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XAUUSD midweek: gold breaks above 4160, where we are 2026-08-03
Gold is up roughly 89 dollars from Monday's open, having cleared 4172.77 intraday as Hormuz deal hopes ease inflation fears.
2 min readDOGEUSD trades at 0.0698 as of Wednesday's close, down from Monday's open of 0.0702. That is a drop of about 0.6 percent on the week so far. The high since Monday is 0.0706, printed Tuesday, and the low is 0.0684 from Monday's session. The range has been tight and the drift has been quietly lower.
There is no scheduled catalyst in the bundle this week. The move has been pure order flow. Monday probed down to 0.0684 before closing back at 0.0701, Tuesday faded from 0.0706 to 0.0699, and Wednesday's volume of 819 came in far below the earlier sessions near 3,000. Thin participation and a slow grind lower is the whole story.
The calendar for the back half of this week is empty. No high-impact prints are scheduled Thursday or Friday, so DOGEUSD is likely to keep taking its cue from broader crypto flow rather than data. Watch how Bitcoin behaves into the weekend. If BTC firms and drags the majors up, DOGEUSD gets a tailwind back toward the week's high. If BTC leaks lower on thin summer volume, the pressure stays on the downside here.
As of Wednesday morning, 73 percent of LHFX positioning is long and 27 percent is short. That is a heavy long skew into a market that has drifted down all week. When the crowd leans this far one way against the price direction, it tells you consensus is fighting the tape, and crowded longs can turn into forced selling if support gives.
The line in the sand is Monday's low at 0.0684. Price is holding above it for now near 0.0698. If DOGEUSD keeps 0.0684 as a floor and buyers step back in, the 0.0703 to 0.0706 band from earlier this week comes back into view. If 0.0684 breaks on a close, that level flips from support to the ceiling sellers defend. Open an account with LHFX to track these levels as the week closes out.
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