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Long-form, practical writing on gold and forex trading — sessions, risk arithmetic, news releases, algorithmic trading and the parts of the retail industry that are rarely spelled out. No signals, no hype, and no broker links inside the articles.

How these are written

Every article here is original work written by me from my own trading and development experience. Where an article gives a number — a contract size, a session time, a withholding rate — it is stated so you can check it against your own broker or platform rather than take my word for it. If you find something wrong, tell me and I will correct it.

Sessions

Gold Trading Sessions Explained (IST Times)

A session-by-session breakdown of how XAUUSD behaves through the 24-hour trading day, with Indian Standard Time hours and what actually changes when each centre opens.

7 min read
Strategy

Trading the Tokyo Session on Gold From India

Why the Tokyo open suits Indian traders, what gold typically does between 5:30 and 11:30 IST, and the specific conditions that make or break a Tokyo range strategy.

7 min read
News

How to Read a Red-Folder Release

What actual, forecast and previous really mean, how the surprise is priced, and why gold's reaction to a data beat is far less predictable than the textbook says.

7 min read
Risk

Position Sizing on XAUUSD

Gold contract sizes, pip values and the arithmetic of risk on a gold account — worked through with real numbers, including the cent-account trap.

7 min read
Algo

Grid EAs, Honestly

A straight explanation of grid and martingale expert advisors — the mechanism behind the smooth equity curve, and the specific market conditions that end it.

6 min read
Algo

Backtesting in MT5 Without Fooling Yourself

Modelling quality, tick data, spread assumptions, slippage and curve fitting — the reasons a 99% backtest can still be worthless, and how to build one you can trust.

7 min read
Brokers

Choosing a Forex Broker From India

Regulation, entity shuffling, spreads versus commission, swap, funding routes and the legal position of offshore forex trading for Indian residents.

7 min read
Algo

What “HFT-Safe” Really Means

Latency arbitrage, toxic flow, B-book economics and the clauses brokers use to void profits — explained from the broker's side of the trade.

6 min read
Analysis

Market Structure Basics on Gold

Which parts of the smart-money vocabulary describe something real, which are relabelled classics, and how to test any of it on XAUUSD before you trade it.

7 min read
Risk

Why Most Retail Gold Traders Lose

Spread drag, leverage math, overtrading and the gap between win rate and expectancy — the numbers behind published broker loss statistics.

7 min read