Aluminum (XAL) CFD — price, sessions & honest research
Last price + 30-day sparkline relayed live from the Gate TradFi market feed (fail-soft). +0.77% 7d · -6.34% 30d · No volume figure — traditional-market CFDs carry no exchange volume on this feed, so we never show one.
Instrument passport
Costs assumption
Captured from Gate CFD pages — not verified against live fills. Backtests exclude swap; paper trading charges it for real.
Session & leverage
Gate offers up to 500× on CFDs — we cap paper (and any future live) at 5×; public materials use ≤3×.
Data coverage & volatility (ATR14)
| Timeframe | Bars | Range | ATR14 % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1h | 2,451 | 2026-01-02 → 2026-07-17 | 0.345% |
| 4h | 802 | 2026-01-01 → 2026-07-17 | 0.624% |
| 1d | 137 | 2026-01-01 → 2026-07-14 | 1.896% |
ATR14 is the mean 14-bar true range as a % of the last close — a position-sizing hint, not an indicator signal. Backtests run on these on-disk candles.
Our optimizer research
Parameters are chosen on an in-sample window; the out-of-sample net is measured on an untouched holdout the optimizer never saw, with real costs and pessimistic fills. Proof: job opt-donchian20-4h-genetic-20260715120458-821595. Glossary: OOS · Sharpe · noise floor · all terms.
Signed-in users can save a researched setup to My Research and request a paper run — no payment, no live trading, virtual capital only.
Read-only research surface. Prices and specs are relayed/captured, not a brokerage quote. Not investment advice.