Markets
The metals, measured
Live prices refresh every 60 seconds while you're here. Deeper structure — inventories, premiums, lease conditions, supply and demand — lives on each metal's page and in the research that models it.
Gold
$4,604
The monetary metal. Central-bank demand, the Dragon's Hoard question, and pre-33 US coinage.
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Silver
$69.11
Half money, half machine. Our deepest coverage: the Bottleneck model, the Stress Index, junk silver.
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Platinum
$1,887
Concentrated supply, industrial demand, and a century of trading both above and below gold.
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Palladium
$1,371
The most supply-concentrated major metal — two countries, one dominant use.
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Gold / Silver ratio
66.6
Ounces of silver per ounce of gold — the oldest relative-value signal in metals. Explore the ratio →
OunceDesk Metals Stress
A family of 0–100 indices measuring physical-market stress per metal. Each metal's market structure differs, so each index gets its own methodology — published before its first score. We don't print numbers for symmetry.
Silver Stress
24/100
Gold Stress
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Platinum Stress
METHODOLOGY
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Palladium Stress
METHODOLOGY
IN DEVELOPMENT
How indices are built: methodology.