I stopped trading 12 pairs and traded only gold for 90 days

For almost two years I was spread across EUR/USD, GBP/JPY, NAS100, oil. My journal looked like a random number generator. I had no idea which setups were working because I had too many variables running at the same time.

Someone in this sub told me to pick one instrument and trade it until I understood it deeply. I thought that was boring advice so I ignored it for another four months bu then I finally tried it

Gold moves differently than forex pairs and I kept applying the same entry logic I used on EUR/USD. It did not transfer. Gold respects psychological levels in a way that pairs sometimes ignore, and the spread during high volatility events is a completely different animal. I blew two setups in week three because my broker at the time had a 4 pip spread on gold
during NFP. Killed trades that would have been clean.

I switched to another broker around month two specifically for the gold spreads. Raw account, the spread on XAUUSD sits around 0.15 at normal times. During news it widens but nothing close to what I was dealing with before

Month three I was up 18% on the account. I finally understood
one thing well enough to have an edge in it. The setups I use are nothing fancy, structure and momentum confluence on the 15m and 1h, but I actually know when they are valid now.

If you are hopping between pairs and wondering why nothing works, try going boring for 90 days. One pair and same session. Same setup. It changed everything for me.