A stop label tells you how a trade closed, not whether it lost.
Verdict: a stop-loss exit is not automatically a losing exit.Smart Gold Impulse closed 3,672 stopped trades in profit.
Audit fact
Measured value
All closed trades
4,163
Stop-loss exits
4,146
Profitable stop-loss exits
3,672
Profitable share of stopped trades
88.6%
Why a stop can lock in profit
A stop can move after entry. Once it has crossed the entry price, a later stop exit may preserve part of an open gain instead of limiting an initial loss.
The exit label therefore answers only one question: which mechanism closed the position? The result after trading costs answers the separate question that matters to the account.
Read the count before the label
Smart Gold Impulse shows the distinction clearly. Almost every trade ended at a stop, yet most of those exits remained profitable. Its audit marks the trailing-stop pattern because both the stop frequency and the profitable-stop share are high.
That does not make the strategy safe. The same audit records 926.20 USD net profit for the complete run, so thousands of profitable exits did not translate into an equally large account result. Frequency and financial impact are different measurements.
The useful check
When a statement shows many stop-loss exits, ask for the profitable-stop count beside it. Then read the full net result and drawdown before deciding whether the exit method helped the account.
Every audit cuts its trades at the release date and at the date the audited build shipped (until 29 September at the vendor's last update), and only the piece behind that cut is guaranteed unfitted for that build. 13 of the 26 default audits in our catalog on 4 September 2026 carry such a window at all, its median is 46 days and 47 trades, and seven sit at exactly zero because the vendor shipped an update after our test had ended. Six of the thirteen read better out of sample and six read worse, on samples as small as 2 trades.
Census of 4 September 2026: Every audit sorts its own metrics into sizing invariant and sizing dependent, and 22 of our 26 default audits print the split at the top of the page. Gold Snap earned 1,922.00 USD at 0.08 percent compound growth on the 100,000 USD frame, and the same file reports 3,769 trades on 2,603 of 6,075 trading days with an average holding time of 1,550 seconds. Only one of those two halves survives a change of position size.