Data Sources

Operates the electronic auction that sets the LBMA Gold Price (10:30 AM and 3:00 PM London time) and the LBMA Silver Price (noon London time). We pull both fixings directly from ICE's published feed.

License: ICE publishes the benchmark fixings under terms of use. We display the published values with attribution.

Spot mid-market FX rates from major aggregator feeds. Used to convert SGE (CNY), MCX (INR), and other regional prices into USD for cross-market comparison.

License: FX mid-market rates are aggregated from publicly available bank feeds. We apply onshore (CNY) rather than offshore (CNH) for SGE conversions to match the rate Chinese commercial buyers actually settle at.

The Commodity Exchange (COMEX), part of CME Group, is the world's primary venue for precious-metals futures. We pull daily warehouse stock reports (registered, eligible, total) per depository, plus settlement prices and open interest.

License: CME Group data is published for public reporting. We mirror the daily reports without modification and link to the source on every page that uses the data.

The US futures market regulator publishes the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report breaking down futures positioning by trader category. We pull the disaggregated report for all major COMEX metals.

License: CFTC COT data is a public US-government data product released every Friday for Tuesday positions.

The principal global trade body for OTC gold and silver. We pull monthly London vault holdings (commercial + Bank of England), the twice-daily LBMA Gold Price auction, and daily London clearing statistics.

License: LBMA vault and clearing data are published as monthly and daily reports. We pull within hours of LBMA publication and surface the position date alongside the publication date.

The world's largest physical gold spot market by volume. We track Au99.99 (24-karat 1kg benchmark), Au(T+D) (deferred-delivery gold), and Ag(T+D) (deferred-delivery silver) prices, plus weekly gold withdrawal data.

License: SGE publishes intraday and closing prices to its market data feed. We pull during SGE trading hours and surface a clear last-updated timestamp on every page.

China's primary venue for base-metals futures trading. We pull weekly warehouse warrant stocks per metal per warehouse, plus daily futures settlement prices, open interest, and trading volume.

License: SHFE publishes daily settlement and weekly warrant stock reports. We mirror the per-warehouse breakdown rather than collapsing to a single network-wide total.

China's newest commodity futures exchange and the leading global venue for battery-grade lithium carbonate futures, plus industrial silicon and polysilicon contracts. We pull daily settlement prices and open interest.

License: GFEX publishes daily settlement prices to its market data feed. We pull and normalize for the global EV battery materials view.

India's largest commodity futures exchange. We pull gold and silver futures settlement prices alongside spot equivalents, surfaced as INR per 10 grams (gold) and INR per kilogram (silver) — the local convention.

License: MCX publishes intraday and end-of-day data via market data partners. We pull and convert to INR per 10g (gold) / INR per kg (silver) for the Indian market.