Premarket Prep Gold XAUUSD 07082020

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This is my pre­mar­ket prep for today’s Euro­pean ses­sion for Gold XAUUSD. This prep builds off of my week­ly trade plan I made here:

Gold XAUUSD – Week 28 Trad­ing Plan

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The pur­pose of a pre­mar­ket prep is to find setups with­in my week­ly trade plan bias.

Non-con­jec­ture obser­va­tions of the market

• Con­tin­u­a­tion of D1-C‑D 1775.661 RBR after test­ing its conterminous
• H4-C‑D 1782.537 Bull E. formed with big Bull Engulf into con­sol­i­da­tion with H4-C‑S 1794.657
• Mar­ket Profile
  • Broke over­all mar­ket brack­et­ing range to the upside
  • Mul­ti-day brack­et­ing break out
  • Cur­rent­ly con­sol­i­dat­ing far above VAH + range. Needs fur­ther assess­ment at open.

Com­pared against Week­ly Trad­ing Plan

• D1 still above UKC and VWAP
• Deep­er into Week­ly Sup­ply near­ing tak­ing it out

Sen­ti­ment — Bullish

ZOIs for Pos­si­ble Shorts

• H4-C‑S 1794.657

ZOIs for Pos­si­ble Long

• H4-C‑D 1782.537 Bull E.
• D1-C‑D 1775.661 RBR
• H4-C‑D 1772.157

Focus Points for trad­ing development

• Week­ly Goal
  • Cor­rect posi­tion sizing
  • Trades pri­or­i­ty: 1) let mar­ket pro­file guide 2) M30 con­fir­ma­tion (watch out for ‘Bil­ly No Mates’)
• Risk Man­age­ment
  • Only take 2 trades a day but only have 1 active trade on between the assets
  • Only trade off M30 candles
  • Trad­ing Priority
    • FX pair out­side value
    • FX pair inside > Gold
    • 2+R prof­it dur­ing LN con­sid­er trad­ing PNYC
  • After 4 los­ing trades reduce TP to 1.5R but after 1R can con­sid­er tak­ing profits