Editorial policy

How Monitoring Money writes about gold prices, rates, products, and market moves.

Monitoring Money is built to answer practical gold questions clearly. The site covers live gold prices, gold price today pages, local rate pages, product comparisons, calculators, and market explainers. The goal is to help readers understand what the market price means, what retail pricing means, and which page is most useful for the question they actually have.

What we aim to do

Write for real decisions, not just for page views

  • Explain live gold prices in plain language before moving into local or retail detail.
  • Separate market pricing from dealer pricing, showroom pricing, and jewellery pricing.
  • Make product pages, calculators, and guides useful for real buyers and sellers.
  • Avoid publishing claims about prices, records, or history that the site cannot support with its current data.
How articles are handled

Updating, corrections, and source discipline

Articles are reviewed when the market context, page structure, or supporting data changes. Time-sensitive pages such as market explainers, forecast pieces, and record-high articles are written to stay useful even as short-term prices move. When a page needs a factual correction, it should be updated rather than left with stale framing.

  • Live price pages and rate pages are not treated as the same thing as final retail quotes.
  • Forecast articles are framed as scenarios and drivers, not as guaranteed price targets.
  • History pages stay within the real coverage of the dataset instead of implying unsupported long-term certainty.
Reader-first standards

What readers should expect from the site

A reader should be able to move from a live gold price to the next useful answer without being pushed through vague filler. That means country pages should explain local context, rate pages should explain purity and charges, and buying guides should make premiums, resale, and product fit easier to compare.