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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
- Min. 3 times hitting the gym + mandatory cardio
- Only trade the main account
- Be mindful of DTTZs
- Only price-action based exit rules (or if hit time stop comes earlier)
- M15/M30 entries and exits at 1st DTTZ, M5 entries and exits at 2nd DTTZ
Compared against Weekly Trading Plan
- Last week closed as a spinning top with slightly longer selling wick (reacting off W1 VWAP in DT) although due to W1 QLo rejection there could be a continuation to this move and thus forming a W1 RBR. Still too early to say since we still have 5 trading days before a W1 close.
- Price is currently trading above last week’s body (within range of selling wick though)
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- Price action
- D1 Bearish Inside Bar with continuation down although no close within D1-C‑D 1775.50 (which is high in the distribution curve) but closing below D1 QHi
- Although due to W1 QLo rejection an opposing lower time frame QHi like the D1 could prove weak and get taken out
- H4 consolidation and H4 Bear Engulf (giving H4-C‑S 1785.25) break down finisher coinciding with a H4 VWAP in UT BD. Price arrived at H4 50MA in UT and H4-C‑D 1770.25 and saw a reaction to a possible H4 VWAP in UT BD to CAR (coinciding with a retest of H4 QHi after an rejection)
- D1 Bearish Inside Bar with continuation down although no close within D1-C‑D 1775.50 (which is high in the distribution curve) but closing below D1 QHi
- Trend: H4 up, D1 up, W1 up
- Prevailing trend: Trend is up.
- Market Profile
- Somewhat of a flimsy 3‑day bracket
- Daily Range
- ADR: 22465
- ASR: 14701
- 370
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1795.940
- Yesterday’s Low 1769.910
Sentiment
- Locations
- H4-C‑S 1785.25 is within value at PPOC
- Sentiment
- LN open
- Below Value, Outside Range
- Open distance to value
- 0.4xASR
- Premarket
- Closed as a H4 Bearish Inside Bar
- Narrative
- Moderate to large Imbalance at the open. Even though Medium timeframe shows a possible reversal there has not been a continuation to that sentiment yet to consider changing the larger timeframe bullish sentiment. The open below value does show sellers more in control and thus we could see a return to value. An acceptance of value would negate the short term bearish sentiment.
- LN open
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 3
- Hypo 1 — Return to Value
- Narrative: Open sentiment, Medium timeframe bearish sentiment, H4 bearish inside bar at retest of H4 QHi after rejection.
- Preferred: Move higher to VAL extending IB (possibly testing H4 c‑sup at PPOC) early on to strong bearish PA at value edge to failed auction.
- Con: Larger timeframe bullish sentiment.
- Hypo 2 — Value Acceptance
- Narrative: Larger timeframe bullish sentiment
- Preferred: early acceptance and quick rotation
- Con: H4 c‑sup at PPOC
Additional notes
- Capital preservation rule in effect
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- D1-C‑S 1805.50
- H4-C‑S 1785.25
ZOIs for Possible Long
- D1-C‑D 1775.50 (High Distr. Curve)
Mindful Trading (lack of sleep?)
- Feeling okay although slept a little less than normal
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