The Gold Trading

Gold Trading: Short-Term Entry and Exit Scenarios in the 2025/2026 Megatrend

While countless books cover gold's long history, there is little literature on precise short-term entry and exit scenarios. The 2025–2026 megatrend drew in many day traders — while classical analyst valuation models often offered only vague explanations.

The book opens with critical questions about commonly cited arguments on gold price behavior, illustrating doubtful claims through charts. It then presents real-fundamental factors for determining gold's market direction — based on more than 20 years of market observation, largely unknown, and tested over time.

Structure

Part 1 covers the key real-world factors driving the gold market, providing a foundation for initial analysis.

Part 2 explains step-by-step filters that are integrated graphically into charts and can be used for more precise timing.

Part 3 brings all factors together into a complete picture — with numerous illustrated charts from 2025 and 2026 showing intraday trading situations in both market directions. In some cases, Order Flow analysis is incorporated as well.

Who Is This Book For?

Readers should have knowledge of auction theory and a basic understanding of key chart structures. The core value lies in understanding the real factors that influence the gold market daily and over the medium term — making the book suitable for investors too, since traders operating on other timeframes must occasionally act like day traders when building or reducing positions.

All gold indicators are integrated visually and graphically — without the calculated indicators or moving averages used in classical technical analysis. Markets are unpredictable, and the gold market is no exception. Note: gold trades 24 hours a day, meaning the pronounced peak trading hours seen in, for example, the E-Mini S&P play a lesser role here.

Applying the content takes practice — the indicators presented cannot be reproduced by rote memorization or algorithm; they require contextual understanding.

What Readers Will Take Away

• A step-by-step program for analyzing the gold market
• Focus on key influencing factors
• Critical distance from established theories and expert opinions
• Independent development of context-based trading plans
• Connecting larger and smaller timeframes
• Meaningful combination of patterns
• Reduced cognitive dissonance in the analysis process

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Traditional Valuation Methods — A Questionable Field
3. Short-Term Gold Trading — Futures, Spot Market, CFDs
4. Fundamental Indicators and Filters — Currency Sector, Producers, Top-Down Analysis, Intermarket Correlations
5. Spot Market Filters (1–3)
6. Sentiment Filters — Retail Coin Sales, ETF NAV Premium
7. Gold Indicators in Action — 2025, 2026
8. Closing Remarks
9. Bibliography

About the Author

Johannes Forthmann is a German economist with more than 25 years of experience in day trading. From 2001 to 2005, he trained under US trading veteran Joe Ross. He worked for a Swiss trading house on futures hedging strategies and founded a European educational publishing house in 2020, along with an online day trading academy.

 

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