Guides
Six guides, no sales pitch
Written to be read once and remembered. Every one is educational — nothing here is advice. If what you want is the practical side — hallmarks, making charges, what a piece is really costing you — start with the Academy's Foundation instead.
The gold–silver ratio, explained
What the oldest indicator in metals measures, how it has behaved, and what it can't tell you.
Read → 02 · PricingWhat "spot price" really means
Spot, premium, spread — and why your dealer's number differs from the app's.
Read → 03 · MacroGold and inflation: the honest version
The hedge argument, the evidence behind it, and the horizons where it stops working.
Read → 04 · FundamentalsThe five metals and what moves them
Gold, silver, platinum, palladium and copper have almost nothing in common. That's the point.
Read → 05 · MethodHow to read a metals chart
Log vs linear, base currency, timeframe — three settings that change the story completely.
Read → 06 · CurrencyWhy gold looks different in every currency
Half of what you see in a price chart may be your own currency moving.
Read →Aurix Academy · Tier 0
The Foundation — eight lessons on buying gold
The guides above are about the market. The Foundation is about the counter: reading a hallmark, checking a HUID, testing purity yourself, and working out what a piece actually costs per gram of gold. Free, open, no sign-in.
Reading a BIS hallmark and checking a HUID
The three compulsory marks — and the four things a hallmark deliberately does not certify.
Read → Lesson 03Testing gold yourself
Magnet, density, touchstone, XRF, fire assay — and the blind spot each one leaves behind.
Read → Lesson 04How making charges and wastage work
Why the same "10% making charge" produces three different bills, and nobody says which base they used.
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