Precious Metals Talking points 060826: StoneX weekly gold, silver round-up; gold MM shorts at lowest since 28th January
Rhona O'Connell
- Precious Metals
Advanced risk solutions for turning volatility into opportunity
Optimize your commodity strategies with our suite of powerful tools and services.
Risk management solutions and platforms
StoneX’s web-based and mobile apps provide on-the-go capabilities for managing your business.
OTC (over-the-counter)
Customizable terms aligned to your unique hedging requirements
The StoneX risk management expert team develops OTC products to fit a diverse array of risk profiles and market views. We provide robust customizability and can offer 20% lower margin requirements with equal or better liquidity than typically available on exchanges.
Exchange-traded products (ETPs)
Flexible, efficient access for hedging commodity price risk via exchange-traded futures
StoneX acts as a regulated futures broker on 33 commodities markets across the globe. Whether you need to hedge soybeans in Brazil, gold in Taiwan, or LNG in Europe, StoneX can help you expand your opportunities and open new markets.
Consulting and advisory services
High-touch, responsive consulting backed by sophisticated risk management tools and strategies
Our consulting and advisory network doesn’t provide cookie-cutter solutions. Instead, we learn your business from the inside out. Then we work with you to assemble the right mix of exchange-traded products, managed futures, options contracts, and customized OTC solutions to meet your specific risk management needs.
StoneX® Hedge merchandising system
The StoneX® Hedge web-based merchandising system empowers commercial grain customers of all sizes to increase grain origination efficiency via the industry’s most advanced toolset. Features and benefits include:
- Automatic cancellation and replacement of hedge orders tied to cash offers when there is a basis change or offer adjustment.
- Ability to quickly quote producers their spot contract price after a market order is filled.
- Streaming futures and cash prices, and the status of offers and orders.
- Views customizable by location, commodity, and originator, among other variables.
To learn more, you can request a demo below from our tech team. We can get you up and running quickly, and once we do, we’re confident you’ll never go back to managing offers manually again.
Farm Advantage mobile app
Improve your margins and grow your business with the Farm Advantage mobile app from StoneX.
Farm Advantage provides powerful tools that empower you to market with confidence, including:
- Cash bids
- Market quotes
- Market intelligence
And more. Available on the App Store and Google Play.
Visit the Farm Advantage page to get started.
Physical commodities
Manage commodity price risk without tying up your internal accounting, logistics and hedge management resources
We’ve built our business on a “boots-on-the-ground” approach that prizes our relationships with our customers above all else. When you’re faced with extreme volatility, you need to know someone will be at your side to help you mitigate your exposure to supply chain risk.
Insurance
Combine your coverage with proven risk management strategies
StoneX’s risk management consultants can help you take advantage of current market conditions and subsidies to create a risk management plan that fits your operational needs. Let us help you find the best mix of coverage and hedging strategies to protect and expand your operation.
Know-Risk™ Commodity Management Software
Information plays a crucial role in today’s marketplace, but managing that information can often be a challenge. If you are still using a spreadsheet to manage your business’s information, you may not be getting all the value out of the data you collect. The key is having the right information at the right time in order to drive decision-making.
Know-Risk is designed to help you manage and interact with information so that you can develop risk management strategies and tactics. This interactive information manager aggregates information from several different sources and presents it in an easily understood format, designed to enable users to make informed decisions about their risk management strategies and tactics.
StoneX: Boots on the ground (BOTG)
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Market Intelligence: Recent articles
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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.
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Reach
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Transparency
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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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