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Gold holds near 4150.00 in Asia, session range 177.4 pips

The next scheduled release is USD Final Services PMI at 13:45 UTC, impact 3 of 3

XAUUSD · Asia session · Published Oct 5, 2026, 12:05 AM

Gold last traded at 4149.99, inside an Asia session that has run from an open of 4142.14 to a high of 4150.46 and a low of 4132.71, a range of 177.4 pips. The nearest level above is the round number 4150.00, 0.1 pips away, and the nearest below is the session open at 4142.14, 78.5 pips below.

The previous trading day closed at 4143.54, having traded between a low of 4125.19 and a high of 4225.82, a range of 1006.2 pips. An ordinary day over the last 14 covers 863.0 pips, and the latest day sits at the 62nd percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is an ordinary day for this market.

Five releases of impact 2 or 3 are scheduled in the 24 hours to 2026-10-06 00:05 UTC, starting with USD Final Services PMI at 13:45 UTC, forecast 58.7 against a previous 58.7. Over 95 past pmi_usd releases, XAUUSD moved 62.10 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 107.70 in the first 60, in either direction.

Large speculators are net long 218632 contracts, a change of -7221 on the week, the 73rd percentile of the last 52 weekly reports. The headlines graded for XAUUSD are all impact 1 of 3, the most recent from FXStreet at 23:21 UTC.

Session brief

  1. XAUUSD, Asia sessionOpen 4142.14, high 4150.46, low 4132.71, close 4149.99: a range of 177.4 pips over 125 minutes, from our own one-minute candles.
  2. XAUUSD reference levelsPrevious day and previous week high and low, the session open and the round numbers either side, measured on our own candles.
  3. XAUUSD, previous trading dayHigh 4225.82, low 4125.19, close 4143.54 on 2026-10-02, a range of 1006.2 pips, from our own candles on the trading day that starts 17:00 New York.
  4. XAUUSD daily rangeAn ordinary day of the last 14 covers 863.0 pips. The latest day sits at the 62nd percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is an ordinary day for this market. Measured on our own candles.
  5. USD Final Services PMIScheduled 2026-10-05 13:45 UTC, impact 3 of 3. Forecast 58.7. Previous 58.7. From Forex Factory.
  6. XAUUSD reaction to pmi_usdOver 95 past releases XAUUSD moved 62.10 pips on average in the first 15 minutes and 107.70 in the first 60, in either direction. Measured on our own one-minute candles.
  7. CFTC Commitments of Traders, 088691Large speculators are net long 218632 contracts, a change of -7221 on the week. That is the 73rd percentile of the last 52 weekly reports.
  8. Australian Dollar drifts higher above 0.6950 on soft US jobs dataFXStreet. Graded impact 1 of 3 for XAUUSD by our headline classifier.

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