Gold flow rider (GOLD-FLOW-RIDER)

How the setup is identified

Order-flow driven continuation logic requiring a live tick stream rather than completed bars.

Status and evidence

Order-flow driven. Requires a tick stream, so it cannot be evaluated in a bar replay at all.

What we learned

Shadow-only, and it cannot be evaluated in a bar replay at all — the backtest engine passes no tick stream, so this strategy never fires there under any conditions.

That is an unusual and important caveat: for this strategy, an absence of backtest results is not a neutral signal, it is a measurement gap. We say so rather than presenting the silence as evidence of anything.