COUNTER-TREND SCALPING

This model takes quick, tactical positions against the immediate trend when price becomes overextended. With strict risk controls and small targets, it aims to capture short-term mean reversion before the trend resumes. **How It Works:** 1. Identify short-term overextension against the trend 2. Wait for exhaustion signals on lower timeframes 3. Enter counter-trend with tight stop 4. Take quick profits — do not hold for trend reversal **Key Principles:** • Scalping requires strict discipline and fast execution • Small targets reduce exposure to trend resumption • This is tactical, not predictive — respect the trend **Example Scenarios:** • Price spikes 50 pips in minutes showing exhaustion wicks — enter short scalp targeting 10-15 pips • Sharp selloff creates oversold conditions on M5 — enter long scalp with tight stop for quick mean reversion

• Identifies short-term overextension against an intraday reference.
• Fades it for a small, defined target.
• Exits fast when the move continues instead of turning.

The method itself is documented in full in Gold range scalping. It explains the wider trading idea, its risks and the conditions that can invalidate it.

Clear overextension from moving averages or VWAP. Exhaustion candles or divergence on lower timeframes. High-volatility sessions with sharp moves.

• Two-sided, choppy sessions with frequent overshoots.
• Asian hours, when gold often rotates.
• Tight-cost accounts with disciplined limits.

Strong trending days with minimal pullbacks. Low-volatility conditions. Early in impulsive moves.

• Strong trends, where every fade is on the wrong side.
• News windows, where the overshoot is the start of the move.
• Any account where spread is a meaningful share of the target.

No model is right about gold all of the time. When available, it will act only while you leave it switched on, on an account you choose and within the limits you set.

• Risk per trade, as a percentage of the account or a cash amount.
• Daily loss limit — once hit, no new entries for the rest of the London trading day.
• Maximum open positions on gold at any one time.
• Sessions it may trade, and whether high-impact news blocks new entries.

Every order still passes the same pre-trade checks as a trade you place by hand. Reducing or closing risk is never blocked.

No closed gold trades recorded on this model yet.

No closed gold trades have been recorded for this model in that period.

Scope: XAUUSD only, closed trades only, grouped by London trading day, across Gold Hunts practice and real-money accounts. Cash outcomes are deliberately not published, because they depend on account size, lot size and leverage. Older rows do not always record whether the account was real or practice.

Counter-Trend Scalping trades a method Gold Hunts has already documented in full. These 7 pieces cover the rules, the sessions, the failure modes, the risk arithmetic and worked examples on XAUUSD.

• Gold range scalping: the full method

  The institutional guide to XAUUSD range scalping: confirming the Asian session range, fading the edges on thin liquidity, cost arithmetic as a percentage of target, break-of-range abort discipline and two fully worked gold trades.

• BEST SESSIONS FOR GOLD RANGE SCALPING

  Hourly XAUUSD behaviour in UTC for range scalping: why the Asian range and the London lunch lull are the only reliably tradeable windows, cost per round trip by hour, a session-suitability table, day-of-week effects and DST handling.

• WHEN GOLD RANGE SCALPING FAILS

  Why XAUUSD range scalping fails: unconfirmed ranges, high-ATR and news regime breaks, cost drag from spread and commission, revenge re-entries, stops smaller than gold noise, and thin-liquidity execution slippage.

• SIZING GOLD RANGE SCALPS

  Position sizing XAUUSD range scalping on the 100-ounce contract: $3–$5 stops, cost-adjusted expectancy, daily trade caps, correlation risk across XAU crosses and prop-firm frequency constraints.

• GOLD RANGE SCALPING PSYCHOLOGY

  The mental failure modes specific to XAUUSD range scalping: tilt from rapid-fire losses, widening the stop to avoid being wrong, overtrading a dead range, and screen fatigue eroding decision quality — with a hard rule and journal prompt for each.

• JOURNALING GOLD RANGE SCALPS

  How to journal a high-frequency XAUUSD range-scalping book without drowning: batching by session, tagging by boundary, the cost columns every row must carry — spread paid, commission, slippage — and the edge-decay metrics that catch a dying setup before the account does.

• THREE GOLD RANGE-SCALPING TRADES, IN FULL

  Three fully annotated XAUUSD range-scalping trades: a clean win on a confirmed Asian range, a valid loss on a boundary that failed cleanly, and a trade that should never have been taken on an unconfirmed range — with boundaries, entry, stop in dollars per ounce, target, lot sizing from a stated balance and risk percentage, spread and commission cost, net R and a post-trade review.

• Range Bound Scalping — Trades support and resistance while gold holds a range.

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