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Gold holds 4191.54, Asia range 234 pips

No impact 2 or 3 release is scheduled in the next 24 hours

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

Gold last traded at 4191.54, inside an Asia session that has run between 4184.68 and 4208.08, a range of 234 pips. The nearest level above is the round number at 4200.00, 84.6 pips away, then the prior day and prior week high at 4207.58, 160.4 pips above. Below sit the round number at 4190.00, 15.4 pips lower, and the prior day low at 4131.11, 604.3 pips down.

The previous New York day closed at 4193.82 after trading between 4131.11 and 4207.58, a range of 764.6 pips. An ordinary day over the last 14 covers 800.8 pips, and the latest day sits at the 33rd percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which the volatility source calls an ordinary day for this market.

Our calendar shows 0 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-10-13 00:05 UTC, and it covers this whole window, so an empty list means nothing is scheduled in that time.

Large speculators are net long 210335 contracts, a change of -8297 on the week, the 67th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports. The loudest headlines for XAUUSD are graded impact 1 of 3: FXStreet at 22:38 UTC on an energy ceasefire, and investingLive at 22:36 UTC on Australia's week ahead.

Session brief

  1. XAUUSD, Asia sessionOpen 4196.19, high 4208.08, low 4184.68, close 4191.54: a range of 234 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 4207.58, low 4131.11, close 4193.82 on 2026-10-09, a range of 764.6 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 800.8 pips. The latest day sits at the 33rd percentile of the last 42 days we hold, which is an ordinary day for this market. Measured on our own candles.
  5. Economic calendar for XAU and USD0 scheduled releases of impact 2 or 3 in the 24 hours to 2026-10-13 00:05 UTC. Our calendar covers up to 2026-11-11 00:00 UTC.
  6. CFTC Commitments of Traders, 088691Large speculators are net long 210335 contracts, a change of -8297 on the week. That is the 67th percentile of the last 52 weekly reports.
  7. US President Donald Trump says Russia and Ukraine agree to an ‘energy ceasefire’FXStreet. Graded impact 1 of 3 for XAUUSD by our headline classifier.

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