Today, gold saw a one-way breakdown and a bearish trend as it broke down. From the open, it was met with concentrated selling pressure from the bears, and the price continued to trade lower with persistent choppy weakness. Although there were several rebound attempts during the session, each time it ran into resistance and fell back, failing to form an effective counterattack. In the late-session phase, the selloff accelerated further, with the low probing down to the 4043 area. Compared with the intraday high, this pulled back by more than $76, and short-term bearish forces fully occupied the market and dominated the screen. $XAU