Interactive course · Beginner
Trading Gold: An emotional, macro-driven market, traded with a calm process
Learn what moves gold, how the dollar and interest rates feed into it, when it is busy in SAST, and how to handle trend days, range days and US data days. Then run the five-step framework on gold, using Miner and Digger alerts as a prompt to check, not an order.
- 45 minutes in total
- 57 activities
- First lesson free, no account needed; the rest with a free account
- The free first course of Know Your Market
What you'll be able to do
Learn it in minutes, then use it
Each lesson is a few short ideas, each one tried straight away in a small activity: a calculation, a chart to mark up, a trade to take or skip.
- Explain why gold moves: fear, inflation, the dollar and interest rates
- Know gold’s busiest and quietest hours in SAST
- Tell a gold trend day, range day and breakout day apart
- Plan around US data instead of chasing the spike
- Size a gold trade from its stop in dollars
- Grade a gold setup through Context, Zone, Trigger, Risk and Manage
Unit 1
Know gold
- What moves goldFear, inflation, central banks and US data, and what a $1 move is worth.
- The dollar and interest ratesWhy a stronger dollar or higher rates tend to weigh on gold, and why the link isn’t perfect.
- Gold’s busiest hoursLondon, New York, the overlap and US data, all in SAST, plus the quiet hours.
- Trend, range and breakout daysWhat each kind of gold day tends to look like, and what to do on each.
Unit 2
Trade gold well
- US data daysCPI, jobs data and rate decisions: what they do to price and costs, and when to stand aside.
- Psychology and common mistakesChasing the spike, fighting the trend, and sizing gold from its stop in dollars.
- The framework on goldContext, Zone, Trigger, Risk and Manage on gold, with Miner and Digger alerts as a prompt.
General education, not financial advice. Examples use made-up numbers.