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BullionVault offers different ways to buy (and sell) bullion.
There are four mechanisms for buying bullion on BullionVault’s markets.
Or try to trade at a better price by patiently offering attractive prices to others
This is a simple way to use all your available cash to buy bullion on BullionVault’s markets.
Step 1. | Make sure you are logged in. Press ACCOUNT and then click the BALANCE sub-menu option. |
Step 2. |
You will see your available cash balance Currency. Click on the 'Buy at best price' drop down list, and click the vault you want to own your bullion in. The order panel will be loaded assuming the use of all of the available balance of the currency you selected. In a market where other people are currently quoting prices the price and the approximate order value will be set for you at reasonable values. If these are not loaded there is no current price quoted by sellers, and you will need to decide your price. No cash available? You cannot proceed yet. Check out how to fund your account, or if you need to cancel previous orders to release their reserved cash go to HISTORY >ORDERS select an open buy order and from the order panel and KILL ORDER. |
Step 3. | Adjust your Price and/or the Quantity as required. |
Step 4. | When you're happy with your order press the BUY/BID button, and CONFIRM, as for a normal order entry. Then look below for what happens next. |
The order board lets you watch and grab available opportunities as they arise. To do this you'll need both quick reactions and available resources. You'll need available currency when you wish to buy, and available gold in any vault you wish to sell from. Otherwise your patience will only be rewarded with an 'insufficient funds' error when your order is submitted!
Step 1. | Make sure you are logged in. Press BUY/SELL to get to the order board. |
Step 2. | Use the Edit markets button to control which vaults and currencies you see and so focus on the markets you're interested in. |
Step 3. | You might also choose to get a live price chart monitor running. Lots of bullion prices from all over the world are fed into BullionVault's real-time price charts. These can give you a sniff of a potentially rising market and may offer a pattern which you think indicates a buying signal. |
Step 4. | Now watch. Your order board screen will refresh itself every few seconds. |
Step 5. | Spotted an opportunity? The race is on! Click a gold brick to buy gold (or a silver brick to buy silver, a blue one to buy platinum, a purple one to buy palladium or a green one to sell for cash), and the system will load what you've clicked straight into the order panel. Then press the BUY/BID (or SELL/OFFER) button, check and CONFIRM. Then look below for what happens next. |
Here's another way for the predatory trader to get to work. You might see the US Dollar price rising in Zurich and falling in London. It might be something fundamental, but then again it might just be a buyer bidding up for Zurich gold, and no local seller, while a seller is offering cheap bullion in London, with no local buyer. That's an opportunity for those with the courage and resources to take a quick profit by selling into Switzerland and buying from London. Take care though! You are now moving into areas of trader's risk. It's possible that you'll only get one side of your trade done.
The Market Spread helps show this type of opportunity and gives you the opportunity to respond quickly.
Step 1. | Make sure you are logged in. Press BUY/SELL to get to the order board. Market spreads is an option in the Views dropdown menu. |
Step 2. | Make sure your preferred currency is selected. |
Step 3. | Now watch. Your market spread screen will refresh itself every few seconds, or when you press the refresh button. What you will notice is that there are often different prices in different places. This is usual in bullion markets, because the cost of delivery in each location is different. What you are looking out for is things which get unusually out of line. Maybe the spread is too narrow, or a given location is looking too cheap. That's your chance. |
Step 4. | You can fill out your order by just clicking on the bar which you think is out of line. Then press the BUY/BID (or SELL/OFFER) button, check and CONFIRM. Then look below for what happens next. |
Some people use the market depth screen as an indicator of future price movements.
Get there by pressing BUY/SELL to get to the order board and then clicking Market depth in the Views dropdown menu.
A deeper market is one in which you can buy or sell more bullion. The longer the yellow lines the more gold there is about hoping to be bought. The longer the green lines the more cash there is about, chasing gold. (For silver markets dark grey lines indicate the amount of silver to be bought, for platinum light blue lines and for palladium purple lines.)
The most competitive prices are only available for a limited quantity of gold (or silver, platinum or palladium), next to the middle grey line on the screen. As the terms improve for your prospective counterparties the quantity of bullion you can trade (the depth) increases too. In other words if you'll pay a bit more you can buy more bullion and if you'll accept a bit less you can sell more of your bullion.
Pay particular attention to the cumulative and logarithmic scales of this graphic.
This view can be a useful indicator of likely future price moves. The current price is what you can trade at now, but if this chart is predominantly gold it shows lots of gold being offered, and not much cash being offered. The market is awash with gold at the current price. The chances are that the green (cash) being offered by buyers will run out before the orange (bullion) being offered by sellers, indicating a likely price fall. Conversely if the graphic is predominantly green - indicating the market is awash with cash - the suggestion is that the price will rise. You must decide.
Step 1. | Make sure you are logged in. Press BUY/SELL to get to the order board and then click the Market depth option in the Views dropdown menu. |
Step 2. | You have to choose one currency and one vault. You do this from the drop down boxes at the upper left of your screen. You also need to specify a price interval and number of rows - which defines the sensitivity of the graphic. For US Dollars 20 is often a sensible price interval, and 16 is a good number of rows. |
Step 3. | You might also choose to get a live price chart monitor running. Lots of bullion prices from all over the world are fed into BullionVault's real-time price charts. These can give you a sniff of a potentially rising market and may offer a pattern which you think indicates a buying signal. |
Step 4. | Now watch. Your order board screen will refresh itself every few seconds, or when you press the refresh button. |
Step 5. | Spotted an opportunity? The race is on! Click the gold/silver/blue line (or the green one), and the system will load what you've clicked straight into the order panel. Then press the BUY/BID (or SELL/OFFER) button, check and CONFIRM. Then look below for what happens next. |
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