BullionMarketCap pulls the data, positioning, and macro signals that matter for gold and silver into one free dashboard. Each indicator answers a different question about the precious metals market — and they work best when you read them in order.
Four cards, top to bottom. If they disagree, trust the Cycle Tracker first and look for confirmation from the other three.
Cycle Tracker — the big picture
Fear & Greed + Macro Playbook — is the setup real?
Gold/Silver ratio + Capital Rotation — which asset is cheap?
Miner Sentiment — are we early or late on the miners?
Seven tools covering price, sentiment, positioning, macro, and long-horizon rotation. Click any card to open the live indicator.
Where are we in the cycle?
Overlays today against every gold bull run since 1970 and flags how many oil-shock transmission steps have triggered. Tells you whether we are bouncing off a bottom, stuck in a bearish phase, or inside a historical pattern that has paid off every time.
Check this first. When several zones line up on the bullish side, treat the rest of the site as confirmation rather than lead.
Is the crowd positioned for a top or a bottom?
A 0–100 sentiment score per asset (Gold, Silver, GDX, GDXJ) blending momentum, volatility, gold/silver ratio stretch, and miner leverage. Compresses noisy signals into one contrarian read.
Extreme Fear (<25) has historically marked bottoms. Extreme Greed (>75) has historically marked blow-off tops. Pair it with the Cycle Tracker for the best setups.
Should I hold gold or silver right now?
One gold ounce buys N silver ounces. Above 80, silver is cheap. Below 50, gold is cheap. The ratio mean-reverts across cycles — the built-in calculator backtests swap rules against 25+ years of data.
At extremes, swap between the two to compound your ounce count without adding cash. Optimal thresholds are auto-applied; override them to test your own rules.
Time to buy gold in the ground?
Gold-to-miner ratio (XAU / GDX or GDXJ). High readings mean miners are cheap relative to the metal they dig — historically one of the best long setups. Seniors (GDX) are steadier; juniors (GDXJ) amplify both directions.
Use the Miner Sentiment meter on the ETFs page for the current zone and 12-month forward return stats across 20 years of Gold/GDX ratio data.
Are metals cheap vs stocks?
Silver/SPX and Gold/SPX ratios back to 1900. When metals get cheap relative to equities (high ratio), large rotations historically begin — 1932, 1979, 2011. Paired with COMEX COT positioning back to 1986.
Long-horizon signal. The 2000→2012 rotation paid silver +529% and gold +498% while the S&P returned −3%. Use for allocation conviction, not entries.
What has gold done after signals like this?
When HY credit spreads, yield-curve inversions, housing, jobless claims, SLOOS tightening or oil shocks fire, here is what Gold, Silver, GDX and GDXJ have historically done — every cycle since 1976.
Not a timing tool — a conditional playbook. When a macro rule lights up, scan the forward-return table to see what history paid the patient holder.
Who is running to gold and why?
Central banks buy gold when they stop trusting other people’s paper. Heavy accumulation = risk-off, geopolitical stress, deglobalisation. Quiet buying = confidence in the dollar system.
Watch emerging-market buyers. Sustained BRICS accumulation has preceded every major gold leg of the last 20 years. A slow signal — use for conviction, not entries.
Live market data, central bank activity, and historical depth behind every indicator.
Personal utilities that connect what the indicators tell you to what you actually hold.
Track physical gold, silver, platinum and palladium alongside mining stock positions. Live P&L against spot prices — no account required to start.
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