15 Jan Premarket Prep Gold 01152021
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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
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
- Reacting off W1 demand after Bear Engulf was formed
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- Price action
- D1 Dragonfly doji (ish) formed at D1-C‑D 1847.306
- Possible H4 Phase 1
- Mid H4/D1 swing
- Market Profile
- Value created below 2 day bracketing range
- ADR: 35023
- ASR: 19463
- 487
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1857.440
- Yesterday’s Low 1830.770
Sentiment
- Locations
- H4-C‑D 1844.527 near VAH W1-C_D 1839.109 below at VAL
- Sentiment
- LN open
- Above Value, Outside Range
- Open distance to value
- 0.5xASR
- Sentiment
- Moderate to large imbalance. Due to having reached higher time frame demand and a possible phase 1 on H4 we could see a push higher after all this balancing in the market.
- LN open
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 4
- Hypo 1 — Return to Value
- Preferred: Move down to VAH / H4 C‑dem with Price action confirming bullish sentiment, IB extension up with sustained auction.
- Hypo 2 — Swing Reversal
- Preferred: Follow-through on H4 move taking out H4 supply, IB extension up with sustained auction.
- Hypo 3 — Responsive Activity
Additional notes
- N.A.
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- W1-C‑S 1889.402
- H4-C‑S 1859.349
ZOIs for Possible Long
- MN-C‑D 1877.953 coinciding with D1 demand
- D1-C‑D 1847.306
- H4-C‑D 1844.527 & W1-C‑D 1839.109
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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