Gold Market Structure and Multi-Factor Timing Strategies

Summary

This report surveys gold’s supply and demand, major trading venues, and common investment instruments. It notes that investment demand and central bank purchases are especially relevant to prices, and describes the roles of London spot trading, U.S. futures, and Chinese exchanges. It also outlines ways investors access gold, including physical products, spot markets, derivatives, financing, and wealth products.

The strategy section combines macroeconomic, positioning, price and volume, and news-sentiment inputs into monthly and daily timing approaches. The report gives historical annualized returns and Sharpe ratios for these strategies, including tests applied to a Chinese gold ETF. These figures are reported results, not evidence of future performance. The document offers limited detail on factor definitions, portfolio construction, transaction costs, and out-of-sample validation. Its market outlook is tied to conditions during the COVID-era period discussed, so that forecast should be read in its historical context.

Key ideas

• Gold supply includes mined and recycled metal, while demand spans jewelry, technology, investment, and central bank purchases.
• The report describes physical gold, spot products, futures, and other investment channels available in China.
• Its timing framework combines macro, positioning, price and volume, and news sentiment signals at multiple frequencies.
• The reported strategy results are historical and do not establish that the signals will work in other periods.

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