Pre-Market Hub
Where Before You Trade runs live. Every number here is a fact, sourced — never a signal or a call.
Read today's chart via Gold Price, then run it through Reading the Regime — this page never asserts a regime label itself.
Market Headlines
Wire reporting filtered to gold/precious metals and the geopolitical risk terms that move gold without naming it — Investing.com's commodities & futures wire.
Today's Checklist
The ritual from Before You Trade, run live — applied here, not re-taught.
Price orientation
Spot XAU/USD — see Gold Price for today's live quote and chart.
Economic calendar
Today's scheduled releases — see the Comprehensive Calendar, shared with two research lenses.
Overnight news scan
Last 24h of wire headlines — see Market Headlines above.
Session and spread check
Active session, computed live: —
Key levels
Open the chart via Gold Price and read structure off it directly — no restated numbers here.
Research Framework
The framework from Before You Trade, pointed at today's data. Trade-offs are covered there.
Real Yields + DXY
Opportunity cost and dollar strength, gold's two steadiest macro drivers.
10Y real yield → Broad Dollar Index →DTWEXBGS is the Fed's own broad basket — wider than the ICE DXY ticker, not a direct substitute.
Fed Policy Cycle
Read off the calendar — FOMC rows carry the policy-cycle signal directly.
See calendar →Inflation Surprise
CPI row's actual-vs-forecast — the beat/miss figure, an approximation of a surprise index.
See calendar →Comprehensive Calendar
Full US release slate — the shared source for two lenses above.
Open calendar →Market Resources
Gold Price
Spot XAU/USD — live quote & chart
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GC/MGC futures aren't shown separately — no free source with distinct futures pricing has been found (TradingEconomics and TradingView both confirmed dead ends). Follow-up item if that changes.
Positioning & Flow — CFTC Commitments of Traders
Weekly gold futures positioning, published directly by the CFTC. No free machine-readable feed exists, so this links straight to their own report.
Where This Connects