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Don't guess. Calculate.
Twelve working instruments — live prices, calculators, eight centuries of history, and the macro dashboard — for researching, calculating, and planning your gold holdings.
The buyer's workbench
3 steps · connectedThe decision aids aren't a list — they're a sequence. Diagnose what you need, compare who sells it, then price the purchase to the cent.
Investment wizard
Six questions — timeframe, amount, risk, storage — and you get a personalized allocation across physical, ETF, and IRA.
Start the wizard → → 02 CompareDealer matrix
Pre-filtered by your wizard answers: premiums, buyback spreads, IRA support, and shipping — top dealers, side by side.
Compare dealers → → 03 CalculatePrice the purchase
Quantity times your chosen dealer's premium at live spot — the all-in cost of your first order, before you place it.
Open calculator →Calculators & decision aids
6 instruments · all freeRun in the browser — nothing to install, no account, no data leaves your device.
If you'd bought gold in…
See what $10,000 of gold bought in any year since 1928 would be worth today — against stocks, housing, bonds and cash, adjusted for inflation.
Run the numbers No. 01 · ValueGold value calculator
Melt value from weight, purity, and karat at live spot.
Open →Pre-purchase checklist
10 steps before you buy — dealer, pricing, storage.
Investment wizard
Six questions, a tailored allocation & strategy.
Start → No. 04 · ComparisonGold vs inflation
Real returns against CPI, any period 1970 → today.
Compare → No. 05 · MatrixDealer comparison
Premiums, shipping, buyback, IRA — side by side.
Compare →Interactive gold data
6 visualizations · sourced & datedExplore the long record, the macro forces, and the physical reality of gold — every figure sourced and dated.
768 years of gold
Eight centuries of the gold price — nominal and inflation-adjusted — with monetary-regime context.
See the long record →Gold macro dashboard
Four charts that reframe "gold went up" as "the dollar went down" — vs stocks, M2, debt, and real rates.
Open the dashboard →Gold's drawdowns
Every time gold fell in real terms — and how long it stayed underwater. The honest risk picture.
See the chart →World gold production
A century of mine output, 1900–2024 — the long climb and the "peak gold" plateau since 2018.
View production →The scale of gold
How much gold actually exists, rendered as a cube you can picture next to a person.
See it to scale →Gold reserves by country
The full World Gold Council ranking — who owns the most, and who's buying it fastest.
Explore reserves →Quick reference
convert · liveThe conversions every gold owner reaches for — now you can type into them.
Updates as you type
Next step
Run the wizard, and get your plan.
A personalized allocation, a dealer shortlist, and the all-in cost of your first order — in six questions, yours to save or print.
Start the wizard →