How do I invest in precious metals?

Investing in precious metals can be done through various methods, including purchasing physical metals such as coins or bullion through a precious metals dealer such as StoneX Bullion, or trading in the precious metals markets, such as through gold futures. Gold futures are contracts that allow investors to speculate on the future price of gold. These contracts are traded on a commodities exchange and are a popular way for traders to gain exposure to the precious metals market. If you are interested in trading precious metals, get in contact with our team today.

Should I invest in precious metals?

Investing in precious metals can be a prudent financial strategy, providing a diverse range of options for those looking to safeguard their assets and hedge against inflation. As a reputable gold and silver trading company, we offer a platform for individuals to conveniently buy and sell precious metals online. Our expertise extends to various aspects of precious metals trading, including gold contract futures, silver contracts, and gold futures.For those seeking secure storage solutions, our precious metal vault and storage facilities ensure the utmost protection for physical precious metals. As a trusted name among precious metal storage companies, we prioritize the safety and integrity of your investments. Additionally, our precious metals brokerage group specializes in connecting clients with opportunities to trade precious metals, offering services such as precious metals brokerage and clearing.Investors can explore the benefits of precious metals investment funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) focused on gold and other precious metals. These investment vehicles provide flexibility and accessibility to a diversified portfolio.Whether you are interested in metal ETFs, futures contracts, or physical gold, our comprehensive services cover a spectrum of metal investments.

What are precious metals?

Precious metals refer to a group of naturally occurring metallic elements that are highly valued for their scarcity and economic utility. The most recognized precious metals include gold, silver, platinum and palladium. These metals are highly sought after for a variety of applications, including jewelry, industrial manufacturing, electronics, pharmaceutical and investment purposes.

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Global precious metals solutions

Access a full suite of precious metals services including

OTC (spot, forwards, swaps, and options)
Benchmark pricing, loco swaps, EFPs, futures trading
API solutions, financing, consignments, margin trading
Vaulting, storage, clearing, and custody

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Metals physical trading

We offer a comprehensive range of metals physical trading capabilities and provide financing, warehousing and deliveries for gold, silver and platinum group metals.

Physical trading

Execution, clearing and custody

Our comprehensive suite of institutional-grade execution, clearing and custody services delivers broad exchange access and transparency to precious metals clients worldwide.

Clearing and custody

Financial metals trading

We offer a range of financial trading solutions for precious metals clients including spot trading, forward contracts, location swaps, options, leases, hedging structures and more.

Financial trading

Metals vaulting and storage

We offer secure, competitively priced global vaulting and storage solutions in gold, silver and platinum group metals for our clients.

Vaulting and storage

PMXecute®

Experience real-time foreign exchange pricing, global liquidity, and exceptional client support all in one powerful precious metals trading platform.

PMXecute®

StoneX Bullion

Buy, sell, and invest in high-quality and sought-after coins and bullion bars. White label and API solutions for financial advisors available.

StoneX Bullion

Discover opportunity with StoneX Precious Metals

The worldwide markets for precious metals have never been more competitive, volatile or complex. StoneX’s Precious Metals Team pairs deep understanding of global market dynamics with local intelligence to help you protect margins, grow your business and enhance profitability.

We provide clients with a full-service precious metals trading capability and global commodities trading access through offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. We are also a reliable and competitive wholesaler in the form of London good-delivery bars, investment bars, bullion & special coins, grains and ore. From buying scrap and semi-refined metal with attractive payment terms to helping you hedge physical positions or take a directional view on the markets, we’re here to help you succeed with innovative offerings that drive results for your business. StoneX is also a base metals trading provider, with our Base Metals Team specializing in aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, nickel, and tin products.

Memberships

London Bullion Market Association
London Platinum and Palladium Market Association
Clearing and Execution Members of the CME
Singapore Bullion Market Association
Trade Members of the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange

Gold

We offer a wide variety of services for our clients, including vaulting and storage, clearing, financing, and financial trading such as gold futures, forward contracts and option instruments.

Gold

Silver

We provide access to liquidity across the silver markets with PMXecute®, vaulting and storage services and financial trading such as silver futures, forwards, options and spot trading.

Silver

Platinum group metals

As a member of the Platinum Group Metals auction and London Platinum and Palladium Market Association, we have the deep market expertise and financial/physical trading capabilities you need.

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Trading
Clients can access markets through high-touch trading and advisory services and our convenient electronic trading platform. We provide follow-the-sun order services from the Asia open to the New York close, along with flexible API solutions that offer executable OTC and physical pricing for our clients’ own trading systems and web-shops. StoneX also delivers reliable flow execution across commodities derivatives through our sales and trading solutions.
Execution
We leverage StoneX’s global operations, logistics and IT infrastructure capabilities to provide seamless execution – including financing, warehousing and deliveries for physical transactions across the globe.
Payments
We offer customized foreign exchange and payments services in more than 140 local currencies, highly competitive rates, seamless access to our electronic platform along with 24-hour service from dedicated staff across the globe.

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Our physical trading capabilities

Bullion bars such as LBMA and non-LBMA large bars, kilo bars, 100 grams, tola bars
Bullion coins and collectible products
Semi-refined products and doré
Scrap
Off-take arrangements

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Our financial trading capabilities

Spot trading in multiple currencies
Margin trading facilities
Forward contracts
Option instruments
Location swaps (multiple)
Leases
Consignment accounts
Hedging structures
Ability to price and make payments in foreign currencies
Futures clearing and execution
API trading

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PMXecute® trading platform

Experience real-time competitive pricing in both precious metals and foreign exchange on a simple, reliable, intuitive and secure trading platform. Backed by StoneX’s global team of metals professionals, we provide global access to liquidity across all time zones and unparalleled client support.

Real-time competitive pricing in both precious metals and foreign exchange
Easy-to-access live position analytics and margin monitoring
Online order functionality
Real-time order viewing and tracking
Seamless execution
London gold, silver, platinum and palladium auction orders
Price feed available via our suite of flexible API solutions

Access award-winning Market Intelligence

Stay a step ahead of the competition with access to award-winning precious metals commentary and research reports generated by our industry experts. Our Head of Research EMEA & Asia, Rhona O’Connell, has over 30 years’ experience as a commodity analyst and is a recognized authority in the precious metals sector. In 2019, Rhona was recognized as a Top Precious Metals Analyst by LBMA and Metal Bulletin.

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Silver recovery services

At StoneX Recovery, we specialize in the recovery of silver from a variety of industrial waste streams, ensuring maximum yield with minimal environmental impact.

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Silver refining services

At StoneX Refining, we receive 98%+ high-grade silver in various forms and convert it to 99.99% pure ‘Good Delivery’ silver bars.

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Precious metals vaulting & storage solutions

StoneX’s experienced global team offers its clients secure global vaulting and storage solutions. We provide fully segregated holdings of gold, silver and platinum group metals held in high-security vaults at various locations across the globe.

Choosing a StoneX precious metals depository means your assets are secure, fully insured, and independently audited. StoneX’s New York vault is CME approved, making it one of only 11 depositories in the United States authorized to facilitate delivery and storage of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium to the COMEX and NYMEX exchanges.

Our services include:

Access to LBMA, CME, sovereign, and private mints bars & coins
Global storage services customized to meet your needs
Competitively priced solutions
Secure storage and delivery of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium in our New York CME vault or numerous vaults worldwide

Secure metal safety deposit boxes inside a financial institution vault, representing StoneX’s commitment to trusted B2B financial services and asset protection.

Who we serve

We work with all types of clients in the metals industry and clients with exposure to the market, including:

Bullion wholesalers & traders
Refiners & smelters
Banks & financial institutions
Equipment manufacturers

Mining companies
Pharmaceutical & industrial users
Oil & gas
Electronics

Recyclers
Transportation
Wholesalers & retailers
Investors

Why choose precious metals services at StoneX?

We earn our clients' business and trust by offering expertise, extensive product coverage, global reach and access to markets that few other firms can match. Our "boots on the ground" mentality emphasizes the importance of local connections within the markets, putting us at the forefront of precious metal investment companies.

At StoneX, we take an entrepreneurial, flexible, and agile approach to providing real-time solutions to our clients in the gold, silver, platinum and palladium markets. Our comprehensive precious metals services include financial trading such as gold and silver contracts, as well as physical trading and access to our advanced institutional-grade precious metals trading platform (PMXecute). We provide tailored solutions for your business such as futures contracts, clearing and custody, OTC spot/forwards, margin trading, precious metals consultation services, storage and more.

Our clients

The Precious Metals Team at StoneX is focused on providing tangible results for our clients worldwide across the entire precious metals supply chain.

Refiners and smelters

The StoneX Precious Metals Team assists refiners and smelters with robust physical trading capabilities for bullion bars, semi-refiner products, scrap and more, along with financial trading and seamless execution.

Banks and financial institutions

Banks and financial institutions can benefit from our vast precious metals trading capabilities, global liquidity and fully secure global vaulting and storage services customized to your business.

Mining companies

Mining companies around the globe choose StoneX for our full suite of financial and physical precious metals services across gold, silver, and platinum group metals.

Precious metals Market Intelligence

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Our global reach opens markets

StoneX Group Inc. connects clients with the global markets across all asset classes – providing execution, post-trade settlement, clearing and custody services through one trusted partner. A publicly traded company (NASDAQ: SNEX) headquartered in New York City, StoneX and its 4,500+ employees serve more than 54,000 commercial, institutional and payments clients, along with 260,000+ self-directed customers from more than 70 offices across six continents.

Global map showing StoneX's presence with offices and exchanges across North America, South America, Europe, EMEA, Africa, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand

Upcoming events

October

8th StoneX Multicommodities Seminar

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StoneX’s largest event, aimed at bringing together market analysis and experts to provide an up-to-date and strategic overview of key agricultural markets, as well as fertilizers, energy, foreign exchange, and macroeconomics.

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8th StoneX Multicommodities Seminar

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South America

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FAQ

StoneX: We open markets

Our market expertise, advanced platforms, global reach, culture of full transparency and commitment to our clients’ success all set us apart in the financial marketplace.

Reach

With access to 40+ derivatives exchanges, 180+ foreign exchange markets, nearly every global securities marketplace and numerous bi-lateral liquidity venues, StoneX’s digital network and deep relationships can take clients anywhere they want to go.

Transparency

As a publicly traded company meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance in the markets we serve; our financials and record of accomplishment are matters of public record. StoneX’s commitment to “doing the right thing over the easy thing” sets us apart in the industry and helps us build respect, client trust and new partnerships.

Expertise

From our proprietary Market Intelligence platform, to “boots on the ground” expertise from award-winning traders and professionals, we connect our clients directly to actionable insights they can use to make more informed decisions and achieve their goals in the global markets.

The subsidiaries of StoneX Group Inc. provide financial products and services, including, but not limited to, physical commodities, securities, clearing, global payments, risk management, asset management, foreign exchange, and exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives. These financial products and services are offered in accordance with the applicable laws in the jurisdictions in which they are provided and are subject to specific terms, conditions, and restrictions contained in the terms of business applicable to each such offering. Not all products and services are available in all countries. The products and services offered by the StoneX Group of companies involve risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. Full Disclaimer.

This website is not intended for residents of any particular country, and the information herein is not advice nor a recommendation to trade nor does it constitute an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any financial product or service, by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation. Please refer to the Regulatory Disclosure section for entity-specific disclosures.

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StoneX Financial Ltd is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and is a Category 1 Ring Dealing Member of the London Metal Exchange. The FCM Division of StoneX Financial Inc. acts in the capacity of an agent in the U.S. for StoneX Financial Ltd. Commodity trading involves risks, and you should fully understand these risks before trading. This information shall not constitute a solicitation to buy or sell futures or options contracts, or OTC products. ‘StoneX’ is the trade name used by StoneX Group Inc. and all its associated entities and subsidiaries.

Through the FCM Division of StoneX Financial Inc., a clearing member of the Commodity Exchange (COMEX) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the Metals Team provides comprehensive futures and options on these exchanges. OTC swaps are also available on these products through StoneX Markets LLC. Through our membership on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), our clients can access its full product slate including the plastics, NGL, and olefins contracts.

The FCM Division of StoneX Financial Inc. is a Futures Commission Merchant registered with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC").

The trading of commodities and derivatives such as futures, options, and swaps involves substantial risk of loss and may not be suitable for all investors. Advisory services as well as the trading of futures and options is available through various subsidiaries of StoneX Group Inc. including but not limited to the FCM Division of INTL FCStone Financial Inc. Public Disclosures for the FCM Division of INTL FCStone Financial Inc. The trading of over-the-counter products or swaps is available through subsidiary stoneX Markets LLC to individuals or firms who qualify under CFTC rules as an eligible contract participant. Please click here for the full disclaimer.

StoneX APAC Pte. Ltd. (“SAP”) (Co. Reg. No 200616676W) is regulated as a Dealer (PS20190001002) under the Precious Stones and Precious Metals (Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing) Act 2019 for purposes of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism. SAP is an “Approved International Trading Company” authorized to act as a “Spot Commodity Broker” under the Commodity Trading Act.