Recent content by Lea S

Decent weekly summary — but from an intraday trader’s perspective, gold hasn’t been driven only by macro expectations lately. The biggest rotations came immediately after liquidity grabs around session opens (especially NY). Last week, nearly every impulsive move began with a stop-hunt, not...

Interesting take — from a microstructure angle, the current consolidation looks more like a liquidity harvest than genuine balance. I’ve noticed that during NY session, XAU/USD repeatedly prints shallow sweeps above micro-highs, then drives back into the prior imbalance zones. That’s usually the...

Spoofing cases like this are exactly why many intraday traders stopped relying on “clean” orderflow years ago. Treasuries, metals and even FX futures are full of micro-manipulation — not always large scandals, often just algorithmic liquidity games that trigger stops and sweep thin zones. For...

My take from a micro-structure perspective: Most of this move wasn’t driven by broad fundamental conviction — it came from repeated liquidity sweeps on XAU/USD across the 1–5m charts. The August–September structure was extremely sweep-heavy, and most of the later “breakout legs” were actually...

Today I spent some time analysing how micro-impulses formed around the NY open in XAU/USD, and something repeated with almost perfect consistency: 1. Every sweep created a 2–4 pip micro-reversal before continuation. These small retracements happened even when the main direction was strong. It...

I’m Lea S. I trade XAU/USD on very short intraday movements — mostly micro-impulses, liquidity sweeps and small structured pullbacks. My focus is precision scalping, usually with tight targets and fast exits. I’m not new to trading, but I’m new to this forum and looking to exchange ideas with...