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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 and range having made a HH
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- Price action
- D1 traded higher closing at D1 VWAP in DT within the previous hammer’s range with no HH
- Possible H4 Phase 3, consolidation at H4-C‑S 1804.707 with break down closing below H4 VWAP in UT, no arrival at old H4-C‑D 1793 (yet)
- Trend: H4 Up, D1 Down, W1 Up
- Prevailing trend: Mixed trend
- Market Profile
- 2‑day overlapping values after an UT
- Daily Range
- ADR: 20455
- ASR: 12716
- 318
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1809.630
- Yesterday’s Low 1793.780
Sentiment
- LN open
- Below Value, Outside Range
- Open distance to value
- 0.54xASR
- Narrative
- Large Imbalance. H4 break down possible transition to Phase 4. Premarket closed as a slight continuation to the break down. Price trading at D1 VWAP in DT.
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 4
- Hypo 1
- Sustained Auction Down
- Hypo 2
- Return to Value, Auction Fade Short
- Hypo 3
- Failed Auction Short
Additional notes
- Capital preservation rule in effect
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- W1-C‑S 1888.863
- H4-C‑S 1804.707
ZOIs for Possible Long
- H4-C‑D 1793
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