20211005 Premarket Prep Gold

05 Oct 20211005 Premarket Prep Gold

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This is my pre­mar­ket prep for today’s Euro­pean ses­sion for GOLD. This prep builds off of my week­ly trade plan I made here:

Gold 2021 Week 40 Trad­ing Plan

The pur­pose of a pre­mar­ket prep is to find setups with­in my week­ly trade plan bias

Com­pared against Week­ly Trad­ing Plan

• Price made a HH and is cur­rent­ly trad­ing with­in last week’s body

Non-con­jec­ture obser­va­tions of the market

• Price action
  • D1 closed high­er form­ing a Hammer
  • Price formed a big H4 Bull Engulf giv­ing H4-C‑D 1757.706 with­out fol­low-through. Instead a H4 Bear Engulf clos­ing below H4 QHi.
• Trend: H4 Up, D1 Down, W1 Up
  • Pre­vail­ing trend: MIXED Trend
• Mar­ket Profile
  • 2‑day over­lap­ping values
• Dai­ly Range
  • ADR: 25054
  • ASR: 14688
    • 366
    • 249
  • Day
    • Yes­ter­day’s High 1770.490
    • Yes­ter­day’s Low 1747.620

Sen­ti­ment

• LN open
  • Above Val­ue, With­in Range
• Open dis­tance to value
  • 0.25xASR
• Nar­ra­tive
  • Mod­er­ate Imbal­ance. Mixed trend. Price opened at new­ly formed H4 demand but right below H4 QHi that got reject­ed in a larg­er time­frame bear­ish sentiment. 
• Clar­i­ty (1–5, 5 being best)
  • 2
• Hypo 1
  • Failed Auc­tion Short
• Hypo 2
  • Return to Val­ue, pos­si­ble Failed Auc­tion long,
• Hypo 3
  •  Sus­tained Auc­tion Up
• Hypo 4
  • Val­ue Acceptance

Addi­tion­al notes

• N.A.

ZOIs for Pos­si­ble Shorts

• MN-C‑S 1768.539

ZOIs for Pos­si­ble Long

• H4-C‑D 1755.590
• MN-C‑D 1739.674

Mind­ful Trad­ing (lack of sleep?)

• Feel­ing okay

Focus Points for trad­ing development

• Month­ly Goals
  • No momen­tum trades on Non-Farm Fridays
  • Total of 20 trades by the end of the month, prefer­ably 2 a day (not in the same prod­uct at the same time) 
• Week­ly Goal
  • Use SL scal­ing in case the prof­it tar­get for the set­up doesn’t pro­vide 2R for exam­ple for FA or VAA setups
  • No ear­ly exits, either hit SL or 2R tar­get, lat­est cut-off 1:30 Lon­don time
• Risk Man­age­ment
  • 2 con­sec­u­tive days of lack of sleep = NO TRADING

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