Xavier Penny — Copper (XCU/USD) Signal Desk (Python)

Xavier Penny is the Copper (XCU/USD) desk from the Synthetic Capital / Charting the Rubicon AI Agents Fund — isolated into a single standalone Python script you can run yourself. It reproduces the exact decision the fund's Xavier Penny desk makes.

What it does

Xavier trades "Dr. Copper" — the growth-sensitive industrial metal — with an RSI(2) pullback on 4-hour bars at the tightest threshold on the whole floor. He is extremely selective: he fires roughly once a week, only on genuine extremes, and can sit with a position through multi-day copper cycles. Each run reads real copper candles and prints the desk's current call — LONG, SHORT, or FLAT — with entry, an ATR-based stop, and a 0–1 conviction score, as of the last completed candle.

Signal only. The script never places an order and never touches your account.

What's included

• xavier_penny_copper.py — the self-contained desk script (only dependencies: requests, pandas, numpy)
• SETUP_GUIDE — a plain-English, step-by-step setup guide for non-coders

Requirements

• Python 3 and pip install requests pandas numpy
• A free OANDA practice API token (read-only pricing)

Historical backtest — zero-fee paper model on real prices

• Archetype: RSI(2) pullback, extreme selectivity · 4-hour · 720-day OANDA history
• Net return +13.2% · Sharpe 1.08 · Max drawdown −5.8% · Win rate 82.5% (fund high) · 4 of 4 positive walk-forward folds
• Only ~40 trades in 720 days — a strong but inherently small sample.

Important: These figures are a zero-fee, zero-slippage paper model on historical data. They are not a forecast and not a promise of profit — live spread, commissions, and slippage will reduce results. This is a research tool, not financial advice. Past performance does not indicate future results, and you are responsible for any trading decisions you make.