Premarket Prep Gold 01082021

08 Jan Premarket Prep Gold 01082021

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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 Week 1 Trad­ing Plan

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

Week­ly Focus Points

• Don’t take trades where SL place­ment is sub­op­ti­mal. Instead, reassess for a bet­ter entry if pos­si­ble. Unless there is a momen­tum play.

Com­pared against Week­ly Trad­ing Plan

• Moved below W1 QHi but no D1 close yet

Non-con­jec­ture obser­va­tions of the market

• Price action
  • Price trad­ing mid D1 Q swing, pos­si­ble Phase 4
  • Pos­si­ble H4 phase 1 / 3 (redis­tri­b­u­tion) with sup­ply and demand right on top of one and other
  • H4 clos­ing down below H4 50MA pre­mar­ket, M30 Bear Engulf formed premarket
• Mar­ket Profile
  • Wide val­ue area yes­ter­day in a 2 day brack­et­ing range with con­se­quent­ly price trad­ing way below
  • ADR: 26925
  • ASR: 15376
    • 390
  • Day
    • Yes­ter­day’s High 1927.580
    • Yes­ter­day’s Low 1906.840

Sen­ti­ment

• Loca­tions
  • ADR exhaus­tion with­in H4 QLo
• Sen­ti­ment
  • LN open
    • Below Val­ue, Out­side Range
  • Open dis­tance to value
    • 0.6xASR
  • Sen­ti­ment
    • Mod­er­ate to large imbal­ance. Was think­ing to go short at the open but thought I’d give it a minute before enter­ing but a mas­sive drop happened. 
• Clar­i­ty (1–5, 5 being best)
  • 4
• Hypo 1 — Trend Continuation
  • Pre­ferred: Tak­ing out of demand. IB exten­sion (which now will be sus­pect as IB already tra­versed 1.7xASR.
• Hypo 2 — Mean Reversion
  • Pre­ferred: IB exten­sion down fol­lowed by a failed auc­tion and quick follow-through

Addi­tion­al notes

• Non-farm today

ZOIs for Pos­si­ble Shorts

• D1-C‑S 1954.946
• D1-C‑S 1941.237

ZOIs for Pos­si­ble Long

• MN-C‑D 1877.953 coin­cid­ing with D1 demand

Mind­ful Trading

• Feel­ing okay

Focus Points for trad­ing development

• Month­ly Goals
  • Con­tin­ue track­ing my DRC track­ing sheet
  • Focus on my own progress and less on others
  • Feel­ing okay with NOT trading
  • Have ‘qui­eter’ weekends
• Week­ly Goal
  • Min. 3 times hit­ting the gym
• Trad­ing Rules
  • Trade from D and upwards unless a pos­si­ble momen­tum trade, val­ue accep­tance or otherwise. 
• Risk Man­age­ment
  • 3 trades 1% risk, 3rd trade only if first 2 worked out
  • Cap­i­tal Preser­va­tion dur­ing draw­down allows for 1R profit-taking
  • 2 con­sec­u­tive days of lack of sleep = NO TRADING

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