i suspect the gold trading is fundamentally continuing an...

i suspect the gold trading is fundamentally continuing an uptrend, but within that it is subject to manipulation by traders with truckloads of wealth who want to make more. So there is a good chance that this is just an aberration
Is there any way to see a daily expanded gold chart with the amount of contracts traded underneath it, like volume?
When I was in the "church" years ago the comment was thrown around that the only use for gold will be as a door stop, presumably when the famines, plagues and natural disasters arrive with the apocalypse.