Ten instruments, chosen because between them they price the five things that move everything else: hard money, energy, equity risk, the dollar, and China's physical bid. Charts update live during their own trading hours and fall back to the last settled bar when a venue is shut. Metals are quoted in troy ounces — 31.1034768 grams, about 10% heavier than the ordinary ounce, and the unit London and COMEX have always used.
London spot gold (XAU/USD), the benchmark most of the world quotes against, with COMEX futures as a backstop when the spot feed is quiet. Daily history reaches back to the end of the Bretton Woods gold window in the early 1970s.
London spot silver (XAG/USD). Silver is both a monetary metal and an industrial input, so it tends to move further than gold in either direction and is the more honest read on physical tightness.
The Shanghai Futures Exchange silver contract, quoted natively in yuan per kilogram, converted here to US dollars per troy ounce using the same-day USD/CNY rate. The spread against London silver is the Shanghai premium.
NYMEX West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark. Priced for delivery at Cushing, Oklahoma, which is why it usually trades at a discount to seaborne Brent. Front-month contract, rolled continuously.
NYMEX Henry Hub, the North American benchmark. The most weather-sensitive contract here by a distance — a cold January can double it and a mild one can halve it, so the swings dwarf anything in the metals.
India's headline index: the 50 largest and most liquid stocks on the National Stock Exchange, free-float market-cap weighted. Cash index level, not futures.
Every common stock listed on the Nasdaq exchange, over 3,000 of them, weighted by market cap. The long-duration, technology-heavy end of US equity risk.
Thirty large US companies, price-weighted rather than cap-weighted. Structurally odd, but it is the longest continuous equity series available anywhere — the daily record runs back to the 1890s.
Streamed live from an exchange order book rather than polled, so the last bar moves as trades print. The only market here that never closes.
The dollar against a fixed basket of six currencies, dominated by the euro at roughly 58%. Base 100 at March 1973. When DXY rises, dollar-priced commodities usually fall.
| Venue | Instruments | Local hours | Time zone |
|---|---|---|---|
| NSE | Nifty 50 | Mon–Fri 09:15–15:30 | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| NYSE & Nasdaq | Dow, Nasdaq Composite | Mon–Fri 09:30–16:00 | ET |
| CME Globex | Gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas | Sun 18:00 – Fri 17:00, 60-minute daily break from 17:00 | ET |
| Interbank FX | DXY, USD/CNY | Sun 17:00 – Fri 17:00 | ET |
| SHFE | Shanghai silver | Mon–Fri 09:00–10:15, 10:30–11:30, 13:30–15:00, plus night 21:00–02:30 | CST (UTC+8) |
| Crypto | Bitcoin | Continuous, 24/7 | — |