Strategy of the Month (August 2025): An Intraday Reversal on Gold Futures Takes the Win

In this article, we’ll go over the results of the “Strategy of the Month” contest for August 2025. We’ll take a look at the winning strategy along with other excellent contenders selected from all the strategies you submitted.We’ll also try to offer some practical insights by analyzing the basic logic behind the strategies, the markets they operate on, and of course, we’ll look at their performance together.

Let us remind you that the “Strategy of the Month” contest is open exclusively to students of Unger Academy® and rewards the best strategy developed using the Unger Method™. By submitting their strategy, each student can enter the contest every month and try to win a €1,000 Amazon gift card!

What’s more, if you’d like to access the codes of the winning trading systems from this contest, you can join the Unger Strategy Club, one of the exclusive services offered by our Academy, which gives you access to the open-source code of the current month’s winning strategy, as well as those of past winners. In addition, you’ll get access to a monthly live advanced training Masterclass and a monthly video with trading ideas where we explain the main rules behind the strategies in our portfolio.

But that’s not all: by joining the Unger Strategy Club VIP, in addition to all of the above, you’ll also get exclusive access to the open-source codes of all contest strategies that were approved by the Unger Academy coaches.

Let’s now go over the best strategies you submitted in August

 

Multiday Trend Following Strategy on the DAX Future (@FDAX)

Among the strategies submitted in this edition of the contest that didn’t take home the prize, we selected David’s, winner of the previous edition of the contest, who still deserves our compliments.

This is a strategy on the DAX, using a 60-minute timeframe, which is based on a particular setup involving the breakout—upward or downward—of a price channel known as the “Standard Error Bands,” which is based on the concept of Linear Regression.

As always, there’s a trading window in place to limit the system’s activity to specific hours of the session, as well as some patterns from our proprietary libraries. The strategy also includes a maximum holding period for trades, set to a few days.

 

This is a very interesting and effective strategy, and we present the key metrics from 01/01/2010 to 08/31/2025. The strategy stands out for its consistent performance and for a particularly strong 2025, also helped by the underlying asset’s recent rally.

 

Intraday Trend Following Strategy on the Gold Future (@GC)

Another interesting strategy came to us from Giovanni. In this case, it’s also a trend following approach, but this time it operates on the Gold Future, symbol @GC, using a 5-minute timeframe.

The strategy setup is quite unique, as it’s based on the inverse correlation between stock indices and gold. It uses the S&P 500 future (symbol @ES) as Data2 to calculate the long and short entry levels.

The system boasts an enviable consistency in profits throughout the backtest years, and 2025 is also showing excellent results.

 

August 2025 Strategy of the Month: Intraday Reversal on the Gold Future (@GC)

And finally, let’s move on to the winning strategy—Roberto’s—whom we congratulate for winning the €1,000 Amazon gift card.

This is an original intraday reversal strategy on Gold using a 15-minute timeframe.

The system is quite interesting because it manages to trade countertrend on a typical trend-following future like Gold (@GC), capturing short-term price reversals.

As usual, it includes some filters to select only the most favorable trades, along with classic stop loss, take profit, and breakeven exits.

In the following figures, we show an example of trades made, the main metrics, and the full equity line.

We especially highlight the very smooth equity curve, with strong net profits in nearly every year of the backtest, including an exceptional ongoing 2025.

 

Conclusions

Congratulations to David, who with this simple yet effective strategy wins the July €1,000 Amazon gift card.

We hope the analyses presented here have provided useful insights and new ideas for developing your own trading systems.

If you, too, want to create strategies like those featured in this article, you can participate in the “Strategy of the Month” contest reserved for Unger Academy® students, which awards a €1,000 Amazon gift card each month.

We also remind you that to get the full code of the winning strategy and other participants, you can join the Unger Strategy Club. All details are available at www.ungerclub.com.

That’s all for now. We’ll see you in the next edition of the Strategy of the Month, where we’ll share more ideas and tools for systematic trading.

 

Curious about our “Strategy of the Month” contest? This exciting monthly competition is open exclusively to Unger Academy students and rewards the best strategy developed using the Unger Method with a €1,000 Amazon gift card. Interested? Click here to learn more!

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