The 4H Candle Trick Behind a 39-Point Gold Move
Candle Range Theory (CRT) on gold's real chart from 18 September 2026, New York time. The 06:00 New York 4H candle set the range from $4,385.6 to $4,428.1. The next candle swept the low to $4,381.0, the 5-minute chart printed a CISD, and a buy at the fair value gap reached the range high.
Key points
Range: the 06:00 New York 4H candle, high $4,428.1 (buy-side liquidity) and low $4,385.6 (sell-side liquidity).
Sweep: the 10:00 New York 4H candle traded under the low to $4,381.0 at 10:30, then closed back inside the range.
CISD: the 10:35 five-minute candle closed at $4,392.0, above the $4,390.7 open of the last down candle.
Trade: buy $4,388.9 at the top of the fair value gap, stop $4,380.0, target $4,428.1 reached at 13:30 New York time (+39.2 points, 4.4R).
Chart data: COMEX gold futures 4-hour (New York time) and 5-minute OHLC, 17-18 Sep 2026. Education only, not a signal.
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Transcript
Buy here. Target hit, thirty-nine points later.
Here's exactly how. Candle Range Theory.
Stops sit just beyond a candle's high and low, so its range holds liquidity on both sides.
Its high is buy side liquidity, its low sell side.
The next candle dips under the low and takes the stops.
Drop to the five minute chart.
Mark the open of the last down candle before the low. That's the CISD level. A close back above it means buyers took over, earlier than a break of structure.
The push up leaves a fair value gap. Don't buy the sweep, the low can still run. Wait for price to come back into the gap.
Buy at the top of the gap. Stop under the sweep low, if that breaks the idea is wrong. Target, the range high.
Thirty-nine points, four point four times the risk. Sweep, shift, deliver.
