Performance Table: Gold vs Silver

What it shows

A table in the indicator’s own pane. Each row is a market, each column a period, and each cell a percent change. Green cells are gains and red cells are losses, and the colour is stronger the bigger the move. A dash means there is not enough history for that period.

How Pravex works it out

1. Fetch daily candles for every market in the table: the chart’s market first (if the chart market is set as the first row), then each one in the list of markets. The fetch reaches back far enough for the longest period in the list of periods, plus a few days.
2. For each period, find the date it points to, counting back from the open of the latest daily candle. Days (D) and weeks (W) count back whole 24-hour spans. Months (M) and years (Y) go back to the same day of the month, clamped to the month’s length. YTD goes to midnight on 1 January of the current year (UTC).
3. Take the close of the daily candle that holds that date. For YTD this is the candle that opens on 1 January.
4. Change = 100 × (latest close − that close) ÷ that close. The latest close is the last daily candle’s, still forming if the day is not over.
5. Shade the cell: the colour fades in from a light tint at 0% up to a stronger one at the full-colour change (10% by default) and stays there for bigger moves.
6. If no candle exists that far back, the cell shows a dash.

Settings

Setting	Default	What changing it does
Chart market as first row	on	Adds the chart’s own market as the first row of the table. Off leaves only the markets in the list.
Markets in the table	ETHUSDT, SOLUSDT, BNBUSDT, XRPUSDT, DOGEUSDT	The other rows, separated by commas. In the app the default list is five crypto pairs. This page’s table lists spot silver (XAG/USD) from the same Pravex price feed next to gold. At most 20 markets besides the chart’s.
Periods in the table	1W, 1M, 3M, 6M, 12M, YTD, 5Y	The columns. Each is a number with D (days), W (weeks), M (months) or Y (years), or YTD. An entry with no number counts as 1. At most 20 columns. Periods that reach back further than the history has leave a dash.
Full-colour change (%)	10	The change at which the shading reaches full strength. With 10, a 10% gain and a 25% gain are shaded the same. Lower it to make small moves stand out.
Where the table sits	center, middle	Where the table sits in its pane: left, centre or right in the first box, top, middle or bottom in the second.
Table share of pane width (%)	100	The share of the pane’s width the table takes. 0 fits it to the contents, so it can be wider than the pane.
Table share of pane height (%)	95	The share of the pane’s height the table takes. 0 fits it to the contents.

How traders read it

Use it to compare, not to time. Looking down a column shows which market led over a month, and across a row shows whether a market’s gain is recent or has been building for a year. Gold and silver side by side show whether the two metals are moving as a pair or one is lagging.

Invented numbers for illustration: gold shows +4.0% over a month and silver +9.0%. Silver has moved over twice as far. Next to a 12-month figure of +20% for gold and +18% for silver, silver ran harder lately but has not yet made up the year. Use that to decide where to look next, not what to buy.

When it misleads

The figures are close-to-close changes with a fixed look-back, so a market that spiked and fell back inside the period looks flat. The latest daily candle is the one still forming, so each reading moves during the day. Periods in months and years depend on the date, so 1M on the 31st goes back to the end of the shorter month. Longer periods only fill where the history reaches; where it does not, the cell is a dash instead of a smaller figure. And the table says nothing about risk: a market with a larger gain may have swung much more to get there.

Questions and answers

How is the percentage change in the table calculated?

Latest daily close minus the close from the start of the period, divided by that earlier close, times 100. The start of the period is counted back from the latest candle.

What does YTD mean in the table?

Year to date: the change since the daily candle that opens on 1 January (UTC) of the current year.

Why do some cells show a dash?

The market has no daily candle that far back in the loaded history, so Pravex leaves the cell empty instead of guessing.

Can I add my own periods and markets?

Yes. Edit the list of periods and the list of markets in the settings, separated by commas. For example, 2W, 9M, YTD adds fortnight and nine-month columns.

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