Live Gold Price Chart

Yes, BullionVault gives you direct access to wholesale gold, silver, platinum and palladium at live professional-market prices, starting from as little as 1 gram at a time.

It's important to understand that the spot price shown above on BullionVault's chart is provided for reference. Like the spot price published by other sources (such as Reuters or Bloomberg) it represents the average of many wholesale quotes, and – crucially – it represents the average of those quotes' mid-points.

Spot, in other words, doesn't necessarily reflect a price you might actually get from any individual bank or dealer, and it cannot reflect the spread between prices to buy and prices to sell.

For private investors, only BullionVault gives you direct access to that trading spread, enabling you to set or accept prices as you choose using our live Order Board.

You will benefit from the lowest costs for buying, selling and storing gold. You can also calculate commission and gold storage fees using our cost calculator

Many factors impact the changing price of gold, including supply and demand, central bank monetary policy, inflation and the performance of stock markets and bonds.

Articles and analysis exploring gold and its relationship with the financial markets are published on BullionVault's Gold News each day. Additionally, once you open a BullionVault account, you can opt-in to receive the Weekly Market Update. This weekly email explores and discusses current movements in silver, platinum, palladium and gold prices and the reasons behind them.

Whatever the outlook, choosing to buy gold for investment can make a good idea for spreading risk across a balanced portfolio. That's because the value of gold bullion has, in the past, tended to increase when other investment assets fall over long periods of time. More active traders can also try to time their buying and selling using this live gold price chart.

Historical trends show that investing in gold has made a good if imperfect hedge against poor performance from currencies, shares, bonds and real estate. The idea is to reduce overall losses by using gold to diversify the portfolio's investments across time.

When investing in gold as a way to spread risk, its a good idea to think about costs, security and simplicity. BullionVault addresses these issues to make buying gold cheaper, safer and easier.

Looking at past performance, gold priced in US Dollars rose above $2000 per ounce for the first time in August 2020, jumping as the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent global economic crisis drove investors to seek safety in physical bullion. Gold then regained that level, and also set fresh all-time records in Euros, UK Pounds, Japanese Yen and most other major currencies during the Russian invasion of Ukraine starting in late-February 2022.

Gold bullion is traditionally seen as an insurance policy during economic, financial and even social uncertainty.

Track the changing price of gold, as well as historic trends for the last 20 years, using BullionVault's live gold price chart above.

Yes. US investors can use BullionVault to hold physical gold within a Self-Directed IRA. This allows for the tax benefits of a retirement account combined with the security of offshore or domestic professional vaulting.

The Daily Price of gold is determined by London's biggest bullion banks, who agree on a price to clear their outstanding client and inhouse orders at a fixed time each day. The London Bullion Market Association publishes this price on its website.

The price is determined on UK working weekdays at 3pm London time for gold (midday for silver, 2pm for platinum and palladium). The prices are made public at midnight. Orders are processed shortly after the price is determined using a provisional, estimated price, and then adjusted to the published price on the following working day. Place your order for gold by 2:35pm to secure the daily price shown (11:40am for silver, 1:35pm for platinum and palladium).

No Daily Price is published on Saturday and Sunday, or on certain UK public holidays.

Yes. Ordering at the Daily Price is an easy way to buy and sell gold. Tell us how much you want to trade and we'll do the rest for you.

The actual bullion and cash normally take two working days to settle to your account. For a purchase, your funds stay in your account and are reserved until the bullion is settled. Likewise for a sale, the bullion you are selling is reserved in your account until you receive the cash, typically after two working days.

Open orders are only executed on days when an appropriate gold price is published.

The price of gold can change by the second, led by investment supply and demand as well as by changes in other markets (commodities, stocks or bonds) and also the currency that the investor wishes to use to buy their gold. Currently, the US dollar spot price for 1 ounce of gold is and in Canadian dollars .

However, it's possible to track the real-time changing price of gold, plus daily, weekly, monthly and yearly gold price trends using BullionVault's live gold price chart.