Gold to Silver Ratio

NexusFi · 2011-01-25T09:15:36-05:00

Gold Silver Ratio ( Thanks, but I'm looking for a realtime chart based on the futures' prices for intraday trading. It's a good site that though - I read Franklin Sanders blog most days... it's a good read: Looking at past ratio lows, the ratio will spend about 3 months rising to a reaction peak. Unfortunately, that doesn't always coincide with the silver and gold price lows, but 'twill fall in the neighborhood. As silver showed greater volatility upwards in the rally's …

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Updated January 25, 2011

Gold to Silver Ratio

January 25th, 2011, 09:15 AM

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martifc

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Fat Tails

What is this all about?

If you want to display the gold-to-silver ratio intraday, you just need to open a chart for GC, add a second data series for SI and then add one of the ratio indicators available from the NinjaTrader forum (kdoren and Tim).

Indicator and chart attached below. Indicator Settings: Normalize = false / UseMultiplier = false

That said, I have no idea, what you want to do with it. I do not think that it is tradeable short term.

Thanks. I find the ratio sometimes helpful when trading either gold OR silver. For example, early yesterday silver (trending down) rose to $28 while the ratio (trending up) hit 48. Simple maybe, but it proved an excellent sell.