That's okay. Perhaps our exchange provided some clarification to other respondents who may wish to chime in at some point.
I generally wait to see confirmation. It depends on what the market is doing. If gold for example had been ranging, and I see oil ranging as well, and oil breaks the range, and gold looks like it is making a push, I may buy and see if oil can make gold break. I never immediately jump into one market because the other is doing something. As for the second question. I would act of the stand alone set up. I do not depend on another market to make another one move. They are never 100% correlated. What I mean is that it helps to understand what drives certain moves, and if something were to happen, like Greece getting a bailout, then the Euro would tank, Dollar would surge, and gold would tank. That's happened a lot over the last few weeks. However, just because the Euro breaks to new lows, doesn't always mean gold will, or the Dollar will surge. It is never a first signal, but it gets my attention. The only time I would ever immediately jump into a trade is if, for example, the bulls have gold lets say, and the dollar is making new lows, and the euro just broke resistance or is making new highs, then I would jump into gold because there is a high probability it will move upward. Hope that clears things up. I never enter a trade just based on other market movements, otherwise I would be over trading.