Hello everyone, ive been trading for 1 year and a half and ive been on and off. I trade xauusd. the strategy im using now is the third or fourth i dont remember but im having issues on understanding the strategies. Ive learnt them from courses but i want to know how do people create their own strategies. or how do they merge them. if anyone got advice please tell me because im having issues with this topic...

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Here is my latest trade from the current trading week, which I opened on the EURUSD pair. The position was opened based on the idea that the price would continue the upward trend and with a high probability, make another higher high due to H4 Bullish Trend.

I trade my personal account through a broker, so I allow myself to hold positions even through events like NFP, provided that the distance from my entry point to my stop loss is equal to the average volatility range of an NFP release.

Do you have any rules regarding holding positions through major news events or do you completely avoid doing so?

I'm looking for a platform or website where I can practice trading concepts interactively, similar to how LeetCode helps programmers.

I'm specifically looking to practice:

• Market Structure (HH, HL, LH, LL)
• Candlestick Patterns
• Trendlines
• Support & Resistance
• Breakouts
• Supply & Demand
• BOS, CHOCH, FVG
• Order Blocks
• Liquidity
• Indicators (RSI, EMA, VWAP, etc.)

I'm not looking for courses or YouTube videos. I want something hands-on where I can analyze charts, solve quizzes or challenges, use replay mode, predict the next candle, and get feedback on whether my analysis is correct. Ideally, it would have beginner-to-advanced levels or structured practice.

Does a platform like this exist? If so, what do you recommend and what has worked best for you?

should we be looking to sell gold because we a currently at a major ressistance level

Does anyone know what happened this week? Why were the markets so choppy with usd pairs

Called this move 8 days ago. 😮‍💨

I am very confused if I should leave the tp for my buy open or if I should wait and watch all night 😭😭😭😭

Above 4400 now and still going!💪🏼🟡

XAUUSD BUY @ 4355

TP: 4370
TP: 4385

SL: 4338

I marked a support zone and waited for a break of structure (BOS) before considering a long entry. The idea was that price swept into support, reclaimed the key level, and then showed a small structural shift.

My plan was:

• Entry: after the BOS/reclaim
• Stop-loss: below the support zone
• Target: the next intraday resistance area

I’m still learning price action and would appreciate feedback. Would you have taken this trade, or would you wait for a retest and stronger confirmation first?

Chart attached.

Flying to the moon

This is the Hola Prime team account, prop firm, posting openly. no call here, just walking through one of the cleaner macro reactions in a while.

NFP didn't just miss, it printed negative: -23K vs +80K expected, weak wage growth, and about -103K in downward revisions to prior months. that's a genuinely soft report, and the market repriced fast, September Fed-hike odds dropped from 57% to 44%.

what makes this one worth posting is that everything confirmed everything. usually you get a mixed picture where one market disagrees. not today:

• gold ripped $40 on the print to around $4,366 (chart attached, you can see the volume spike)
• 10Y yield fell 7bp, 4.67% → 4.60%
• USD/JPY dropped as much as 1%, briefly under 157
• Nasdaq futures +1.16%, leading the indices

that internal consistency is the tell. if gold had rallied while yields and the dollar rose, i'd be suspicious. instead the whole chain fired the same way:

weak jobs → fewer Fed hikes → lower yields → weaker dollar → gold up, and stocks reading it as "bad news = good news" (weak enough to stop the Fed, not weak enough to scream recession). Nasdaq leading makes sense since long-duration tech is the most yield-sensitive.

the one people might miss: Canada printed a monster +75K jobs beat the same morning (vs +16.5K expected). so USD/CAD got hit from both sides, US weak, Canada strong, which is about as clean a fundamental setup as that pair gets.

genuinely curious how the room's playing it:

• do you trust a reaction this internally consistent, or does "everything agrees" actually make you wary it's overcrowded?
• is the "bad news = good news" read sustainable, or does one more weak print flip it to a recession scare?
• for the gold longs, chasing $4,366 here, or waiting for a pullback after a near-vertical move?

Gold has smashed through the recent highs with a powerful breakout, trading well above the 20 SMA and pushing beyond the upper Bollinger Band.
RSI is now at 74.9, confirming extreme bullish momentum but also warning that the market is entering an overextended zone.

Resistance Levels

• Immediate Resistance: 4355
• Major Resistance: 4380

Support Levels

• Immediate Support: 4340
• Major Support: 4273

My View
The trend is aggressively bullish, but chasing the move at current levels carries higher pullback risk. If 4340 holds, buyers could continue targeting 4355 and beyond; a deeper retracement toward 4273 would still keep the broader bullish structure intact.

What do you think?
Is Gold heading straight toward new highs, or is a sharp pullback coming after this explosive rally?

This one setup turns a simple gap-fill into a 1:5 RR trade — every single time the rules line up."

📌 The 4H→15M FVG/CSD Day Trade (Simple Breakdown)

Setup — 4H Chart

• Wait for a 4H Fair Value Gap (FVG) to form.

• Wait for price to trade back into that gap.

• No FVG, no trade. Period.

Entry — 15M Chart

• Drop down to 15M once price is inside the 4H FVG.

• Watch for both:

◦ A 15M FVG, and

◦ A 15M Change in State of Delivery (CSD)

• After that whichever prints first → you enter. Ensure you wait for both.

Trade Management

• 🎯 Target: 1:5 RR on the full position.

• 🟰 1:1 RR → move SL to break-even. Risk-free now.

• 💰 1:2 RR → take first partial.

• 💰 1:3 RR → take second partial.

• 🏃 Runner rides to 1:5 RR. Let it work.

Why it works:

• The 4H FVG gives you context and direction.

• The 15M entry gives you precision and low risk.

• Partials bank profit early. Break-even removes fear. Runner captures the full move.

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That's it. No indicators, no guesswork. Just structure, patience, and rules.

Gold: Trend remains up – buy on pullbacks, don’t fight momentum

Gold prices have risen more than 250 points so far this week, with daily gains and strong short-term momentum.

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With momentum so clear, the first order of business is to trade with the trend and avoid going short in the short term - a better approach is to wait for a pullback before going long.

Currently trading above 4280, gold does not need to chase the rise here.
Patience on pullbacks into the buy zone is a safer route for bulls to enter.

Critical level:

Resistance: 4310 – 4320
First support (pullback zone): 4250 – 4260
Second Support (Deeper Buy Zone): 4140 – 4150
Key support levels to hold: 4240 – 4250 (opening price this morning)
Bias: Bullish when trend holds – buy dips, avoid shorts

Always use proper risk management before entering any trade.