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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:
The purpose of a premarket prep is to find setups within my weekly trade plan bias
Compared against Weekly Trading Plan
- Price trading above last week’s body but within range at W1 LKC in UT
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- Price action
- D1 consolidation with longer selling wicks, Friday closed as a weak Bull Engulf.
- H4 Phase 1 / 3 nearing H4 50MA in DT
- Trend: H4 Down, D1 Down, W1 Up
- Prevailing trend: Trend is DOWN 2/3
- Market Profile
- 5‑day bracket
- Daily Range
- ADR: 24852
- ASR: 15408
- 385
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1790.350
- Yesterday’s Low 1773.620
Sentiment
- LN open
- Open Within Value
- Open distance to value
- N.A.
- Narrative
- Balancing Market. Open within value. Multi-day bracketing range. H4/D1 consolidation although H4 is nearing 50MA in DT. LTF supply above value, within range.
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 4
- Hypo 1
- Failed Auction Short, probe above value
- Hypo 2
- Failed Auction Long, probe below value
- Hypo 3
- Sustained Auction Short, late-sustained auction entry
- Hypo 4
- Auction Fade Long, variant to Hypo 2
- Hypo 5
- Sustained Auction Long, late-sustained auction entry, due to possible D1 Phase 1 at W1 demand
Additional notes
- Capital preservation rule in effect
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- D1-C‑S 1779.092
ZOIs for Possible Long
- W1-C‑D 1774.420
Mindful Trading (lack of sleep?)
- Feeling okay
Focus Points for trading development
- Monthly Goals
- No momentum trades on Non-Farm Fridays
- Total of 13 trades by the end of the month
- Weekly Goal
- Min. 3 times working out at home + mandatory cardio
- Risk Management
- Without forcing a trade: aim to take 1 trade a day, if possible 2.
- Capital Preservation during drawdown allows for 1R profit-taking
- 2 consecutive days of lack of sleep = NO TRADING