Metals · Gold vs British pound

XAUGBP price

GBP-111.62 (-3.71%) today
Bid 2,894.10Ask 2,894.81Spread 0.71Updated 20:54:59 UTC
Market closedOpens Sun 23:01 UTC
Day range
2,889.48 to 3,007.84
£118.36 so far today
Previous close
3,005.72
The last session's close
52 week range
2,889.48 to 4,063.87
High set 2 Mar 2026
Average day range
£62.19
Last 90 trading days

How XAUGBP moves through the day

Average XAUGBP range in each session as a share of its price, measured on every trading day since 2020.

Average range by session

Asia 00:00 to 07:000.68% · about £19.68 today
London 07:00 to 12:000.67% · about £19.27 today
London and New York 12:00 to 16:000.91% · about £26.37 today
New York afternoon 16:00 to 21:000.57% · about £16.38 today

Busiest hours (UTC)

00 to 11 top row12 to 23 bottom row

XAUGBP moves most from 13:00 to 15:00 UTC. The quietest hour starts at 04:00 UTC.

Size a XAUGBP trade

One standard lot of XAUGBP is 100 ounces on most brokers. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.

Position size
0.20 lots
Risking £100.00 · £20.00 per £1 move
Your XAUGBP trades

See your own XAUGBP trades on this chart

Connect your broker once. Every XAUGBP entry and exit lands on the chart, your journal and rules sit beside it, and Edge learns from your trades to show you the one thing to fix next. Then practice it on XAUGBP in the backtester before you trade it live.

Example: your entry (green) and exit (red) drawn where they happened.
EdgeExample: "Most of your XAUGBP losses come in the first 15 minutes after New York opens. Try waiting for the first 15 minute candle to close."

XAUGBP questions

XAUGBP is the price of one troy ounce of gold in British pounds. XAU is the code for gold and GBP is the currency it is priced in.

Each broker quotes its own bid and ask from its own liquidity providers, so prices can differ a little from broker to broker. The prices here are indicative bid quotes. Spreads also widen around big news and when the market opens.

Spot gold trades nearly 24 hours a day from Sunday evening to Friday evening, New York time, with a short daily break around 17:00 New York time.

On most brokers one standard lot of XAUGBP is 100 ounces, so a move of 1.00 in the price is worth £100.00 a lot and 0.01 lots moves £1.00. Check your broker's contract size before you trade.

Mostly US interest rate expectations, the US dollar, inflation data and how much risk markets want to take. Gold often rises when the dollar and real interest rates fall.