[3Commas] Gold DCA Long — XAUT/USDT

[3Commas] Gold DCA Long — XAUT/USDT at a glance

Kind of rule	Averaging down (dollar-cost averaging)
Buys or sells	It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices.
Built on	price only
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	67 cells: 13 coins on 6 chart speeds (5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 4h, 1D), October 2021 to June 2026
Fee in the test	0.12 percent per side, buys only
Middle result after fees, every cell	+1.0%
Cells above zero	58 of 67
Cells that cleared the quality check	0 of 67
Middle drawdown, every cell	1.7%
Page updated	2026-11-08

[3Commas] Gold DCA Long — XAUT/USDT backtest results, every cell

Every cell is in the picture, not only the strongest. To the right of the black line is above zero. The orange line, when you see one, is the middle.

How [3Commas] Gold DCA Long — XAUT/USDT works

Rules in this group usually work like this. When a buy goes the wrong way, it buys more, so the average price moves closer to the market. Most of the closed trades then look like small wins. The losses are rare and large, and they show up when price keeps falling. The next paragraph is this particular rule, which can be narrower than the group.

It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices. It acts only when several checks agree at once. The exact line is in the list below, in the author's names, and you can skip that list. It gets out when in deal and the high is at or above undefined.

Each trade uses a fixed 12 of the quote coin. It can stack up to 4 trades in the same direction.

The exact condition, from the code

Same rule, translated from the code, in the author's names. You can skip this list if the paragraph above was enough.

• Enters long when not (in deal).
• Enters long when in deal and the low is at or below so trigger price ((so count + 1)).
• It places orders at several prices, like rungs on a ladder. As price walks through the rungs, it holds more.
• Closes the position when in deal and the high is at or above undefined.

Buys or sells	It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	price only
A second chart speed	No. It uses one chart speed only.
Only at certain hours	Yes. It only acts during set hours.
Adding to a trade	It can stack up to 4 trades in the same direction.
How much it trades	Each trade uses a fixed 12 of the quote coin.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 0.1 percent per side.

Default settings

The test used the defaults in the middle column. Nothing was turned to help a coin.

Setting	Default	Group
Base Order Volume (USDT)	12	DCA / Safety Orders
Safety Order Volume (USDT)	9	DCA / Safety Orders
Max Safety Orders	4	DCA / Safety Orders
Price Step % (1st SO from base)	2	DCA / Safety Orders
Deviation Step Multiplier	1	DCA / Safety Orders
Order Size Multiplier	1.05	DCA / Safety Orders
Take Profit % (from avg entry)	1.5	Take Profit
Limit by Date Range	on	Backtest Period
Start	a date	Backtest Period
End	a date	Backtest Period
Bot ID	12345678	Webhook (DCA Bot)
Email Token	YOUR_EMAIL_TOKEN	Webhook (DCA Bot)
Pair (Bot format: QUOTE_BASE)	USDT_XAUT	Webhook (DCA Bot)
Show stats card	on	Display
Stats card position	top_left	Display
Show watermark	on	Display
Watermark text	3Commas	Display
Watermark position	top_right	Display
Watermark size	huge	Display
Watermark transparency (0=solid)	70	Display

How the backtest was run

Every strategy was tried the same way, on the settings the author published.

The years are October 2021 to June 2026. The prices are from Bybit, for 13 widely traded coins, mostly on hourly, 4-hour and daily charts, with some faster charts. That was 47,242 tries. The window stored in the files is 2021-09..2026-06.

599 rules produced a finished try. A rule that finished above zero on at least 12 cells, before any fee, was tried again with a fee of 0.12 percent per side. Only buys are counted in that second try. 273 rules got it.

The method, the aggregate results and a downloadable table are on the study page. What the desk does with the results beyond these pages is its own.

This is the second pass. A fee of 0.12 percent per side is taken on the buy and again on the sell. Only buys are counted. If the rule also bets on falling prices, those trades are not in these numbers.

After fees, 58 of 67 cells finished above zero (86.6%). The median of every cell was +1.0%.

0 of the cells cleared a quality check: at least 50 trades, gains that are not one lucky trade, and a drawdown that is real without taking the whole account.

Finished above zero by chart speed: 15-minute chart, 15m 13 of 13; daily chart, 1D 7 of 13; hourly chart, 1h 11 of 13; 30-minute chart, 30m 13 of 13; 4-hour chart, 4h 12 of 13; 5-minute chart, 5m 2 of 2.

Before fees, it sat 4th on a list sorted by average Sharpe. That list charges no fee.

Cells tried after the fee	67
Finished above zero	58 (86.6%)
Middle result, the median of every cell	+1.0%
Middle drawdown, every cell	1.7%
Cells that cleared the quality check	0
Middle result, over the cells above zero	+1.1%
Extra, Calmar on the rows above zero. Result divided by the deepest fall	0.12
Extra, Sharpe on the rows above zero. Result divided by how bumpy the path was	0.16
Middle drawdown, the rows above zero	1.1%
Deepest fall, the rows above zero	5.5%
Middle number of trades, the rows above zero	159

Label: backtest · old prices, buys only, a fee of 0.12 percent per side, every cell · Oct 2021 – Jun 2026. Hypothetical results; see the risk disclosure.

How to read the result

How to read the number

The median of every cell is the result of the rule. The author's settings were not changed to help any coin. The weakest and the strongest cells are not a result on their own.

What the number leaves out

0 of 67 cells cleared a quality check: at least 50 trades, a profit factor that is not one lucky trade, and a drawdown that is real without taking the whole account. Profit factor means the gains divided by the losses. Clearing the check describes this sample. It says nothing about the next set of years.

The count above is also split by chart speed. A speed that finished higher, in these years, is one slice of the same rule. It is not a separate strategy.

A place on the no-fee list is not the result after fees. The middle number above is the one after fees.

What this does not show

The useful question is the largest loss while the extra buys are still open. A high share of closed wins hides that loss.

Nothing on this page was fit to the cell that finished highest. One coin, one chart speed, or one strong stretch is a single row. It is not the rule. Other years, another exchange, or another fee would be a different measurement.

Questions about [3Commas] Gold DCA Long — XAUT/USDT

Words used on this page

Backtest

The rule was tried on old prices. No real money moved.

Cell

One coin on one chart speed. Bitcoin every 4 hours is one cell. Bitcoin once a day is another.

Chart speed

How often a new price bar is drawn. 15m means every 15 minutes, 1h means hourly, 4h means every 4 hours, 1D means once a day.

Fee, per side

A cost taken each time the rule trades. Per side means once on the way in and once on the way out.

Median

Line the cells up from the biggest loss to the biggest gain. The median is the middle one. Half the cells did better and half did worse.

Drawdown

The deepest fall from a high point along the way, as a percent of the account at that high.

Above zero

The account finished with more than it started.

"[3Commas] Gold DCA Long — XAUT/USDT" was published on TradingView by its author, under the author's own license. This page is an independent reading of those rules and of what they did on these old prices. It is not written with the author, and it is not a recommendation. Not every detail survives the translation onto this page, so read the original before you rely on it.