XAUTUSD short — 31 Aug 2026 (stopped out)
This short on XAUTUSD entered at 4,419.2 and stopped out at 4,451.5 after 6.1 hours, closing at -0.73%.
| Asset | XAUTUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-08-31 13:53 |
| Entry | 4,419.2 |
| Stop-loss | 4,451.5 |
| Take-profit 1 | 4,399.3 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 4,386 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.03 |
| Outcome | stopped out |
| Close price | 4,451.5 |
| Realized P&L | -0.73% |
| Time open | 6.1 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
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1. REGIME READ: Bear trend — 15m/1h bear_aligned (4h/5m mixed but both deeply oversold RSI 27-30), 1h ADX 40 but slope -3.6 (strong but fading), choppiness 49.9 borderline, ER-10 0.026 (path netting nowhere lately) vs ER-30 0.29, Hurst 0.46 mildly mean-reverting, HMM calm full confidence; macro gold -0.96%/1d and -3.1%/5d, DXY firming +0.35%. 2. LEAN CHECK: modest short — higher-TF trend down and macro gold declining, but oversold RSI stack + accelerating_down OI (shorts already crowded, oi_5m_z -1.8) warns the down leg is late-stage. 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: trend-aligned short — spot gold -0.96%/1d, XAUT tracking it, net moves negative across 4h/12h/24h, DXY bid, this asset's 30d track record heavily favors shorting XAUT (many recent short wins). 4. PRE-MORTEM: RSI 27/30 oversold with price sitting exactly at 5d/20d/90d lows (+0.05% off) and z-score -1.9 — a bounce/reclaim off the low invalidates continuation. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: stop above recent structure at 4453 (beyond the 4h consolidation, ~0.77% ≈ within rv range); target the fresh low extension at 4386, ~0.75% below (RR ~0.97 — nudge stop tighter to 4451.5 for RR ~1.0). Using stop 4451.5 (0.73%) and TP 4386.0 (0.75%), RR≈1.03, inside clamps. 6. EXPECTATION: trend-aligned but oversold and at multi-day low, so meaningful bounce risk and expire risk.
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