RESEARCH ARCHIVE / Gold
Gold · 2026-09-17 Daily Assessment Archive
ARCHIVED MARKET STATE / Market conditions for the period
- Trend score / −3 to +3
- +0.37
- Signal consistency
- 56%
- Archived close / USDT / One ounce of contract underlying
- 4,352.37
System assessment: “Neutral, bullish tilt”, trend score +0.37 (confidence 56%), previous trading day: “Bearish bias” (-0.88). Gold (XAUUSDT perpetual) closed at $4,352.37, daily change +1.75%, intraday range 2.67%; 3-day +1.39%, 5-day +0.77%. Daily EMA10/EMA20 in death-cross status (spread -0.56%, 2026-09-10 death cross, 5 trading days ago). Macro, US Dollar Index 100.22 (-0.09%), US 10-year Treasury yield 4.947% (-5.9bp). Contracts, perpetual open interest -7.93%, average daily funding rate +0.0038% (preceding 7 days +0.0051%), taker buy/sell ratio 0.934. Main bullish factors: daily change, US Treasury yield change; Main bearish factors: taker buy/sell ratio, change in top-trader long/short ratio.
The above is the archive for 2026-09-17. The original uses “confidence”; this site reads it as signal consistency, which cannot directly be interpreted as probability of price increases or forecast accuracy. The original summary retains its wording at the time.
01 / Data and market review
Key data
- Close $4,352.37, UTC 2026-09-17 00:00 open $4,277.72, versus previous trading day (2026-09-16) close $4,277.72 +1.75%
- Intraday high $4,387.02 / low $4,272.99, range 2.67%; 30-day range $4,243.81 – $4,700.63
- Momentum: 3-day +1.39%, 5-day +0.77%, 30-day +0.33%; 30-trading-day daily volatility 1.58%
- Daily EMA10 $4,349.31 / EMA20 $4,373.60, spread -0.56% (of closing price), death-cross status (EMA10 below EMA20); latest crossover: 2026-09-10 death cross, 5 trading days ago
- US Dollar Index 100.31 → 100.22（-0.09%）, 5-day +1.14%
- US 10-year Treasury yield 5.006% → 4.947% (-5.9bp); 5-day +0.3bp
- Perpetual futures volume 590000 ounces (approximately 2562 million USDT); volume over the past 5 trading days versus the previous 5 days +34.59%
- Perpetual open interest 117,000 → 108,000 ounces (-7.93%); notional value approximately USD 0.469 billion
- Funding rate (settled every 4 hours), daily average +0.0038%, previous 7-day average +0.0051%, approximately annualized +8.3%
- 24h aggregate taker buy/sell ratio 0.934 (buy 285,000 / sell 305,000ounces); 10/24 hours buyer-dominated
- Market-wide account long/short ratio 3.785 → 2.494 (-34.10%); top-trader account long/short ratio 4.241 → 2.556 (-39.73%)
- CFTC positioning report (2026-09-08): COMEX gold managed-money net long 134,972 contracts, weekly change -1,799 contracts (weekly data, excluded from trend score)
24H market review
- Asian session（UTC 00:00–06:00）: $4,277.72 → $4,310.06, +0.76%, range $4,272.99 – $4,323.21, volume 137,000 ounces（of daily volume 23.2%）
- European session (UTC 06:00–12:00): $4,310.06 → $4,355.78, +1.06%, range $4,310.06 – $4,358.67, volume 158000 ounces (26.8% of daily total)
- Americas session (UTC 12:00–18:00): $4,355.77 → $4,367.87, +0.28%, range $4,349.61 – $4,387.02, volume 246000 ounces (41.7% of daily total), the day's high-volume session
- Late US session (UTC 18:00–24:00): $4,367.88 → $4,352.37, -0.35%, range $4,346.65 – $4,372.14, volume 49,000 ounces (8.2% of daily total)
02 / Scoring basis
| Factor | Weight | Standardized value z | Score contribution | Availability status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily change | 22% | 1.094 | +0.385 | Provided |
| 3-day momentum | 8% | 0.503 | +0.064 | Provided |
| 5-day (weekly) momentum | 8% | 0.216 | +0.028 | Provided |
| Daily EMA trend | 10% | -0.353 | -0.056 | Provided |
| Change in US Dollar Index | 12% | 0.286 | +0.055 | Provided |
| Change in U.S. Treasury yields | 8% | 1.561 | +0.200 | Provided |
| Change in open interest | 8% | -0.793 | -0.102 | Provided |
| Aggressive buy/sell ratio | 8% | -1.330 | -0.170 | Provided |
| Funding-rate change | 4% | -0.331 | -0.021 | Provided |
| Funding-rate crowding | 4% | 0.121 | +0.008 | Provided |
| Change in retail long/short ratio | 4% | 1.705 | +0.109 | Provided |
| Change in top-trader long/short ratio | 4% | -1.986 | -0.127 | Provided |
Factor values and contributions follow this period's scoring version 2026-09-25.gold.2 and are not recalculated on the details page.
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04 / Timing, measurement bases and data sources
Data window 2026-09-17 00:00:00 UTC → 2026-09-18 00:00:00 UTC. Data archive generated 2026-09-25 14:54:20.381 UTC; snapshot included on this page 2026-10-05 13:28:08 UTC.
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Gold 2026-09-17 UTC trading-day historical assessment: data and scores · AI text not generated. Retains that period's data, scoring version and sources for reviewing contemporaneous observations; historical views do not represent current market conditions.
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