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Thanos · Systematic Gold

A systematic edge built for short bursts of conviction in gold.

Thanos is Freedom Algos' systematic XAUUSD strategy. It looks for high conviction windows inside a confirmed trend, captures a defined slice of the move, and exits, often within minutes. Live results have been tracked independently since April 2024.

Trading gold, foreign exchange, and related derivatives involves substantial risk, including leverage, liquidity, execution, volatility, and drawdown risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Asset class

XAUUSD (Gold)

Strategy type

Short duration directional capture

Deployment

MetaTrader 5

Track record

Live since April 2024

Strategy overview

Built around a simple institutional idea.

When gold establishes a strong directional bias on the higher timeframe, the most efficient opportunity is often not to hold broad market exposure. It is to enter selectively, extract a defined portion of the move, and exit before unresolved volatility can fully develop. Thanos is built as a systematic execution framework around that idea, not a conventional indicator you drop on a chart and hope for the best.

The model trades with the prevailing market structure, not against it. In strong daily trend environments, it looks for short duration entries aligned with the dominant direction, while internal filters work to avoid low quality market states, wide spread conditions, and unstable volatility windows.

How it decides

A layered decision framework, not a single signal.

The edge is not just buy or sell. It is the combination of trend state selection, timing precision, volatility filtering, and risk managed exits, evaluated together before a position is ever opened.

01

Trend recognition

Identifies when gold is in a statistically favorable directional regime on the higher timeframe.

02

Volatility mapping

Monitors intraday volatility to separate genuine continuation from noise and low quality conditions.

03

Entry timing

Looks for short window entries inside the confirmed trend: compressed opportunities, retracement points, and continuation windows.

04

Position management

Manages positions based on how price behaves after entry, then exits with intent instead of holding through unresolved volatility.

Why XAUUSD

Gold moves. That is the point.

Gold offers deep liquidity, strong intraday movement, frequent volatility expansion, and clear macro driven directional regimes, the same characteristics that make it dangerous when managed poorly. Thanos is built to exploit that movement while limiting exposure to its most destructive risk factor: time spent inside unresolved volatility.

It is not trying to predict every major gold move. It is built to act when the direction, volatility structure, and execution conditions are favorable enough to justify short duration exposure.

How Thanos manages risk

Risk managed through exposure, not hope.

Many strategies manage risk by holding positions through volatility and leaning on wide stops or long term thesis validation. Thanos takes the opposite approach: it reduces market risk by limiting how long capital is exposed. Positions are sized to enter during high conviction windows, capture the intended move quickly, and exit within seconds or minutes where possible.

Exposure compression

Time in market is treated as a risk factor. Shorter exposure limits damage from macro headlines, liquidity shocks, and overnight volatility.

Dynamic exposure limits

Position size and exposure are set within defined limits before a trade is placed, not adjusted emotionally after.

Volatility state filters

Recognizes unstable or low quality volatility conditions and reduces exposure accordingly.

Adverse excursion monitoring

Open positions are tracked against how far price moves against them, not just held on hope.

Circuit breakers

Trading can pause automatically when conditions move outside defined parameters.

Ongoing desk monitoring

Our trading desk reviews live behavior on an ongoing basis and can step in if conditions change, not deployed once and forgotten.

Positions are managed dynamically based on how price behaves after entry, not held blindly to a single fixed stop and target.

Live performance

Real results, verified on MyFxBook.

These are live results, not backtested, tracked by MyFxBook, an independent third party. The figures below are pulled directly from the live record, which updates continuously and can be viewed in full at any time.

+1,425%

Gain to date

80.5%

Win rate

997

Total trades

3.24

Profit factor

15.67%

Max drawdown

1h 9m

Avg trade length

Extended statistics

803 / 997

Winning trades

253.39 pips

Avg win

−308.90 pips

Avg loss

144.0 pips

Expectancy / trade

0.31

Sharpe ratio

$1,039.05

Expectancy / trade

Figures shown reflect a snapshot of the live MyFxBook record and update as trading continues; view the link above for the current numbers. Trading in gold, foreign exchange, contracts for difference, and related derivatives involves substantial risk, including leverage, liquidity, execution, volatility, and drawdown risk. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Before participating, carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. Do not invest money you cannot afford to lose.

Getting started

From demo to live in three steps.

01

Book a demo

See Thanos and its live performance in detail, and ask questions before committing to anything.

02

Connect a regulated broker

Thanos works with internationally regulated currency brokers. Your capital stays in your name at every step.

03

Let Thanos trade

The system executes on its own logic while you control risk parameters and can pause at any time.

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