Gold price chart, last 90 days
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And silver over the same window, for everyone weighing both:
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What does gold price history mean when you want to sell?
Two honest readings. First, the level: gold near the top of its own 90-day range means your jewelry, coins and scrap are worth more today than almost any day this quarter, in plain dollars. Second, the volatility: the wider the swings, the more it costs to wait, in both directions.
What history cannot do is predict the next move; nobody selling you a forecast has one. The decision you actually control is whether you sell to a buyer who prices from the live number with the math in view, or one who prices from a number you cannot check. The first kind is what this page and our counters run on.
Turn the level into your number: the gold calculator by weight and karat, or the per-gram table for every karat at a glance, both against the same live feed.
Price of gold over the last 10, 20, 30 and 50 years: graph and value chart
The 90-day chart above shows the market you are selling into this month. The longer story is simple to summarize: across the last 50 years gold has moved through long flat decades and sharp bull runs, with major peaks in 1980, 2011 and the 2020s. Over the last 20 years the trend has been strongly upward, which is why so much inherited jewelry is worth more than its owners remember paying.
A 10, 20, 30 or 50 year graph is useful context, but no historical value chart changes what a buyer pays today: only the live price does. That number is on the gold price today page, and it is the one we quote from at the counter.
Today's price is on this page. Whether it becomes your payout depends on the buyer: watch it tested, watch it weighed, get paid the same day.
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What is the gold silver ratio?
The gold silver ratio is how many ounces of silver one ounce of gold buys, computed from the two live prices above. Traders watch it for timing; for a seller it is simpler: both metals are priced live on their own charts here, and you are paid on the number you can see.
Is this a gold price graph, gold cost chart, or market price chart?
Yes: the two charts above are live 90-day graphs of the gold and silver market, drawn from the same feed as every number on this site. Chart, graph, gold cost chart, market price chart: whatever you call it, this one redraws itself and cannot go stale.
Where does this price history come from?
A live market data feed, the same one that powers every price on this site and the numbers our counters pay from. The chart redraws itself from that feed, so it cannot show an outdated history the way hand-built charts do.
Does gold mining supply move the price?
Slowly. Gold mining adds only a small percentage to the above-ground supply each year, so day-to-day moves come from investment demand, currencies and rates, not mine output. That is why the metal in a decades-old ring prices exactly like newly mined gold.
Should I wait for the gold price to go higher before selling?
Nobody can time it, including us. History shows ranges, not futures. If gold sits near its recent highs, the waiting game risks more than it offers; if you would only regret selling at a clearly low point, the chart at least tells you where today sits in the range.
Does the historical price change what a buyer pays?
No. Every honest offer prices from the live number at the moment you sell: weight times tested purity times today's price, minus a stated margin. History is context for your decision, never part of the formula.
Why does your chart differ slightly from other sites?
Daily closes can be recorded at different cutoff hours by different feeds, so two accurate 90-day charts can differ by small amounts on any given day. Large differences mean one chart is stale; this one stamps its update time.