Gold (XAU) live: funding rate, open interest, liquidations & volume spikes
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OI 24h: now vs 24h ago. Funding 24h: mean 8h-equivalent rate, last 24h vs the 24h before, hourly recorded history. Long accounts 24h: latest vs 24h earlier, hourly recorded history. Liquidations 24h: last 24h vs the 24h before, hourly recorded history. Recorded, refreshed every 15 minutes.
Live market summary
XAU trades on 3 exchanges tracked by Swolecharts (Bybit, HTX and MEXC) across 3 perpetual futures markets (no spot market). The last price is 3,998.5 USDT on MEXC (+0.01% in the last hour), and 24h volume is $538.37M. Perpetual open interest totals $67.85M. The OI-weighted funding rate is 0.0182% per 8h (≈20% APR), so longs pay shorts. $151K of XAU positions were liquidated on Bybit and HTX in the last 24 hours, 84% longs and 16% shorts. The scanner flagged 80 volume spikes on XAU in the last 24 hours.
XAU open interest, funding, liquidations and long/short history
· From recorded history, hourly
XAU open interest is $67.85M, down 6.5% over the past 7 days, and up 5.5% in the last 24 hours. XAU recorded funding quotes have averaged 0.0081% per 8 hours over the past 7 days (≈9% APR, annualized quote). Recorded hourly quote readings were 99% positive, 1% negative and 0% zero. $1.40M of XAU positions were liquidated over the past 7 days: $819K longs (58.5%) and $581K shorts. The biggest hour was 01:00 UTC on 5 Nov, with $128K. 75.9% of XAU trader accounts on Binance and Bybit are net long, up 10.1 points over the past 7 days (from 65.8%).
XAU price
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XAU open interest
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XAU funding rate
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XAU liquidations
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XAU long/short ratio
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XAU CVD and taker flow
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XAU markets: funding rate & open interest by exchange
Funding as 8h equivalent (hover for APR) · OI changes need history| Market | Price | Price 1h | Price 24h | 24h volume | Funding 8h | Open interest, USD | OI 1h | OI 4h | OI 24h | Trade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEXCperpXAU_USDT | 3,998.5 | +0.01% | -1.09% | $393.78M | 0.0200% | $520.54M * | +0.80% | +4.69% | +12.35% | Trade |
| BybitperpXAUUSDT | 3,998.2 | +0.08% | -1.03% | $134.18M | 0.0177% | $66.08M | +0.44% | +3.87% | +8.64% | Trade |
| HTXperpXAU-USDT | 3,999.3 | -0.02% | -1.14% | $10.41M | 0.0358% | $1.76M | +0.64% | +0.83% | -46.47% | Trade |
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XAU long/short ratio About usual · 29d, 56th percentile of the last 29 days
All coins' long/short ratios →| Series | Now | 24h |
|---|---|---|
| HTX top trader accounts | 74.0% | +10.0 |
| HTX top trader positions | 49.2% | -0.5 |
Share of longs; changes in percentage points (pp). Accounts = share of accounts with a net long position; top trader accounts = the same for the exchange's top traders (Binance: top 20% by margin); top trader positions = share of their combined position that is long; top traders vs accounts = top trader positions long minus accounts long, in pp (negative: the big traders are less long than the crowd); taker buys = share of the last 5 minutes' taker volume that bought. New points every 5 minutes; 24h history backfilled from the exchanges. Gate, Bitget and HTX are tracked for the top 50 coins.
XAU volume spikes
See live spikes for all coins →| Time | Venue | Type | Side | $ in 1m | × normal | Buy % | +5m | +15m | +1h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4m ago | BYB perp | VOL | SELL | $382K | 16.4× | 33% | — | — | — |
| 11m ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $203K | 8.7× | 100% | -0.04% | — | — |
| 36m ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $96K | 4.1× | 85% | 0.00% | -0.06% | — |
| 52m ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $214K | 9.2× | 96% | -0.04% | 0.00% | — |
| 63m ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $135K | 5.9× | 93% | +0.01% | -0.02% | +0.08% |
| 84m ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $639K | 21.7× | 100% | -0.01% | +0.01% | +0.03% |
| 85m ago | BYB perp | TRADE | BUY | $599K | — | — | — | — | — |
| 85m ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $125K | 4.2× | 100% | +0.02% | +0.04% | +0.07% |
| 2h ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $207K | 4.4× | 98% | -0.03% | -0.04% | +0.07% |
| 3h ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $571K | 8.6× | 93% | -0.07% | +0.04% | -0.02% |
| 3h ago | BYB perp | VOL | MIXED | $795K | 11.6× | 55% | +0.09% | +0.09% | +0.05% |
| 3h ago | BYB perp | TRADE | BUY | $409K | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4h ago | BYB perp | VOL | BUY | $506K | 5.7× | 74% | +0.06% | +0.01% | +0.05% |
Newest first, up to 100. +5m / +15m / +1h show the price change after each spike and fill in as time passes. They describe the past, not a prediction.
XAU spike outcomes: how often price kept going 5, 15 and 60 minutes after a spike →
XAU liquidations: long vs short
All liquidations →| Window | Longs | Shorts | Long / short | Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1h | $4,530 | $0 | 2 | |
| 4h | $7,806 | $0 | 7 | |
| 24h | $127K | $24K | 116 |
Biggest XAU liquidations, 24h
- BYBLONG$9,820@ 4,004.88h ago
- BYBSHORT$9,395@ 4,084.618h ago
- BYBLONG$8,812@ 4,005.78h ago
- BYBLONG$7,587@ 3,982.55h ago
- BYBLONG$7,199@ 3,999.58h ago
Latest
- No recent XAU liquidations.
From the public liquidation feeds of Bybit and HTX. MEXC does not publish liquidations, so XAU perps there are not counted. A long liquidation is a forced sell; a short liquidation is a forced buy.
About the XAU numbers
XAU funding rate
Perpetual futures have no expiry, so exchanges keep their price close to spot with periodic funding payments between longs and shorts. A positive XAU funding rate means longs pay shorts (more demand for leveraged longs); negative means shorts pay longs. Rates here are converted to an 8-hour equivalent so exchanges with 1h, 4h and 8h intervals compare directly, and the headline figure is weighted by each exchange's open interest.
XAU open interest
Open interest is the USD value of all open XAU perpetual positions. Rising OI alongside a price move means new positions are opening; falling OI means positions are closing (including liquidations). OI changes are measured from 5-minute snapshots.
XAU liquidations
A liquidation is a leveraged position the exchange closed by force. Long liquidations are forced sells that hit when price drops; short liquidations are forced buys when price rises. The long/short split shows which side was caught.
XAU long/short ratio
The share of traders long versus short on XAU perpetuals. Accounts figures count each account once (the share with a net long position on Binance, or holding a long on Bybit); the Binance top traders figure is the share of the combined position of the top 20% of Binance traders by margin that is long. A ratio above 1 means more longs than shorts. Retail account ratios lean long most of the time, so changes and divergences say more than the level. See the XAU long/short ratio page.
XAU volume spikes
A spike is a minute where one XAU market traded at least 4× its normal minute volume, with a size floor. Buy % is the share of taker buys. The +5m / +15m / +1h columns show what price did afterwards. They are history, not a signal. Not financial advice.