a cheaper label. It has its own hours, its own spread behaviour and its own reaction to US data. Trade Metrix keeps it in a separate metal lane rather than forcing a currency-pair model onto it.
Treat XAUUSD as an FX pair and the backtest will quietly mislead you in three specific ways.
Gold trades on its own hours and reacts to its own drivers. Keeping it in a separate lane stops a currency-pair rule being applied to it by accident.
Gold spreads widen around US data and session edges far more than a major pair. That cost belongs in the run, not in a footnote.
Generated sandbox curves illustrate the workflow only. They are not a live XAUUSD track record and are never presented as one.
Gold most often resolves during the London open and again around US data. Decide which window your rule is actually about.
A failed break of the pre-session high or low, or a defined continuation, with the stop placed beyond the extreme you are testing.
Premium, spread and charges on both sides, plus the lot size, so the structure's breakeven is real rather than theoretical.
Run it on generated data, read where it failed, and validate the payoff shape in your broker's terminal as well.
The things worth being straight about before you decide anything.
No. It has its own market lane. The Forex workspace treats it as a metal or CFD instrument with distinct cost and session assumptions.
The workspace lets you set the periods, but the session matters more than the time frame. Decide which window the rule belongs to before tuning periods.
The engine is built around the instrument profile, and other metals would need their own profile. Raise it with the team rather than assuming gold's numbers transfer.
No. Every curve shown is a generated sandbox snapshot produced by the product research engine. Verified live or paper results require a source statement and are not published here.
No login, no broker connection, no orders. Open the workspace and run a rule on generated data.
Risk and regulation. Gold is a leveraged instrument and can move sharply on scheduled data. Product specifications and the regulatory treatment of metal CFDs vary by provider and jurisdiction — check your own broker's terms before trading anything.