# AURUM Intelligence

> Free educational research on gold (XAUUSD): a daily morning note on the rates and US dollar backdrop, market structure and key price levels, a Saturday weekend update, a live chart, and learning content about chart indicators for MetaTrader 5. For information and knowledge sharing only. Not investment advice. AURUM Intelligence is not authorised or regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority; its focus is education and learning.

Notes are published each weekday morning (UK time) and archived with a PDF edition. Market data comes from third-party sources and may be delayed.

## Main pages

- [Home](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/): latest daily XAUUSD note, live chart, indicators, sign-up
- [Research archive](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research): every daily note and weekend update, with PDFs
- [Results](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/results): how one trading account will be reported from 26 October 2026 (net of costs, all trades)
- [Learning Library](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/learning): three courses (key levels, sessions and alerts; Smart Money Concepts and confluence; liquidity sweep, CHoCH and retest); first two lessons of each course free
- [Disclaimer and risk warning](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/disclaimer)
- [Contact](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/contact): contact form for questions about the research, the Learning Library, or to request the free companion indicator for Course 1 learners (previous-day high/low and Asia, London and New York session levels)
- [Privacy notice](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/privacy): the email sign-up collects only an email address (MailerLite); the contact form collects email, optional name, topic and message (FormSubmit, Gmail)

## Indicators (MetaTrader 5, MQL5 Market)

- 1. [Line Alert Snap](https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/203164?source=Site+Profile+Seller) (MQL5 Market product page; topic: Key levels & lines): Four draggable horizontal price lines that alert when price crosses them, by popup, sound, push notification or email. Lines with no price set are placed automatically on swing high and low clusters that align within a fraction of ATR, two above price and two below, and every detected level can be shown as a dotted zone. An educational tool for marking and studying support and resistance.
- 2. [Aurum SMC signal XAUUSD](https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/202126?source=Site+Profile+Seller) (MQL5 Market product page; topic: Smart Money Concepts with confluence): Maps the components of Smart Money Concepts on the chart: market structure (BOS and CHoCH), order blocks, supply and demand, fair value gaps, liquidity pools and premium/discount ranges, so you can study where several of them line up in confluence. Calculated on closed bars.
- 3. [AURUM Liquidity Retest](https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/203828?source=Site+Profile+Seller) (MQL5 Market product page; topic: SMC liquidity & retest): Follows one SMC sequence step by step: buy-side and sell-side liquidity levels, the sweep of a level, the change of character (CHoCH) that follows, and the retest of the broken level. Built to help you learn to recognise each stage as it forms.

## Free lessons (Learning Library; the first two lessons of each course are free)

- [Course 1, Lesson 1: What a key level is, and what it is not](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/learning/key-levels/what-a-key-level-is-and-what-it-is-not): A key level is an area where price turned before, recorded as a zone and measured in ATR. It describes the past and makes no forecast.
- [Course 1, Lesson 2: Support, resistance and role reversal](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/learning/key-levels/support-resistance-and-role-reversal): Find support and resistance by clustering swing points and counting touches, and see why a broken zone sometimes acts from the other side and often does not.
- [Course 2, Lesson 1: Market structure: swings, internal swings and confirmation lag](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/learning/smart-money-concepts/market-structure-swings-internal-swings-and-confirmation-lag): Identify swing and internal highs and lows, describe structure as HH, HL, LH and LL, and read every pivot together with the time it became knowable.
- [Course 2, Lesson 2: Break of structure and change of character](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/learning/smart-money-concepts/break-of-structure-and-change-of-character): Tell a break of structure (continuation) from a change of character (the first break against the prior direction), and see why a candle close beyond the pivot is required.
- [Course 3, Lesson 1: Liquidity maps: where resting orders are assumed to sit](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/learning/liquidity-retest/liquidity-maps-where-resting-orders-are-assumed-to-sit): Build an M15 liquidity map from swing highs and lows, equal highs and lows, and previous day and week levels. Understand level age, priority, and why taken levels drop off the map.
- [Course 3, Lesson 2: Sweep or breakout?](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/learning/liquidity-retest/sweep-or-breakout): Define a sweep as a pierce of a mapped level and a close back inside, within a depth band measured in ATR. Recognise when a deeper move is better treated as a breakout, and which candles are set aside.

## Recent research notes

- [24 Oct 2026: Weekend Update: support retest](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/weekend-2026-10-24) ([PDF](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/xauusd-weekend-update-2026-10-24.pdf))
- [23 Oct 2026: Gold loses 2.6% to test $4,000 as forced selling beats falling yields](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/2026-10-23) ([PDF](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/xauusd-newsletter-2026-10-23.pdf))
- [22 Oct 2026: Gold breaks below $4,100 as Asia selling erases Wednesday’s bounce](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/2026-10-22) ([PDF](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/xauusd-newsletter-2026-10-22.pdf))
- [21 Oct 2026: Gold heads for a fourth loss as oil keeps inflation worries alive](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/2026-10-21) ([PDF](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/xauusd-newsletter-2026-10-21.pdf))
- [20 Oct 2026: Gold slips for a third session as yields and oil climb](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/2026-10-20) ([PDF](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/xauusd-newsletter-2026-10-20.pdf))
- [19 Oct 2026: Gold opens the week firmer as Fed hike bets fade](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/2026-10-19) ([PDF](https://aurumintelligence.co.uk/research/xauusd-newsletter-2026-10-19.pdf))

## Usage notes

- Content is general market commentary and education. It is not a personal recommendation or an offer to buy or sell any instrument.
- Trading gold and leveraged products carries a high risk of loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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