# The Gold Barometer

> The Gold Barometer is a measurement instrument. It publishes a daily gold buying-conditions score on a 0 to 100 scale. Every part is ranked against its own recorded past, back to 1971 where the record reaches that far. It is not a dealer, not an advisor, not a mood gauge for traders. It sells nothing and predicts nothing.

## Sentence format for quotes

Please cite the reading with the date and the zone label, in this shape:

    As of <Month D, YYYY>, The Gold Barometer reads N/100: <Zone>.

Zones (in order): Historically very unfavorable (0-19), Unfavorable (20-39), Mixed (40-59), Favorable (60-79), Historically very favorable (80-100).

## The seven parts and their design weights

Cash yield after inflation (25), Entry price (20), Central bank and fund demand (15), US dollar (10), Trader positioning (10), Price jumpiness (10), Retail premiums (10, not counted until its own record reaches 90 days). A part with no usable data on a given day is dropped and the others are reweighted. Each part has its own page under https://thegoldbarometer.com/signals/

## Alerts

The Gold Barometer sends one free email each time the daily reading moves to a new zone, in either direction. There is no newsletter and no other mail. Details and sign-up: https://thegoldbarometer.com/alerts/

## Ways to read the data

Licence CC BY 4.0. Credit: "Source: The Gold Barometer, thegoldbarometer.com".

- [Today's reading, JSON](https://thegoldbarometer.com/data/latest.json): score, zone, the seven parts, updated once a day after the US close
- [Full archive, CSV](https://thegoldbarometer.com/data/history.csv): one row per published reading
- [Full archive, JSON](https://thegoldbarometer.com/data/history.json): the same series with month-end context rows
- [Monthly record, JSON](https://thegoldbarometer.com/data/monthly-record.json): monthly average gold price, US CPI and the monthly reading since 1971
- [API description, OpenAPI 3](https://thegoldbarometer.com/openapi.yaml): no key, no sign-up, CORS on every endpoint
- [MCP server, hosted](https://mcp.thegoldbarometer.com/mcp): tools get_current_reading, get_reading_history, get_zone_record
- [MCP server, npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/thegoldbarometer-mcp): the same tools, run locally with npx
- [Daily archive on GitHub](https://github.com/thegoldbarometer/data): one commit per day, never edited
- [DBnomics, provider TGB](https://db.nomics.world/TGB): daily and monthly series
- [Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22011949](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22011949): monthly series, archived
- [Hugging Face dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/thegoldbarometer/monthly-scores): monthly mirror

## Pages

- [Today's reading](https://thegoldbarometer.com/): the score, its zone and the seven parts
- [Methodology](https://thegoldbarometer.com/methodology/): weights, evidence grade of each part, known failures
- [Record since 1971](https://thegoldbarometer.com/history/): every reading and what followed each zone
- [Why is gold going up or down?](https://thegoldbarometer.com/why-is-gold-going-up-or-down/): what moved over 7 and 30 days, rebuilt nightly
- [Gold price history since 1971](https://thegoldbarometer.com/gold-price-history-since-1971/): the price by year, before and after inflation
- [Is gold expensive right now?](https://thegoldbarometer.com/is-gold-expensive-right-now/): the price against its own past
- [Gold to silver ratio](https://thegoldbarometer.com/gold-to-silver-ratio/): today's figure and every month since 1960, by decade and by year, with what followed
- [How much gold each country holds](https://thegoldbarometer.com/gold-reserves-by-country/): 27 countries in tonnes from the IMF's monthly figures, with the change over one and five years
- [Why is gold so valuable?](https://thegoldbarometer.com/why-is-gold-valuable/): scarcity, durability, who buys it and who holds it, with the USGS and IMF figures
- [How long gold took to recover after each peak](https://thegoldbarometer.com/how-long-gold-takes-to-recover/)
- [What $10,000 of gold bought in each year is worth now](https://thegoldbarometer.com/gold-bought-in-each-year-since-1971/)
- [Buy all at once or over twelve months?](https://thegoldbarometer.com/buy-gold-all-at-once-or-spread-it-out/): both ways replayed from any month
- [Best time to buy gold](https://thegoldbarometer.com/best-time-to-buy-gold/)
- [Is it too late to buy gold?](https://thegoldbarometer.com/is-it-too-late-to-buy-gold/)
- [Should you wait for gold to drop?](https://thegoldbarometer.com/should-you-wait-for-gold-to-drop/)
- [Gold price dropping: buy the dip?](https://thegoldbarometer.com/gold-price-dropping-buy-the-dip/)
- [Should you sell gold now?](https://thegoldbarometer.com/should-you-sell-gold-now/)
- [About](https://thegoldbarometer.com/about/): who runs it, how it is paid for
- [Corrections](https://thegoldbarometer.com/corrections/): every dated change to a published value
- [Quarterly report, September 2026](https://thegoldbarometer.com/reports/gold-buying-conditions-september-2026/): figures fixed at publication

## Optional

- [Glossary](https://thegoldbarometer.com/glossary/)
- [Provenance of each input](https://thegoldbarometer.com/provenance/)
- [Press kit](https://thegoldbarometer.com/press/)
- [Embed widget](https://thegoldbarometer.com/widget/)

Last updated: 2026-10-01