If I had bought XAUT
If I had bought XAUT
Dates within the last week use the minute candle — accurate to the minute of purchase.
Ready examples: $100 put into XAUT
a week ago+6.9%$100 → $107
a month ago+13.2%$100 → $113
three months ago+2.5%$100 → $102
six months ago-9.9%$100 → $90
a year ago+37.9%$100 → $138
since our history starts, April 3, 2025+48.1%$100 → $148
Dates within the last week use the minute candle — accurate to the minute of purchase.
A year of buying XAUT
Over the last 364 days XAUT closed between $3,385.2 (August 26, 2025) and $5,522.6 (January 28, 2026). One hundred dollars put in at the low would be worth $137 today; at the high, $84. The current price $4,621.8 is above 266 of those 364 daily closes, so a purchase on a random day of that stretch would be in profit 73% of the time — fees aside.
A typical day moves XAUT by 1.6%: a $1,000 position swings about $16 a day.
Low of the stretch$3,385.2 · $100 → $137
High of the stretch$5,522.6 · $100 → $84
Share of profitable dates73% · 266/364
The same calculation for neighbouring instruments
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