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Gold silver ratio

How many ounces of silver one ounce of gold buys, what each metal costs at other ratios, and what a switch between them does to your ounces.

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XAUUSD on your chart.
XAGUSD on your chart.
To see a switch to the other metal and back.
For example 100, after a switch from silver into gold at 80.
A dealer's buy and sell gap, or a broker's costs.

Gold against silver

The gold silver ratio
80.0: one ounce of gold buys 80.0 ounces of silver ($4,000.00 / $50.00).
Equal money on both sides
1.60 lots of XAGUSD for each 1.00 lot of XAUUSD, at the usual 100 ounces a gold lot and 5,000 a silver lot ($400,000.00 a side).

What the other metal would cost at other ratios, if one of them stayed where it is.

RatioSilver, gold at $4,000.00Gold, silver at $50.00
40$100.00$2,000.00
60$66.67$3,000.00
80 (now)$50.00$4,000.00
100$40.00$5,000.00
120$33.33$6,000.00

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A ratio, not a signal

The ratio is the gold price divided by the silver price. It moves a lot: since 2000 it has gone from about 32 (April 2011) to about 125 (March 2020). Some holders switch silver into gold when the ratio is low and back when it is high, to end with more ounces of the metal they started with. That works only if the ratio comes back, and nothing on this page tests that it does: a ratio can stay far from its old average for years, and every switch costs the dealer's gap twice.

Traders who bet on the ratio buy one metal and sell the other with about the same money on each side, so a move that lifts both metals together roughly cancels. Silver moves more than gold on most days, so equal money is not equal risk; the correlated risk check shows how much of two metal trades is one bet, and the gold price per gram turns the ounce price into the weights a shop uses.

Not advice. The answer is arithmetic on the prices you type, not a quote or a view on either metal.

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