Trading Gold XAUUSD: 5 Traps Beginners Underestimate
Contract size, hourly volatility, the dollar, session spreads and weekend gaps: five quirks of gold that blow up beginner accounts, and how to neutralise them.
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Supertrend on Heikin-Ashi: What This Pairing Actually Detects
Supertrend on Heikin-Ashi candles smooths out the noise and delays false turns, but it predicts nothing. Here is what it detects, where its blind spots are, and why the candle close changes everything.
Position Size Calculation: The 3-Step Method (EURUSD, Gold)
Three inputs are enough to size a trade: your risk in percent, the distance to your stop, and the point value. Two worked examples, on EURUSD and on gold.
Structural stop loss on gold: stop getting hunted
An ATR stop sits at a mathematical distance without ever looking at the chart. Here is how to place a structural stop loss beyond the last swing, with an ATR buffer, on XAUUSD.
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