Best ChatGPT prompts for gold (XAUUSD) trading

Why gold needs its own prompts

A prompt written for any chart misses what makes gold different:

• Levels are in dollars, and round numbers such as $3,900 and $4,000 attract a lot of orders.
• US data drives it. Inflation, the jobs report and Federal Reserve decisions can push gold through a level in minutes.
• Timing matters. Gold is busiest when London and New York overlap, and quieter in the Asian session.
• The money adds up fast. On a standard 100-ounce lot, every $1 gold moves is worth $100.
• The symbol varies: XAUUSD, GOLD or a suffix at your broker, GC for COMEX futures.

• ChatGPT prompts for trading chart and technical analysisCopy-ready ChatGPT prompts to analyze a trading chart screenshot: trend, key levels, patterns, both scenarios and a trade plan, plus how to check the answer.

The prompts below build all of that in. For the general rules of a good chart screenshot, see our ChatGPT chart analysis prompts. For gold, also have two numbers ready: your account size and your time zone.

Prompt 1: the full gold chart analysis

Upload your gold screenshot to ChatGPT and paste this. Fill in the brackets, or delete them and let ChatGPT read the chart.

Act as a professional gold trader. The attached screenshot shows gold ([XAUUSD spot or GC futures]) on the [TIMEFRAME] chart.

1. Read the symbol, the timeframe and the last price from the chart. If any of them is unclear, tell me instead of guessing.
2. Describe the trend in two sentences, and say whether price is above or below the moving averages shown.
3. List the support and resistance levels that matter, in dollars as read from the price axis. Include any round number, such as $3,900 or $4,000, that price has reacted to.
4. Name the chart pattern if there is one, and the price that would confirm it or cancel it.
5. Give a bullish and a bearish scenario. For each one: the candle close that triggers it, the entry, the stop loss, the target, the distance to the stop in dollars and the reward-to-risk ratio.
6. Tell me which scenario the chart favors, with a rough probability for each.
7. If you can search the web, list the US data releases this week that could push gold through these levels.

Stick to what the chart shows and keep the answer short.

Step 1 stops ChatGPT from inventing a price it cannot read. Step 5 asks for the stop distance in dollars, the number you need for the lot size. Step 7 only works with web search turned on.

What a complete gold read looks like

Here is a 4-hour gold futures (GC) chart from 30 September to 3 November 2026. Gold had slid from around $4,200 in mid-October, broken through $4,000 on 30 October and bounced to about $3,980 on 2 November before turning lower again. It was trading at $3,916.30, below both falling EMAs. Instead of writing a prompt, we uploaded it to Wick.

Wick called a bearish breakdown with 82% confidence and leaned 68% to 32% toward the downside. The plan waits for a 4-hour close below $3,900, then a failed retest of that level, with the stop above $3,950 and the target at $3,820: $50 of risk for $80 of reward. The bullish case needs a reclaim of $3,975, aiming for $4,070 with a stop at $3,940.

On spot XAUUSD with a 100-ounce standard lot, risking $500 on that $50 stop means 0.1 lots, since 500 ÷ (50 × 100) = 0.1. That is the sum Prompt 3 below asks ChatGPT to do.

Every item the full prompt asks for is there: the price, the trend, the levels in dollars, both scenarios with their odds and a plan. Nobody typed a word.

Prompt 2: scalping gold on the 1- or 5-minute chart

For trades that last minutes, the prompt has to be strict about the stop and honest about costs.

This is gold on the [1-minute or 5-minute] chart. I scalp and hold trades for minutes.

1. Mark the high and the low of the current session and the nearest round number.
2. Over the last 50 candles, is price trending or moving sideways?
3. Give me one long and one short scalp, each with entry, stop and target in dollars. Keep each stop under $[MAX STOP].
4. My broker's spread on gold is about $[SPREAD]. Show what it does to the reward-to-risk of each scalp.
5. If neither setup is clean, answer "no trade" and tell me which level to wait for.

The "no trade" line is the most valuable part. On a 1-minute gold chart, waiting is often the right call, and a prompt that never allows it will always find a trade.

Prompt 3: gold lot size from your stop

I trade spot gold (XAUUSD). At my broker 1 standard lot is [100] ounces, so a $1 move is worth $[100] per lot. My account is $[ACCOUNT] and I risk [RISK]% per trade. My entry is $[ENTRY], my stop loss is $[STOP] and my target is $[TARGET].

Calculate the dollar risk, the stop distance, the lot size rounded down to 0.01 lots, and the profit if the target is hit. Show each step of the arithmetic.

• XAUUSD lot size calculator: position size for goldWork out your gold (XAUUSD) lot size from your account, risk, entry and stop. How gold lots work, worked examples, and the formula behind the result.

Contract sizes differ between brokers, so check yours before you trust the result. The XAUUSD lot size calculator does the same sum instantly, without a chat.

Prompt 4: this week's gold calendar in your time zone

Search the web for this week's US economic calendar. List the releases most likely to move gold, such as CPI, the jobs report, FOMC decisions and speeches by the Fed chair, with the date and the time in [YOUR TIME ZONE, for example India IST or Dubai GST]. Then tell me when the London and New York sessions overlap in my time zone this week.

• Best time to trade gold (XAUUSD): hours by time zoneThe best time to trade gold is 8 to 11 a.m. New York time. See when gold moves most, with real hourly data and the hours in India, Pakistan, the UAE and more.

This one needs ChatGPT's web search. Without it, ChatGPT has no way of knowing this week's dates.

Prompt 5: daily direction, intraday timing

Screenshot 1 is gold on the daily chart and screenshot 2 is gold on the 15-minute chart.

First, give me the daily bias in one sentence and the daily level that would change it. Then find a 15-minute setup in the same direction as the daily bias, with trigger, entry, stop and target. If the 15-minute chart is fighting the daily trend, say so and tell me what to wait for instead.

Trading a 5- or 15-minute signal against the daily trend is one of the most common ways to lose money on gold. This prompt makes ChatGPT check that for you.

Prompt 6: review a gold trade you already took

Here is the gold chart at the moment I entered. I went [long or short] at $[ENTRY] with a stop at $[STOP] and a target at $[TARGET], and the trade [hit the stop, hit the target, or was closed by me at $PRICE].

Don't be polite. Tell me whether the entry was at a level that mattered, whether the stop sat beyond normal noise, whether I traded with or against the higher-timeframe trend, and the one rule that would have made this trade better.

Losing trades teach more than winning ones, but only if someone looks at them honestly. Run this after every stopped-out trade for a month and the same mistakes start to show.

Getting reliable gold answers from ChatGPT

• Check every dollar level against the price axis before you use it. One misread digit on gold can put a level $100 away from where it really is.
• Ask the same question in a new chat. If the levels move between answers, trust the chart, not the chat.
• Tell it the date and the session. It cannot see the clock, and gold at 3 a.m. New York time behaves differently from gold during the London and New York overlap.
• Don't ask where gold will be tomorrow. No one can know that, and a confident number is the most dangerous answer it could give you.

ChatGPT for the questions, Wick for the chart

ChatGPT is a strong assistant for the questions around a trade: the calendar, the lot size, the review afterwards. For reading the chart itself, Wick is built for the job. Upload the screenshot and you get the trend, gold's levels, both scenarios with probabilities and a plan from trigger to target, in the same format every time and saved to your journal.

Many gold traders use both: Wick for the read, ChatGPT for everything around it, and the lot size calculator before the order.

Related guides

• How to analyze a gold (XAUUSD) chart with AIScreenshot your XAUUSD chart, upload it to an AI chart analysis app, and read the trend, key levels, scenarios and trade plan it returns. A real example.
• XAUUSD lot size calculator: position size for goldWork out your gold (XAUUSD) lot size from your account, risk, entry and stop. How gold lots work, worked examples, and the formula behind the result.
• ChatGPT prompts for trading chart and technical analysisCopy-ready ChatGPT prompts to analyze a trading chart screenshot: trend, key levels, patterns, both scenarios and a trade plan, plus how to check the answer.