How AURUM FLOW works.

One market, one specialisation

AURUM FLOW trades exclusively gold against the US dollar (XAU/USD). This is a deliberate decision against spreading across many markets: gold is one of the most liquid markets in the world, trades around the clock five days a week, and repeatedly forms clear structures in which breakout moves can be defined cleanly. Anyone who studies a single market for years knows its particularities better than someone who watches twenty markets at once. This depth is precisely the foundation of the strategy.

The principle: breakouts at prominent levels

The gold market spends a great deal of time in zones where it finds no direction. This produces prominent highs and lows at which the market has repeatedly turned. It is precisely there that AURUM FLOW sets its breakout levels: if the price breaks through such a level, this is a sign that one side of the market is gaining the upper hand, and the strategy enters in the direction of the breakout.

Importantly, the strategy does not chase the market. The orders are already in place at the level and trigger the moment the breakout happens. There is no hesitation, no chasing after worse prices, and no discretionary decision.

The path of a trade

Every single trade goes through the same five stages. The strategy monitors the market continuously, sets its levels at the relevant highs and lows, enters on the breakout via the prepared order, secures the position and trails the stop with the market until the trade ends normally. Trades are only taken when the defined conditions are met: in active market phases, several trades can occur in a day; in quiet phases, none for days at a time. The average holding period is a few hours.

The protection trails along

Every position carries a fixed stop-loss from the very first moment. If the trade moves in the right direction, that stop-loss does not stay where it is: once profits reach a defined level, the strategy first trails the stop to the entry level. From that point on, the trade can no longer turn into a significant loss. After that, the stop follows the market below each new intermediate low, step by step, until the market turns and the position is closed at the trailed stop.

This trailing has a price, which we state openly: sometimes a position is stopped out that would otherwise have continued to run. In exchange, it is ruled out that a trade that has gone well turns back into a large loser. We accept this trade-off deliberately.

Several logics, one account

AURUM FLOW is not a single rule but a portfolio of several specialised sub-strategies that work in parallel on the same account. Some engage early in an emerging move, others wait for confirmation, and others again serve hedging and filtering purposes. Each sub-strategy has its own rules and its own risk framework, and all of them together are subject to a shared upper limit. The effect: the strengths of the individual logics complement each other, and no single building block can dominate the account.

What AURUM FLOW deliberately does not do

Just as important as the rules is what the strategy never does:

• no doubling or increasing of positions after losses (no martingale)
• no net of open positions without a stop-loss (no grid)
• no sitting out losses in the hope of a recovery
• no forecasts, no news bets, no discretionary decisions

Why this matters so much to us is explained in detail in our educational document.

Seven years to approval

The building blocks of AURUM FLOW were developed over a period of around seven years. At the start are backtests across up to twenty years of market data, so that the rules have seen crises, trends and long sideways phases. Several years of optimisation and stabilisation follow, and only a live test of at least twelve months under real conditions decides on approval. Since March 2025, the strategy has been running live on a real account, publicly viewable.