Track Record
Year 2023 YTD Returns (Close: 08/31/23): Members are -3.28% GLD and -22.66% SLV. However, the current trading signal is up +1.05% GLD and +0.49% SLV, which will be added to our returns upon the next signal change. When adding just our long positions, we are +1.60% GLD and -9.39% SLV. The precious metals have been displaying an extreme amount of volatility during 2023. At the moment, our system is underperforming the buy-and-hold strategy, but we are confident the system will perform well in 2023.
Year 2022 Returns: Members profited +6.74% SLV and slightly down by -0.36% GLD. The buy-and-hold strategy returned +4.86% SLV and +0.98% GLD. We outperformed SLV by +1.88% and underperformed GLD by -1.34%.
Overall Performance
SLV Returns (2006-2022) — we are averaging +35.1%/year vs. +4.7%/year for the buy-and-hold strategy.
GLD Returns (2005-2022) — we are averaging +19.3%/year vs. +8.1%/year for the buy-and-hold strategy.
Detailed Trades of our Track Record are shown in these files: Excel & PDF
Results within the last 30 days are provided to members only.
Performance Table
Year |
SLV "Our Returns" |
SLV "Buy-and-Hold" |
GLD "Our Returns" |
GLD "Buy-and-Hold" |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | --- | --- | +16.38% | +21.36% |
| 2006 | +33.09% | +22.48% | +62.35% | +22.55% |
| 2007 | +50.06 | +14.31% | +42.95% | +30.74% |
| 2008 | +85.25% | -23.81% | +56.72% | +4.07% |
| 2009 | +77.05% | +47.68% | +54.03% | +24.03% |
| 2010 | +82.49% | +82.47% | +31.56% | +29.27% |
| 2011 | +141.87% | -10.74% | +52.83% | +9.57% |
| 2012 | +40.93% | +9.02% | +11.99% | +6.60% |
| 2013 | +10.19% | -36.30% | +1.21% | -28.33% |
| 2014 | +11.57% | -19.51% | +8.60% | -2.19% |
| 2015 | -4.26% | -12.42% | +6.39% | -10.67% |
| 2016 | +32.44% | +14.56% | +11.31% | +8.03% |
| 2017 | +45.33% | +5.82% | +36.17% | +12.81% |
| 2018 | +0.88% | -9.19% | +0.45% | -1.94% |
| 2019 | +5.35% | +14.88% | +6.06% | +17.86% |
| 2020 | +73.75% | +47.30% | +0.86% | +24.81% |
| 2021 | -8.65% | -12.45% | -14.43% | -4.15% |
| 2022 | +6.74% | +4.86% | -0.36% | +0.98% |
| Average | +35.09% | +4.70% | +19.27% | +8.06% |
As shown in the table above, we have outperformed the buy-and-hold strategy (B&H) 16 of 17 years for SLV. For GLD, we outperformed the B&H 13 of 18 years.
Our Returns vs. Buy-and-Hold
