Gold (XAUUSD) CFD — price, sessions & honest research
Last price + 30-day sparkline relayed live from the Gate TradFi market feed (fail-soft). -1.53% 7d · -6.83% 30d · No volume figure — traditional-market CFDs carry no exchange volume on this feed, so we never show one.
Instrument passport
Contract
Costs assumption
Triple swap on wednesday (covers the weekend). Captured 2026-07-15 from Gate CFD pages — not verified against live fills. Backtests exclude swap; paper trading charges it for real.
Session & leverage
Gate offers up to 500× on CFDs — we cap paper (and any future live) at 5×; public materials use ≤3×.
Data coverage & volatility (ATR14)
| Timeframe | Bars | Range | ATR14 % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15m | 67,222 | 2023-09-13 → 2026-07-17 | 0.225% |
| 1h | 19,711 | 2023-03-20 → 2026-07-17 | 0.408% |
| 4h | 5,257 | 2023-03-20 → 2026-07-17 | 0.841% |
| 1d | 1,787 | 2020-01-01 → 2026-07-14 | 2.568% |
ATR14 is the mean 14-bar true range as a % of the last close — a position-sizing hint, not an indicator signal. Backtests run on these on-disk candles.
Our optimizer research
Parameters are chosen on an in-sample window; the out-of-sample net is measured on an untouched holdout the optimizer never saw, with real costs and pessimistic fills. Proof: job opt-donchian20-1h-genetic-20260715130925-16ed6b. Glossary: OOS · Sharpe · noise floor · all terms.
Signed-in users can save a researched setup to My Research and request a paper run — no payment, no live trading, virtual capital only.
Read-only research surface. Prices and specs are relayed/captured, not a brokerage quote. Not investment advice.