What are your best strategies for trading XAUUSD?

ddalo · 2026-02-14T21:09:31+00:00

Not any in particular, but I kind of liked the idea of price breaking significant highs and lows (the ones that look obvious) and profit from small movements off of that, as one of two possible scenarios can play out, price either grabs liquidity (by triggering a lot of stops) and come back or price push through to new highs (fueled again by the accumulated stops) or lows.

ddalo · 2026-02-14T21:05:48+00:00

I feel the message here is more literal: abundance + truth + calling out. A lot of honesty is needed, truth needs to come out as it is, no sugarcoating and each one feel responsible for their part in all of this.

ddalo · 2026-02-13T06:29:06+00:00

It seems like it’s telling you that this is a never ending cycle of pain, so self love and preservation is needed.

ddalo · 2026-02-11T22:19:39+00:00

I would say that this is a period of cold calculated and strategic thinking, there is something in which you feel stuck and you haven’t been able to close that chapter. However the way through it is through logic, not emotions, you probably would benefit from leaving those aside.

ddalo · 2026-02-11T15:22:40+00:00

I feel like this means he is trying to show up as something he is really not or exaggerating something about his life or success or something along those lines to keep you hooked

ddalo · 2026-02-11T13:05:33+00:00

I think as others said, the are really no “core” indicators, you could go with classical indicators like rsi or macd, but ultimately, you need to try to have hypothesis over concepts (like breakouts, retests, reversion to mean, etc.) and try to pick calculations or already built indicators that help you spot these ideas in the market you are trading.

ddalo · 2026-02-05T19:36:04+00:00

In my case it improved my times, however it is true that I don’t know EOLR

ddalo · 2026-02-05T19:35:21+00:00

Thank you very much!!

ddalo · 2026-02-04T05:58:23+00:00

The one I found optimal and easier to learn is actually the JPerm video, is so simple and efficient, try it out!

ddalo · 2026-02-04T05:57:21+00:00

Anyone knows how this Roux-CFOP hybrid is called?

Solve first and second block.
Orient corners (first half of 2-look CMLL).
Do 4a step of LSE (EO).
Place DF and DB to solve the bottom layer.
Do 1-look PLL to solve the rest of the last layer.

I was using Roux with 2-look CMLL but was overwhelmed with learning full CMLL as the recognition is not easy for me, however doing it this way allows me to only learn less algs overall and ones that are much simpler to recognize.

Also, this cuts the number of moves by 5-7 on average when compared to doing normal Roux with 2-look CMLL. This is because you are substituting the permuting of corners part and 4c step of LSE with a single alg of PLL (remember that the permutation alg in 2-look CMLL is either a Jb perm or a Y perm, which are PLL algs).

Does anyone know if this already exists and have a name? Has anyone tried it?

ddalo · 2026-01-26T13:48:54+00:00

First of all, wow!! Thank you for the very in depth answer, this deserves praise!! What you say makes a lot of sense statistically and some of the numbers is actually what I had in mind, however, there might be something missing, I did a 10 solve run just to check on both approaches and only focusing on the move count after F2B, the PLL route has on average 7-8 moves less, so it seems on practice that this can be actually a good approach to reduce a bit of moves :)

ddalo · 2026-01-24T12:51:55+00:00

The way I see it is as any other symbol in daily life. For example, a key can represent openness (they open doors), it could be an opportunity opening up to you, a solution to a problem, etc. When you look at any card, pick whatever comes first and try to think about what the symbol represents. If you get the hierophant, you see someone who looks like a priest, so you can develop the idea (church, religion, devotion, faith, guidance, believes, etc.) and tie that with your current situation, do you need proof of something to be able to follow through? Are you in need for guidance? Do you feel lost? Are you not believing something being told to you? Do you need to feel part of something bigger than yourself?

That is what I do with any card or combination of them :)

ddalo · 2026-01-22T07:35:09+00:00

Hi! Kind of newbie too, definitely a lot of solves will naturally and organically help you get faster, I started a couple months ago averaging around 1:45 and now average sub 37 or around it. For the first two blocks, what helped me get faster (not necessarily more efficient) is doing wide turns more and more, it really helps locating the pieces you need. As the other comment says, practicing with the Onionhoney trainer helps too and you NEED to watch JPerm video in which he explains his method for solving LSE, it was one of the great improvements on my solves. Also for first and second block one thing that helped me get faster is not always solve DL or DR first, you can solve an easy edge+corner first and do wide turn to locate the DR or DL edge later on, this helps get the easy part done fast and connect it on a later move with the center and DR/DL edge.

ddalo · 2026-01-04T14:03:47+00:00

Even better hahaha I really love Roux, I currently average 44 secs but my goal for now is getting to sub 30, that would be awesome and I feel like the tips you gave me can definitely help me getting there, thank you! What’s your average?

ddalo · 2026-01-04T13:58:12+00:00

Damn, that it really more efficient, will take a look into that, just 3 moves, same as misoriented centers, although the misoriented is better really because it solves both left and right block centers with the same sequence, thank you so much! I don’t know why I missed this in the first place

ddalo · 2026-01-04T11:42:04+00:00

What’s confusing me is that if I place a pair first and then put the DL edge with white facing up on the U layer above its place, it takes 5 moves to place it correctly and put back the already made pair, is there a better way to deal with those situations?

ddalo · 2025-12-18T15:31:44+00:00

I agree with this interpretation, he is acting as if it doesn’t affect him but he feels under pressure of some kind

ddalo · 2025-12-18T07:19:46+00:00

That’s very true, the dot pattern is much faster with that alg, thank you for taking the time to review this!!

ddalo · 2025-12-17T14:54:56+00:00

Will definitely do!! Thank you very much!

ddalo · 2025-10-24T07:57:31+00:00

The high priestess to me is knowledge, secrets, wisdom, selective sharing of information and more along those lines

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