Asset Heatmap
All assets at a glance. Sized by performance ranking, colored by 24h change.
What You're Looking At
This heatmap puts over 80 assets on a single screen: precious metals like gold, silver, platinum, and palladium; base metals like copper, aluminum, nickel, and zinc; energy commodities like crude oil and natural gas; agricultural products like wheat, corn, coffee, and cocoa; major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana; and commodity-focused ETFs like GLD, SLV, IAU, and DBC.
Green means the asset is up over the past 24 hours, red means it's down. The deeper the color, the bigger the move. Anything past 3% gets fully saturated. Assets sitting near zero look almost neutral, so the ones that are actually doing something stand out right away. You don't have to scroll through tables or flip between pages to figure out what's happening across markets.
The biggest rectangle sits in the top left. That's your top gainer (or top loser if you flip the sort). Everything else cascades down from there. Click on any cell and it takes you straight to that asset's full price page with charts, historical data, and everything else.
Reading the Heatmap Like a Trader
One of the most useful things about a cross-asset heatmap is spotting sector rotations. If metals are glowing green while crypto is red, money is probably flowing into safe havens. If copper, oil, and base metals are all rallying together, markets are pricing in stronger economic growth. These patterns take minutes to piece together from separate price tables. Here, you see them instantly.
Outliers are the other thing to watch for. One bright green cell in a sea of neutral usually means something happened: a supply disruption, a surprise earnings report from an ETF issuer, or breaking news. The Top Gainers mode puts that outlier front and center as the biggest cell on the page.
The category filters help you dig deeper. Turn off everything except Metals and suddenly each metal gets a lot more visual space, making it easier to compare gold vs silver vs platinum. Keep only Crypto enabled and you get something similar to CoinGecko's heatmap. Mix and match however you want.
What the Colors Tell You About Sentiment
The color scale is tuned to how these assets actually behave. Gold moves about 0.7% on a typical day. Crude oil, closer to 1.5%. Bitcoin, around 2.5%. So a 3% move hits full saturation because that's a genuinely big day for most of these markets.
If the whole screen turns one color, something macro happened. A Fed rate decision, a geopolitical shock, or a big move in the dollar can push nearly everything in the same direction. When you see a split, with some sectors green and others red, it's usually about sector-specific news rather than a broad market event.
Keep an eye on the dollar. Most commodities and metals are priced in USD, so when the dollar strengthens, those assets tend to weaken and vice versa. Bitcoin has followed the same pattern increasingly since 2020. You can track the dollar alongside this heatmap on the Dollar Index page.
How Different Assets Move Together
Gold and silver almost always move in the same direction, but silver swings harder because of its industrial demand. You'll usually see silver with a more intense color than gold on any given day. Platinum and palladium track each other too, and both are tied to the auto industry since catalytic converters use most of their supply.
Copper and crude oil are the classic growth indicators. Both green usually means the economy is looking strong. Both red alongside aluminum and nickel can be an early warning that industrial activity is slowing down. The gold-to-copper ratio, which you can track on our Ratios page, is one of the better recession signals in commodity markets.
ETFs like GLD, SLV, and DBC should track their underlying commodities closely. If you spot GLD showing green while gold itself is red, or the other way around, that usually points to unusual fund flows or after-hours moves that haven't caught up yet. Worth paying attention to if you trade both.
Where the Data Comes From
Metal spot prices come from COMEX (CME Group), the London Metal Exchange, and LBMA benchmark auctions. Commodity futures are pulled from CME/CBOT, ICE Futures, and TOCOM. Crypto prices are aggregated from Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, and other major exchanges. ETF prices come from US exchanges including NYSE Arca and Cboe BZX.
The 24-hour change compares the current price to the price exactly 24 hours ago. It's a rolling number, not tied to any exchange's open or close. That matters for assets like gold and Bitcoin that trade around the clock across different time zones. Everything refreshes every 30 seconds during active market hours.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is an asset heatmap and how do I read it?
- It's a visual grid where each rectangle is an asset (a metal, a cryptocurrency, a commodity, or an ETF). Green means it's up over the last 24 hours, red means it's down, and the deeper the color the bigger the move. The size of each rectangle tells you where it ranks: the biggest gainer (or loser, if you flip the sort) gets the most space. You can scan 80+ assets in a couple of seconds without opening a single table.
- What assets are included in the MetalCharts heatmap?
- It pulls from four categories. Metals includes gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, aluminum, nickel, zinc, lead, tin, lithium, uranium, and steel. Crypto covers Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, Cardano, and over 15 other coins. Commodities spans crude oil, natural gas, wheat, corn, coffee, cocoa, sugar, cotton, lumber, and livestock. ETFs include GLD, SLV, IAU, PALL, DBC, and others. Over 80 assets total, all updating in real time.
- How often is the heatmap data updated?
- Prices refresh every 30 seconds during active trading hours. Metal and commodity prices come from COMEX, LME, ICE, and CBOT. Crypto prices update around the clock from major exchanges. ETF prices follow US market hours. The 24-hour change is always calculated against the price from exactly 24 hours ago, so it rolls continuously rather than resetting at market open.
- What does the Top Gainers vs Top Losers toggle do?
- It controls which assets get the biggest rectangles. In Top Gainers mode, whatever has the highest 24-hour gain sits in the top left with the most area, and sizes decrease from there. Switch to Top Losers and the asset with the steepest drop takes the top spot instead. It's useful for quickly checking what's leading the market up or dragging it down.
- Can I filter the heatmap by asset class?
- Yes. The category buttons at the top (Metals, Crypto, Commodities, ETFs) are all toggles. Click any of them to turn that category on or off. You can show just metals and crypto, or just commodities, or any combination you want. At least one category has to stay active. The gainers/losers sort works the same regardless of which categories are showing.
- Why are some rectangles larger than others?
- Size is based on performance rank, not market cap. Whatever is moving the most gets the biggest rectangle. So if a small altcoin jumped 8% and Bitcoin only moved 0.1%, the altcoin gets way more space. The idea is to surface the most interesting movers first, regardless of how big the asset is.
