Every statistic on this blog comes from our own studies on 3.5 years of XAU/USD data — sample sizes and confidence intervals included, negative results too. No borrowed numbers.
We measured 2,434 liquidity sweeps on XAU/USD over 3.5 years. Baseline end-of-day reversal rate: ~50%. But a few conditional edges are real — full numbers inside.
An honest guide to gold day trading indicators: the free TradingView tools that suffice, what they miss, and what 3.5 years of XAUUSD data shows.
Read the article →Gold TradingGold session times in ET, Paris and UTC — plus real volume data: NY dominates, London open is half the story, and Asia predicts nothing (n=821).
Read the article →Gold TradingNo signals, no hype. A five-layer framework for day trading Gold — sessions, liquidity, regime, measured probabilities, risk — backed by 3.5 years of data.
Read the article →Gold TradingSpot Gold and COMEX futures track the same metal but differ in volume, price level, hours and continuity. What each chart can and cannot tell a day trader.
Read the article →Gold TradingWhat DXY, real yields and silver actually tell a Gold day trader, why correlation is measured on returns, and how to use the read intraday.
Read the article →Gold TradingICT killzones mapped onto Gold's real clock: where the volume is, how often London-window breakouts fake, and why the NY window decides the day.
Read the article →Research · Data25 FOMC days vs 594 control days on XAU/USD: 0.67× morning compression, 4.35× post-announcement expansion, and a whipsaw trough at +30 minutes. The data.
Read the article →Research · Data653 days of XAU/USD volume by hour: the NY 14:00–16:00 Paris block takes ~23% of volume, London open half the folklore, data days rewrite the map.
Read the article →Research · Data821 Gold sessions measured: London continues Asia's direction 49.3% of the time — a coin flip. And why the famous 74.8% NY–London stat is an artifact.
Read the article →Research · DataWe measured 6,945 touches of the ±2σ VWAP band on Gold over 830 days. 72% revert by end of day, 23% within an hour — and only 30% in New York.
Read the article →Research · DataWe measured 39 COMEX gold option expirations. Closes within $10 of a $50 level: 25.6% on OPEX vs 35.1% on normal days. The pin theory does not hold up.
Read the article →ComparisonsA fair look at LuxAlgo's real strengths, who should stay, and which alternative — BigBeluga, ChartPrime, AlgoAlpha, or a specialist suite — fits you.
Read the article →ComparisonsFree TradingView tools cover more than vendors admit. Here is what paying can actually buy — measured probabilities, regime, macro context — and when it can't.
Read the article →ComparisonsEvery vendor says non-repainting. Here are the four ways an indicator rewrites history and four tests you can run in an afternoon on any script — ours included.
Read the article →Indicator GuidesHow session-anchored VWAP works, why the bands must be volume-weighted, and what 6,945 measured ±2σ touches on Gold say about fading the band — by session and regime.
Read the article →Indicator GuidesWhat the Hurst exponent measures, how R/S analysis estimates it, why raw estimates over-read persistence, and how to use it as a regime filter on Gold.
Read the article →Indicator GuidesWhat CVD measures, why candle-colour delta is wrong, how intrabar delta is built from sub-bars, and how to read divergence and absorption on Gold honestly.
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