This model waits for gold to break a level that mattered, then waits again for price to come back to it. Entry is on the retest holding, not on the break itself, which trades fewer breakouts but fewer traps with them.
What it does: Marks the level that broke and requires a close beyond it, not a wick. Waits for price to return to the level and hold it before entering. Invalidates the setup if price closes back through the level.
When it works: Clean gold breakouts out of a well-defined range or consolidation. Session opens where the break has real volume behind it. Markets that respect levels rather than gapping through them.
When it struggles: Breakouts that never retest, so the model watches the move go without it. News-driven gaps where the level is skipped entirely. Noisy levels that are broken and reclaimed repeatedly in an hour.
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 Market Structure Break & Retest is documented in full under XAU session breakout at https://goldhunts.com/gold-strategies/xau-session-breakout. GoldHunts publishes win rate and sample size for closed XAUUSD trades only — never profit or loss figures, and never a projection.
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