In short
Yes. No trading signal, however accurate, removes the risk of loss: the gold market is volatile and even a strategy with a good percentage of winning trades can go through strings of consecutive losses. Those who provide serious signals also publish the negative periods, not only the best results, and always state a risk management rule per trade (e.g. a small percentage of capital). Before following any signal, test it on a demo account and assess your real risk tolerance.
The short answer
Yes. Following trading signals you can lose money, and this is not an edge case: it is how any leveraged strategy normally behaves. No published success rate, however high, removes the possibility of closing a month or a quarter negative. Anyone offering signals without saying this explicitly is omitting the single most important piece of information you should have received before starting.
Risk 1: losing streaks are mathematically certain
With a 75% success rate, the probability of four consecutive losses across a hundred trades is high, not remote. It is not a malfunction: it is normal statistical distribution. The problem is that the streak arrives when you do not expect it, often right after you decided to increase size because the month was going well. The right question before starting is not how much can I make, but will I still be trading after five losses in a row?
Risk 2: wrong position sizing
In practice this is the most frequent way accounts are lost while following correct signals. Risking 1-2% of capital per trade, a five-loss streak costs roughly 5-10%: recoverable. Risking 10% per trade, the very same streak costs roughly 40% and requires a 66% gain just to get back to break-even. Same signals, same person, opposite outcome. Sizing is not a technical detail: it is the variable that decides whether you survive.
Risk 3: execution, slippage and spread
The price you get is not always the quoted one. On a fast market like gold, around macro releases, the gap between published and filled price can be significant, and different brokers have different spreads. A trade that closes slightly profitable on the origin account can close slightly negative on yours. On one trade it is irrelevant; across two hundred trades a year it becomes a real cost line.
Risk 4: discretionary deviations
Moving the stop loss to give the trade room, closing early out of fear, skipping the next signal after a loss, doubling up to recover. Each of these breaks the link between your results and the track record you are following: from that moment you are no longer replicating that strategy, you are running your own. It is why two people subscribed to the same service can end the year with opposite results.
What our journal shows, drawdown included
The Edge Trading Club public journal reports every gold trade with entry, take profit, stop loss and pips, including losing trades and break-even closes. The published series contains weeks with negative trades and break-even exits on macro announcements: they are part of the result, not an exception to hide. The aggregate track record — number of trades, success rate, average risk/reward and net pips — is on the Track Record page, connected to the master account's Myfxbook profile. Reading drawdown before return is the correct way to read any journal, ours included.
How to reduce risk without pretending to remove it
Four rules that apply to any signal service: risk a small fixed percentage per trade; always set the stop loss at the same moment you open; never follow multiple signal sources on the same account; start with capital you can afford to lose entirely, and test it on a demo account for at least one full cycle that includes a losing streak. None of these guarantees a profit — they reduce the chance that a perfectly normal event costs you the account.
FAQ
Can you lose money following trading signals?
Yes. Any leveraged strategy produces losing trades and losing streaks, so following signals you can close a period negative or lose the entire capital invested. No published success rate removes that possibility.
What most often causes losses even when the signals are correct?
Position sizing. Risking 1-2% per trade, a five-loss streak costs roughly 5-10% of capital; risking 10% per trade the same streak costs roughly 40% and requires a 66% gain to return to break-even.
Where can I see The Edge Trading Club losing trades?
In the public journal, which reports every gold trade with entry, take profit, stop loss and pips including negative and break-even results, and on the Track Record page connected to the master account's Myfxbook profile.
