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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
- Trading rules
- M15/M30 entries and exits at 1st DTTZ, M5 entries and exits at 2nd DTTZ
- Only price-action based exit rules (or if hit time stop comes earlier)
- Otherwise a Bart Simpson exercise
Compared against Weekly Trading Plan
- Price trading above last week’s body and range trading within W1 supply
Non-conjecture observations of the market
- Price action
- Price continuing on D1 Three Outside Up
- Price trading within D1/W1 QHi
- Price trading higher within old H4 supply nearing the Supply End although more old supply above it.
- Trend: H4 Up, D1 Up, W1 Up
- Prevailing trend: Trend is up
- Market Profile
- Value created above the previous
- Daily Range
- ADR: 23909
- ASR: 15123
- 380
- Day
- Yesterday’s High 1845.650
- Yesterday’s Low 1819.680
Sentiment
- Locations
- Sentiment
- LN open
- Above Value, Outside Range
- Open distance to value
- 1.2xASR
- Premarket
- Price traded to H4 Supply End and took out H4/D1 supply.
- Narrative
- The large imbalance at the open suggests a possible mean reversion although in this case it could be strength behind the move. Price already took out D1 Supply.
- LN open
- Clarity (1–5, 5 being best)
- 4
- Hypo 1 — Mean Reversion
- Narrative: Open sentiment and trading within supply
- Preferred: Strong bearish PA, IB extension down taking out LTF demand, sustained auction.
- Con: Bullish sentiment, trend is up,
- Hypo 2 — Trend Continuation / Return to Value
- Narrative: Trend is up, D1 Supply got taken out
- Preferred: Strong Bullish PA either with a momentum extension up or by pulling back to LTF demand (possibly extending below to failed auction) before moving higher.
- Con: Open sentiment
Additional notes
- Capital preservation rule in effect
ZOIs for Possible Shorts
- D1-C‑S 1856.064
- W1-C‑S 1847.500
ZOIs for Possible Long
- D1-C‑D 1825.850
Mindful Trading (lack of sleep?)
- Feeling tired so not going to force things
Focus Points for trading development
- Monthly Goals
- No momentum trades on Non-Farm Fridays
- Feeling okay with NOT trading
- Have ‘quieter’ weekends
- Weekly Goal
- Min. 3 times hitting the gym + mandatory cardio
- Trading rules
- M15/M30 entries and exits at 1st DTTZ, M5 entries and exits at 2nd DTTZ
- Only price-action based exit rules (or if hit time stop comes earlier)
- Otherwise a Bart Simpson exercise
- Risk Management
- Without forcing a trade: aim to take 1 trade a day, if possible 2.
- Capital Preservation during drawdown allows for 1R profit-taking
- 2 consecutive days of lack of sleep = NO TRADING