GHX-06 — MOMENTUM IGNITION

This model looks for signs of momentum ignition—rapid price expansion with increasing velocity—and enters to capture the explosive move.

• 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.

• 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.

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

Excels during high-impact news events and session opens. Works when genuine breakouts occur with strong follow-through.

• 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.

Can be caught in false starts that reverse quickly. Requires fast execution and can have larger stops due to volatility.

• 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.

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 demonstration trades published on this model yet. The record begins with its first closed forward-test trade.

This record includes earlier engine history from Momentum Scalp, which this model replaced.

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.

Momentum Ignition 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 news momentum: the full method

  How to trade XAUUSD momentum around US data: the real-yield mechanic, the three-phase reaction, entry checklist, invalidation, targets, two worked gold trades and how to journal the setup.

• THE GOLD NEWS CALENDAR, MINUTE BY MINUTE

  The XAUUSD release calendar in UTC minute by minute: CPI, NFP, ISM, JOLTS and FOMC, how spread and price behave after each print, the daylight-saving shift, and the windows that are never tradable.

• WHEN GOLD NEWS MOMENTUM FAILS

  Why XAUUSD news momentum trades fail: entering the spike, headline-versus-detail reversals, the FOMC press conference, priced-in prints, second-tier data and spread-driven losses on a correct thesis.

• SIZING GOLD NEWS TRADES

  Sizing XAUUSD news momentum trades on the 100-ounce contract with slippage allowances, ATR-aware stops, correlation risk across XAU crosses, daily loss caps and prop-firm news restrictions.

• THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TRADING THE PRINT

  The four recurring behavioural errors around XAUUSD data releases — chasing the second candle, holding through the reversal, guessing the print, and over-sizing an "obvious" move — with a hard rule and journal prompt for each.

• JOURNALING THE NEWS-MOMENTUM TRADE

  The fields, tags and screenshots that make a XAUUSD news-momentum journal usable: surprise direction, entry latency, spread paid, slippage, and the edge-decay metrics that tell you whether the setup still works.

• THREE WORKED GOLD NEWS TRADES

  Three annotated XAUUSD news-momentum trades with release context, entry, stop, target, lot size, spread and slippage cost, R outcome and a post-trade review — a clean win, a valid loss, and one that should never have been taken.

• Post-Event Stabilisation — Stands aside through the news spike and trades only once it settles.

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