#gold-silver-ratio

The ratios between gold, silver, platinum and palladium, where they sit in their own multi-year history, and which metal is cheap relative to which — computed live from Yahoo Finance futures, no key, nothing stored. A precious-metal price tells you what an ounce costs; the ratio between two metals tells you which is expensive relative to the other — and these ratios are famously mean-reverting, which is why the gold/silver "mint ratio" is one of the oldest trades there is: when it stretches to an extreme, traders rotate from the dear metal into the cheap one and ride it back. A single current ratio is only half the story; what matters is where that ratio sits in its multi-year range. This API computes the gold/silver, gold/platinum, platinum/palladium, gold/palladium and silver/platinum ratios, and for each returns its current value, its percentile within a multi-year window (the context that turns a number into a signal), the window min/max/average, and a plain-language rotation read — at a high percentile the numerator metal is historically expensive (favour the denominator), at a low percentile the reverse. The ratios endpoint returns the whole complex; the ratio endpoint returns one pair with its component prices; the history endpoint returns the ratio time series. This is the precious-metal-ratio / mean-reversion cut — distinct from the inter-commodity crack/crush spread API (which gives the current gold/silver ratio but no history, percentile or signal), the intermarket-ratio board and the metals spot-price feed. It is the ratio with its history attached.

api.oanor.com/preciousratios-api

The spreads and ratios that commodity traders actually trade, not just the raw prices, computed live from the underlying futures — no key, nothing stored. A single commodity price means little on its own; the money is in the relationships. The crack endpoint returns the 3:2:1 crack spread — the refining margin from turning three barrels of crude oil into two of gasoline and one of heating oil, the number that drives refiner profits and gasoline prices. The crush endpoint returns the soybean crush spread — the processing margin from crushing soybeans into meal and oil. The ratios endpoint returns the classic macro ratios: gold/silver (the "fear versus growth" gauge), gold/oil (real-asset value), oil/natural-gas (the energy ratio) and gold/copper. Each comes with the component futures prices so you can see exactly how it is built. This is the commodity-spread / inter-commodity cut — distinct from the single-commodity price feed, the precious-metals spot API and the FX APIs in the catalogue. It gives you the margin and the ratio, the things that are actually positioned. All endpoints are parameter-less and return the current values with their components; the crack spread is in USD per barrel and the crush in USD per bushel.

api.oanor.com/commodityspreads-api