XAUUSD · monthly report
Gold in September 2026, in numbers
Gold opened September 2026 at $4,467.20 and closed it at $4,163.95, 6.79% lower ($303). In between it traded from $4,116.58 (Mon 28 Sept) to $4,527.00 (Thu 3 Sept), a range of $410 or 9.19% of the open.
Published 1 October 2026 · 21 trading sessions, 31 Aug 22:00 UTC to 30 Sept 21:00 UTC · figures final
How wide the trading days were
- The typical day covered $100 from high to low (2.33% of price), against $92 (2.12%) over the 250 trading days before September.
- On 1 of 20 days gold moved more than $146, the range 80% of the 250 trading days before the month stayed under. In a month as busy as those days, about 4 would have. They were Mon 28 Sept.
- The widest day was Monday 28 September at $167 (4.04%); the narrowest, Tuesday 15 September, covered $57 (1.32%).
| Day | High | Low | Range | % of price | Range bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 1 Sept | 4,479.00 | 4,338.20 | $141 | 3.24% | |
| Wed 2 Sept | 4,412.90 | 4,297.70 | $115 | 2.62% | |
| Thu 3 Sept | 4,527.00 | 4,395.20 | $132 | 2.94% | |
| Fri 4 Sept | 4,506.30 | 4,380.50 | $126 | 2.83% | |
| Wed 9 Sept | 4,447.50 | 4,352.60 | $95 | 2.15% | |
| Thu 10 Sept | 4,448.40 | 4,323.20 | $125 | 2.89% | |
| Fri 11 Sept | 4,413.40 | 4,301.50 | $112 | 2.56% | |
| Mon 14 Sept | 4,365.30 | 4,261.50 | $104 | 2.41% | |
| Tue 15 Sept | 4,326.70 | 4,270.10 | $57 | 1.32% | |
| Wed 16 Sept | 4,381.60 | 4,241.80 | $140 | 3.27% | |
| Thu 17 Sept | 4,391.80 | 4,263.00 | $129 | 2.96% | |
| Fri 18 Sept | 4,408.30 | 4,340.70 | $68 | 1.54% | |
| Mon 21 Sept | 4,390.60 | 4,328.80 | $62 | 1.42% | |
| Tue 22 Sept | 4,382.60 | 4,296.10 | $87 | 1.98% | |
| Wed 23 Sept | 4,376.00 | 4,279.60 | $96 | 2.25% | |
| Thu 24 Sept | 4,306.90 | 4,249.62 | $57 | 1.34% | |
| Fri 25 Sept | 4,324.28 | 4,261.88 | $62 | 1.45% | |
| Mon 28 Sept | 4,283.23 | 4,116.58 | $167 | 4.04% | |
| Tue 29 Sept | 4,191.83 | 4,118.68 | $73 | 1.75% | |
| Wed 30 Sept | 4,225.95 | 4,153.05 | $73 | 1.75% |
The line marks $146; days beyond it are in amber. Today's range and the last 250 days are on the gold daily range page, updated hourly. Left out as a holiday or early close: Tue 8 Sept (17 of 23 hours).
News days: the jobs report, CPI and the Fed
Gold's range in the hour each release fell in, and over its whole trading day, against the same hour and day on the 20 ordinary weekdays before it (their median). 2.0× means twice as wide as usual.
| Release | Release hour | Whole day |
|---|---|---|
| NFP4 Sept 12:30 UTC | $105 4.5×usual $23 | $126 1.3×usual $94 |
| CPI11 Sept 12:30 UTC | $100 4.3×usual $23 | $112 1.2×usual $95 |
| Fed decision16 Sept 18:00 UTC | $116 7.0×usual $16 | $140 1.4×usual $100 |
Every release since January 2025: gold on NFP day · gold on CPI day · gold on Fed day
The modelled stop levels
We do not score our modelled stop levels month by month. Tested across roughly 100,000 historical levels, price reached our hourly bands 47.4% of the time against 48.1% for a placebo price the same distance away on the other side: no edge, and nothing on this page is a signal. How the levels were tested →
How the numbers are measured
- Data: COMEX gold futures (front month), hourly candles - the feed of our charts - with prices in the spot price a broker's XAUUSD quotes. A range is the same in either.
- The month is its CME Globex sessions, from 18:00 New York the evening before its first trading day to 17:00 on its last: the rollover most XAUUSD brokers start their candles at, so a broker's monthly candle should match within the spread. A chart that starts the month at midnight UTC will differ a little.
- A day is one session, 18:00 to 17:00 New York time; sessions with fewer than 20 of their 23 hourly candles are left out. The line is the range 80% of the 250 complete sessions before the month stayed under, so it was known on the month's first day.
- News days compare the release's hour and session with the median of the same window on the 20 weekdays before it that had no jobs report, CPI or Fed decision.
- The figures are free as JSON: /api/v1/monthly-report?symbol=XAUUSD&month=2026-09
History measured on COMEX futures, not a forecast and not investment advice. Your broker's prices differ by its spread and feed.