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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
- Yesterday closed as a D1 Inside Bar with longer buying wick
- H4 Phase 1 / 3 with Bear Engulf forming supply at H4-C‑S 1810.242 (high in distribution curve) with consequent slight follow-through down but immediate push back higher testing said supply through H4 Three Inside Up leaving behind a longer selling wick. Price trading between newly formed H4 c‑sup and H4-C‑D 1806.874
- Mid D1 Swing
- Premarket: H4 closed as a consolidation
- Trend
- Mixed trend: H4 Up, D1 down, W1 up
- Market Profile
- Imbalance
- ADR: 25774
- ASR: 15228
- 390
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1815.860
- Yesterday’s Low 1795.520
Sentiment
- Locations
- H4-C‑S 1810.242 at VAH
- H4-C‑D 1806.874 at VAL
- Sentiment
- LN open
- Below Value, Within Range (ambiguous as it is right at VAL, could be considered within although indicator shows as below)
- Open distance to value
- Right below VAL
- Narrative
- Moderate Imbalance to balancing. Due to open sentiment we could see an early value acceptance but with value being so tight this will probably not be tradeable. With a possible D1 RBR we could see a move higher after rotation. Due to being mid swing this could really go either way. H4 price action could be considered a Phase 3 as we do have moved higher not reaching W1 base level yet. Although we are near.
- LN open
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 2
- Hypo 1 — Value Rejection Up
- Just found out I don’t know how to call this particular setup as the open is somewhat ambiguous so the best I feel under the circumstances is a value rejection up even though it technically is not.
- Narrative: D1 RBR narrative, H4 consolidation
- Preferred: Early move through value extending up
- Con: H4 supply above
- Hypo 2 — Swing Reversal
- Narrative: D1 Three Outside Down narrative
- Preferred: Bearish price action closing deep into demand with sustained auction, although unlikely.
- Con: Lots of demand underneath.
Additional notes
- N.A.
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- W1-C‑S 1847.890
- W1-C‑S 1818.073 BASE
- H4-C‑S 1810.242 (high in dist. curve)
ZOIs for Possible Long
- H4-C‑D 1806.874
- 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