Silver Weakness Signals a Shift in Precious Metals Risk
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- Precious Metals
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
Explore our precious metals services
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.
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.
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.
Metals vaulting and storage
We offer secure, competitively priced global vaulting and storage solutions in gold, silver and platinum group metals for our clients.
PMXecute®
Experience real-time foreign exchange pricing, global liquidity, and exceptional client support all in one powerful precious metals trading platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Explore our innovative service offerings
- 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.
Elevate your precious metals trading with StoneX
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
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
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.
Processor of materials containing silver, gold and other PGM metals
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.
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.
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
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.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help meet your business goals in the dynamic precious metals markets.
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
Discover more insights
Dive into comprehensive market analysis from StoneX spanning commodities, equities, currencies and more.
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.
Upcoming events
Southern Yellow Pine Lumber Risk Academy
StoneX events|North America|Language: English
June 09 - June 10, 2026
Charlotte, NC
Join StoneX for a two-day Southern Yellow Pine Lumber Risk Academy focused on practical strategies for managing SYP price exposure using futures, options and OTC tools — including the newly listed CME SYP contract.
Southern Yellow Pine plays a critical role in U.S. construction and global lumber flows, but pricing volatility can materially impact margins, procurement costs and financial performance.
This two-day seminar is open to producers, sawmills, commercial buyers, merchants, traders, treasury professionals and senior management seeking a disciplined approach to lumber price risk management.
StoneX Energy Hedging School
StoneX events|North America|Language: English
June 09 - June 10, 2026
North Redington Beach, FL
StoneX Energy Hedging School is a two-day educational program designed for commercial and institutional energy market participants. The course provides a practical foundation in identifying, measuring, and managing price risk across cash, futures, options, and OTC markets. Attendees will explore basis strategies, structured hedge execution, and forward contracting techniques while building valuable industry relationships.
Natural Resources Summit
StoneX events|North America|Language: English
June 09 - June 10, 2026
New York, New York
Join leaders across the entire natural resources sector for our annual Natural Resources Summit in NYC. Now in its fourth year, this event brings together a growing community of market participants, thought leaders, and StoneX experts across the global natural resources landscape for two-days of panel discussions and one-to-one meetings.
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.
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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.
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