Measured history, not a price prediction

Gold Price Analysis: Returns, Volatility and Drawdown

Gold price analysis is a description of what the stored series has done. Review rolling returns, historical variability, drawdowns, daily ranges and percentiles without turning past movement into a forecast.

7-session returnLoading

Latest close versus seven sessions earlier.

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Latest close versus 30 sessions earlier.

90-session returnLoading

Shown only after 90 prior closes exist.

Current drawdownLoading

Distance below the running peak.

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Annualized realized variability of daily returns.

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Historical, not expected future volatility.

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Rank of the latest close within stored daily closes.

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Largest peak-to-trough close decline in coverage.

Visual analytics

Gold Price Analysis from Stored Daily Data

Every chart is calculated from stored daily candles. Missing windows remain unavailable instead of being extrapolated.

Drawdown History

Daily close divided by its previous running maximum, minus one.

Drawdown from running peak

Realized Volatility

Sample standard deviation of daily returns × √252.

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Daily Return Distribution

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Daily change calendar

Gold Daily Change Calendar

Each square is one stored session. Green marks a positive close-to-close change; amber marks a negative change. Focus or hover for OHLC details.

Positive daily changeNegative daily changeColour intensity reflects magnitude only.

What the Rolling Averages Mean

7-session SMA
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30-session SMA
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90-session SMA
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Each is the arithmetic mean of the latest complete daily closes. These averages describe history; they are not trading signals or predictions.

Gold Price Analysis Coverage and Limits

This analysis currently covers loading daily sessions from loading to loading.

One-year ranges, seasonality and monthly-return heatmaps stay disabled until enough actual daily history exists.

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Common analysis questions

Gold Price Analysis FAQs

What is gold price analysis?

Gold price analysis uses recorded prices to describe returns, volatility, drawdowns, ranges and other statistics. It explains the history in the dataset. It does not guarantee a future gold price and should not be treated as investment advice.

What does gold price volatility mean?

Volatility measures how widely daily returns have varied over a stated window. GoldCost.in reports realized historical variability from stored closes, so a higher value means larger past moves, not a prediction that the next move will be larger.

What is drawdown in a gold price chart?

Drawdown measures how far the latest close sits below the highest earlier close in the running series. It is a historical loss-from-peak measure. The maximum drawdown shows the largest peak-to-trough decline within the available data.

Review Gold Price Data and Coverage

Inspect the fields, stored sessions and quality notes behind every calculated statistic.