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“Understand the forces behind gold.
Let discipline guide every decision.”

Gabriel Nicolaev - CyGuru
Gabriel Nicolaev - CyGuru
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Guides / Reading paths

A CONNECTED RESEARCH LIBRARY

Gold Trading & Research

Build a reading path through sessions, market structure, execution, risk and reproducible research.

01 · Build the foundations

Read these guides in order, then compare the framework with dated evidence. A reading path explains concepts; it does not validate a strategy.

  1. Gold Trading Sessions: How Asia, London and New York Shape XAU/USD →

    Study gold trading sessions, liquidity and timezone changes. Build an XAU/USD session record without mistaking recurring hours for guaranteed patterns.

  2. Gold Liquidity Sweeps: Reading False Breakouts Around Key Levels →

    Learn to describe gold liquidity sweeps objectively, distinguish failed breaks from assumptions about intent, and define testable XAU/USD observations.

  3. Gold Breakout or Fakeout? A Framework for Evaluating the Move →

    Evaluate gold breakouts using predefined boundaries, completed candles, retests and invalidation. Avoid hindsight when studying XAU/USD false breaks.

  4. Support and Resistance in Gold: Building Zones That Matter →

    Build reproducible support and resistance zones for gold. Learn timeframe selection, zone invalidation and how to avoid hindsight in XAU/USD analysis.

  5. Gold Volatility and ATR: Sizing Stops for Changing Conditions →

    Understand true range, ATR smoothing and volatility-based gold risk estimates, with a worked position-size example and explicit execution limitations.

  6. Trading Gold Around Economic Releases: Spreads, Slippage and Execution Risk →

    Study gold execution around CPI, NFP and FOMC: bid–ask spreads, order triggers, slippage and why chart prices are not guaranteed fills.

  7. How to Backtest a Gold Trading Strategy Without Fooling Yourself →

    Build an honest gold strategy backtest with frozen rules, data audits, realistic costs, out-of-sample evaluation and transparent performance limits.

  8. The Gold Trading Journal: Measure Decisions, Not Just Profit →

    Create a gold trading journal that separates decisions from outcomes, records execution costs and measures expectancy, rule adherence and drawdown.

02 · Study the structural drivers

03 · Compare dated editions

These editions match the theme by their title and summary. They retain their original cutoff; a current market quote is not substituted into an old analysis.

Apply this framework to dated research

04 · Test a specific question

Define the observations you need before looking at outcomes. Record the dataset, assumptions, costs and failure conditions.