Gold does not respect the tidy 20-pip stops that work on EURUSD. Here is how we actually place stops on XAUUSD: ATR maths, structure, stop-hunt wicks, and the one rule you never break.
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Gold moves for about five hours a day and drifts for the other eighteen. Here is the hour-by-hour map of when it actually pays to be at the screen, and when to walk away.
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Gold wrecks more retail accounts than any forex pair we see, and it's not bad luck. Contract size, margin load, spread spikes and gaps: here's the exact machinery, with numbers.
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Gold punishes forex habits. Same lot size, four times the daily exposure, and a drawdown that arrives in an afternoon instead of a fortnight. Here is how we size, stop and recover on the only instrument we trade.
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