XAUUSD replay — Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Gold extended past $3,030 after the SEP. Solid trend-continuation FOMC replay.

XAUUSD gained $11.88 (+0.39%) on the day, trading a range of $29.44 between $3022.32 and $3051.76.

• Open: $3034.07
• High: $3051.76
• Low: $3022.32
• Close: $3045.95
• Range: $29.44

FOMC decision day sessions tend to compress information into a short window. The move that develops in the next few hours often becomes the dominant context for the rest of the week. Replaying it candle-by-candle forces you to make decisions before the outcome is visible, which is the only honest way to practice these conditions.

Reviewing the same session from a finished chart is almost useless for execution. The high and low are obvious, the reversal looks clean, and your mind quietly assumes you would have caught it. Replay removes that hindsight and exposes what your process would have actually done.

Pick one job before you start. Are you practicing entries, stop placement, target logic, or the discipline of skipping a trade that does not meet your rules? Trying to learn everything at once tends to dilute the lesson.

Mark higher-timeframe context first, then step into the session at a pace that lets you think rather than react. Write a one-line reason for any trade you take before you advance the next candle.

• Mark the prior day's high, low, and close before stepping in.
• Identify the session's pre-event range or trend bias.
• Pause before each trade and write the reason for acting.
• Place stop and target before advancing the chart.
• Tag execution mistakes separately from strategy losses.

Candlune lets you replay the historical XAUUSD session candle-by-candle, place simulated trades, draw levels, and let the journal capture the trade automatically. The dataset covers the full 2021–2026 XAUUSD history this page references.

The point is not to relive a famous day. The point is to use a specific, repeatable session as a controlled environment for one part of your process.