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Technical Trading Rules for GLD?

Steve LeCompte | | Posted in: Gold, Technical Trading

Do artificial intelligence (AI) platforms based on large language models offer a quick way to identify potentially exploitable technical trading rules in financial series? As a simple exploration, we pose to Claude the following prompt:

Please examine the attached daily GLD dataset and concisely identify any technical signals, including indicators involving trend/momentum, volatility, volume or support/resistance, that investors can reliably exploit on a net basis.

Using Claude's response to the prompt as posed with daily open, high, low and close prices and trading volume for SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) during November 2004 through October 2026, we find that:

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