XAUTUSD short — 31 Aug 2026 (hit target)
This short on XAUTUSD entered at 4,441.6 and hit its target at 4,418.4 after 6.2 hours, closing at +0.52%.
| Asset | XAUTUSD |
| Direction | short |
| Issued (UTC) | 2026-08-31 07:38 |
| Entry | 4,441.6 |
| Stop-loss | 4,478.5 |
| Take-profit 1 | 4,418.4 |
| Take-profit 2 (stretch) | 4,402.9 |
| Reward:risk at entry | 1.05 |
| Outcome | hit its target |
| Close price | 4,418.4 |
| Realized P&L | +0.52% |
| Time open | 6.2 hours |
What the model saw at issue time
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1. REGIME READ: Bear trend — MTF 2/4 (5m mixed, 15m/1h bear_aligned, 4h mixed with RSI 32 leaning oversold), 1h ADX 46.9 but slope -1.88 (strong trend but starting to fade), choppiness 45.8 (borderline), ER-10 0.17/ER-30 0.21 (noisy netting nowhere lately), Hurst 0.46 mildly mean-reverting, HMM calm full confidence; macro gold -1.73%/1d and -2.04%/5d. 2. LEAN CHECK: modest short — higher-TF EMA stacks are bear on 15m/1h, macro gold is bleeding, oi_momentum accelerating_down and net 24h move -0.47%; the recent 4h net +0.59% and z-score -1.71 (stretched below mean) give a mild bounce risk but not enough to flip the side. 3. DIRECTIONAL THESIS: trend-aligned short — bear EMA stacks + high ADX + spot gold selling off macro-wide + accelerating_down OI is the dominant cluster; XAUTUSD short track record is strong (70.7% wr, n=72). 4. PRE-MORTEM: z-score -1.71 and price sitting +0.59% off the 5d low with fading ADX signals a mean-reversion bounce could reclaim, invalidating the short. 5. LEVEL PLACEMENT: entry 4441.65; stop above recent structure at 4478.5 (~0.83% risk, within the ~1.65% avg daily range); take_profit_1 stretch at 4402.9 (~0.87% below, ~1.05x risk, toward the 5d low region reachable within 24h given avg 24h traversal 0.72%). 6. EXPECTATION: bear trend but stretched/fading — p_tp1 44, p_sl 33, p_expire 23.
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