How to Trade Gold Using VWAP After a Liquidity Sweep

Gold swept major liquidity, including a 2025 level, and reversed, but Fahad did not take that as a green light. He expects a strong pullback first, wants to buy a pullback or a VWAP reclaim, and shorts if VWAP is lost. A break below 3,873 support, with 3,870 as the floor, kills the bullish read.

A sweep alone is not an entry, and Fahad wanted gold to come back down: 'I need it, man. I'm not even kidding. I want gold to give a good pullback.'

Speed is what separates a real sweep from a failed one. 'If it gets swept, you need to reclaim it very quickly. You have to be very aggressive.'

The chart below shows gold on 15-minute candles with 3,873 and 3,870 drawn in.

VWAP is the volume weighted average price, so it marks where most of the session's business got done. Fahad's version is dynamic and he was still testing it live, so his line may not match the one on a viewer's screen.

Caption: Fahad's conditional gold plan from the session

The short side was a shot, not a conviction. For a calmer take on the same line, see how a gold VWAP rejection plays out without forcing the trade.

Silver is a short only after a close below 52.2, the previous 8-hour candle close, since the current consolidation does not read as bullish. If VWAP is reclaimed, Fahad stays out of shorts until price reaches 53.4. Silver also tends to follow gold, so a gold short can carry over.

The trigger is a close, not a guess. 'Shorting right now purely on the basis of price action isn't making any sense,' Fahad said. He also named the 52.4 area as a strong confirmation, and it is drawn on the chart below with 52.2 and 53.4.

Fahad asked, 'Why does silver pump when gold pumps? Why does silver dump when gold dumps?' and answered it himself: both have 'extremely, extremely similar fundamentals.' Watch gold's VWAP and silver's 52.2 side by side.

Fahad's oil scalps worked because he only traded with the trend, which during the dump meant shorts on pullbacks. His rule is that a counter-trend trade gets skipped however good the confirmation or momentum looks. He also called 50x far too much for manual trading.

Oil was dropping roughly 1% every 15 to 30 minutes. 'Yesterday I was scalping oil, man, it was such a crazy day for oil scalping,' he said, and he claimed about 99% accuracy over a couple of days. His edge was a short list of things he refused to do.

His single rule: 'If it's against the trend, don't take it. No matter how good the confirmation is, no matter how good the momentum is.' Put another way, other than the short button, you shouldn't even see the long button on your exchange.

On size, oil needs more margin than Bitcoin, and with enough capital and controlled exposure it works.

The next oil plan runs on four steps:

• Short only after a clear rejection from the marked volume gap
• Book partial profit around 80% of the target
• Move the stop to break-even
• Trail the rest with VWAP

He was patient mid-push too: 'a pullback is coming in oil again, it can be shorted again, but not right now.' For a similar spot, read how a crude oil range high fakeout behaves.

Bitcoin pushed from roughly 77,000 to about 81,000, reversed around 1% from the high, then settled into a 15-minute consolidation. Fahad called that chop not worth trading. He watches two zones, a sweep of the marked box below or a push into major resistance above, and wants a clear break first.

Four thousand points in a short move, then nothing. 'Bitcoin needs to move in a certain direction,' Fahad said. 'Otherwise, we will trade it on a smaller timeframe and scalp the smaller moves.'

His reasoning on the wait: the longer price sits here, the more liquidity builds up, and either it dumps or he gets a bigger trade on a bigger timeframe. The chart below has 77,000, 81,000 and 79,800 marked.

Caption: Bitcoin zones Fahad kept on the chart

The 81,300 to 81,500 target on the chart was a viewer's projection, not Fahad's. Ethereum followed the same plan as Bitcoin and had not triggered. Our notes on trading BTC in choppy conditions cover the same patience.

Fahad's journal for the last 70 live trades shows a 61% win rate, an average win near 70,000 against an average loss near 30,000, and a profit factor around 3.59R. His argument is that once the technicals are clear, profitability depends on stopping yourself from breaking your own rules.

He put total profit at about 31 lakhs across those trades, with the figures as he stated them on the stream. The average win is more than twice the average loss, and that gap only exists if you cut losers and skip the trades your rules forbid.

'If you can stop yourself from doing all these things, that's it.' The danger he flagged was breaking rules after a win, and our overtrading notes make the same point.

He told a beginner asking about starting with $100: 'Mindset is 99% of your trading. Okay, obviously after learning the technicals.'

For beginners he kept the screen simple:

• Price chart on top
• Open Interest below it
• CVD below that
• Use only this for two to three months

Footprint comes later, after Level 1 and CMM. See Open Interest and CVD in a range for that layout in use.

He closed with conditional plans rather than calls: gold on a VWAP reclaim or loss, silver below 52.2 with invalidation above 53.4.