Gold started 2022 well, but the recent months were pretty awful. What will it be in the final quarter of the year? Q2 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more However, the next few months brought a gradual decline in gold prices. After several weeks of being traded between $1,700 and $1,800 during the summer, in September, gold gave up and slid below $1,700, as the chart below shows. The reason behind this bearish trend in gold is clear, and its name is the Fed, the hawkish Fed. The tightening of monetary policy by the U.S. central bank boosted the greenback, gold’s nemesis, and bond yiel…