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World Gold Council central bank gold purchase tracker

monthly tonnes of gold bought/sold by individual central banks

Feed detail
Measures
monthly tonnes of gold bought/sold by individual central banks
Source
gold.org Gold Reserves data / IMF IFS data portal (public API)
Access
json-api
Cadence
monthlyupdates roughly monthly
Thesis
official sector buying (esp. from smaller EM central banks not covered by desks) is a slow but structural demand signal underpriced by tactical funds
Maps to
gold spot, long-horizon demand
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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