Every strategy carries its exact rules, an annotated chart of the setup, the research behind why it should work at all — and the conditions under which you should not take it.
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Gold pays nothing. Holding it costs you whatever a safe inflation-protected bond would have paid, so when that real yield rises, gold becomes more expensive to hold, and when it falls, cheaper. The inverse relationship between gold and real yields is the most durable thing anyone has found about the gold price.
Gold's reputation as a safe haven is half deserved, and the half that is deserved is very specific. Baur and Lucey's work drew the distinction that matters: a hedge is uncorrelated on average, a safe haven is uncorrelated exactly when equities fall hard. Gold is both, but the safe-haven behaviour lasts days, not months.
Gold is quoted in dollars, so part of every move in XAUUSD is not a move in gold at all — it is a move in the dollar wearing gold's clothes. Separating the two is the single most useful thing a gold trader can learn to do.
Divide the gold price by the silver price and you get a number that traders have watched for a century. When it is historically high, the trade is to sell gold and buy silver; when low, the reverse.
Gold trades around the clock, but not to the same people. The Asian hours are dominated by physical demand — jewellery, coin and bar buying in the two countries that consume most of the world's gold — while the London and New York hours are dominated by financial flows.
A release on its own carries no information. What moves price is the gap between what printed and what was expected — and the size of that gap, measured against how large surprises usually are for that release.
Price adjustment to a release is concentrated in the first minute. Inside that minute, orders are filled at whatever is available rather than at anything considered — which is how a small surprise produces a move the size of a large one.
Every other approach to a release argues about direction. This one argues about time: liquidity provision and the cost of trading return to their pre-announcement levels within roughly five to fifteen minutes of a release.
Place a buy stop above the market and a sell stop below it a few minutes before a release, and let whichever way it jumps fill you. It is the first idea almost everybody has about trading news, and it is on this page because it deserves a straight answer rather than being left off the list.
This is not a trade. It is the rule that decides when none of your other strategies are allowed to be in the market, and it belongs in this book because the same research that makes news tradeable is what makes it dangerous to everything else.
The mechanism has peer-reviewed, FX-specific research behind it.
The mechanism is sound, but at least one step of it is untested.
Practitioner literature only — no published research supports the mechanism.
It rates the mechanism — whether there is published research explaining why the market should behave this way. It does not rate profit. Strong does not mean the trade will work. None of these have been run on our own account, and no page here shows a backtest figure.
One instrument, one timeframe, every rule visible on the chart.
Several conditions have to line up, and execution starts to matter.
Needs an outside data feed, a basket, real order flow, or an unusual tolerance for lumpy losses.
The level describes what it takes to run the strategy, not how well it works. Several Beginner pages are better evidenced than several Professional ones — a basket carry trade is Professional because it needs eight currencies and a swap table, not because it is cleverer than buying a pullback.
Reading the library is free. A plan is what lets you turn one into a robot.
Trading carries risk and most retail accounts lose money. Nothing in this library is financial advice or a recommendation to trade. The charts are illustrations of the rules on constructed candles — they are not records of trades and not backtests.
