Commodities
Commodity research
Ten years of the commodities India trades on MCX, measured: returns, volatility, the worst falls, how each month has tended to go, and what each moves with.
Last close
2 Oct 2026
Gold at a glance
Gold, $/oz
$4,166.7
52-week range $3,868.1 – $5,318.4
- 1 year
- +7.7%
- 3 years, annualised
- +31.1%
- 5 years, annualised
- +18.8%
- 10 years, annualised
- —
- Volatility, 1 year
- 29.2%
- Worst fall, 10 years
- -24.9%
- 29 Jan 2026 to 16 Jul 2026
COMEX front-month gold futures.
Gold over 10 years
How each month has gone
Average return in each calendar month across the last 10 years, and how many of those years it rose.
Jan
+3.1%
7 of 10 up
Feb
+0.7%
5 of 10 up
Mar
+1.5%
6 of 10 up
Apr
+1.9%
6 of 10 up
May
+0.6%
5 of 10 up
Jun
-1.7%
4 of 10 up
Jul
+1.7%
7 of 10 up
Aug
+2.7%
7 of 10 up
Sep
-1.4%
2 of 10 up
Oct
+1.8%
6 of 9 up
Nov
-0.4%
5 of 10 up
Dec
+2.7%
8 of 10 up
What it moves with
Correlation of daily returns over the last year: +1 moves in step, 0 unrelated, −1 opposite.
| US dollar in rupees | -0.25 |
|---|---|
| S&P 500 | 0.29 |
| Brent crude | -0.12 |
End-of-day closes in US dollars from Yahoo Finance (COMEX futures) and the US EIA via FRED (spot energy). Past behaviour, not a forecast or investment advice. See MCX prices today and the MCX margin calculator.
