Gold is my primary market.
I currently trade XAUUSD on FTMO evaluations. My active windows are the Asia session and the London session. Gold remains the market around which I organise my trading process.
The session alone is not an entry signal. I am looking for a specific price location and a specific sequence of confirmation before risk is committed.
Trending Range Reversal - Pro Trend.
The setup I currently trade is a Trending Range Reversal in the direction of the prevailing trend. The starting context is an overextension into the external end of a regression trend.
This gives me a location to investigate, not permission to enter. Execution depends on lower-timeframe evidence appearing inside the hourly candle.
The confirmation sequence.
I use the same ordered sequence to move from context to execution:
- Price overextends to the external end of a regression trend.
- Lower-timeframe market structure shifts.
- A Candle Behaviour Reversal forms within the hourly candle.
If the sequence is incomplete, the setup is incomplete. The purpose of the structure is to separate a strong location from an executable trade.
Risk changes with account state.
My position size is dynamic. It depends on account balance and the remaining risk balance rather than using one fixed percentage in every condition.
The objective is account protection first. I cap the day at one or two trades, and the percentage used for either trade still depends on the account state.
Management and review.
I do not take partial profits. In my analysis, small wins and small losses are classified as breakeven so minor fluctuations do not distort the review of execution quality.
When Gold conditions are not conducive to a good entry, NQ is the genuine secondary market in the broader plan. It is currently being studied rather than actively traded.