About PhysicalStack
Built for stackers, by stackers.
In bullion there's the paper price — and there's what you actually pay. We built PhysicalStack because the gap between the two stopped being a rounding error and started being the whole story.
A small, independent team. No affiliate kickbacks. No "deal of the hour" gimmicks.
Why this exists.
Most tools quote you one thing. The market charges another. We got tired of guessing — so we measured.
Spot price is a number on a screen. The number that actually leaves your wallet is something else: spot plus a premium that quietly varies by dealer, by country, by product, by the day of the week. Some days the spread is huge. Some days one dealer is suddenly cheaper than every other — and there's no way to know without checking forty tabs.
We were the people checking forty tabs. Stackers and data nerds, frustrated by the same routine. So we built the thing we wanted: every day, we pull buy/sell quotes from 43+ major dealers across 9 countries, strip out the noise, and chart what the physical market is actually doing — against spot, against itself, against the S&P.
That's it. No affiliate links. No pushed picks. No ads. Just a daily, honest read on the real physical bullion market for serious buyers who don't want to be the slowest one at the table.
What we actually do.
Four jobs — nothing more. Done well, every single trading day.
Track real dealer prices
Buy and sell quotes for the products stackers actually buy — 1oz Silver Eagles, Gold Eagles, generic rounds, and 1oz / 10oz / 100oz bars — sampled daily.
Calculate true premium over spot
Spot is the floor. We show you the ceiling, the median, and the cheapest dealer in the room — not the lowest advertised price designed to bait a click.
Build charts you can act on
Clean, interactive, daily-updated charts. Plus one-of-a-kind ratios — like retail physical silver versus the S&P 500 — that no one else is publishing.
Keep it $1 a month
Serious data shouldn't cost serious money. One dollar a month, cancel in one click. The math pays for itself the first time you skip a bad premium.
Common questions.
The four things people ask before they sign up.
Which dealers do you track?
43+ major bullion dealers across the US, Canada, UK, EU, and AU/NZ — the ones serious stackers actually buy from. We don't track every coin shop on the internet, just the ones that move volume and publish live quotes. The list expands as we find dealers worth including.
How is the data collected?
Automated scraping of public dealer prices once a day, around US spot open. Quotes are normalized per ounce, cross-checked, and dealers with inconsistent or stale prices are flagged or excluded. Methodology evolves — if you spot something off, tell us and we'll dig in.
Why $1 a month? What's the catch?
No catch. The pricing is intentional. We want serious buyers, not tire-kickers, and $1 keeps the door open for everyone who actually stacks. There's no upsell tier, no "premium" plan, no affiliate kickback hidden in the data. If we ever change that, members will hear it from us first.
Are you affiliated with any dealer?
No. PhysicalStack is independent. We don't take commission from dealers, we don't promote "best deal of the day" sponsored picks, and we don't shade the data toward anyone. The whole point of the site is that we're the only ones in the room without a horse in the race.
Stop paying for the illusion.
Spot is a story. The premium is the truth. Join the stackers who use real data to beat dealer markup — for less than a coffee.
Join PhysicalStack — $1/monthNo long-term contracts. Cancel in one click.