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Gold Trading Leverage Burns 7 in 10 Traders: What to Know in 2026 August 8, 2026 · Algotrader.ch editorial team Gold trading leverage is why seven in ten traders lose money. Gold is traded as XAUUSD, one ounce of gold priced in US dollars, and leverage lets you hold a big position with a small amount of cash. That cuts both ways. The sales pages only ever show one of them. Here is the half they leave out. At 20:1 you put up 5% of… 

Algorithmic Trading Profitability Statistics: 12 Numbers Behind What Works and What Fails in 2026 August 2, 2026 · Algotrader.ch editorial team Algorithmic trading can be profitable. That is the easy answer. The harder part is knowing how often it happens, how long it lasts and how much of the original edge survives when real orders replace a clean backtest. The numbers are not especially forgiving. Thousands of models are built. Hundreds of programs reach investors. Many disappear, while others make far less money than their… 

Robinhood Agentic Trading: AI Can Trade for You Now. Here’s the Catch. July 26, 2026 · Algotrader.ch editorial team Robinhood agentic trading went live on 27 May 2026. You can now connect an AI agent to your Robinhood account and let it place real trades for you. Letting a bot trade is suddenly easy. Making money that way is not, and that is the catch. For access, this is a big step. For whether these agents actually work, it changes very little. So before you… 

Quant Quake 2026: The Strategies That Failed to Protect Capital July 21, 2026 · Algotrader.ch editorial team Quant quake is the trading-desk name for a crowded unwind, and it happened in early July 2026. The systematic funds sold as the calm, rules-based alternative lost more than the discretionary managers they were built to replace. Same trade, different labels. Goldman Sachs put numbers on it. Between June 22 and early July, its basket of systematic managers gave back roughly a quarter of the year’s gains, about… 

Quant Trading Strategies for the Masses: What Wall Street Is Actually Selling July 18, 2026 · Algotrader.ch editorial team Quant trading strategies are now a mass-market Wall Street product line. On April 21, 2026, the Wall Street Journal’s Gregory Zuckerman reported that the biggest banks are packaging quantitative investment strategies, QIS in the industry shorthand, into liquid, lower-cost wrappers for buyers far beyond the institutional desks these products were built for. Access is arriving. Judgment is not. We read this as good news with a…