Fixed-Time Thursday-to-Friday Gold Anomaly Strategy

Summary

The document describes a time-based anomaly strategy that is said to enter long near Thursday’s close and exit near Friday’s close, using a fixed holding period and 10% of capital per trade. Its rationale is a recurring pattern in market behavior across that weekly window. The published backtest configuration, however, uses BTC/USDT futures on four-hour bars over roughly one month, rather than gold data or a long historical sample. It reports no return, risk, or statistical-significance results.

There is a material discrepancy between the written description and the included source: the source checks a numeric weekday value and closes the position whenever its bar counter is divisible by one, which is every bar. As written, that implementation does not match the stated Thursday-to-Friday holding plan. The document notes exposure to overnight news, changing market behavior, and closing-time liquidity and slippage. The stated anomaly therefore needs to be verified with a corrected implementation and broader data before drawing conclusions.

Key ideas

• The described rule holds a long position from Thursday’s close to Friday’s close.
• The narrative specifies using 10% of account capital per trade.
• The published backtest configuration uses BTC/USDT futures on four-hour bars.
• The supplied source logic appears inconsistent with the stated weekday entry and holding period.
• The document gives no performance statistics and flags regime change and execution risks.

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This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.