Gold
XAU/USDThe reserve asset. Priced against real yields and the dollar.
An independent desk for gold, silver, crude and the dollar. We publish our research free, introduce only brokers we have measured ourselves, and never take custody of a single rupee of your money.
Do not take our word for it. Search the register yourself — it takes about a minute, and you should do it for every firm that asks for your money.
“Registered” is the most abused word in Pakistani finance. It is printed on letterheads by firms that have never filed a return. So here is the plain-language version of what it means at this desk — and what you are entitled to demand from us.
Your account is opened with your broker, in your name. We cannot deposit, withdraw or trade it — only advise on it.
Every trade needs your instruction. Nobody at this firm can act on your account without you saying yes first.
Scope, fee, conflicts and the boundary of what we will not do — agreed on paper before any engagement begins.
Logged and acknowledged in one working day, answered in ten. Unresolved, it escalates to the regulator — and we tell you how.
Things that come out of the ground, get shipped, and are consumed. Every quote below is a live feed — not a screenshot, and not yesterday's number.
The reserve asset. Priced against real yields and the dollar.
Half monetary metal, half industrial input — and it trades like both.
Thin supply out of South Africa; autocatalyst and hydrogen demand.
The US benchmark. Watch inventories, rig counts and the Cushing hub.
The waterborne global benchmark — where geopolitics prices first.
The denominator in every commodity quote. Nothing moves without it.
Research is the foundation. Brokerage is the discipline of execution. Advisory is the discipline of restraint. We do these three things and decline the rest.
No onboarding funnel, no call centre, no pressure to fund an account by Friday. Four steps, and you can stop after any of them.
A letter, a call or an hour at the desk. No form-filling marathon and no sales script — we would rather hear the actual question.
Free · No obligation
What you hold, what you owe, what you are trying to protect, and how much of a drawdown you can genuinely tolerate. That last one decides most of the rest.
One hour, typically
Instruments, sizing, entry and invalidation, the fee, and the boundary of what we will and will not do. On paper, before anything begins.
Within one week
Monthly position reviews and a signed quarterly letter. The plan is a document that gets marked up, not a brochure that gets filed.
Monthly & quarterly
Rules written in a quiet quarter are worth something. Rules written during a drawdown are worth nothing at all.
A position gets a written thesis, an entry, an invalidation level and a date before any capital moves. If it cannot be argued in two paragraphs, it does not get recommended.
No proprietary book running against the views we publish, no soft-dollar arrangements, no undisclosed rebate on the venues we introduce. Where an interest exists, it is disclosed in writing before you decide.
Metals, energies, base metals and the dollar — priced where they are actually priced, on international venues, rather than through the narrow lens of a single local exchange.
Non-discretionary by default. Your account is opened with your broker, in your name. We never take custody of client cash or positions, and that boundary is documented before the first meeting ends.
Every recommendation, every change of mind and every closed position is logged. The quarterly letter reports the trades that did not work with the same detail as the ones that did.
A correct call executed through the wrong broker is still a loss. We verify licences on the regulator's own register, benchmark spreads in the thin hours, and ask — in writing — which legal entity your account would actually sit under.
We receive no undisclosed rebate for an introduction. Where any commercial arrangement exists with a venue, it is disclosed to you in writing before you open an account — not buried in a footnote afterwards.
We check the licence on the regulator's own register — not the broker's marketing page — and record which legal entity your account would sit under. Tier-1 jurisdictions are preferred; tier-2 is disclosed, never hidden.
Quoted spreads on gold, WTI and the dollar index sampled against peer venues across a full trading cycle — including the thin hours, where the real cost shows up.
Slippage measured on real tickets in normal conditions and around scheduled volatility. A tight advertised spread that widens on the number is not a tight spread.
Dealing model, ownership structure and any related-party arrangements requested in writing. If a venue will not answer the question, that is itself the answer.
Research we are willing to publish publicly is research we have to be able to defend. All of it is free, attributed, and open to anyone.
The first consultation is free and carries no obligation — an honest hour about what you hold, what you are trying to protect, and whether we are the right firm for it.
Mon–Sat · 10:00 – 19:00 PKT · Lahore