About this precious metals heatmap
heat.sala.company/metals is a free heatmap of the precious metals people buy as a store of value: gold, silver, platinum and palladium, in US dollars per troy ounce. Tokenized gold (PAX Gold, Tether Gold) and Bitcoin sit next to them for comparison. Each tile combines the price move with technical indicators and suggested stop-losses.
Which assets does the metals heatmap show?
Gold, silver, platinum and palladium, priced in US dollars per troy ounce, plus PAX Gold and Tether Gold (tokens backed by one ounce of gold each) and Bitcoin, often called digital gold, for comparison. Copper isn't included: it's an industrial metal rather than a store of value, and no free public-domain source has it.
Where do the metal prices come from, and how often are they updated?
The daily price history comes from the public-domain exchange-api feed. Current prices come from Swissquote's public quotes and refresh every 10 minutes while markets are open. Each day the two sources' closing prices are compared: a ✓ means they agreed within 1%, a ⚠ that they didn't. The tokenized gold and Bitcoin tiles come from the crypto page's data. Nothing here is real-time.
Why is there no scorecard on the metals page?
The scorecard ranks assets against each other every day and needs at least ten to do that. With a handful of metals there is nothing to rank, so the signals can't be tested here the way they are on the crypto and forex pages.
What do the rocket and sad-face emoji mean?
They describe current conditions, not predictions: a rocket marks a strong 50/200-day uptrend and a sad face a strong downtrend. X and O show the point & figure trend, and fire and ice show strong or weak one-month momentum.
Is this financial advice?
No. It is an experimental, work-in-progress tool. Prices can be late, wrong or missing.
Metal and crypto prices refresh every 10 minutes (metals while markets are open). Nothing here is real-time. Recommended stop-losses are suggested levels only: this page cannot exit a position for you, so set stops with your broker or exchange. Not financial advice.