Momentum Ignition trades the first sustained expansion after gold ignites: a decisive push with range and follow-through. It is deliberately fast, it takes losses quickly, and it does not hold through a fade.
What it does: Watches for range expansion against the recent baseline. Enters with the move once expansion is confirmed, not on the first tick. Cuts quickly when the expansion stalls.
When it works: Around scheduled US data and central-bank decisions, once the first spike settles. Volatile gold weeks with strong intraday direction. London and New York overlap.
When it struggles: Quiet, low-range sessions — nothing ignites, and false starts cost. Whipsaw spikes that reverse within minutes. Wide-spread conditions, where the entry cost eats the move.
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 Momentum Ignition is documented under Gold news momentum at https://goldhunts.com/gold-strategies/gold-news-momentum. Gold Hunts publishes win rate and sample size for closed XAUUSD trades only — never profit or loss figures, and never a projection.
This model's gold record includes earlier engine history from Momentum Scalp, which it replaced. Inherited trades are reported separately from trades the model placed itself.
GHX-06 Momentum Ignition 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 5-minute candle and never makes a decision from a candle that is still forming.
Its approach to gold: It looks for a single completed 5-minute candle that is unusually large for the recent conditions, and decisive rather than mostly wick. The candle has to finish clear of the immediate highs or lows around it, so the move is genuinely leaving the area rather than filling it in. It will not join a move that has already been running: if a comparable surge has just happened, it stands aside. It also stands aside when the hourly picture is pushing hard in the opposite direction. Entry is only valid for a short window after that candle closes, and only while price is holding the move. If the cost of entry is too high for the size of the idea, or price has already run away, it declines. A trade carries a stop beyond the origin of the push and a target fixed before the order is sent, with part of the position planned to come off at the first equal-sized gain and a tightening stop on the rest. It leaves early if price closes back through the middle of the candle that started it, if the trade has gone nowhere after the first few minutes, 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-06-momentum-ignition/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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