XAU/USD (Gold) choppy market conditions

Hi team, we’ve received a number of questions about why the XAU/USD automation hasn’t taken a position in the past 10+ days. As you can see from the attached chart, the market has been extremely range-bound, with low-quality structure and no sustained directional flow.

These conditions are not optimal for a trend-based system, and this is exactly where our filters do their job. Instead of forcing trades in a choppy environment and accumulating unnecessary drawdown, the algorithm stays defensive and waits for clean momentum and validated structure before entering the market.

This is a feature, not a bug.

Our priority is long-term consistency, stable equity curves, and minimal drawdown. The system is designed to trade only when probabilities are in our favor, and avoid environments that historically produce poor performance.

Once the market transitions out of this sideways phase and valid signals appear, the algo will

re-engage automatically.

Patience is part of the edge.

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