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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 within last month’s body
- Price trading above last week’s body and price made a slight HH
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- Price action
- D1 Bull Engulf closing above W1 QLo rejecting D1 QLo
- H4-C‑D 1755.590 created below H4 QHi
- Trend: H4 Up, D1 Down, W1 Up
- Prevailing trend: MIXED Trend
- Market Profile
- Price created a value extended above the previous
- Daily Range
- ADR: 24401
- ASR: 14636
- 375
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1764.200
- Yesterday’s Low 1749.690
Sentiment
- LN open
- Above Value, Outside Range
- Open distance to value
- 0.16xASR
- Narrative
- Moderate to Large Imbalance. Still with close proximity to the value edge. IB accepted value (has not yet rotated through). LTF/H4 demand at VAL. Trend is mixed.
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 3
- Hypo 1
- Value Acceptance, Sustained Auction Down, risky with H4 demand, possible late-sustained auction entry
- Hypo 2
- Failed Auction Long, possible value edge reversal
- Hypo 3
- Auction Fade Long, variation to Hypo 1
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