How each strategy trades

Every trade aims to make what it risks — no more, no less. The only exception is One Shot, which banks a modest fixed profit and moves its stop to entry as soon as the trade is decently in profit. The bot only trades during the main market hours, not overnight. Every filter below was tested on and off; we kept the ones that saved money and dropped the rest.

Imagine a pack of bears dragging gold down all morning. Then, for the first time, they fail — price closes above the last place they turned it back. That's the moment the hunt flips: the bull takes the leash. That's a Change of Character, and we ride the new side of the fight.

Entry: We strike on the very first close above the last swing high, because that's when the turn is freshest and the crowd is still on the wrong side. There's also a mirror version that hunts falling markets — but only after the pack has clearly taken control and pushed price below its long-run average. A couple of bites a day at most.

Exit: The shield sits behind the swing that started the whole turn — the place where the story would be proven wrong. If that shield would have to be unnaturally wide, the hunt is skipped. The prize equals the risk, no more.

Filters: No new trades from 12:00 to 18:00 UTC (hours 12–17 inclusive), no Monday entries, and at most two trades per UTC day. Trades already open keep their existing exit rules.

Where it struggles: Days when price walks sideways and every break gets thrown straight back. Those days the trap works for the other side.

A lion doesn't nibble. It waits, silent, while the prey wanders close — and then one single lunge swallows the whole step before it. On the chart that's one huge candle eating the one before it whole, in the opposite direction. When the market changes hands that violently, something big is happening underneath.

Entry: The attack goes either way. The hunting candle's body must cover the previous body completely, be clearly bigger than an ordinary candle — this was a real lunge, not a twitch — and finish near its own extreme, showing it never let go. Only one strike a day: one kill is enough.

Exit: The shield sits near the tail of the lunge — the far end of the candle that started it. The prize equals the risk.

Filters: No hunts on Mondays. Monday lunges looked impressive and then failed — the week hadn't made up its mind.

Where it struggles: News explosions. A spike can swallow everything in its path and keep running straight through the shield.

When New York opens, the big players often push gold just above the London morning high to grab the stops sitting there — then dump it. NY Sweep waits for that raid to fail and sells the fall.

Entry: Shorts only, 15:30–17:30 Finnish time. Price must poke at least a couple of pips above the London morning high, then a one-minute candle must close clearly back below it. One trade a day.

Exit: The shield sits just above the top of the raid. Once the trade has earned as much as it risked, the shield jumps to entry, then follows the fall at a steady distance so the big drops are allowed to run.

Filters: No raid of the London high, no trade. Quiet New York opens are simply skipped.

Where it struggles: Real breakouts — days when New York keeps buying straight through the London high and never comes back.

When gold runs downhill so hard that it falls 150 pips or more below its long 200-minute average, it often snaps back uphill just as fast. Snapback buys that turn — and does the same in reverse after a steep run up.

Entry: Both directions, 10–21 Finnish time. Price must have stretched at least 150 pips away from the 200-minute average, then a one-minute candle must close back across the short 20-minute average. That first close back is the entry. Up to three trades a day, never two at once.

Exit: The stop sits just beyond the bottom (or top) of the stretch, never more than 80 pips away. The target is twice the risk, and once the trade has earned one full risk the stop moves to the entry price.

Filters: Waiting for the two averages to cross each other was tested and lost money — by then the move is mostly over. Only the deep stretch plus the quick close back counts.

Where it struggles: News days where gold keeps falling (or rising) after a brief bounce, knocking the stop before the real turn.

A double bottom — the W — is a mountain climber's route: step down into the valley, climb to the ridge, drop once more, and take the long way out the top. This strategy trades the route leg by leg instead of guessing the whole climb at once.

Entry: It watches everything from the smallest chart up to the big picture. A leg only fires right after a turning point has been confirmed — no guessing — and only when the view ahead rewards at least as much as the fall could punish. It is brutally selective: once in a blue moon it finds a route worth climbing.

Exit: The shield sits behind the nearest structure — the ledge the climber last trusted. The prize equals the risk.

Filters: The entry bar is deliberately near-impossible. A missed trade costs nothing; a bad one costs real money.

Where it struggles: One-way trend days. When the market never gives you the second valley, there is no W and no route.

They're a replay on historical candles, not a broker statement. Spread, slippage and swap aren't included, and 30 days is a short sample. Use them to understand the strategies, not as a promise.

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