About Gold (XAU/USD)
XAU/USD is the price of one troy ounce of gold in US dollars. Gold is priced in dollars and trades as a store of value rather than a currency, so it answers to real yields, the dollar and risk sentiment more than to any single economy. Its ranges are several times a currency pair's, which is why its stops and targets sit further out.
The central bank behind it is the Federal Reserve, and it tends to be most active during the London and New York sessions. MarketPro measures it in pips of 0.1. The most recent winning signal was a buy from 4322.85 that reached TP2 at 4362.00, a move of 391 pips.
Before acting on any XAU/USD signal, size it from the stop with the position size calculator, so the loss if it fails is an amount you chose.
What the ticker means
Currency codes follow ISO 4217. National currencies get a two-letter country code plus a letter for the currency: US Dollar is USD, Euro is EUR. Commodities traded as currencies get an X prefix. XAU for gold, XAG silver, XPT platinum, XPD palladium.
So XAUUSD reads as "gold against the US dollar", quoted as the number of dollars for one troy ounce. A quote of 2350.45 means one ounce costs $2,350.45. A troy ounce is 31.1035 grams, slightly heavier than the ordinary ounce.
Buying XAUUSD is a long gold, short dollar position. Both legs matter: gold can be flat in euro terms while XAUUSD rises purely because the dollar fell. That is a common source of confusion when a "gold rally" does not match the fundamental story you expected.
Contract specification
| Property | Typical value | Note |
|---|
| Standard lot | 100 troy ounces | Some brokers use 10 ounces; verify |
| Minimum lot | 0.01 (1 ounce) | Broker-dependent |
| Quote precision | 2 decimals | Some feeds show 3 |
| Pip (convention) | 0.1 | Some platforms call 0.01 a pip |
| Pip value per lot | ≈ $10 | Follows directly from 100 oz × 0.1 |
| Typical spread | 15–35 points | Variable; multiplies on news |
| Trading hours | ~23h/day, Mon–Fri | Daily break around rollover |
The pip ambiguity is the one that bites. If your platform treats 0.01 as a pip, a "150-pip stop" in a signal means something four-and-a-half times different from what the author intended. When in doubt, work in price distance. "stop at 2331.00" is unambiguous in a way that "150 pips" is not.
Spread and session behaviour
Gold spread is variable and the variation is large. A broker advertising "from 15 points" is quoting the best case in the deepest part of the London–New York overlap. Around a US CPI release the same instrument can widen to 80 points or more for a few minutes, and around the daily rollover it widens on almost every broker.
Two practical consequences. First, a stop placed just beyond an obvious level can be taken out by a spread spike rather than by price, leave room for it. Second, entering in the first seconds after a major release means paying several times the normal cost, which is enough to turn a marginal setup into a negative-expectancy one.
Session-wise, the Asian hours are typically quiet and mean-reverting, London builds the range, and the New York overlap produces most of the day's movement. See trading sessions for the full picture.
Reading an XAUUSD signal
Take the example signal: Buy XAU/USD, entry 2338.40, stop 2331.00, TP1 2345.90, TP2 2352.10.
- Risk distance: 2338.40 − 2331.00 = 7.40 in price, which is 74 pips at the 0.1 convention.
- Reward to TP1: 2345.90 − 2338.40 = 7.50, so roughly 1:1 at the first target.
- Reward to TP2: 13.70, about 1.85:1.
- Position size: on a $10,000 account risking 1%, that is $100 ÷ (74 × $10) = 0.135 lots, rounded down to 0.13.
- What invalidates it: price trading at 2331.00. Not "it feels wrong", the stop is the definition.
Scaling out at TP1 and moving the stop to breakeven converts the remainder into a free option on TP2. That is a personal choice about how you weight consistency against expectancy, and the signal-reading guide covers the trade-off.
How these numbers are counted
- A win is a signal that reached at least its first take-profit. It is counted at the furthest target it reached, so a signal that touched TP2 is worth the distance to TP2. A stop touched after a target does not turn a win into a loss. 82 wins in this record did touch the stop after their last target; a trader who held the whole position past that target would have given some back.
- A loss is a signal that hit its stop before any target. It costs the full original stop distance, even where the stop was later moved closer.
- No result means a signal closed early before any level, or a pending order expired unfilled. These count against the win rate, which is wins divided by every closed signal, and add nothing to the pip total.
- Pips are measured from the published prices: 0.0001 on most pairs, 0.01 on yen pairs and silver, 0.1 on gold. No spread, commission or slippage is deducted, and your own result depends on your entry, your position size and how you exit.
- Break-even is the win rate a record with the same average win and average loss would need just to finish flat: 1 ÷ (1 + average win ÷ average loss). A win rate means little without it.
This is the same scoring the app uses for its own track record, so the numbers here and in the app agree.
The record has three sources, and all three are included, because leaving one out would be choosing the record rather than reporting it. In 2024, 35 signals came from a human analyst desk that no longer operates. From March 2024 to February 2026, signals came from an earlier automated system. Since 14 Jul 2026, every signal comes from the current engine, which scans for setups and puts each candidate through an AI review before it can be published. Nothing was published between February 2026 and July 2026. The current engine's figures are also shown on their own, so it can be judged separately.
The whole record, and the current engine on its own
| Closed | Win rate | Net pips | Avg win / loss | Break-even |
|---|
| All time, since July 2024 |
220 |
85.5% |
+36,190 |
+218 / −153 |
41.3% |
| Current engine, since 14 Jul 2026 |
9 |
77.8% |
+2,108 |
+370 / −240 |
39.4% |
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