금(XAUUSD) 단타로 꾸준히 수익 내는 게 너무 어렵네요 😓

Psychology and execution are everyone's weak spots, so you're not alone.
The fact that you have a good risk management rule in place of 0.5 to 1% is very good.

What I would be interested to know is if you have other **specific rules around your trading plan**.

This would be things like:
- Signals/Patterns/Setups you're allowed to trade;
- Risk to reward ratio and where you put your stop and target;
- Number of trades per day;
- Max drawdown;
- Walk away target.

The biggest thing that you (meaning any person) can do to improve your trading is to have a very precise set of rules that dictate your decision making.

So once you have that, it's a case of simply saying "does this decision comply with my rules" if it doesn't, don't take the action. Even having done that, it can be hard to be strict with yourself, but having the rules is essential.

If you can do these things, and your analysis is good, then you have a winning edge.

**Tip 1:** Create a detailed plan if you don't have one
**Tip 2:** Include risk and reward rules, this will dictate where you place your stop and target. If you can sit on your hands and not move those, you can reduce the early/late exits
**Tip 3:** Like you say, don't over trade. I always suggest having a number in mind. As soon as you've placed that many trades, then walk away.
**Tip 4:** Limit your trading session. 60 minutes of trying to find the best setups. Quality over quantity.

One final thing, because you mentioned higher time frame. It's a good idea to look at higher time frames even if you're trading 5 minutes. Have larger charts up next to your execution chart. This helps add context, context matters in the market. There might be a nice set up on a 5 minute chart, but is being contradicted on some higher timeframes, if you don't look at them, you might not know.

Hopefully that all makes sense. The main thing is knowing your rules, then trading them. If your plan works, all you have to do is trust it. That in itself will eliminate so many mistakes and emotional decisions.

What helped me was moving away from gold. lol

Anyways,
BUT, you really have to journal. What made you think this trade wasn’t valid, why didn’t you let it run etc. After every week of trading. Reflect on your losses AND your winners!
ALSO risk less until you are comfortable with the numbers on the screen!

Risk less, become comfortable with your strategy AND only then can you increase your size. This is especially true for highly volatile assets like gold.

BIG NUMBERS BIG PANIC!

Hi mate, I’ve been a profitable XAUUSD only trader for about 12 months. I’ve been backtesting, researching, forward testing and demoing XAU for around 5-6 years.

XAU is one of the most difficult assets to day trade as it is highly volatile, it moves fast and it can make or break you very fast. The hardest part of trading anything for the 90% of people is emotional management. Trading one of the most erratic, fast and fragile to outside influences markets compounds the fear and greed 10x. It sounds by your post like you might fall in to this category.

With that said I find the only way to win at it is look at yourself. Size down. I risk 3% each trade, however, I haven’t hit full SL in a long time. As soon as I’m in if I go to drawdown I’ll actively look at price points earlier than SL to exit. I typically make a 1:1.5 or 1:2. I’m happy with 1:1. I rarely hit full 3% SL or TP. I get to a price point and move my stop aggressively on a very small timeframe or range chart.

Stops/trailing stops TOO tight will be hit almost perfectly every time. This asset wicks. Depending on your timeframe - I can almost guarantee your lot sizing is too big to allow you a big enough stop. (At the start of the trade).

XAU can move in any session. I have picked 3 windows. 1 in each session. I back tested and found these three 1-2 hour windows (with slight 30min or so discretion) tend to be the most volatile. I only trade these. When it moves in these windows you can scalp 50-300 points in minutes. I have changed my position stats to show as ticks rather than unrealised gains. It helped with trade management psychology.

I think I’ve been a profitable for longer years than I *actually* have been. Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas book/audiobook and The Traders Mind on YouTube were the game changers. I wasn’t ready to trade prior. I drank a lot of alcohol, had a generally chaotic life with toxic relationships, wasn’t looking after myself etc. I’m not saying you can’t be profitable like that. For me it didn’t work. Mental clarity is everything. Become at peace with losses and do not let euphoria take over from wins. Be humble or the market will make you.

Back to the charts - try add “Gold Round Numbers + Intraday/OI Profile + options” to your chart on TradingView. Gold reacts to the major and minor zones during my high volatility windows + previous points of support + resistance or liquidity or previous sessions very often. It allows you to enter at a point to be able to consider yourself wrong or right very quick.

Good luck. I don’t have anything to sell and I’m not perfect so please take this as a sharing of experience and not arrogance.