Understanding Precious Metals
Metal prices can respond to inflation expectations, real interest rates, currency moves, industrial demand and changes in global risk sentiment. Gold and silver may behave differently from industrial metals.
Metal symbols can have different contract sizes, currencies, tick values, spreads and trading sessions. The exact conditions shown in MT4 depend on the symbol and account group.
Gold and silver access
Review selected precious-metal symbols available to the active account.
Diversification potential
Metals can react differently from currencies, shares and indices.
USD and rate sensitivity
Real yields and currency movement may influence precious-metal demand.
Industrial demand
Copper, platinum and related metals can be sensitive to manufacturing activity.
What influences this market?
Real interest rates
The opportunity cost of holding non-yielding metals can affect demand.
Currency movement
A stronger or weaker pricing currency may influence international demand.
Industrial consumption
Manufacturing and technology demand matter for several metals.
Trading sessions
Many metal instruments trade across extended global sessions with a daily maintenance break. Liquidity and spread quality can vary around major data, market opens and public holidays.
Metals can experience fast directional moves and wide intraday ranges. Leverage, financing costs and currency exposure can materially affect the outcome of a position.
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