Gold Analysis Today (XAU/USD)

Gold technical analysis: how to read today's levels

This gold technical analysis is built from the same fixed rules our trading bots run, applied to XAU/USD. Nothing on it is a price target; if you came for a gold forecast today, the closest thing is the weekly section above, which shows which way the trend filters point. The page answers three questions a gold trader asks before the session: which levels matter today, which of them price has already taken, and where the rules say a reaction is worth watching.

The key levels

The previous day, week and month highs and lows are where many traders park stop orders, so they hold liquidity. The Asian session range is the high and low gold made in the quieter hours before London. When price trades through one of these levels and then closes back inside, that's a liquidity sweep: the stops above or below were taken and the move didn't continue. "Taken" in the table means price has already traded beyond a level today; "untouched" levels still have their liquidity resting there.

Each bot watches the levels that suit its chart. The Scalper (15-minute chart) and Basic Day (1-hour) watch the previous day and the Asian session, the Advance Day bot (4-hour) watches the previous day and week, and the Swing bot (daily) watches the previous week and month. Each follows a higher-timeframe trend filter: whether the last closed 4-hour, daily or weekly candle sits above or below its 50-period EMA. Those are the trend lines at the top of this page.

Why the London and New York sessions matter for gold

Gold trades almost around the clock, but most of its volume arrives when London and New York are open. The intraday bots treat 07:00–10:00 UTC as the London window and 12:00–16:00 UTC as the New York window. That's often when the Asian range or the previous day's high or low gets swept, which is why most sweeps in the list above carry London or New York times. The session times guide covers the hours in more detail, including daylight-saving shifts.

How to read a reaction area

A reaction area is an order block: the last opposite-coloured candle before a strong move, where price often comes back. The top tier, marked "sweep and shift", formed right after a liquidity sweep and a break of market structure. Each card shows:

• Zone: the order block's range, where the reaction is watched.
• Invalidation: the price where the idea is wrong. For top-tier blocks it sits just beyond the sweep wick; otherwise half an ATR beyond the zone. It's the stop the rules were tested with.
• TP1 and TP2: one and two times the risk, measured from the zone edge.
• Stars (1 to 4): one each for trading with the higher-timeframe trend, a first or second touch, and a sweep or liquidity level just beyond the zone.

Once an area is posted, a tracker follows it on live 5-minute prices. It shows "waiting" until price reaches the zone, then "in the zone". TP1 counts as a +1R win, TP2 as +2R, and a stop hit as a 1R loss. An area that expires before price reaches it is no trade. Losing areas stay on this page exactly like winning ones.

The full rule set, and how it was backtested, is on the methodology page. Backtests describe the past and don't promise anything about today's session.