Gold (XAU) — price and volatility
Gold
XAU: price 4,055.8, 24h change -1.93%. Commodity market quotes. Updated in real time.
What this is
MetalGold — the price of one troy ounce. The classic safe haven: money moves into it when trust in currencies falls and uncertainty rises.
Chart
Chart built from data of Forex
What the data shows
XAU trades at 4,055.8. Over 365 days it ranged between 3,869.1 and 5,596.8; the price now sits in the lower third of that range — 10% of the way from the yearly low to the high.
All-time high is 5,596.8 (January 2026); the price is 28% below it now.
24-hour turnover is $6.1B — percentile 100 for the year: noticeably busier than usual.
Open positions in XAU are worth $1.3B. Over the past hour open interest rose by 0.90%. That is at percentile 3 over three weeks: noticeably fewer positions than usual.
Over the day -1.93%, over the hour +0.06%, over the last five minutes +0.02% — the move has only just started.
This is a commodity instrument. It reacts to inventories, weather and decisions of producing countries, not to crypto news.
The daily range is 2.5% and five-minute NATR is 0.12%. That range is at percentile 73 for the year — an ordinary day for it.
By turnover it ranks 7 of 2162 instruments in the screener.
NATR is 0.04% on the minute and 0.54% on the hour — the move is choppy: within an hour price travels far and comes back.
XAU correlation with Bitcoin over 24 hours is -0.04 — it goes its own way, barely looking at Bitcoin.
Traded on 7 venues: Binance, BingX, MEXC, Gate, Bybit, Bitget, Deriv — the price is cross-checked across several sources.
Funding is +0.0017%: longs pay shorts, so positioning leans to buyers.
By daily range it ranks 1973 of 2162.
Built from current numbers and the coin's own year of history. Updates with the data.
How XAU behaved before
Tracked since May 2003 — 282 full months. 154 of 282 closed higher, median month +0.7%.
In November the instrument rose 13 times out of 23, median +0.5%.
Best month — January 2026: +13.2%. Worst — October 2008: -17.0%.
Computed from our own minute history, month by month. The past promises nothing — but it shows what is ordinary for this instrument and what is not.
Our observations
KairoRight now XAU is within its usual range: volume, funding and open interest are all unremarkable.
Computed from our own minute history for this coin over a year. Percentile is the share of days the value was below today's. Description only, no forecasts.
What we noticed earlier
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How to read this
- Funding is a payment between longs and shorts. A positive rate means longs pay shorts: the market is crowded long.
- The rate rank shows how unusual that rate is for this particular coin: 97 means above 97% of the last month, a rare skew. Without the rank the bare number says nothing — every coin has its own normal.
- Open interest is the money sitting in positions that are still open. Rising alongside price means new money entering; rising while price falls means shorts building up.
- The OI rank is measured in contracts rather than dollars: otherwise it would drift up with price alone and claim a record where nothing changed.
- NATR shows how much a coin moves relative to its own price. High NATR with high turnover is where today's action is.
Large trader positions (CFTC)
report of 27/10/26Funds bet ON upside: longs exceed shorts by 186.5K contracts (≈$75.6B)· skew shrank by 13.4K this week
Every week CME reports to the US regulator how many Gold (COMEX) contracts speculator funds hold long vs short — the only public data on big-money positioning. When the skew hits an extreme, the fund crowd runs out of buyers and moves often reverse.
Hedgers net: −215.6K
How much money sits in open positions on each venue. The total spans every exchange listing the contract.