About Silver Market Chart
Silver Market Chart is a small, independent reference site about one thing: the price of silver and how the market that sets it works. The centerpiece is the silver market price chart on the homepage, and every other page either explains a piece of that number or puts it in a longer frame. We don't sell metal, take orders or manage money.
Who runs this site
The site is written and maintained by a small editorial team publishing under the Silver Market Chart name. We don't attach a personal name or a list of credentials to the pages, because we would rather you judge the work by what you can check: each figure names its source, each dated fact carries the date we read it, and the method behind every calculated number is written down below. None of us is a licensed financial adviser, and nothing here is advice.
Where the numbers come from
Five public data sources feed the pages. Each supplies something different.
- gold-api.com supplies the spot prices for silver and gold that appear as the headline figures across the site.
- Yahoo Finance supplies price history for COMEX silver and gold futures, which draws the charts from one month out to the years since 2000, plus the daily open, high, low and close behind the candlestick view.
- USGS Data Series 140, the US Geological Survey's historical statistics for silver, supplies the yearly average values from 1900 to 2021, the 1998-dollar column used for the inflation-adjusted line, and world mine production.
- The Shanghai Gold Exchange supplies its silver benchmark in yuan per kilogram, the starting point for the Shanghai silver price page.
- The European Central Bank supplies the dollar-to-yuan exchange rate, which we read through the Frankfurter service, so the Shanghai figure can be put in dollars per ounce.
A few pages also cite published research, such as the Silver Institute's supply and demand surveys and the World Gold Council's gold stock figures. Those sources are named on the page where each figure appears, together with the date it was read.
How often it updates
The live figures refresh every 6 hours. Each block of data keeps its own fetch time, and the page prints that time beside the figure so you can see how fresh it is. If a source stops answering, the site keeps showing the last good value with a "last updated" date rather than leaving a blank, and the build refuses to publish data that has gone three weeks without a refresh. Because the pages are rebuilt rather than streamed, the price you see here can lag a live trading screen by a few hours; for a quote that moves tick by tick, use a broker or an exchange feed.
How the calculated figures work
Some numbers on the site are not read straight from a source but worked out from one. The method for each is fixed:
- The record is the highest daily high of COMEX silver futures in the series we hold, currently $121.30 on January 29, 2026. It only ever moves up.
- The long chart joins USGS yearly values, which run to 2021, with yearly averages of the market feed from 2001 onward. Where the two overlap, the largest gap between them is 1.5%, and the chart marks the join. That is how the silver price chart over 30 years can reach back a full century.
- The Shanghai premium compares the exchange's benchmark with the last US futures close before it was set, because Shanghai fixes its price in the Beijing morning, which is still the previous evening in New York.
- Volatility is the annualized standard deviation of daily returns over the past year.
Corrections
When we find an error, we fix the page, and the "Updated" date at the top changes with the fix. Pages built on dated facts carry a review date and are re-read against their sources on a 90-day cycle; the build fails if a review is overdue. If a source changes a figure after we read it, the page is updated to the new reading and the new read date. We would rather print "not stated" than repeat a number we can't trace.
How to reach us
There is no contact form, phone line or email address on this site, and we don't collect your details. That is a deliberate choice: the site has no forms, no accounts and no newsletter, so there is nothing to sign up for.
How the site is funded, and our affiliate disclosure
Silver Market Chart is paid through an affiliate link with one company, Augusta Precious Metals. The green buttons on the site carry that link. When you use one, you land on Augusta's page requesting its free information kit, and the site may be paid as a result. That relationship is why Augusta is the only company we name. It costs you nothing extra, and it has no role in the market data: Augusta supplies none of the prices, charts or history here. What we write about Augusta is limited to what its own pages state, with the date we read them, and the page about Augusta gives its minimum, $50,000 as stated by Augusta, so you can judge the fit before you click.
To see where the price stands right now, go back to today's market price on the homepage.