Jan 19, 2021 #2 0430 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1843.1 0542 exit (reverse signal) @ 1842.9, -12 #3 0544 MGCG1 short 5 @ 1844.1 0629 exit (manual exit) @ 1843.6, +23 (upside risk, Yellen confirmation hearing) #4 1017 MGCG1 long 2 @ 1833.2 1100 exit (manual exit) ...

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Jan 19, 2021 #1 0244 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1837.4, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0307 manual exit @ 1842.1, +234, reached daily high (so far)

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Jan 18, 2021 Mon #1 0755 MGCG1 short 1 @ 1833.4, target +20ticks / stop -16ticks 0842 manual exit @ 1833.2, +2

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Jan 15, 2021 Fri #1 0204 MGCG1 short 5 @ 1848.4, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0345 exit (reverse signal) @ 1851.9, -177 #2 0346 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1852.1 0658 exit (trailing stop) @ 1848.7, -173 #3 0949 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1839.5 1010 exit (stoploss) @ ...

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Jan 14, 2021 #1 0123 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1839.5, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0345 manual exit @ 1843.2, +188, market volatility #2 0308 MGCG1 short 5 @ 1842.1 0425 manual exit @ 1841.9, +8, market volatility #3 0431 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1839.4 0533 manual ...

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Jan 13, 2021 #1 0459 MGCG1 short 5 @ 1855.4, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0614 exit (reverse signal) @ 1854.9, +25 #2 0614 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1854.5 0755 manual exit @ 1854.4, -5, market volatility

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Chart1. Blue area: Market volatility index of GOLD for the past 40 days Orange: 50 percentile of volatility minutes data of the past 2 days, which had increased to a high level this week image Chart2. 90 percentile of Max win and Max loss during ...

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Jan 12, 2021 #1 0243 MGCG1 short 5 @ 1859.2, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0453 exit (trailing stop) @ 1862.7, -174 #2 0517 MGCG1 short 5 @ 1862.7 (re entry) 0658 early exit (manual exit) @ 1859.8, +145, closed due to market volatility #3 0604 ...

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Jan 11, 2021 #1 0238 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1844.3, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0302 early exit (manual exit) @ 1850.4, +304, closed early to lock PL after a spike Will set the maximum holding time to 75 minutes. My Excel model statistics showed that ...

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Because the target/stop for each trade on the same day is sort of fixed, and this target/stop is not changed dynamically to cope with the market volatility (working on this topic now, hopefully, this will soon become a dynamic variable). So the ...

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#2 0613 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1891.6, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0645 early exit (manual exit) @ 1894.3, +137, closed manually to escape downside risk today

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Jan 8, 2021 #1 0533 MGCG1 short 5 @ 1893.0, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0612 early exit @ 1892.3, +34

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Jan 7, 2021 #1 0250 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1923.1, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0416 early exit @ 1921.7, -70 #2 0417 MGCG1 short 5 @ 1921.2, target +90ticks / stop -76ticks 0518 early exit @ 1916.9, +217 #3 0519 MGCG1 long 5 @ 1917.0, target +90ticks / ...

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Dec 3, 2020 Front month of GC is now February. #1 0114 GCG1 short 1 @ 1835.8, target +1,200 / stop -800 0241 exit @ 1843.8, -800 #2 0355 GCG1 long 1 @ 1843.5, target +1,200 / stop -800 0545 exit @ 1841.8, -170 #3 0550 GCG1 short 1 @ 1841.9, target ...

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Nov 25, 2020 #1 2239 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1800.8, target +1,500 / stop -800 0449 exit @1809.6, +880 #2 0515 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1808.4, target +1,500 / stop -800 0733 exit @ 1811.2, +280 #3 1044 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1809.7, target +1,500 / stop -800 1159 exit @ 1808.6, ...

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Nov 24, 2020 #1 2305 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1823.1, target +800 / stop -1,500 0550 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1812.5, target +800 / stop -1,500 0658 exit @1807.9, -1,520 0658 exit @1807.9, -460 #2 0939 GCZ0 long 2 @ 1802.5, target +800 / stop -1,500 0958 exit @1804.5, ...

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Nov 23, 2020 #1 0442 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1867.3, target +800 / stop -1,500 1028 stop exit @1834.1, -3,320 #2 1105 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1832.8, target +800 / stop -1,500 1112 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1828.7, target +800 / stop -1,500 1145 exit @1834.3, +150 1242 exit ...

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Nov 20, 2020 #1 0114 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1867.5, target +800 / stop -1,500 0411 exit @ 1865.1, -240 #2 0411 GCZ0 short 1 @ 1865.2, target +800 / stop -1,500 0534 exit @ 1865.0, +20

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Nov 19, 2020 #1 0215 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1862.2, target 1870.2 / stop 1847.2 0714 exit @ 1861.9, -30 #2 0843 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1852.0, target 1860.0 / stop 1837.0 0858 early exit @ 1859.0, +700 #3 0917 GCZ0 long 1 @ 1856.6, target 1864.6 / stop 1841.6 1012 ...

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Nov 18, 2020 #1 0906 GCZ0 short 1 @ 1876.0, target 1868.0 / stop 1891.0 1206 exit @ 1880.5, -450

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