Gold 1D: six months of gaps nobody came back forGoldOANDA:XAUUSDStructuraMarketsFour areas above this chart have been sitting untouched since March. Gold has not traded into any of them in six months. This is gold on the daily with our imbalance layer on it. It marks the areas price left behind when it moved too fast for both sides to be there, and leaves them on the chart until the market comes back for them. A zone stretches to the right for as long as it goes untouched, so its width is its age. What February and March left. The decline off the February high was fast enough to leave four gaps behind it, stacked between roughly 4,860 and 5,260. None of them has been revisited. Six months, four areas, and the market has done nothing about any of them. The nearest sits about eleven percent above where gold closed today. What has been filled. The grey bands are the gaps price did come back for, and they are the more useful half of this chart, because you can read how long each one waited. The band near 4,620 stayed open from February until August. The one around 4,390 stayed open until this month. They are still drawn, because we do not delete the ones that resolve - a record you can only see when it flatters the tool is not a record. What August left. The move off the July lows produced one gap on the way up, between roughly 4,150 and 4,210, and it is six weeks old and untouched. So the picture is lopsided in a way worth noticing: the market has cleaned out the middle of this range and left both edges alone. One unfilled area sits under four percent below today's close. The nearest one above is eleven percent up. Where price is now. Gold spent September giving back most of the August advance. Today it opened at 4,260, traded down to 4,257 and closed at 4,368, near the day's high, inside the band where most of the filled zones sit. What this does not tell you. Which of the open areas matters, or whether either gets traded into at all. An unfilled gap is not a target and this layer does not treat it as one. It marks where the market left something behind, and stops there. One caveat, always. This is a chart where the zones are legible and the history is long, which makes it a clean illustration of how they get recorded - not evidence that gaps get filled. Plenty never are. Four of them are on this chart. Educational market commentary - not financial advice.