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Last month’s winners don’t stay winners

XAU Audit4 min read23 Oct 2026

RankingsConsistencyTop 20

Every month the same thing happens: a handful of channels post a great run, screenshots go around, and new followers arrive just in time for the bad weeks. We measured how long a good month lasts.

September’s top 20, one month later

We took the 20 channels with the best result in September 2026 on our demo account and looked at what the same 20 did in October.

More than half of the best channels of the month were losing money the month after. A ranking is a photograph of the past, and in gold signals it goes out of date fast.

Following everyone is worse

If picking last month’s winners doesn’t work, following every channel is not the answer either. Across all the channels we executed, from 7 September to 22 October:

Of the channels with at least 10 signals, 305 were losing and 166 were in profit. The median channel was at −€440. The market of gold signals as a whole loses money; the question is only which channels, right now, are the exception.

What this means in practice

• Check the trend, not the total. A big all-time number can hide a channel that has been losing for two weeks.
• Expect the ranking to change. We recalculate it every day for this reason.
• Be wary of the screenshot month. When a channel is being shared everywhere, its best weeks are usually behind it.

Our Elite roster only admits channels whose results are still rising over the last 10 trading days, and drops them when they stop. Channels join and leave every week.

All results from our demo account at the broker, shown for 0.1 lot per order, euro account. Every signal is executed as published: one order per target, the channel’s own stop, closed by the broker. Results are hypothetical for real trading: spread, slippage, timing and size can change them. Channel names are not shown here; subscribers see them in the dashboard.