Pullback Continuation buys gold weakness in an uptrend and sells strength in a downtrend. It measures how deep the pullback is, rejects entries where the retracement has gone too far to still be a pullback, and stops behind the swing that held.
What it does: Measures the depth of each retracement against the leg that produced it. Enters only when price shows it is turning back with the trend, not still falling. Anchors the stop behind the swing that must hold for the pullback to be a pullback.
When it works: Orderly trends that breathe, rather than vertical one-way moves. Sessions with a clear directional driver behind gold. Higher timeframes, where pullbacks are large enough to price properly.
When it struggles: Vertical moves that never pull back, so nothing triggers. Deep retracements that turn out to be reversals rather than pauses. Ranges, where "pullback" and "reversal" look identical.
What the trader controls: 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. You can switch the model off at any time, and reducing or closing risk is never blocked.
The method behind Pullback Continuation is documented under Gold pullback entries at https://goldhunts.com/gold-strategies/gold-pullback-entries. Gold Hunts publishes win rate and sample size for closed XAUUSD trades only — never profit or loss figures, and never a projection.
GHX-05 Pullback Continuation v2.0 is designed for a specific gold market behaviour and records a plain-English reason for every decision. Coming to forward testing. It is not yet available for account activation. During its trading window, it assesses each completed 15-minute candle and never makes a decision from a candle that is still forming.
Its approach to gold: It only considers a trade when the hourly chart is already in a confirmed trend, read from turning points the market had finished making. It then waits for a completed 15-minute candle to break clear of a known turning point in that same direction, and records the area around that level at the moment of the break — never afterwards. It measures how much of the preceding move price gives back. Too little is not a pullback, and too much is treated as a reversal rather than a pause, so it stands aside. The recorded area has to hold, with a visible rejection, and then a later completed candle has to close back in the direction of the trend. A pullback that arrives late, or one moving as fast as the move it retraces, is declined. A trade carries a stop beyond the extreme of the pullback and a target fixed just inside the earlier extreme of the move, both set before the order is sent, with only one attempt at any recorded area. It leaves early if price closes back through the recorded area, if the trade has gone nowhere after the first stretch, and it will not hold past its time limit or the session cutoff. If the conditions are not all present, it records a wait with the one reason that stopped it.
Its dedicated public ledger is at https://goldhunts.com/gold-models/ghx-05-pullback-continuation/ledger. The record begins with the first eligible demonstration forward-test trade and will include every closed result, whether it wins or loses. Nothing is backfilled with simulations. Customer trades are never published. Results are shown in net R with gross R alongside, and sample size is always visible. Demonstration results do not represent live trading.
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