RESEARCH ARCHIVE / Gold
Gold · 2026-08-28 Daily Assessment Archive
ARCHIVED MARKET STATE / Market conditions for the period
- Trend score / −3 to +3
- -1.39
- Signal consistency
- 85%
- Archived close / USDT / One ounce of contract underlying
- 4,466.23
System assessment: “Bearish bias”, trend score -1.39 (confidence 85%), previous trading day: “Neutral, bearish tilt” (-0.02). Gold (XAUUSDT perpetual) closed at $4,466.23, daily change -2.85%, intraday range 3.96%; 3-day -4.11%, 5-day -3.24%. Daily EMA10/EMA20 in golden-cross status (spread +2.02%, 2026-08-05 golden cross, 17 trading days ago). Macro, US Dollar Index 99.70 (+0.55%), US 10-year Treasury yield 4.720% (+4.8bp). Contracts, perpetual open interest +15.47%, average daily funding rate +0.0059% (preceding 7 days +0.0010%), taker buy/sell ratio 1.000. Main bullish factors: daily EMA trend, change in top-trader long/short ratio; Main bearish factors: daily change, US Dollar Index change.
The above is the archive for 2026-08-28. The original uses “confidence”; this site interprets it as signal agreement, which cannot directly be treated as a probability of rising prices or predictive accuracy. The original summary retains its wording at the time.
01 / Data and market review
Key data
- Close $4,466.23, UTC 2026-08-28 00:00 open $4,597.11, versus previous trading day（2026-08-27）Close $4,597.10 -2.85%
- Intraday high $4,633.57 / low $4,451.50, range amplitude 3.96%; 30-day range $4,027.74 – $4,700.63
- Momentum: 3-day -4.11%, 5-day -3.24%, 30-day +9.14%; daily volatility over 30 trading days 1.57%
- Daily EMA10 $4,530.77 / EMA20 $4,440.37, spread +2.02%（of close）, bullish crossover state（EMA10 above EMA20）; latest crossover: 2026-08-05 bullish crossover, 17 trading days ago
- US Dollar Index 99.16 → 99.70 (+0.55%); 5-day +0.91%
- US 10-year Treasury yield 4.672% → 4.720%（+4.8bp）, 5-day -1.8bp
- Perpetual futures volume 709000 ounces (approximately 3225 million USDT); volume over the past 5 trading days versus the previous 5 days +10.03%
- Perpetual open interest 78,000 → 90,000 ounces（+15.47%）, notional value approximately USD 0.403 billion
- Funding rate (settled every 4 hours), daily average +0.0059%, previous 7-day average +0.0010%, approximately annualized +13.0%
- 24h aggregate aggressive buy/sell ratio 1.000 (buy 355000 / sell 355000ounces); 14/24 hours buyer-dominated
- Market-wide account long/short ratio 1.254 → 2.326（+85.41%）; top trader account long/short ratio 1.195 → 2.279（+90.70%）
- CFTC positioning report (2026-08-25): COMEX gold managed-money net long 144,747 contracts, weekly change +3,099 contracts (weekly data; excluded from trend score)
24H market review
- Asian session (UTC 00:00–06:00): $4,597.11 → $4,575.68, -0.47%, range $4,574.03 – $4,605.36, volume 70000 ounces (9.9% of daily total)
- European session（UTC 06:00–12:00）: $4,575.68 → $4,595.63, +0.44%, range $4,574.86 – $4,616.69, volume 82,000 ounces（of daily volume 11.6%）
- Americas session（UTC 12:00–18:00）: $4,595.66 → $4,474.35, -2.64%, range $4,464.37 – $4,633.57, volume 482,000 ounces（of daily volume 67.9%）, the day's elevated-volume session
- Late U.S. session (UTC 18:00–24:00): $4,474.35 → $4,466.23, -0.18%, range $4,451.50 – $4,476.55, volume 75000 ounces (10.5% of daily total)
02 / Scoring basis
| Factor | Weight | Standardized value z | Score contribution | Availability status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily change | 22% | -1.844 | -0.649 | Provided |
| 3-day momentum | 8% | -1.549 | -0.198 | Provided |
| 5-day (weekly) momentum | 8% | -0.941 | -0.120 | Provided |
| Daily EMA trend | 10% | 1.292 | +0.207 | Provided |
| Change in US Dollar Index | 12% | -1.866 | -0.358 | Provided |
| Change in U.S. Treasury yields | 8% | -1.151 | -0.147 | Provided |
| Change in open interest | 8% | -1.547 | -0.198 | Provided |
| Aggressive buy/sell ratio | 8% | 0.008 | +0.001 | Provided |
| Funding-rate change | 4% | 1.228 | +0.079 | Provided |
| Funding-rate crowding | 4% | -0.095 | -0.006 | Provided |
| Change in retail long/short ratio | 4% | -3.000 | -0.192 | Provided |
| Change in top-trader long/short ratio | 4% | 3.000 | +0.192 | Provided |
Factor values and contributions follow this period's scoring version 2026-09-25.gold.2 and are not recalculated on the details page.
03 / AI analysis and content status
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04 / Timing, measurement bases and data sources
Data window 2026-08-28 00:00:00 UTC → 2026-08-29 00:00:00 UTC. Data archive generated 2026-09-25 14:54:20.347 UTC; Snapshot included on this page 2026-10-05 13:28:08 UTC.
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Gold historical assessment for UTC trading day 2026-08-28: data and scores · AI text was not generated; the period's data, scoring version and sources are retained. For reviewing observations from that period; historical views do not represent current market conditions.
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