What this dashboard shows
Live prices for the eleven commodities the financial press quotes every single day: gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, WTI crude, Brent crude, natural gas, wheat, corn, soybeans. Each card has the current price, the change since the previous session, and a tiny chart of the last 7 days so you can see the trend at a glance.
The number on each card is the spot price from the nearest futures contract. The source is Yahoo Finance, which exposes the ticker suffix =F for every major futures market.
You can also flip the currency selector to convert from USD to PLN or EUR at the mid-market rate (same NBP and ECB sources the currency converter uses), so the number stops being abstract and lines up with your local wallet.
How to use it
- Open the page. All eleven commodities load at once, grouped into metals, energy, and agriculture. Numbers are cached for 5 minutes on our side, so refreshing rapidly is free.
- Each card shows the current price in its native unit: USD/oz for gold, silver, platinum, palladium; USD/bbl for WTI and Brent crude; USD/MMBtu for natural gas; USD cents per bushel for the grains; USD per pound for copper.
- The 24h change percentage is colored green when up, red when down. It compares the current price to the previous trading session's close, the same anchor every financial site uses.
- The mini 7-day chart below each price is a sparkline of the last 7 daily closes (plus the live tick). Up-sloping line means the commodity is rallying, down-sloping means it is selling off.
- Toggle the currency selector to flip the cards from USD into PLN or EUR. The conversion goes through `/api/fx-converter` so you get the same mid-market rate from NBP / ECB that the currency converter shows.
- Click Copy JSON snapshot to copy the full machine-readable payload (prices, changes, sparklines, asOf timestamp) to your clipboard. Useful for spreadsheets, journals, or pasting into a model.
- Last updated at the bottom is the latest "regular market time" reported by Yahoo for any of the eleven tickers. Futures markets trade nearly 24 hours so this typically refreshes every few minutes during the trading week.
When this is useful
Six real situations where a live commodity snapshot is the right starting point:
- Pricing a physical gold or silver purchase: the bullion dealer quotes you a number. The first thing you want to know is "what is the spot today and what is the dealer premium". Spot from this page in USD/oz, then convert to your currency, then compare to the dealer ask. A reasonable premium on retail gold bars is 3 to 6% above spot, coins 5 to 12% above spot. Anything higher is the dealer charging for branding.
- Reading the daily oil headline: when the news says "Brent fell 2% today" you want to know off what base and where it sits versus the last week. The Brent card (BZ=F) gives you the number and the 7-day sparkline at a glance.
- Checking the spread between WTI and Brent: WTI is Texas, Brent is the North Sea. Their gap reflects North American versus international refining demand. Historically Brent trades 2 to 6 USD/bbl above WTI. A blowout means refinery problems somewhere.
- Watching the copper signal: copper is "Dr. Copper" because its price is a leading indicator for global industrial activity. A sustained rally is bullish for industrial growth; a sustained drop is the canary for a slowdown.
- Tracking grain prices for a small food business: bakeries, brewers, and feed buyers do not buy wheat or corn on the exchange, but their suppliers do, and supplier price renegotiations track futures with a 30 to 60 day lag.
- Building a personal commodity dashboard: copy the JSON snapshot into a Google Sheet or Notion page once a day to build your own time series without paying for a Bloomberg terminal.
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