Gold insights

Pull daily OHLC history from the goldprice.dev API and run a simple moving-average crossover backtest in Python to evaluate a gold trading strategy.

Why sovereign reserve managers have been accumulating gold at record pace, and the mechanics of how that demand affects prices.

Pull gold and silver spot prices in a single async call, divide them, and display the ratio with a working JavaScript example.

How to convert a USD per troy ounce gold price into other currencies and per-gram units, with a working JavaScript example.

Read per-source prices from the API response, compute the spread in basis points, and flag when sources disagree beyond your tolerance threshold.

Real interest rates, the US dollar, inflation expectations, central-bank demand, and risk-off flows: the mechanisms behind gold's moves, and which ones matter most.

A self-contained HTML/JS snippet that fetches the live gold spot price and auto-refreshes every 60 seconds, ready to drop into any website.

Working code for pulling the gold spot price from the API in Node.js and the browser, with proper error handling.

How dividing two metal prices produces one of the clearest early-warning signals in macro analysis.

The pricing-currency mechanism and the real-rate channel explain the gold-dollar relationship, plus the conditions when it breaks down.

The evidence for gold as an inflation hedge is real but depends heavily on timeframe: here's what the data shows and a clear position on when to believe it.

Match cache TTLs to data freshness, read the X-RateLimit-* headers, back off gracefully on 429, and decide when polling beats streaming.

Add the goldprice.dev MCP server to Claude or Cursor so your agent can fetch the current gold spot price without any hand-rolled tool code.

Why gold is priced per troy ounce, how the troy system differs from the common ounce, and the exact conversions to grams and kilograms.

Bullion, ETFs, futures, and tokenized gold each give you different exposure: what each one actually is and what counterparty risk each carries.

Why two gold price feeds can show different numbers at the same instant, and what that divergence tells you about liquidity and data quality.

The three different gold prices that get conflated constantly: what each one actually represents, and when each is the right number to use.

Connect to the goldprice.dev SSE stream to receive real-time gold price updates in the browser and Node.js, with automatic reconnect handling.

A complete, production-ready Python script that polls the live spot price, checks it against a threshold, and sends a notification. Uses the REST API with retry logic and a local TTL cache.

What the gold-to-silver ratio is, how it is calculated, why traders watch it, and how to read it in context. A data-first explainer designed to stay evergreen.