Is my broker hunting my stop loss on gold?

Almost always no. Stops cluster at the same obvious XAU levels — the Asian high, round numbers, prior day extremes — so price is drawn there by order flow rather than by your individual position. The fix is stop placement beyond the cluster, not a change of broker.

How do I avoid fading a gold trend by mistake?

Use a daily-context veto: if the daily candle has broken the previous day range and is extending with a macro driver, no counter-trend sweep entries in that direction for the rest of the session, whatever the 15-minute chart suggests.

What if I miss the sweep entry?

You miss it. Log it as a skipped trade with the reason. Over a month, skipped winners and skipped losers tend to balance out, and the log is what keeps the reclaim-close rule intact under pressure.

The Psychology of Gold Stop Hunts

Trading XAU sweeps requires dropping the broker-blame explanation for stopped trades: gold stops cluster at the same obvious levels, so price is drawn there by order flow rather than by any individual position.

The dominant psychological hazard is the revenge fade — seeing every strong move as a raid and shorting into a genuine trend day — which a daily-context veto rule prevents.

Entering before the reclaim close should be treated as a rule violation of the same weight as doubling position size, and skipped trades should be logged with reasons rather than chased.