Archive note · corrected
Gold's 2025 record: annual demand evidence is not an influencer audit
A dated correction preserves a World Gold Council annual snapshot while withdrawing unsupported January returns, creator samples and move-capture results.
What changed in this article
Editorial correction · 9 September 2026. The original article was published on 17 February 2026 and presented a 2025–2026 gold surge, a N=233 call audit from 37 creators, a nine-session entry lag, move-capture percentages and modeled returns. The page did not preserve the post-level register, trigger definition, instrument and venue, price rows, benchmark, currency convention or calculation output. The stated +64.4%, +9.3%, N=233, 39%, 72%, +33.8%, +54.6%, +61.4% and creator scores are withdrawn. The original URL and publication date remain unchanged.
This is a dated evidence correction, not a current gold price view or an instruction to buy, sell or allocate to precious metals.
What the dated World Gold Council record establishes
| Source date and record | Dated fact | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| 29 January 2026 · World Gold Council Gold Demand Trends: Q4 and Full Year 2025 | The report says 2025 total gold demand, including OTC, exceeded 5,000 tonnes; the LBMA PM gold price set 53 new all-time highs during the year; and the annual average price was about US$3,431/oz. | The report covers data through 31 December 2025. It does not establish the original article’s January 2026 return, creator timing, call quality or capture rate. |
| 29 January 2026 · same report | The report records 2025 central-bank purchases of 863 tonnes and identifies the data sources used for its demand and price discussion. | An industry research report and annual market snapshot are not a frozen January month-end price series or an influencer-performance register. |
The report supports a source-linked description of 2025 gold demand and price history. It does not validate a $5,000 target, an influencer scorecard or a rules-baseline return comparison.
What is withdrawn
The creator count, call dates, trigger and entry-lag calculation, move-capture table, engagement comparison, risk-framing scores, benchmark choices, modeled follower return, buy-and-hold comparison, rules-system comparison and action thresholds are not verified findings. No replacement January return or timing result is published.
The qualitative question—whether a public commentator supplied an executable, time-stamped process rather than a late narrative—remains a possible research question. It is not answered by the World Gold Council report.
Minimum register for a future precious-metals call study
Record the post URL, creator, publication timestamp and wording; trigger and signal timestamp; exact instrument, venue, currency and price series; benchmark; entry and exit convention; corporate-action and roll treatment; call inclusion/deduplication rules; fees, spread and slippage; and the complete calculation output. Annual demand or price summaries must not be substituted for those rows.
Original publication: 17 February 2026. Correction: 9 September 2026. AI-assisted source checking and writing; no independent human expert review. This page is educational market research, not personalized investment advice.