Two kinds of writing here. Guides explain what actually moves gold, in plain language and without the mysticism. News-day pages report what our strategy did on a specific release - every leg, winners and losers, taken straight from the published trade log.
Every figure on every page here is read live from that record when the page loads. No number is typed in by hand, so none of them can quietly go stale.
Drawdown is the number that decides whether a strategy is survivable. What it measures, why duration hurts more than depth, and what the worst one in our own record looked like.
Most published trading results are backtests, and a backtest is a claim about the past made after the fact. How to tell the difference and what to check before believing either.
Gold pips confuse people because brokers quote them differently. The convention, what a pip is worth per lot, and how to convert a pip result into money.
Eight times a year the Fed sets rates and gold reprices. Why the press conference usually moves the metal more than the decision, and what our strategy has done on those days.
The US inflation report is the other big scheduled mover of gold. Why the reaction is less one-directional than people expect, and what our strategy has done on CPI days.
Non-Farm Payrolls is one of the two biggest scheduled movers of gold. What the release is, why XAU/USD reacts to it, and what our own strategy has done on those days.
One page per verified release the strategy actually traded. A release with no closed trade gets no page - there would be nothing on it but a date. The running summary across all of them is on the news record page.
The blog explains why gold moves. The news record shows what it actually did, and the calculators turn any of it into money.
Nine lessons: how price moves, price action, levels, chart traps, u-turn zones, psychology and building a system you can test.
Every verified release, what the strategy did on it, and how those days compare with ordinary ones. Updates itself as releases happen.
Size a trade from your account and risk, then apply the published record - profit AND worst drawdown - at whatever lot you pick.
Everything here is educational information, not financial advice and not a recommendation to trade. Trading gold carries a substantial risk of loss, including all of your deposit. See the risk disclosure.