XAU SETUP TAGGING COMPARED

Setup tagging decides what a trading journal can tell you, and the two products take opposite approaches. Tradezella offers a fully custom tagging system that works across every asset class, which is powerful when the trader maintains a closed, consistent list. GoldHunts ships a fixed gold vocabulary — sweep, continuation, reversal and range fade — plus automatic session and macro-day tags derived from the fill time, so segmentation works from the first trade without depending on naming discipline.

The practical difference is tag drift. "London sweep", "london-sweep" and "LDN sweep" are three filters over one setup, and a 40-trade sample split three ways loses all statistical power. A closed vocabulary makes that failure impossible at the cost of flexibility for idiosyncratic setups, which must be carried in notes instead.

A worked example shows the payoff. Sixty XAUUSD trades at an aggregate 48% win rate split into 22 London sweep entries winning 64% with a $310 average win against a 80 average loss, 20 continuation entries at 50% and break-even after cost, and 18 New York counter-trend reversals winning 28% with a $220 average win against a $260 average loss. The aggregate says nothing; the segmentation says stop taking the reversal.