Gold remains one of the most reactive macro instruments on the board, and today’s setup is shaped by a familiar trio: the direction of real yields, the market’s read-through from key U.S. data, and the “risk pulse” that tends to show up around major liquidity windows. After a sharp pullback from recent highs, price is now back in a zone where dip-buying interest and tactical positioning often collide, creating a high-quality opportunity for structured execution rather than impulse chasing. This trade plan is built to be decisive but disciplined: it focuses on a clear entry framework, a well-defined invalidation point,…...
Author: TerraBullMarkets
EUR/USD begins the new week under pressure as the market re-prices near-term U.S. growth expectations and focuses on a dense run of U.S. releases that can quickly shift rate differentials and broad USD demand. With liquidity returning after the holiday period, intraday volatility is picking up, particularly around major event windows where pricing can “snap” from range to trend. For EUR/USD, that means the New York cut (15:00 UK time), the WMR 4pm London fix (16:00 UK time), and any high-impact U.S. data that can re-anchor expectations for yields and the dollar. This trade setup is built around a simple,…...
Gold has started the new week with renewed momentum, surging to fresh highs as traders weigh the balance between elevated real yields, shifting risk sentiment, and persistent geopolitical uncertainty. With liquidity returning after the holiday period, intraday moves are becoming more dynamic, especially around key benchmark windows that frequently drive short-term dislocations. London auctions (LBMA AM and PM) and the New York session’s key liquidity events, which can often produce sharp stop-runs before the market reveals its true directional intent. In today’s setup, we focus on a disciplined, high-probability framework: avoid chasing strength, instead letting price come to well-defined levels…...
Gold remains firmly in control of the tape after punching into fresh all-time-high territory, with price action showing the classic hallmarks of a strong trend regime: shallow pullbacks, quick dip-buying, and rapid recaptures of key levels. Into a holiday-thinned Christmas week, that matters, liquidity conditions tend to magnify both momentum continuation and stop-driven volatility, making clearly defined levels and disciplined risk management even more important. From a macro standpoint, the backdrop continues to support bullion: markets are highly sensitive to any shift in US growth and labor data, and any move that pressures real yields or revives risk-off demand can…...
USD/JPY remains in focus heading into the European morning as markets digest the latest BoJ/Fed divergence and the behavior of US yields. With US 10-year yields holding near the low-4% area and the yen still highly sensitive to rate-differential swings, price action around the 156.00 – 156.30 region is especially important today. Our base case is that rallies into this resistance zone remain vulnerable to renewed JPY demand, particularly in thinner, pre-holiday liquidity where stop-runs can be sharp but short-lived. As such, we prefer a disciplined “sell-the-rally” approach rather than chasing intraday volatility. USDJPY Trade Setup: Pair Bias & Entries…...
GBP/JPY is shaping up as one of the clearest “macro-meets-technical” opportunities into the end of the week. With UK policy expectations turning more dovish while Japan’s tightening risk remains live, the fundamental backdrop continues to favor downside pressure in the cross. Add in elevated event risk around central bank communication and key macro prints, and GBP/JPY becomes a prime candidate for a structured, risk-defined trade plan rather than discretionary chasing. Our focus is therefore on selling strength into clearly defined resistance, with invalidation placed beyond the most likely stop-sweep zone, and targets mapped to the next high-probability liquidity pockets below.…...
USD/JPY remains a high-conviction focus into the week ahead as the market heads into a key policy inflection point for Japan. With the Bank of Japan decision and Governor Ueda press conference approaching, rate expectations and yield differentials are back in control of direction, and USD/JPY is increasingly sensitive to any shift in BoJ guidance around further normalization. At the same time, broader risk sentiment and positioning in JPY-linked carry trades adds asymmetry: a modest change in expectations can trigger an outsized move as liquidity thins into year-end. With price holding around a major psychological and dealer-interest zone, this setup…...
Gold enters the week with a compelling A+ (3/3) bullish profile as macro conditions continue to favor defensive allocation and real-rate sensitivity remains front and center. With U.S. yields rolling over and risk appetite showing signs of fatigue, Gold is once again behaving like the market’s preferred hedge, absorbing dips and attracting incremental demand when volatility rises. Against a backdrop of major data and central-bank event risk, gold offers a clean expression of “lower-yields / higher-uncertainty” dynamics, where the upside can accelerate quickly if incoming prints reinforce the narrative. From a technical standpoint, price action remains constructive: gold is holding…...
USD/CHF is setting up as a high-conviction A+ (3/3) opportunity into the week ahead, with defensive FX flows back in focus and the market increasingly sensitive to any deterioration in global risk appetite. With U.S. yields rolling over and a heavy macro calendar ahead, the balance of risks favors CHF outperformance on headlines, while the USD remains vulnerable to fast repricing around top-tier U.S. data. In this environment, USD/CHF offers a clean way to express a “risk-off & softer yields” bias, particularly as price action continues to respect key technical inflection levels. Technically, USD/CHF is showing a constructive bearish framework:…...
Gold begins the week in a position of strength, holding elevated levels after an extended advance and continuing to attract demand on dips. With macro conditions still supportive, particularly the market’s sensitivity to real yields, USD direction, and episodic risk-off flows, Gold remains one of the cleanest “buy-the-dip” structures on the board. The week ahead is likely to be defined by volatility around key U.S. macro releases and central-bank messaging, which can generate sharp retracements even within a broader uptrend. The expected volatility is an opportunity, not a threat, provided the trade is framed around high-quality support zones and a…...