The Bank of Japan left its policy rate at 1.0% on 31 July, an 8–1 decision with the dissenter arguing for 1.25%, and warned that underlying inflation is likely to run clearly above target from the second half of its fiscal year...
This is the fifth post in the order block series. The last one was a before-and-after story about adding a confirmation requirement to naked zone entries, and it ended where most posts about entries end: with a cleaner signal and a smaller trade count...
A trader I know spent most of June convinced that gold had to go up. His reasoning was simple, and on the surface it was not wrong: inflation was finally cooling, the June CPI print came in soft, the annual rate dropped to its lowest level in years...
This is the fourth post in the order block series. The last one was a checklist for auditing any zone indicator, including ours, and it ended with an exercise: pick a chart, fix your rules in advance, and tally what actually happens after every zone touch for two weeks...
Search "order block indicator" in any trading forum and you will find two crowds talking past each other. One insists order blocks are the closest thing retail trading has to reading institutional footprints...
The first post in this series covered a simple routine for the London open: frame the Asian range, mark fresh H1 order blocks, wait for a sweep and a reaction...
Most order block indicators for MT5 have one habit that quietly ruins them: they redraw their zones after the fact. A box that was not on your chart an hour ago suddenly appears exactly where price bounced, and your backtest looks flawless while your live account does not...
Gold has been one of the most active markets of 2026: wide daily ranges, fast reactions to macro headlines, and frequent false breaks that punish late entries...
Any trader who has spent a year on MQL5 knows the move. You attach a signal indicator, scroll back over the chart, and every arrow sits perfectly on a swing low, so you buy it. A week of live trading later, the arrows on your screen do not look anything like the ones in the screenshots...