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Commodities

Fifteen commodities in four groups, with live prices from tracking funds, a chart for each one and the macro numbers that move them.

The Commodities page follows gold, oil, copper, grains and other raw materials. You get 15 in total: four precious metals, three energy, two industrial metals and six farm products. Prices shown live are from exchange-traded funds that track each commodity, so they are share prices in dollars, not the futures or spot price you may see on the news. A second layer of official government data gives you the actual commodity price series at its own pace.

Gold chart with the commodity cards belowGold chart with the commodity cards below
Gold chart with the commodity cards below

How to chart a commodity

  1. Open Commodities from the Macro group in the sidebar.
  2. Click a card in one of the groups: PRECIOUS_METALS, ENERGY, INDUSTRIAL_METALS or AGRICULTURE. The selected card is highlighted and the chart at the top switches to it.
  3. Read the line above the chart: the name, price, change and how fresh the quote is. The LIVE tag means it is a live fund quote. A MACRO tag means the number is official government data and shows its as-of date.
  4. Pick a timeframe from the box at the top left of the chart.
  5. Click Indicators to add studies, use Draw and the drawing menus to mark levels, or click the bell to set a price alert. The bell fills in the current price.

Each card also shows a 30-day trend and where the price sits inside its 52-week range.

How to tell live prices from macro data

  1. Look at the two badges at the top right of the page: LIVE (fund prices) and MACRO (official data).
  2. Live cards and the performance table use fund prices in dollars per share. They are not the commodity's spot price.
  3. Scroll to the MACRO series for the real commodity series, such as crude oil in dollars per barrel or copper in dollars per tonne. Each panel shows its update schedule and date. Crude oil and Brent are daily, natural gas is weekly, and the metals and farm products are monthly.

How to compare commodities

  1. Scroll to LIVE_PROXY_PERFORMANCE. This is Pro and Terminal.
  2. Click a column heading to sort. Choose the name, price, change, percent change, 52-week low or 52-week high. Click again to reverse.
  3. Click a row to load that commodity in the chart.

How to read the macro backdrop

  1. Scroll to MACRO_CONTEXT (Pro and Terminal).
  2. Read the dollar index, year-over-year CPI, the 10-year Treasury yield, breakeven inflation and the WTI oil spot price.
  3. A stronger dollar and higher real yields often press on gold and other commodities. Use this strip to see if that is happening today.

How to get an AI briefing

  1. Pro and Terminal accounts see AI_BRIEFING at the top right. Click it.
  2. A side panel opens with a written briefing built from the live quotes. Use the refresh button in the panel to ask again.

Good to know

  • Free accounts see five commodities: Gold, Silver, Crude Oil WTI, Natural Gas and Copper. Pro and Terminal show all 15.
  • Below the cards you may see commodity headlines picked from the general news feed.
  • Your last view is kept for five minutes, so the page opens fast when you come back.

If something doesn't work

  • The price looks different from the news: the live number is a fund share price, not spot or futures.
  • A macro panel shows an old date: monthly series only update once a month.
  • Performance table and macro context are locked: they need Pro.