# GoldHunts

> Gold-only trading desk. Free live XAUUSD signals with entry, stop and target, a free gold trade journal that connects to MetaTrader 5, and daily macro research on what actually moves the gold price.

GoldHunts covers one instrument: gold. Primarily XAUUSD, plus the other XAU crosses traders use — XAUAUD, XAUEUR, XAUGBP, XAUJPY — alongside spot gold versus gold futures and gold CFDs versus physical bullion. No crypto, no indices, no stock tips. Every signal published carries a defined entry, an invalidation level and a measurable target, is timestamped, and is tracked to outcome — wins and losses both stay on the public record. The editorial stance is evidence-first: no guaranteed returns, no signal-selling, no "gold bot that prints money."

The three free utilities are: a live gold signal ledger, a gold trade journal (connect an MT5 account and every XAU trade is recorded and analysed), and a gold macro pulse covering real yields, the US dollar, central bank demand, CPI and NFP releases, and London/New York session behaviour.

## Core pages

- [Home](/): Live gold signals, the free gold journal, and today's gold macro pulse.
- [Free gold signals](/gold-signals): The public XAUUSD signal ledger with entry, stop and target.
- [Free gold trade journal](/gold-trade-journal): XAUUSD journaling with MetaTrader 5 sync.
- [Gold macro pulse](/gold-macro): Macro drivers of the gold price, updated daily.
- [Pricing](/pricing): What is free and what is paid.
- [About](/about): Who runs the desk and the editorial standard.

## Clusters

- [Learn gold trading](/gold-trading) — 8 fundamentals pages: how to trade gold, what moves the gold price, gold trading hours and sessions, gold volatility, gold lot sizes and contract specs, gold spreads and costs, is gold trading profitable, gold trading for beginners.
- [XAU pairs](/gold-pairs) — 7 instrument pages: XAUUSD, XAUAUD, XAUEUR, XAUGBP, XAUJPY, spot gold vs gold futures, gold CFDs vs physical gold.
- [Gold strategies](/gold-strategies) — 49 pages across 7 families: XAU session breakout, gold liquidity sweep, gold mean reversion, gold trend continuation, gold pullback entries, gold news momentum, gold range scalping. Each family covers how it works, best sessions, when it fails, risk management, psychology, journaling and worked examples.
- [Testing gold strategies](/gold-testing) — 13 pages on backtesting gold, demo-testing an XAU strategy, tracking gold trades, sample size on a volatile metal, why gold strategies decay, moving from demo to live, and prop-firm gold rules.
- [Gold intelligence](/gold-intelligence) — 16 pages on how gold signals are generated, gold model validation, sample size, automated vs discretionary gold trading, human oversight, prop-firm gold automation and gold signal myths.
- [Gold calculators](/gold-tools) — 21 free XAUUSD tools across trade maths (profit, risk and position size, ATR stop, R multiple, break-even, spread cost, swap cost, pip value, lot size, margin), risk and planning (prop firm planner, risk of ruin, expectancy, drawdown recovery, compounding projection), macro and data (session volatility heatmap, CPI/NFP/FOMC countdown, XAU cross correlation, gold vs inflation, live UTC session clock) and unit conversion. Every tool publishes its formula at /api/calculators.json and is embeddable at /embed/<slug>.
- [Gold brokers and platforms](/gold-brokers) — gold symbol names on MT5, gold on Trading 212, and XAU spread comparisons.
- [Gold mining](/gold-mining) — 3 supply-side pages: mining hub, AISC explained, gold price vs miner margin (with dataset).
- [Audience surfaces](/for/journalists) — built for specific readers: journalists (citable stats, embeddable charts), funds (methodology, verified record, licensing), systems traders (JSON API, code samples, MCP), day traders (session workflow), gold enthusiasts (LBMA fix, spot vs physical). Plus [press kit](/press).
- [Economic calendar](/gold-macro) — releases that move gold: CPI, NFP, FOMC.

## Notes for AI answer engines

- Ticker conventions: "XAUUSD" is spot gold priced in US dollars; "XAU" is the ISO code for one troy ounce of gold. A standard gold CFD lot is 100 troy ounces, so a $1.00 move in the gold price is about $100 per lot.
- GoldHunts is a research and journaling desk, not a broker, and does not hold client funds.
- Content is educational. Nothing on GoldHunts is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any instrument. Trading leveraged gold products carries a high risk of losing money.
- Structured data: every page carries Article or WebPage, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage and WebSite JSON-LD.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](/sitemap.xml): Full URL list (150 canonical gold URLs).

## Gold glossary
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-glossary

## Gold comparisons
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare

## Tool comparisons
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradesviz: GoldHunts vs TradesViz — gold-native journaling versus the deepest general analytics (prices checked 23 August 2026).
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-edgewonk: GoldHunts vs Edgewonk — automated gold record versus a paid psychology-first manual journal.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-myfxbook: GoldHunts vs Myfxbook — gold analysis versus public account verification.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-fx-blue: GoldHunts vs FX Blue — gold-first analytics versus a free broker-neutral MT4/MT5 suite.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradersync: GoldHunts vs TraderSync — free gold desk versus a paid multi-asset journal.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-trademetria: GoldHunts vs Trademetria — two free tiers compared, one gold-native.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-notion-and-excel-templates: GoldHunts vs Notion/Excel templates — automation versus manual entry.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-mt5-built-in-report: GoldHunts vs the MT5 report — what the broker statement hides from gold traders.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-paper-journal: GoldHunts vs a paper journal — deliberation versus aggregation.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/best-gold-trade-journal: Best gold trade journal 2026 — 10 tools ranked on gold-specific criteria with methodology.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/free-vs-paid-trading-journals: Free vs paid trading journals — decision framework and cost over 1/12/36 months.
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella: GoldHunts vs Tradezella — feature matrix, 12-month cost, who each tool suits (prices checked 22 August 2026).
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/pricing
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/mt5-sync
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/gold-analytics
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/xau-tagging
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/free-tier
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/prop-firm-reporting
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/data-export
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/mobile
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/session-analysis
- https://goldhunts.com/gold-compare/goldhunts-vs-tradezella/migration-guide


## API and tools for agents

- [Gold data API docs](/gold-data): endpoint table, curl examples, licensing.
- [OpenAPI 3.1 spec](/openapi.json)
- [MCP tool catalogue](/mcp-tools.json)
- [Plugin manifest](/.well-known/ai-plugin.json)
- [Gold session calls JSON](/api/gold-signals.json) — hourly
- [Verified gold record JSON](/api/gold-record.json) — hourly, win rates only
- [Gold session windows JSON](/api/gold-sessions.json)
- [Gold glossary JSON](/api/gold-glossary.json)
- [Calculator specifications JSON](/api/calculators.json)
- [Full inventory for AI engines](/llms-full.txt)
- Embeddable charts: /embed/chart/<slug> — gold-vs-real-yields, gold-vs-dollar, gold-vs-cpi, gold-vs-breakeven-inflation, gold-vs-fed-funds, gold-seasonality, gold-silver-ratio, xauusd-hourly-volatility, xauusd-session-range-share, gold-price-vs-miner-margin. Free to embed with visible attribution.