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A gold-engraved crowd raises its arms before a tower of golden blocks under a radiant sun, while a giant wave crests beside the candlestick mountains.

XAUUSD EA Backtests: Everyone Was a Gold Genius — Until the Regime Changed

For fourteen months gold went one way, and every long-biased EA on earth looked brilliant. Then the January high broke. Four months into the giveback, here's the difference between an edge and a tide — and the 20-minute audit that tells you which one you actually bought.

Jun 10 · ProEA Lab

Explainer cover titled AMD, the power of 3: a day of 15-minute candles ranges near the 00:00 open, fakes down below that range, then runs up through it, next to the one daily candle it makes, whose lower wick is the fake move and whose body is the run.

AMD Trading: ICT's Power of 3 in One Daily Candle, Animated

AMD, ICT's power of 3, splits one day into accumulation (a range near the open), manipulation (a fake move out of one side) and distribution (the real move out of the other). One written rule, three replays: the day's candle beside its 15-minute path, the rule read close by close, and three days that didn't print AMD.

Oct 4 · ProEA Lab

Explainer cover titled ICT killzones: a 24-hour New York clock strip with four shaded windows, Asia 20:00 to 00:00, London 02:00 to 05:00, New York AM 08:30 to 11:00 and New York PM 13:30 to 16:00, above a small candle chart where a New York AM candle wicks through London's high and closes back below it, marked swept.

ICT Killzones: Exact Times in New York and Your Time, Animated

ICT killzones are fixed windows on the New York clock: Asia, London, New York AM and New York PM. Sources disagree on the edges, and daylight saving time moves them on most other clocks. Three replays of one written rule: the four windows with your own clock below, London's range swept or broken in New York, and the March weeks when London opens at 04:00 New York time.

Oct 4 · ProEA Lab

Explainer cover titled ICT Silver Bullet: a New York clock strip with three orange one-hour windows, 03:00 to 04:00, 10:00 to 11:00 and 14:00 to 15:00, above a small candle chart where the 10:00 to 11:00 window runs the 15-minute swing high, the first bearish fair value gap after that is the entry on the way back, and price falls to the draw, the 15-minute swing low.

ICT Silver Bullet Strategy: Exact Times and One Rule, Animated

The ICT Silver Bullet is a one-hour setup: 03:00, 10:00 or 14:00 New York time, the first fair value gap toward a draw on liquidity, entered when price comes back. Every guide agrees on the hours and disagrees on the rest. One written rule and three replays: the windows on your own clock, a setup that reaches its target and one that's stopped, and the same gap at the wrong time.

Oct 4 · ProEA Lab

Explainer cover titled Inducement = the first pullback after a BOS: illustrative candles where a close above the swing high is a BOS, the low of the first pullback after it is marked IDM with a dotted blue line, and a later drop takes the IDM and then reaches the order block below.

What Is Inducement (IDM) in Trading? The First Pullback, Animated

Inducement (IDM) is the low of the first pullback after a break of structure. The stops under it are the first liquidity price meets on its way back to the order block behind it. Four replays show an IDM form, get taken by a wick or a close, trap the trader who buys the first pullback, and stay untaken while price moves on.

Oct 4 · ProEA Lab

Explainer cover titled Mitigation block = the swing that failed: in a downtrend a drop from a lower high stays above the last low, a candle closes above the high, and the last up candle at that high becomes a bullish mitigation block, watched as support from above.

What Is a Mitigation Block? The Swing That Failed, Animated

A mitigation block is the candle where a failed swing started. In a downtrend, the drop from a lower high never closes below the last low, then a close above the high turns the last up candle there into support. Four replays show it form, how it differs from a breaker, the wick that splits the definitions, and a retest that holds next to one that doesn't.

Oct 4 · ProEA Lab

Explainer cover titled Premium and discount: a bullish dealing range from the last swing low to the high, split at its 50% line, red premium above and green discount below, with price pulling back into discount.

ICT Premium and Discount Zones: Which Range Sets the 50%, Animated

Premium is the upper half of a dealing range, discount the lower half, and equilibrium the 50% line between them. The hard part is which range. Four replays of one written rule show the range forming, where price sits in it, the range changing after a BOS or CHoCH, and OTE inside discount.

Oct 4 · ProEA Lab

Simulated 15-minute candles marked with higher highs, two breaks of structure on closes, and the first opposite close labelled CHoCH. Cover titled BOS vs CHoCH.

BOS vs CHoCH: How to Read Market Structure, Animated

A break of structure (BOS) is a close beyond the last swing in the trend's direction. A change of character (CHoCH) is the first close beyond a swing against it. Four replays show both, and how one 4-hour leg becomes a whole trend on 15 minutes.

Oct 3 · ProEA Lab

Explainer cover titled Breaker block = a failed order block: a bearish order block forms on a close below the swing low, a rally closes through it and above the swing high, and the same zone, now a bullish breaker, is retested from above.

What Is a Breaker Block? The Order Block That Failed, Animated

A breaker block is an order block that a candle closed through while structure broke the other way. The same zone is then watched from the other side. Four replays show the flip, breaker vs mitigation block, the wick that doesn't count, and a retest that holds next to one that doesn't.

Oct 3 · ProEA Lab

Native TradingView capture, OANDA:XAUUSD on the 15-minute chart with Fractal Model Lab v1.0.0: C2 sweep labels, dashed CISD levels from each extreme, and the Lab's record panel.

We turned the TTrades-style Fractal Model into rules and tested 108 versions on 7 markets. Before costs, it was a coin flip.

C2 sweeps C1, the lower timeframe confirms with a CISD, the candle closes back: we coded the public model as one mechanical rule, wrote the test down before running it, and ran it on 8¾ years of gold, FX, indices and Bitcoin. Every number, the losing ones first.

Oct 3 · ProEA Lab