Why This Gold Zone and Not the Other Two?
Five steps to one real gold entry from October 2026. Price swept a clear low, broke structure and left three demand zones. A volume profile over the move showed the most trading in the middle zone, so that zone was the order block. Price came back into it, and a change of character on the 5-minute chart gave the buy, with the target at the high.
Key points
Sweep: price dipped under the clear low at $4,199.2 to $4,193.2, then closed back above it.
Zones: a close above $4,216.4 broke structure and left three demand zones.
Volume: COMEX volume over the move was highest in zone 2 ($4,210.9 to $4,217.4), so that was the order block.
Entry: a 5-minute change of character gave the buy at $4,214.9, stop $4,208.1, target the high at $4,227.8, which was reached.
Chart data: COMEX gold futures 15-minute OHLC and volume, 9 to 11 Oct 2026, and 5-minute OHLC, 11 to 12 Oct 2026 (UTC). Education only, not a signal.
Read more: Order Blocks on XAUUSD: Identification, Refinement and Risk · Volume Profile and Market Profile on Gold (XAUUSD): POC, Value Area and Setups
Transcript
Five steps to this entry.
Step one. Find a clear low. Price sweeps under it, then snaps back up.
Step two. It breaks structure. Now mark the three demand zones it left behind.
Step three. Draw a volume profile over the move. The zone where the most volume traded is your order block.
Step four. Wait for price to come back into that zone. Then drop to the five-minute chart.
Step five. Wait for a change of character up. Enter, stop under the low, and target the high. Target hit.
Five steps. Sweep, zones, volume, return, shift.
