Custom Charts
Don't make another BUY or SELL decision without checking the value and trend of your target security in GOLD!
For a limited time, custom charts are available for any stock or security for which I have historical data. This should include any company on the NYSE, AMEX, NASDAQ, CME, NYBOT, OTC Bulliten Board and many foreign exchanges, as well as many market averages. These charts will show the value of the security in grams of gold over long term (ten years, if data is available) and short term (one year) periods. The same tools I use to create the charts on the pricedingold.com website will be used to create your custom charts, and the charts will be emailed to you in PDF format.
Price is $9.95 per security… but newsletter subscribers get one free!
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To order, send an email with the security names and symbols to customcharts@pricedingold.com and you will receive a PayPal invoice by email for the total price of your custom chart package. When payment is received, your charts will be generated and sent to you as soon as possible, usually within 48 hours.
If you include the purchase date and price you paid for the security (and for closed positions, the date of sale and sale price) I'll add the gold gram values of your purchase (and sale) so you can see how your investment really performed.
Make sure your investments are growing in true value, not just in evaporating dollar value. Price them in GOLD!
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Do you have a chart showing the value of gold vs the Canadian dollar? As my investments in gold and gold stocks and precious metal funds are in Canadian dollars I would like to eliminate the decreasing value of the U.S. $ Thanks Bill
Hi Bill,
I am planning to add a number of currencies to the regular charts, including the CAD. I am also happy to price Canadian stocks in gold. Look for the CAD chart soon!
Thanks,
Charles
I once heard that a semester of college in 1920 cost the same number of gold oz as it would in 1990. Any truth to that?
I guess you could use the older colleges like Wm and Mary or another old state school.
@editor
Thank you so much for this site! It's an invaluable tool for pointing out the effects of dollar devaluation on US standard of living over the past 40 yrs.
A real public service (if you have the guts…)
Track Minimum Wage in the years it has existed. This will show just how bad a depression we're currently experiencing. I'll bet it's at least as bad as the Great Depression, and getting worse by the day, while Uncle Sam continues to print worthless currency, exacerbating the problem.
@Broke Guy:
Great idea! I've pulled together a chart of the federal minimum wage using the highest wage in effect for each month (sometimes there were different rates for farm and non-farm labor, etc.) and added it to the US Wages Page. You are right! The rate in December of 2010 is 27% lower than the original minimum wage in November, 1938. There have only been 8 months (all during 1980) when the minimum wage was lower than it is today.
How does the total cost of an MBA program at a top school stack up in gold?
Do you have the Brent version for the oil in gold chart please?
Thank you
Hi SM, if you have a source for MBA prices in a major currency, I'd be happy to convert them to gold and add them to the College Tuition page. As for Brent crude, I used to track both Brent and WTI, but although they do show varying differentials to one another, the overall shape of their price cures is extremely similar, so I dropped charting Brent and went with the longer data set for WTI. There may be a Brent price series available on stockcharts.com; if so, you could easily create a gold price chart for it.
How about a chart that shows historic average home rental prices in gold? It would be interesting to see if one could figure out which is the better option in the context of the current situation.
I would like to see what the US disposable income chart would look like if you removed the top and bottom 1% earners(by wage). Is that possible with the BLS data you have?
Annual Federal Loans, Annual Debt Increases and Annual Taxation per capita would be interesting.
Hi WillJan, If you can point me to some downloadable data sets, I’d be happy to give it a try. Not exactly what you asked for, but possibly of interest, is this post on the US Federal Debt Cheers, Sir Charles.
Here I found some statistics, I'm not sure how they got them since I'm unsure how to browse those source pages. They do mention were they got them down below on every link:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=205 + http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=204 + http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=203, you could make a graph with different colors stacking each other.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=280
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=611 , two graphs going side by side as a comparison
You might have already made one of these, like the federal debt which is very interesting (debt increase during Reagan), I hope they can give you some extra details though. Cheers, William.
Hi William, Thanks for the links. Interesting numbers, and worth investigating. Cheers, Sir Charles
Do you have a US compounded dollar chart vs gold.
ie. Say I purchased $1 of gold in 1900 and invested $1 in an interest bearing cash account that compunded, what would their relationship look like?
(eg. at 5% cash rate $1 is worth $114 in 100 years, where gold would be around $87)
Leigh, that’s a great question, and I will write a post on it for you. Thanks!
Hi,
It was good to find this website (which I reached through Zero Hedge) because it actually gives me answers to many questions I have asked myself but been unable to find credible answers to.
Here and there one can read about the increasing cost of extracting gold because the large and "easy"-to-get-to deposits are being exhausted. I assume that productivity is not keeping up with diminishing returns, and that wage pressures in developing countries have also had their effects.
If we knew the average extraction cost per kilo of gold priced in gold would that not indicate some realistic sort of minimum support level for gold – if converted into a currency – and perhaps even give us a trend for future support levels and thereby prices, and even tell us when we are in bubble territory?
Hi Niklas, I would love to make such a chart. If you (or any other readers) know of data sources for historical extraction costs, I would be very interested to look into it.
Yes, the data collection is the stumbling block here, isn't it.
I am not in any way in the financial business, and my knowledge of it is extremely limited. This is just an idea that on an intuitive level feels right. Judging from your response it seems as if you may agree with me.
Would an analysis into yearly reports of every company in the HUI index give us a good indication?
Have you looked at the EAFA (developed world stock market index) priced in gold?
Hi,
can you add all major index worldwide? What about for example all that europen indices?
Thanks! I really like your work here!
dub
Hi dub, what index would you like to see? If I have a symbol for Yahoo Finance or other website that I can download historical data from, I would be happy to add a chart for you.
russell 2000 priced in gold since 2000
price of russell 2000 index in gold since 2000
Hello-
Would you be able to add a chart showing the price of Berkshire Hathaway stock priced in gold. Given Warren Buffet's views on gold as a measure/store of value, it would be interesting to see how his stock has performed when measured in gold. Thank you.
As a holder of Gold I find your charts fascinating! I came across a reference to your site at GATA.
As an Englishman living in France I obviously would love charts orientated to UK Pound and Euro plus the FTSE. Prices of cars and food also.
You must get requests all the time from people like me who want more of your valuable time.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the kind words, @Baron. You will find charts of the EUR and food prices on the site currently. I have done some work on the GBP and FTSE; I'll see if I can add them in the near future. For car prices I will need to find a good source of historical price data. If you know of one, please send me a link and I'll see what I can do. I hope that you enjoy the Holidays, and have a very happy New Year!
Are these copper charts the closest proxy to iron ore priced in gold? What peaked my interest is that there are a few stories around this week about the collapse of iron ore prices in USD.
@PRice: Thanks for the suggestion. See the new chart at http://pricedingold.com/iron-ore/
Thanks, this makes a lot of sense. This week's iron ore stories at http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/why-commodity-prices-are-cliff-diving-the-iron-ore-collapse-reflects-the-end-of-the-monetary-super-cycle/ and http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/12/29/why-crude-oil-and-iron-ore-will-continue-to-fall-in-price-in-2015/ probably wouldn't have been written if they were looking at this iron ore priced in gold chart.
As a counter to the above fear-inducing stories, there's this news:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/magnetation-llc-announces-first-production-190000457.html
Magnetation LLC Announces First Production at New Iron Ore Concentrate Plant
@editor: thanks, wat about the german DAX (^GDAXI)
https://de.finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGDAXI
Sir Charles – This may be more challenging than the other ratios, but would it be possible to do a Gold to Derivatives Ratio? Here are some background facts and places to look at:
1) http://www.factset.com/websitefiles/PDFs/academics_lessons/lesson_derivatives
2) http://www.iatp.org/files/451_2_107470.pdf This site gives the worldwide total amount of derivatives in 2009, a bit dated, but interesting to look at compared to Gold.
I would really love to see a chart for UK Property Prices 1970-date
Hi Owen, If you can help me locate a source for historical UK home price data, I'll be happy to make a chart priced in gold. Cheers, Sir Charles
Hello Mr Charles!
Firstly I would like to say this site in wonderful! It gives a whole new way of looking at things!
I was wondering if it would be possible to have the PPI (Producers Price Index) in gold terms?
Thank you!
That should be possible – the BLS releases monthly data starting in 2009, with index=100 for November, 2009. I will see if I can make a chart for you.
Thank you!
That would be great!
Thank you for a great site!
Considering platinum and palladium are here, surprised that rhodium is not, especially given what's happening with its fiat price.
Is there no good long term price data source for rhodium?
Hi Marko! Happy holidays!
I don't know much about rhodium, or where to find its price history. The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) only publishes prices for gold, silver, platinum and palladium. They are my main precious metals price source. I would be happy to prepare a chart for you if you can point me to a good historical price series.
Cheers,
Sir Charles
It would be interesting to see fine wine pricing in gold. There are pretty exact records of how wine traded in past times. Best source to my knowledge is LIVEX.
K.H
Thanks for the suggestion, Klaus. I'll see what I can find. Do you have a link to a data source that's not behind a paywall?
Is it possible to get the Bitcoin vs. Gold chart in ounces as well posted on the site?
Hi Matthew, I don't generally do charts in ounces, but you can easily get that chart for any period you want, and with many charting features and technical studies, by entering the symbol "$BTCUSD:$GOLD" into stockcharts.com. You can see a one year chart here: http://schrts.co/zKjMRbEm
Do you have the data for a chart of gold v UK wages from 1945?
Sorry, Steven… I've looked around, but haven't found a good UK wage dataset to build a chart from. If you have a link to one, please let me know, and I'll take it from there!
Do you have the data for a chart of gold vs Warren Buffets' investment record since he started investing?
I don't know if historical data is available on Mr. Buffett's whole investing history, but I have charted his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) in gold. On Jun 1, 1990, BRK-A traded at $7200, or 19.8 ounces of gold. Today, it trades at $435,000, or 244.4 ounces. That is a gain of 1,134%, for a compound annual growth rate of 8.15% over 31 years. Not too shabby!
Thank you for putting this website together! It truly shows the how almost every aspect of our lives have changed (for the worse) when commodities, wages, and various assets are priced in gold.
@editor:
Many apologies for woefully slow reply. The Office of National Statistics has lots of data on stuff like wages. Here for example https://www.ons.gov.uk/search?q=wages&filter=datasets&page=2
Regards
Steve
Hi Steven,
That's a great source of data, but the pages I have found there only seem to go back to about 2000. Did you find a specific page that had a longer dataset, or would you like to have me do a shorter chart?
Cheers,
Sir Charles
Wish there had been a chart of hsm1 and hsm2 scrap prices relative to gold
Hi Bilal, I would be very willing to create a chart for you if you have a source for HSM price history in any major currency.
Cheers, Sir Charles
I assume the following exists somewhere regarding central banks’ M2 or M3 and their holdings of gold.
First, in aggregate
A is the total of all central banks’ M2/M3 in USD, and
B is the number of ounces of gold of all central banks.
C = A/B
Second, the above by central bank (or economy)
A’ is the total of each central banks’ M2/M3 in USD, and
B’ is the number of ounces of gold of each central banks.
C’ = A’/B’
This might provide an indication of how over valued fiat currencies might be, if we returned to a gold standard. Hypothetically.
I've followed this site since 2009, its a great reality check to compare values over time. Can you update the US household net worth chart? http://pricedingold.com/networth/
I'm curious how the last 10 years have fared.
Hello – I love the information. Is there any chance you might update Food prices in gold to come current to 2023 looks like last update was circa 2019. Thank you.
Jack
Hi Jack! Thanks for pointing that out. I have been updating a different file name… but fixed that, so you should now see prices updated to Mar-2023. If you need the chart up to June, let me know, and I will send it directly to you. Cheers, Sir Charles