Sizing With The Precious MetalsThe precious metals complex as a whole saw strong gains across 2024 and increased volume across markets such as Gold and Silver. During the year, the Fed's interest rate policy along with inflation concerns helped bring the Gold and Silver market near their all time high levels. Toward the end of the year, the Fed decided to leave rates unchanged and the prices in the metals broadly started to come down. Looking at February Gold, although prices have come down off the highs, the market has still held out above some critical levels, and traders will need to keep an eye on inflation data and the Fed’s actions throughout 2025.
The Gold market offers several different sizing options for many different types of traders, ranging from the newly released 1-oz contract to the full sized 100-oz contract. This wide variety of contracts helps give a wider range of traders the ability to trade depending on their own personal risk appetite or trading strategy. With the strong attention from traders on Gold along with a lot of political and economic uncertainty starting off the new year, it is critical for traders to understand what size contract works best for them.
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