A Master Guide: XAUUSD Analysis and Backtesting 20th August 2025
In this post, I am sharing my Technical Analysis and Backtesting in XAUUSD Analysis and Backtesting on 20th August 2025.
The gold market gave a perfect setup early in the morning at about 5:00 AM in the Tokyo Session.
Tokyo or Asian Session Trading Strategy:
The Tokyo Session is also known as the Asian Session. When this session started, the market closed a bullish candle in the first hour.
See the following picture of a live market.
After 2 hours market closed 2 bearish candles, but these candles are doji type and they have wicks or shadows from the bottom side, which means buyers are pushing the price to the upside.
Exactly at 8:00 AM Market started to create a healthy bullish engulfing candle, which was closed at 9:00 AM.
VSA – Volume Spread Analysis buying hint:-
According to VSA – Volume Spread Analysis, this is a 2-bar reversal candle, which has low volume from the previous candle’s volume.
Third evidence of buy we can see according to Smart Money Concepts – SMC is that the Market was going to be bullish to the upside from the previous Breaker Block, or we can say it Resistance becomes Support.
The market has given approximately 300 pips reward with the risk of 71 pips stop loss.
See the following picture for a clear concept.
