The Simple Gold Strategy That Finally Makes Sense

Gold is one of the most manipulated markets on the planet and most traders don't even realize they're walking straight into engineer traps every single session. Today I'm going to show you the dark side of gold manipulation, specifically the pattern that forms almost every day and why most retail traders get baited into the wrong direction This is the full breakdown of my golden trap model and once you understand it, you'll never look at gold the same way again. Everything in this video happens on the 15 minute time frame and everything follows a simple formula. Identify the session, wait for the sweep, catch the order block, enter on the propulsion block and target a clean 2R and then we walk away. It's clean, it is rules-based and once you understand the logic behind the institutional trap that forms, this becomes one of the simplest ways to day trade gold consistently. Gold doesn't just move randomly, it doesn't pump or dump because of news or momentum the way beginners think. It moves because each session has one purpose. Engineer liquidity, sweep traders, trap traders, build fuel for the real move and once you understand that the market is actively hunting levels, not reacting to them, everything becomes predictable. The golden trap forms because gold will almost always sweep a session high and low, create the illusion of a breakout, trap money into the wrong side and then reverse into the real direction. So the three sessions we're going to focus on today is Asia that builds the range, London sweeps one side of Asia's range, New York either confirms or traps traders and every single session is liquidity engineering. The manipulation pattern is sweep the session high and low, create a 15 minute order block, retrace back into that order block, form a propulsion block and enter at that propulsion block level. Now if you do not know what a propulsion block is, I'm going to go over it in this video. Like we said, we use three sessions Asia, London and New York. You don't need indicators, you don't need volume, you don't need anything except understanding which session created liquidity and which session is about to use it. So over here on the top right hand corner, we have the strategy rules marked out clearly for you and I want you to take note of this and write all of this down. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to mark out the high and the low of Asia session. We're going to go over the timings in Asia, we're going to go over the timings of London and the timings of New York later on in the video, so take notes on that. So we are marking out the high of Asia, we're marking out the low of Asia as well. Then we want to wait for liquidity rate and an order block to form. So here in the next session, we see that we sweep out the low that Asia created, we then trade back up and down, we sweep it again with two down-closed candles. Remember, an order block is when we close above opposing candles that took out liquidity. I do have other videos on my channel covering order blocks. We're going to wait for that order block to form and then we're going to wait for price to trade back into that order block. If price does not trade back into the order block, this is not a valid setup. We need price action to trade back into that order block and then close above the down-closed candles again to form what's known as a propulsion block. I know it sounds big and scary but a propulsion block is just an order block out of an order block. We see we have two down-closed candles that trades into the initial order block that got closed above. So to keep it simple for the new traders out there, it is just an order block out of an order block. Now this is where we take the trade. As soon as price action closes above these down-closed candles to confirm my propulsion block, that is where I can execute my position. My stop loss will cover the swing point of the propulsion block and my target will be to R. Have you ever looked at your charts and thought to yourself, man, I know I can be good at this trading thing. I just need the right guidance and the right structure. Then this is your moment. Inside the mentorship, you don't just get videos, you get a full transformation. You trade live with me every single day. That is correct. From Mondays to Friday, I show up personally every single day and I trade live right alongside you. You learn the exact models I use step by step. You get 24-7 support, you get real accountability and you get a group of traders that actually wants the best for you. I built this because I know exactly what it feels like to be stuck, to feel like you're almost there, to hop from strategy to strategy and to feel like the dream is just slipping away. But you don't have to do this alone anymore. Imagine where you could be 90 days from now if you had structure, mentorship and a real plan from someone that's gone through all of the steps and achieved the life that you are looking for. Imagine passing your funded challenge. Imagine having a skill that pays you for the rest of your life. And that is why I do this. And that is exactly why I'm offering 60% off lifetime access before December hits. As a Black Friday special, this program will never be this cheap again. So go ahead, check out the first link in my description and use code LIFE60 to get your 60% off lifetime access. Okay, here we have our first example on gold on the 15-minute time frame. Remember I said I'm going to share the session timings with you? Well, we have Asia session starting at 6 p.m. London starts at midnight and then New York starts at 6 a.m. up until 12 a.m. This is what I want you to use for your timings. 6 to 12, 12 to 6 and then 6 to 12 again. That is it. For this model, that's the sessions I want you to use. Remember our rules? Well, we're going to go ahead and we're going to look at my Asia session with this purple box. We're going to mark out the low of that session and we're going to wait for price action to sweep out this low on the 15-minute time frame. We can also go ahead and mark out the high of the session but the reason I picked the low is because price action is very likely to take out the low before it's going to take out the high just because London opened very close to the low. So now we just play price action forward and all we do is we just wait for a sweep. Here we can see that we did take out that level. So what do we need now? Now we need the market to close above these two down closed candles. That is exactly what happens. So what do we have over here? Over here we have our very first order block that is being created. Now we need price action to go ahead and trade away from this block, come back into it and then close above the down closed candles that traded back into that initial order block. That will form my propulsion block. We can play price forward and we see that we trade back into it. So we need a candle closure above this bearish candle to form my propulsion block. Let's wait to see what happens. We see the market just trades lower and that's perfectly fine. I don't want you to freak out over here. So here we have that sweep of Asia low. Now what do we need? All this is, I call this a price reset. This is something I teach in my mentorship program as well. It is just a price reset. So without overcomplicating everything, now we need the market just to go ahead and close above these two down closed candles to form my next order block. And all we're going to do is we're just going to follow this down lower until we get that order block formation. We see that price action then trades back down again. We sweep it again. So now what does this do? This moves down to these two down closed candles. Now why these two are not this big run is because these are the last down closed candles that took out a swing point before price action reversed. So this will be my order block level. Now we need price just to trade away from the zone and then come back and retest it. That is all we need for the strategy now to form my propulsion block. We see we come back, we retest it. Now let's see what happens. Do we trade higher? Then we form a little potential swing point. Let's see if price action then gives us what we want. Well then what happens now? Now we can see we sweep it out again. So remember what I said when price tripped out this low? We had a reset while we just had another reset. So now we need the market to close above those two down closed candles to form my valid order block. We get that and we get price action displacing away. We also form and leave a fair value gap after that displacement. So we still need the market to trade back into it and then close above. The reason I'm going slow is because I want new traders to understand this and show you how simple this whole world of smart money concepts can be and should be. We then see the market trade back into that level and we close above the down closed candle. We respect the fair value gap. But remember what I said in the breakdown? We need the market to hit my order block. If it doesn't hit the order block and closes above, it is not a valid propulsion block. So we need that order block to be taken out. We then have the market trading back into that initial order block. So now we are golden. Now we need the market to then go ahead and close above these two down closed candles to form my propulsion block. Let's see if we get that. Not yet. I'm just going to play this forward. What happens here? I want you to pause the video and take a look at this to see what has happened. We have just swept out a swing low again. So remember when price action swept out this low and then this low and then this low? We just move our PDA rate down lower. So now that we have swept out this low, my propulsion block moves down to these two down closed candles. I just need a candle to close above those two down closed candles and then my trade would be valid. So we do get that. This is exactly where we enter the position. My stop loss covers this swing low. You can cover it a little bit to keep yourself out of some spreads and my first target will be 2R. So this is a picture perfect version of how this model would work and how it looks like. I want you to understand this. Take a screenshot and print it so that you have it on your trading desk. And then we just see price action runs up and we hit our 2R. Now you can take again, you don't have to take 2R, you can then leave a runner until we get out all the time based equity. So you can go ahead and take a partial at London high. You can then go ahead and take a partial at Asia high as well. So currently we have 2R secured and we can see that this market then initially we run up and we take out that Asia high. Here we go ahead and we take out Asia high for a 3.16R on this trade. And obviously not every single trade has a 100% win rate. So I'm going to show you a valid losing trade as well. Now you get too many people out there that think that if a trade loses two or three times, the strategy doesn't work. Guys, losing trades are part of the journey of a trader. If you can't handle a losing trade, this might not be the industry for you. See losing trades as the cost of doing business because we have to treat trading like an actual business with income and expenses. Income being the profitable trades, expenses being the losing trades. That's the cost of doing business to get to our profitable trades. So over here, we do have our Asia session. We go ahead and we mark out Asia high and let's see price action trade into that high. So now we can look for selling trades. We can look for bearish trades and shorts. We need the market to give us a valid bearish order block. So far, we don't have anything yet. Looking at this, we see then we consolidate, we retest Asia high and then we push higher expanding. So now we still need that bearish order block. London opens up and let's see what London does. London then goes ahead and sweeps out, sorry, New York sweeps out London's high. And then we just rinse and repeat. We sweep out a time-based level. We need that closure below. That is what we need. We need the market then to come back down and close below these two up-close candles to then give me my valid order block. That is what we need to for the first step of this model. We see price action then goes ahead and closes below those three, four up-close candles. So we do have a valid order block. Now we need the market to retest that order block and then give me a propulsion block. We retest that order block. So now what do we need? Now we need the market to go ahead and close below these two up-close candles to then form my valid propulsion block. What happens? We trade back up again. So this moves up to that single up-close candle. Now we have formed a valid propulsion block. We have a closure through the last up-close candle into my valid PD array. My valid PD array is going to be this order block. These four up-close candles that got closed through. So now we are good to go ahead and to enter our trade. We place our stop loss at this high. We can cover the high a little bit and our first target will be 2R. And then we can go ahead and take respective partials at London low and then a partial at Asia low. That is how we can manage the system and we see that eventually this trade does end up stopping us out. It is a perfectly valid trade. Not every single position is going to end up being a winner. So that is where you go ahead and you do your back test and you notice that okay, I have a lot more losing trades when I take the position in New York session than I do when I take it in London session. So that can be a filter. You only take trades during London and not New York. You can allow the trade to run through New York but you can't enter during New York session. That is how we optimize a trading strategy. So when we understand how sessions work and how liquidity is engineered and how order blocks and propulsion blocks confirm the shift, gold becomes very easy to read. It is not perfect. It is not guaranteed. But it is extremely consistent. If you want more videos like this, be sure to hit subscribe. 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