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Metals Fundamentals

Our four target metals contracts — 1OZ (1-Ounce Gold), QO (E-mini Gold, 50 oz), QI (E-mini Silver, 2,500 oz) and SIC (100-oz Silver) — are all satellites of the COMEX benchmark GC (100-oz gold) and SI (5,000-oz silver) contracts. 1OZ launched January 13, 2025 and is financially settled to the daily settlement price of benchmark Gold futures; SIC launched February 9, 2026 and is financially settled to the daily settlement of benchmark Silver futures. That means every fundamentals dataset that moves GC/SI — warehouse stocks, delivery activity, London OTC flows, ETF creations/redemptions, central-bank buying, Asian physical premia — passes straight through to our micro-sized contracts via the settlement link, while the physically-adjacent QO/QI additionally carry their own delivery mechanics (QO E-mini Gold specs, QI E-mini Silver specs).

Precious-metals "fundamentals" differ from other commodities: mine supply and industrial demand matter less than stock movements between vaults and financial vehicles. The two visible stock systems are COMEX warehouses (daily registered/eligible reports) and the London vaulting system (LBMA monthly vault holdings, monthly clearing statistics since October 1996). Episodes like the 2020 EFP dislocation and the 2024–25 tariff-driven trans-Atlantic metal migration were visible first in exactly these datasets plus delivery notices — they drive futures/spot basis, calendar spreads, and squeeze risk in SI/GC that our contracts inherit. Layered on top: ETF holdings (GLD/SLV daily files are effectively a real-time window on Western investment demand), central-bank purchases (the structural bid of the 2022–2026 bull market, tracked monthly by the World Gold Council from IMF IFS data), and Eastern physical demand proxies (SGE benchmark premium/discount vs London, India import duty and premia).

The cost structure of this category is favorable: nearly everything is free — CME's stocks/delivery PDFs and XLS files, LBMA clearing/vault data, GLD/SLV files, Goldhub, IMF, SGE/SHFE reports, Swiss customs, India trade statistics, the World Silver Survey PDF. The two friction points are (1) access engineering, not money — CME and US Mint file URLs return 403 to datacenter IPs (verified live 2026-07-11), so scraping needs browser-like clients or residential egress; and (2) licensing, where LBMA benchmark prices require an IBA licence for valuation/pricing use (fee schedule verified in the IBA entry below) and the full LBMA-i OTC trade data is a commercial Nasdaq product. The genuinely commercial layer (Metals Focus, CPM Group, GFMS-legacy research) is annual-frequency analysis, useful for regime context but not for daily signals.

Free / official sources

CME COMEX Warehouse & Depository Stocks (Gold/Silver daily)

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What it isDaily per-depository COMEX warehouse stock reports: registered, eligible and total troy ounces for Gold and Silver, published on the NYMEX/COMEX delivery notices & stocks page
CoverageDeliverable stocks backing GC/SI — the settlement anchors for 1OZ, QO, QI, SIC; also copper/platinum/palladium on same page
GranularityDaily snapshot, per depository, registered vs eligible split
History depthEach file is point-in-time only; no free official archive — history via CME DataMine "Historical Registrar Data" or third-party aggregators (MetalCharts, GoldChartsRUs)
Latency / updatesDaily; third-party trackers report files "typically available by early evening US Eastern Time" (MetalCharts COMEX page) — verify exact posting time
Access methodDirect .xls download (Gold_Stocks.xls / Silver_stocks.xls). Caveat: URLs returned HTTP 403 to a datacenter IP with browser UA on 2026-07-11 — CME bot protection; needs browser-like session or residential egress
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.cmegroup.com/solutions/clearing/operations-and-deliveries/nymex-delivery-notices.html
Licensing / redistributionCME market-data terms; internal research use tolerated in practice, redistribution restricted — Unknown — verify against CME data terms
Reliability caveatsRegistered/eligible reclassifications can move totals without physical flow; per-depository restatements occur; must self-archive daily to build history
Best forDaily deliverable-supply signal for GC/SI (and hence all four target contracts); squeeze/stress monitoring

CME COMEX/NYMEX Metal Delivery Notices (Issues & Stops)

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What it isDaily, month-to-date and year-to-date delivery notices per metal, per firm (issues = deliveries made, stops = deliveries taken): daily PDF, MTD, YTD, listed on the delivery notices page
CoverageAll COMEX/NYMEX metals including GC/SI (deliverable parents of our contracts); QO/QI delivery activity where applicable; 1OZ/SIC are financially settled so never appear as deliveries
GranularityDaily, by clearing firm (house/customer), by contract month
History depthRolling files only (daily/MTD/YTD); older history requires self-archiving or CME DataMine
Latency / updatesPublished each business day (run-date stamped in PDF); exact posting time Unknown — verify
Access methodPDF download (same 403-to-datacenter-IP caveat as stocks files, observed 2026-07-11)
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.cmegroup.com/solutions/clearing/operations-and-deliveries/nymex-delivery-notices.html
Licensing / redistributionCME terms; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsPDF format requires parsing; firm-level attribution only for clearing members, not beneficial owners
Best forDetecting large physical takers/makers around first notice day; delivery-cycle pressure on GC/SI spreads

CME Registrar Reports (deliverable commodities, receipts & shipments)

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What it isRegistrar's Office reports: warehouse & depository stocks, deliverable commodities (registered warrants by zone), daily receipts and shipments
CoverageGold, silver, copper, platinum, palladium, aluminum, zinc, lead
GranularityDaily/periodic, per depository
History depthCurrent files on page (July 2026 observed); "Historical Registrar Data" offered through CME DataMine
Latency / updatesDaily/periodic; Unknown — verify exact schedule
Access methodExcel (.xls/.xlsx) and CSV downloads; contact registrar@cmegroup.com
CostFree for current files (as of 2026-07-11); DataMine historical is paid — Contact sales
Pricing pagehttps://www.cmegroup.com/clearing/operations-and-deliveries/registrar-reports.html
Licensing / redistributionCME terms; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsSame CME bot-protection issue for automated downloads; format changes between legacy CBOT and current products
Best forCross-checking warehouse stock flows (receipts/shipments) against headline stock changes

LBMA Gold Price & LBMA Silver Price (IBA benchmarks)

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What it isThe London OTC benchmarks: LBMA Gold Price set 10:30 & 15:00 London, Silver Price at 12:00 noon, administered by ICE Benchmark Administration
CoverageGold and silver benchmark auction prices in USD (GBP/EUR indicative) — the OTC reference our COMEX contracts arbitrage against
GranularityAuction prints: 2×/day gold, 1×/day silver
History depthLong history (fixings lineage to 1919 gold / 1897 silver via successor datasets); tabulated tables moved to the MyLBMA portal — non-members can create a free profile; Goldhub carries gold prices from 1978
Latency / updatesReal-time from IBA (licensed); free access is delayed/tabulated; not published weekends/UK bank holidays
Access methodMyLBMA portal tables (free profile); IBA feed/vendors (licensed); ICE developer catalog
CostFree for personal viewing of tables; a licence from IBA is required to "obtain, use or redistribute real-time or historical benchmark data" for valuation/pricing/transactions (LBMA prices page); see IBA fee schedule entry below for verified fees
Pricing pagehttps://www.ice.com/iba/lbma-gold-silver-price
Licensing / redistributionIBA Master Licence Agreement required for usage in valuation/pricing; redistribution via ICE Data Quote Vendor Agreement
Reliability caveatsFormer Quandl/Nasdaq free mirror LBMA/GOLD was discontinued (~late 2023) (last data 28-Dec-2023; the documentation URL itself now returns 404) — do not build on it
Best forOfficial AM/PM marks for London-vs-COMEX (EFP-proxy) spread features; long-history gold/silver daily series

LBMA Clearing Statistics (monthly OTC settlement volumes)

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What it isMonthly clearing statistics: daily-average volume (Moz), value (USD) and number of loco-London transfers settled by the four LPMCL clearers (HSBC, ICBC Standard, JPMorgan, UBS)
CoverageGold and silver loco-London — the OTC leg of the London–COMEX arb
GranularityMonthly (daily averages)
History depthSince October 1996 (unverified — start date not stated on the cited FAQ page, the clearing-data page, or the LBMA OTC Guide when fetched 2026-07-11; October 1996 corroborated only by third-party sources)
Latency / updatesMonthly, published in arrears — verify exact publication day
Access methodLBMA website tables/articles; MyLBMA portal downloads
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.lbma.org.uk/prices-and-data/clearing-data
Licensing / redistributionLBMA website terms; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsNet settlement figures understate gross turnover (netting); only four clearers; methodology notes in FAQs
Best forMonthly gauge of London OTC activity; long-run liquidity regime classification

LBMA London Vault Holdings (monthly)

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What it isMonthly gold and silver holdings in London vaults (Bank of England + 7 commercial custodians); June 2026: 9,464 t gold, 28,082 t silver (page viewed 2026-07-11)
CoverageAll physical forms (wholesale bars, coin, kilo bars) within M25 London area
GranularityMonthly totals, gold and silver separately
History depthFrom July 2016
Latency / updatesPublished ~5th business day of month, one month in arrears
Access methodWeb page + downloadable Excel file
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.lbma.org.uk/prices-and-data/london-vault-data
Licensing / redistributionLBMA terms; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsOne-month lag blunts trading value; includes BoE (official-sector custody) so commercial float must be inferred; occasional restatements
Best forThe London side of the London↔New York stock migration trades; free-float estimates for silver squeezes

SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) daily holdings & historical archive

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What it isThe largest gold ETF's daily data: historical archive XLSX from the GLD historical data page, plus HSBC/JPM gold bar lists
CoverageGLD only, but GLD is the single best daily proxy for Western gold investment demand affecting GC → 1OZ/QO
GranularityDaily; columns verified by downloading the file 2026-07-11: Date, Closing Price, Ounces of Gold per Share, NAV/Share 10:30am NYT, indicative price, mid, premium/discount, share volume, Total Ounces of Gold in the Trust, Tonnes of Gold, Total NAV
History depthInception 18-Nov-2004 through current (file downloaded 2026-07-11 ran to 09-Jul-2026; 5,645 daily rows)
Latency / updatesDaily after US close; archive regenerated daily
Access methodDirect XLSX endpoint (returned HTTP 200 to a datacenter IP on 2026-07-11 — no bot-blocking, unlike CME); bar lists as PDF/CSV
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.spdrgoldshares.com/usa/historical-data/
Licensing / redistributionWGC/State Street site terms; internal research use — Unknown — verify redistribution
Reliability caveatsTrade-date vs settlement-date basis differs from bar list; holdings changes reflect AP activity not retail sentiment 1:1
Best forThe workhorse daily gold ETF flow series — free, complete since 2004, machine-readable

iShares Silver Trust (SLV) daily holdings

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What it isLargest silver ETF; product page shows daily "Ounces in Trust" (478,130,176.90 oz as of Jul 10, 2026, viewed 2026-07-11), Excel data download, and JPMorgan bar list
CoverageSLV only; best single daily proxy for silver investment demand affecting SI → QI/SIC
GranularityDaily
History depthFund inception 2006; the on-page Excel download covers NAV/price history — full historical ounces-in-trust series is not offered as a clean official file (third parties, e.g. MacroMicro, reconstruct it) — verify (unverified — MacroMicro page returned HTTP 403 to fetches on 2026-07-11)
Latency / updatesDaily, trade-date basis
Access methodWeb page scrape + XLS "Data Download" + bar-list PDF
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.ishares.com/us/products/239855/ishares-silver-trust-fund
Licensing / redistributionBlackRock site terms; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsOunces-in-trust needs daily self-archiving for a proper history; trade-date vs bar-list accounting mismatch documented on page
Best forDaily silver ETF flows; complement with other silver ETPs (PSLV, SIVR) for completeness
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What it isWGC's data portal (gold.org/goldhub/data): quarterly Gold Demand Trends with Excel tables, gold reserves by country from IMF IFS, monthly central-bank statistics posts, global gold-ETF holdings/flows, prices from 1978, local premiums/discounts for India & China, mine production, AISC costs, above-ground stocks
CoverageGold globally (demand by sector/country, official sector, 100+ ETFs); directly relevant to 1OZ/QO; no silver
GranularityQuarterly (GDT), monthly (central banks, ETF Excel), weekly (ETF flows, posted Mondays)
History depthDemand/supply series decades-long; ETF series ~2003+; prices from 1978 — verify per dataset
Latency / updatesGDT quarterly; ETF weekly data "Monday of the following week"; monthly Excel "within one week of month-end"; IMF-sourced reserve data ~2 months in arrears
Access methodWeb + Excel/PDF downloads; some datasets prompt free registration — verify per file
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.gold.org/goldhub/data
Licensing / redistributionWGC terms; underlying demand estimates produced with Metals Focus — redistribution restricted; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsCentral-bank data limited by IMF reporting lags and unreported buying (e.g., partial PBoC disclosure); GDT revisions between quarters
Best forOne-stop gold fundamentals: official-sector flow tracking, global ETF flows beyond GLD, India/China premium context

IMF Data Portal — IFS / IRFCL official gold reserves

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What it isIMF's data portal with IRFCL (International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity) and IFS datasets carrying monthly official reserve assets including gold (volume and USD value), with a REST API
CoverageAll reporting member countries' official gold holdings — the raw feed behind WGC central-bank statistics
GranularityMonthly (some quarterly reporters)
History depthDecades (per-country); IRFCL template data ~2000+ — verify per country
Latency / updates~2 months in arrears for most reporters; late reporters longer (WGC methodology note)
Access methodWeb download + JSON API (e.g., CompactData/IRFCL queries; support datahelp@imf.org)
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://data.imf.org/en
Licensing / redistributionIMF data terms — generally free reuse with attribution; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsSelf-reported; some central banks under-report or report with long lags; portal/API migrated in 2024–25 (old sdmx endpoints deprecated) — verify current endpoint syntax
Best forPoint-of-truth official-sector gold series for research; cross-check on WGC numbers

Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) — benchmark price & reports

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What it isSGE English data portal: Shanghai Gold Benchmark Price (SHAU) daily chart, Silver benchmark, daily, weekly, monthly and annual trading reports
CoverageChinese onshore gold/silver: benchmark fixes (RMB/gram, 1 kg 99.99% lots, AM/PM since April 2016), volumes, deliveries; vault withdrawals (Chinese wholesale demand proxy) appear in monthly reports after weekly publication stopped in 2016
GranularityTwice-daily benchmark; daily/weekly/monthly reports
History depthBenchmark from April 2016; reports archive on site — verify depth
Latency / updatesSame-day for benchmark; monthly reports lag ~weeks
Access methodWeb pages (English site); no documented API; site is IE-era and flaky from outside China — scraping fragile
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://en.sge.com.cn/data_BenchmarkPrice
Licensing / redistributionSGE terms; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsEnglish site availability issues (DNS failure observed for www. subdomain 2026-07-11; en.sge.com.cn worked); withdrawal figures' interpretation contested; commercial mirrors: CEIC, Kitco Shanghai fix page, MetalCharts SGE
Best forComputing the Shanghai–London/COMEX premium (Chinese demand signal that leads/lags gold rallies)

Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) — gold/silver warehouse stocks

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What it isSHFE English reports section with weekly warehouse stock data and daily data for gold and silver futures
CoverageChinese exchange inventories — third leg of the global visible-stock triangle (COMEX + LBMA + SHFE/SGE)
GranularityWeekly stocks (Friday); daily trading data
History depthYears of archives on site — verify depth; long series via CEIC (SHFE silver stock series)
Latency / updatesWeekly publication after Friday close (Beijing time)
Access methodWeb download from SHFE English site (unverified — page served only a WAF human-verification challenge to our datacenter IP on 2026-07-11); free aggregator MetalCharts SHFE
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.shfe.com.cn/eng/reports/
Licensing / redistributionSHFE terms; Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsEnglish pages lag Chinese; site structure changes; units in tonnes/kg (convert to oz)
Best forDetecting East–West silver/gold stock migration (e.g., SHFE silver drawdowns during 2024–26 squeeze episodes)

JPX / Osaka Exchange (ex-TOCOM) precious metals

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What it isJapanese gold/silver futures — Gold Standard Futures moved from TOCOM to OSE in July 2020; daily reports (OSE, TOCOM) as ZIP downloads
CoverageJPY-denominated gold (and related mini/options) — venue for yen-gold basis and Asian-hours flow context; not a stocks/fundamentals source per se
GranularityDaily settlement, volume, open interest files
History depthArchive of daily reports on JPX site — verify depth
Latency / updatesEOD daily; real-time is a paid service requiring an Information Provision Agreement
Access methodZIP/CSV downloads from statistics pages (free EOD); paid feed for real-time
CostFree EOD statistics; real-time Contact sales (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.jpx.co.jp/english/markets/paid-info-derivatives/realtime/index.html
Licensing / redistributionJPX data licence for redistribution/real-time
Reliability caveatsJPX site returned 403 to our fetch of one landing page (bot protection) while statistics URLs are indexed — verify programmatic access; contract in JPY/gram
Best forYen-gold cross-market confirmation; Asia-session positioning context for 1OZ/QO overnight moves

India — TRADESTAT gold imports, import-duty tracking, IBJA prices

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What it isOfficial Indian trade statistics via TRADESTAT commodity-wise imports (Ministry of Commerce/DGCI&S), duty-change analysis via WGC (duty cut 15%→6% effective 24 July 2024), and daily benchmark local prices from IBJA (Gold 999/995 AM & PM, Silver 999)
CoverageWorld's #2 gold consumer: monthly import values/volumes (HS 71 gold), duty regime, domestic price benchmark used by RBI for sovereign gold bonds
GranularityMonthly imports; daily AM/PM IBJA rates (business days)
History depthTRADESTAT commodity-wise from fiscal year 2017–18 only — the portal's year dropdown offers 2017-18 through 2025-26 (as of 2026-07-11); IBJA rates multi-year PDF archives
Latency / updatesTrade data ~2–7 weeks after month-end (EIDB last updated 19/05/2026 per portal); IBJA intraday twice daily
Access methodTRADESTAT web query forms (no API — scraping required); IBJA website/PDFs; unofficial India gold rates API exists — unvetted
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://tradestat.commerce.gov.in/eidb/commodity_wise_import
Licensing / redistributionGovernment of India open data; IBJA terms Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsImport data revisions; smuggling flows invisible (duty-sensitive); Reuters-reported dealer premia/discounts are the higher-frequency demand signal but are behind Reuters licensing
Best forMonthly Indian physical demand; duty-change event risk (budget days move world gold via import elasticity); local premium/discount construction vs LBMA price

Swiss Federal Customs (BAZG) — Swiss-Impex gold trade flows

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What it isSwitzerland is the world's refining hub; BAZG publishes foreign trade statistics for gold, silver and coins with the free SwissImpex database/dashboard (new version live since December 2025)
CoverageMonthly gold/silver imports & exports by 8-digit tariff line and counterparty country — the best public tracker of physical metal flows between London, Switzerland, China, India, US
GranularityMonthly, by country and tariff number
History depthMonthly since 1988 by tariff number and country; gold-by-country aggregates from 2021 on I14Y platform
Latency / updatesMonthly, ~3 weeks after month-end — verify exact schedule
Access methodSwissImpex dashboard, I14Y/opendata.swiss bulk downloads (CSV)
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.bazg.admin.ch/en/swiss-foreign-trade-statistics-database-opendata
Licensing / redistributionOpen use with source attribution; commercial use requires permission of the data owner (opendata.swiss terms, verified 2026-07-11)
Reliability caveatsTariff-line mapping needed (7108.x); re-exports vs refining throughput ambiguity; free aggregator WatchGold charts this data
Best forConfirming East–West physical migration seen in COMEX/LBMA stocks; monthly flow direction between hubs

Silver Institute — World Silver Survey & supply/demand tables

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What it isAnnual World Silver Survey, published since 1990, researched and produced by Metals Focus; plus supply & demand summary tables on the website
CoverageGlobal silver: mine production, recycling, industrial demand (incl. PV), jewelry, investment, ETPs, above-ground stocks — the canonical silver fundamentals for QI/SIC
GranularityAnnual (survey); interim press updates
History depthPDFs downloadable back to a 1950–1990 retrospective volume, then annually 1991→current
Latency / updatesPublished each April (verify month for 2026 edition)
Access methodPDF downloads from website
CostFree PDFs (as of 2026-07-11); print/companion items may be sold — verify
Pricing pagehttps://www.silverinstitute.org/all-world-silver-surveys/
Licensing / redistributionCopyright Silver Institute/Metals Focus; quote with attribution; no redistribution of tables
Reliability caveatsAnnual estimates with revisions; "market balance" concepts contested; data is Metals Focus's, so consistency with their paid services, not with CPM Group's numbers
Best forSilver supply/demand regime context (structural deficits 2021+ narrative); calibrating long-horizon priors, not daily signals

USGS National Minerals Information Center — gold & silver statistics

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What it isUSGS gold statistics: annual Mineral Commodity Summaries (1996–2026), Minerals Yearbook (Excel), monthly Mineral Industry Surveys; matching silver pages
CoverageUS and world mine production, prices, apparent consumption for gold and silver
GranularityAnnual (MCS/Yearbook), monthly (MIS)
History depthMCS 1996–2026 online; Yearbook volumes 1994–2022
Latency / updatesAnnual; monthly MIS posting "temporarily paused" pending data-platform transition, December 2025 latest posted (page viewed 2026-07-11)
Access methodFree PDF/XLSX downloads
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center/gold-statistics-and-information
Licensing / redistributionUS government public domain
Reliability caveatsSlow cadence; MIS pause creates a current-data hole; production data revised
Best forClean public-domain mine-supply series for features/priors; cross-check on WGC/Metals Focus supply numbers

Mint bullion sales — US Mint & Perth Mint (retail demand proxies)

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What it isUS Mint bullion sales figures (American Eagle gold/silver ounces sold to APs, with tidy CSVs); Perth Mint monthly sales updates (gold/silver ounces shipped), tracked historically by CoinNews
CoverageWestern retail coin/bar demand — leading indicator for the retail bid CME explicitly cited when launching 1OZ and SIC
GranularityMonthly (both mints); US Mint site says bullion figures updated quarterly in bulk files — verify
History depthUS Mint program data to 1986 (Eagles); Perth Mint monthly series ~2012+ via blog/CoinNews — verify
Latency / updatesUS Mint rolling; Perth Mint ~mid following month
Access methodUS Mint web pages + CSV (CSV returned 403 to datacenter IP on 2026-07-11 — same scraping caveat as CME); Perth Mint blog posts (scrape)
CostFree (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://www.usmint.gov/about/production-sales-figures/bullion-sales
Licensing / redistributionUS Mint public domain; Perth Mint site terms Unknown — verify
Reliability caveatsAP-channel sales ≠ retail sell-through; supply-constrained months look like demand collapses; Perth Mint data is blog-format (parsing)
Best forMonthly retail-demand factor; notable regime signal (e.g., Silver Eagle sales hitting zero in May 2026 per FindBullionPrices)

Monetary Metals — MM GOFO™ / lease rates (GOFO successor)

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What it isLBMA discontinued GOFO on 30 January 2015; Monetary Metals publishes proprietary daily gold/silver forward rates (MM GOFO™/MM SIFO™) and lease rates derived from public market data, plus basis/cobasis charts on its data-science charts page
CoverageGold and silver funding/scarcity indicators — the only regularly published GOFO-like series
GranularityDaily
History depthUnknown — verify (their basis series reportedly extends 1996+)
Latency / updatesUpdated daily (per their chart-licensing announcements)
Access methodWebsite charts (free); licensed chart syndication (e.g., Goldseiten); raw-data download/API Unknown — verify
CostFree charts (as of 2026-07-11); data licensing Contact sales
Pricing pagehttps://www.monetary-metals.com/data-science-charts/
Licensing / redistributionProprietary; chart embedding by licence
Reliability caveatsModel-derived, not transacted rates; firm has commercial interest in gold-yield products; alternative: compute implied lease from COMEX futures curve minus SOFR yourself
Best forScarcity/backwardation features for gold and silver (squeeze detection feeding SI→SIC/QI)

MetalCharts.org (free aggregator: COMEX, LBMA, SHFE, SGE)

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What it isFree dashboard aggregating COMEX registered/eligible inventories and deliveries, LBMA vault + clearing data, SHFE inventory, SGE trading/benchmark, premiums and COT
CoverageExactly this category's core datasets, pre-joined; gold + silver
GranularityDaily (COMEX), weekly (SHFE), monthly (LBMA)
History depthLong-term trend charts; raw download depth Unknown — verify
Latency / updatesCOMEX "typically available by early evening US Eastern Time" per site
Access methodWeb charts; no documented API/download — verify
CostCore free; Premium $90/year (portfolio + terminal), Ad-Free $50/year — pricing page viewed as of 2026-07-11
Pricing pagehttps://metalcharts.org/pricing
Licensing / redistributionSite terms; it is a re-publisher — not a licensed source for redistribution
Reliability caveatsThird-party scrape of primary sources — verify against primaries before production use; no SLA
Best forFast visual monitoring and sanity-checking your own scrapers of CME/LBMA/SHFE primaries

Commercial sources

ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) — LBMA price licensing & feeds

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What it isAdministrator of LBMA Gold/Silver Prices; sells real-time/historical benchmark data and usage licences
CoverageLBMA Gold Price (2×/day), LBMA Silver Price (1×/day)
GranularityAuction results + intraday auction rounds (licensed)
History depthFull benchmark history (and predecessor fixings) via licensed feeds/vendors
Latency / updatesReal-time (licensed); intraday = 4-hour delay tier; delayed = after midnight UK
Access methodICE feeds, developer catalog, market-data vendors
CostFrom the IBA Licensing and Data Fee Schedule 2025 PDF (downloaded and read 2026-07-11): Gold usage licence $30,000/yr financial institution, $17,000 central bank, $8,000 non-financial; Silver usage $15,000 / $8,000 / $4,000; redistribution (gold) $33,000/yr + $33/end-user/month real-time, $24,000/yr intraday (4-hr delay), $9,000/yr delayed; silver redistribution $33,000 + $28/user/mo. 2026 schedule URL not yet live (404 on 2026-07-11) — verify for updates
Pricing pagehttps://www.ice.com/publicdocs/IBA_Licensing_Data_Fee_Schedule_2025.pdf
Licensing / redistributionMaster Licence Agreement (usage), ICE Data Quote Vendor Agreement (redistribution); usage licence triggered by valuation/pricing/reference-rate use even of historical data
Reliability caveatsFee schedule revised annually; whether pure internal backtesting counts as licensable "valuation and pricing activities" is a legal-review question
Best forOnly needed if LBMA prices become a settlement/valuation input in production; for research, free delayed tables suffice

Nasdaq — LBMA-i Trade Data (full OTC transparency dataset)

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What it isLBMA Trade Data operated by Nasdaq under licence from LBMA: mandatory trade reporting by LBMA members — spot, swap/forward, options, loan/lease/deposit volumes
CoverageLondon OTC gold & silver (plus Pt/Pd) — the hidden half of global gold turnover
GranularityDaily and weekly aggregates by product/tenor
History depthSince reporting began November 2018 — verify
Latency / updatesWeekly headline (free on LBMA site, e.g. 12-week moving averages viewed 2026-07-11: gold $968.94bn, silver $167.59bn); full granular data on subscription
Access methodNasdaq, Bloomberg (ALLX LBWU), LSEG Eikon (LBMA TRADE)
CostContact sales (as of 2026-07-11); no public price list
Pricing pagehttps://www.nasdaq.com/LBMA-Trade-Data
Licensing / redistributionNasdaq/LBMA data licence; redistribution restricted
Reliability caveatsAggregated (no counterparty detail); methodology changes since 2018; weekly free tier is enough for most factor work
Best forOTC volume/turnover features; validating whether COMEX moves are echoed in London flow

Metals Focus (Gold Focus, World Silver Survey research, data services)

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What it isIndependent precious-metals consultancy: annual Gold Focus, produces the Silver Institute's World Silver Survey, five-year quarterly forecasts, mine cost services, doré flow tracking, weekly updates, India-focused reports
CoverageGold + silver supply/demand at country/sector level; also underpins WGC Gold Demand Trends
GranularityAnnual flagship + quarterly forecast + weekly commentary; bespoke datasets
History depthTheir databases extend decades — Unknown — verify
Latency / updatesAnnual/quarterly/weekly per product
Access methodClient portal, PDF/Excel deliverables
CostContact sales (as of 2026-07-11); no pricing published on site
Pricing pagehttps://www.metalsfocus.com/
Licensing / redistributionSubscription licence; no redistribution
Reliability caveatsEstimate-based (physical markets are opaque); differs materially from CPM Group on some balances
Best forInstitutional-grade supply/demand baselines if budget allows; otherwise their free previews + WGC/Silver Institute publications carry the same numbers

CPM Group (Gold/Silver Yearbooks, consulting)

FieldValue
What it isNY-based commodities research firm; annual Gold Yearbook and Silver Yearbook with long-run supply/demand/inventory statistics; independent methodology vs Metals Focus
CoverageGold, silver (also PGMs): mine production, secondary supply, fabrication, investment, market balances, historical prices
GranularityAnnual publications; underlying data services bespoke
History depthYearbook statistical series span decades (some to 1960s–70s) — verify
Latency / updatesYearbooks each spring (2026 Gold Yearbook launched at March/April seminar)
Access methodE-book/PDF purchase from store
CostContact sales — cpmgroup.com returned HTTP 403 to our fetches on 2026-07-11 (bot-blocked), so price not verified on live page; search-indexed store listing showed Gold Yearbook 2026 at $170 (e-book) — unofficial, verify
Pricing pagehttps://cpmgroup.com/store/cpm-gold-yearbook-2026/
Licensing / redistributionSingle-user e-book licence; no redistribution
Reliability caveatsDifferent definitions from Metals Focus/WGC (e.g., treatment of investment demand) — don't mix vendors' series in one model without reconciliation
Best forCheap second opinion on silver/gold balances; deep historical statistical annexes

GoldChartsRUs / Sharelynx (Nick Laird) — historical metals data warehouse

FieldValue
What it isGoldChartsRUs: 7,000+ pages / 50,000+ charts updated daily — long-run COMEX warehouse stocks, ETF/"transparent" metal holdings totals, COT, lease rates, mint sales, premiums; sells underlying datasets à la carte ("Gold Market Data")
CoveragePrecisely the hard part of this category: deep history for series whose official sources publish point-in-time files only (COMEX stocks, ETF holdings aggregates)
GranularityDaily for most series
History depthDecades (COMEX stocks reportedly to 1970s–90s) — Unknown — verify per series
Latency / updatesDaily update service offered
Access methodSubscription website (charts) + purchased CSV datasets
CostContact sales (as of 2026-07-11) — described on site as "low-cost annual subscription," specific prices not displayed on homepage; historical community reports ~US$200/yr (unofficial)
Pricing pagehttps://www.goldchartsrus.com/
Licensing / redistributionPersonal-use subscription; dataset purchases for internal use; no redistribution
Reliability caveatsOne-man operation (key-person risk); provenance/QA of stitched histories must be spot-checked against primary archives
Best forBuying 20+ years of COMEX warehouse-stock and ETF-holdings history in one transaction instead of scraping forward from today

CME DataMine — historical registrar / warehouse & delivery data

FieldValue
What it isCME's historical data store (datamine.cmegroup.com); the registrar reports page directs users to DataMine for "Historical Registrar Data"
CoverageHistorical COMEX warehouse stocks, deliverable commodities, receipts/shipments; plus the whole CME historical market-data catalog
GranularityDaily historical files
History depthUnknown — verify (varies by dataset)
Latency / updatesHistorical batch
Access methodDataMine web/API, S3-style downloads
CostContact sales / per-dataset pricing (as of 2026-07-11)
Pricing pagehttps://datamine.cmegroup.com
Licensing / redistributionCME data licence; internal use; redistribution extra
Reliability caveatsRegistrar datasets are a niche corner of DataMine — confirm exact product name/coverage with CME rep before budgeting
Best forAuthoritative backfill of warehouse-stock/delivery history if GoldChartsRUs provenance is deemed insufficient

CEIC / Argus / Fastmarkets — Asian stocks & premia mirrors (assessed data)

FieldValue
What it isCommercial mirrors and assessments where primaries are hard to scrape: CEIC SGE benchmark series and SHFE warehouse-stock series; Argus SHFE silver warehouse stocks price page; Fastmarkets/Reuters assess regional bullion premia (India dealer premium/discount, kilobar premia)
CoverageChina/India physical-market series in clean API form
GranularityDaily/weekly/monthly per series
History depthCEIC SGE benchmark 2016→current; SHFE stock series multi-year
Latency / updatesNext-day typically
Access methodCEIC platform/API; Argus/Fastmarkets platforms
CostContact sales (as of 2026-07-11) for all three
Pricing pagehttps://www.ceicdata.com/en
Licensing / redistributionVendor licences; no redistribution
Reliability caveatsRe-published/assessed data — premium assessments are judgment-based; expensive relative to scraping the free primaries
Best forBuying reliability for the China/India premium feature set if free-scrape maintenance proves too costly

LSEG (Refinitiv, ex-GFMS) — precious metals research & Eikon data

FieldValue
What it isLegacy GFMS gold/silver survey franchise absorbed into LSEG; Eikon/Workspace carries LBMA-i (LBMA TRADE app), Reuters India premium/discount reporting, and metals fundamentals content. Current standalone GFMS survey status Unknown — verify
CoverageGold/silver supply-demand estimates, OTC data mirrors, physical-premium news wires
GranularityMixed: annual research, daily news-based premia
History depthGFMS survey lineage to 1967 (Gold Survey) — Unknown — verify current availability
Latency / updatesPlatform real-time/daily
Access methodLSEG Workspace/Eikon subscription
CostContact sales (as of 2026-07-11); terminal-bundled
Pricing pagehttps://www.lseg.com/en/data-analytics
Licensing / redistributionLSEG terms; no redistribution
Reliability caveatsGFMS-branded annual surveys were discontinued/rebranded after 2019 — verify what fundamentals content still exists before paying
Best forShops already paying for Workspace; India premium wire coverage

Summary table

SourceFree tier?Entry costBest for
CME warehouse stocks (Gold/Silver .xls)YesFree (scraping engineering needed)Daily deliverable stocks behind GC/SI
CME Issues & Stops delivery noticesYesFreeDelivery-cycle pressure, big stoppers
CME Registrar ReportsYesFree (history via DataMine, paid)Receipts/shipments cross-check
LBMA Gold/Silver Prices (via MyLBMA)Yes (delayed tables)Free; IBA licence $8k–$30k/yr for usageOfficial London marks
LBMA Clearing StatisticsYesFreeMonthly OTC settlement volumes (since Oct 1996 — unverified)
LBMA London Vault HoldingsYesFreeLondon stock levels since 2016
GLD historical archive (SPDR)YesFreeDaily gold ETF holdings since 2004
SLV daily holdings (iShares)YesFreeDaily silver ETF holdings
WGC Goldhub (GDT, CB stats, ETF flows, premia)YesFreeGold demand, central banks, global ETFs
IMF Data Portal (IFS/IRFCL)YesFreeOfficial gold reserves, monthly, API
SGE benchmark & reportsYesFreeShanghai premium, Chinese demand
SHFE weekly stocksYesFreeChinese exchange inventories
JPX/OSE daily reportsYes (EOD)Free; real-time contact salesYen-gold context
India TRADESTAT + IBJAYesFreeIndian imports, duty, local prices
Swiss BAZG SwissImpexYesFreePhysical flow routing via Switzerland
Silver Institute World Silver SurveyYesFree PDFsSilver S/D baseline
USGS NMICYesFreeMine supply, public domain
US Mint / Perth Mint salesYesFreeRetail coin/bar demand proxy
Monetary Metals MM GOFO/lease ratesYes (charts)Free; data licence contact salesGOFO-successor scarcity signal
MetalCharts.orgYesFree; $50–$90/yr premium (as of 2026-07-11)Aggregated monitoring
IBA (ICE) benchmark licensingNo$8k–$33k/yr tiers (2025 schedule, verified)Production licensing of LBMA prices
Nasdaq LBMA-i full trade dataWeekly summary freeContact salesOTC volumes by product
Metals FocusPreviews onlyContact salesInstitutional S/D data
CPM Group YearbooksNo~$170/yearbook (unofficial, site gated)Independent second opinion
GoldChartsRUs / SharelynxSamplesContact sales (~$200/yr unofficial)Deep history backfill
CME DataMine (registrar history)NoContact salesAuthoritative stock/delivery history
CEIC / Argus / FastmarketsNoContact salesChina/India series with SLA
LSEG (ex-GFMS)NoContact salesTerminal-bundled fundamentals