Buy or Sell? The Volume Profile Rule on Gold
Three buy-or-sell quizzes on real 1-hour gold charts, then the volume profile rule step by step. On 11 November 2026 gold closed twice below the 9-10 November value area low of $4,076.0, came back to retest it and fell to the next value area at $3,989.0.
Key points
Profile: 9-10 November 2026, value area high $4,154.0, value area low $4,076.0, point of control $4,130.5.
Acceptance: two hourly closes below the value area low.
Trade: sell $4,066.4 on the rejection of the VAL retest, stop $4,076.7, target $3,989.0 (the next value area) reached at 23:00 UTC on 11 Nov (+77.4 points, 7.5R).
Quizzes: 4 Nov buy +65.2, 20 Oct sell +67.4, 9 Oct buy +65.9 points, each to the next value area.
Chart data: COMEX gold futures 1-hour OHLC and volume, Sep-Nov 2026, times in UTC. Education only, not a signal.
Read more: Volume Profile and Market Profile on Gold (XAUUSD): POC, Value Area and Setups · Volume profile
Transcript
Buy or sell? This one? And this one?
The Volume Profile strategy. Stack two days of volume at each price.
POC, the price with the most volume. The value area holds about seventy percent of it. VAH is its top. VAL, its bottom.
Price breaks below VAL and closes there twice. That's acceptance. Then it comes back to VAL, and gets rejected.
Sell the close. Stop just above the candle. Target, the next value area below.
Seventy-seven points, over seven times the risk. Value area. Acceptance. Retest. Then ride it to the next value area.
