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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 week’s body and W1 QHi
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- Price action
- D1 Hammer at D1 QHi with no close below D1 QHi (yet)
- H4 Bear Engulf giving H4-C‑S 1864.377 at old supply. Inside Bar formed at H4-C‑D 1856.280 (which was formed through a H4 Bull Engulf).
- Possible H4 Phase 1 / 3
- Trend: H4 Up, D1 Up, W1 Up
- Prevailing trend: Trend is UP 3/3
- Market Profile
- Wider value created below the previous
- Daily Range
- ADR: 23261
- ASR: 16000
- 400
- ASR Short: 7406
- 185
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1868.530
- Yesterday’s Low 1845.220
Sentiment
- LN open
- Above Value, Outside Range
- Open distance to value
- 0.30xASR
- Narrative
- Moderate to Large Imbalance. Open below H4 Bear Engulf that closed slightly below D1 QHi. Possible developing H4 DBD. Possible H4 Phase 1 / 3.
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 3
- Hypo 1
- Return to Value, VAH reversal long, possible Failed Auction Long
- Hypo 2
- Sustained Auction Short, to value acceptance
- Hypo 3
- Auction Fade Long
Additional notes
- N.A.
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- H4-C‑S 1864.402
ZOIs for Possible Long
- H4-C‑D 1822.888
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)
- No early exits, either hit SL or 2R target
- Use SL scaling in case the profit target for the setup doesn’t provide 2R for example for FA or VAA setups
- Process
- Keep trade review comments short
- Risk Management
- 2 consecutive days of lack of sleep = NO TRADING