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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
- Only take trades according to a hypo unless there are multiple conditions met
Compared against Weekly Trading Plan
- Price is trading within W1 demand at W1 QLo / W1 50MA in UT (tested 4 times) in a squeeze with W1 VWAP
- Finally broke below W1 50MA and is trading below possibly forming a W1 DBD taking out larger timeframe demand
- Retraced the move almost back to W1-C‑S 1818.073 BASE level
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- Price action
- D1 Bull Engulf with follow-through higher arriving at W1 base level and D1 VWAP in DT
- Mid D1/H4 swing
- H4 Phase 2 (with H4-C‑D 1795 BASE) arriving at W1-C‑S 1818.073 BASE (above there is more H4 supply so we could see a reaction) with some slowing down although some demand is formed giving H4-C‑D 1809 high in distribution curve
- Premarket: H4 Bear Engulf before reaching W1 Base level closing in newly formed H4 demand (high in distribution curve)
- Trend
- Mixed trend: H4 Up, D1 down, W1 up
- Market Profile
- Imbalance
- ADR: 26886
- ASR: 15311
- 390
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1812.570
- Yesterday’s Low 1780.570
Sentiment
- Locations
- H4-C‑D 1795 BASE inside value at VAL
- Sentiment
- LN open
- Above Value, Outside Range
- Open distance to value
- 0.7xASR
- Narrative
- Large Imbalance. With a retracement to almost hitting W1 Base level (although not hit) and H4 bear Engulf we could see a reversal around these levels. Although due to no nearby D1 supplies overhead we could see a continuation to the move.
- LN open
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 4
- Hypo 1 — Swing Reversal / Mean Reversion
- Narrative: W1 base retracement, H4 bear Engulf in larger time frame bearish sentiment.
- Preferred: Early take out of LTF demand, IB extension down (momentum) with sustained auction.
- Hypo 2 — Trend Continuation
- Narrative: Follow-through on D1 move
- Preferred: Hitting W1 base level, Bullish Price action on momentum.
Additional notes
- N.A.
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- W1-C‑S 1847.890
- W1-C‑S 1818.073 BASE
ZOIs for Possible Long
- D1-C‑D 1787
- D1-C‑D 1764.5
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