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Gold is acutely sensitive to monetary policy news. XAUUSD can move 300–600 pips within minutes of a Federal Reserve rate decision or surprise CPI print — moves that have nothing to do with technical levels, session timing, or any signal an EA can read from price data alone. During these windows, the spread on XAUUSD often widens 3–5x normal levels, creating execution costs that negate any edge a scalping strategy normally provides.

The news management protocol is simple: identify the events, pause the EA in the window around each one, and resume when conditions normalize. The inconvenience is minimal — these high-impact events occur a finite number of times per year, and the pause periods represent a small fraction of total trading time. Missing a few potential sessions per month is significantly better than holding open positions through a 400-pip news spike.

Session-based EAs like Goldie Sniper EA PRO are particularly vulnerable to FOMC and NFP events that occur during the New York trading session — overlapping with the EA's prime trading window. The Blind Sniper X PRO's low-frequency approach (1–3 trades/day) means fewer open positions at risk during any given news window, but the protocol applies to all EAs equally.