Daily brief, 2026-08-04.

This edition is kept as published — it does not update. The live brief is at /r/brief.

Editions before 2026-08-05 archived their levels but not their narrative — the story text was not retained, so only the published levels appear here.

Levels published that day — and what became of them

XAUUSDBUY STOP@ 4,133.4invalid 4,094.9target 4,229.6

superseded — we re-drew the level before price reached it

XAUUSDSELL STOP@ 4,003.7invalid 4,044.4target 3,901.8

superseded — we re-drew the level before price reached it

XAGUSDBUY STOP@ 61invalid 59.81target 64.57

superseded — we re-drew the level before price reached it

XAGUSDSELL STOP@ 54.85invalid 56.04target 51.28

superseded — we re-drew the level before price reached it

BTCUSDBUY STOP@ 66,914invalid 65,611.4target 70,822

still live — waiting for price

BTCUSDSELL STOP@ 58,255invalid 60,102.6target 52,712.3

superseded — we re-drew the level before price reached it

Graded against the journal, net of modelled costs, stop-first on ambiguous bars.

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