Make long term logarithmic silver chart?

[kenw232]

Where or how do you all make charts? I would like to make a long term (1990+) long term silver chart, log or not. I try to use SLV but that typically only goes back to 2006.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A History of Mining on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska - Grab it through Amazon!

[TreasurePirate69]

Go out to Kitco. They have the actual historical data points that you can download. Google for "silver historical prices" and you should find the following site:

Historical Silver Data and Charts - London Fix

Look at the middle section which says "Yearly Silver Charts". Select the years you want and then click the "View Data" button. It will give you tabular data that you can use for plotting charts. Of special interest might be the monthly averages at the bottom of each year's chart. Plotting 12 points per year might be the way to go depending on what you are trying to do. Of course, they also have the yearly average and the daily values too.

 

[Salura]

If you need help putting the tabular data into a chart (use a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel), let me know and I'll drop it into a chart for you.

 

[kenw232]

If you need help putting the tabular data into a chart (use a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel), let me know and I'll drop it into a chart for you.

Thanks, I wouldn't mind trying to make my own charts with the data. But when I click View Data I get an image of numbers. Thats useless, I would think it should give us a CSV file or something with data I could import into Excel or something. I can't do anything with a graphic of numbers.

 

[Salura]

Any chance you can highlight and select the numbers from the site, copy and paste into Excel?

I grab a lot of website data that way.

 

[Salura]

TreasurePirate-I think he's looking for downloadable data. I think he meant useless as in he doesn't want to have to type it up.

I'll check it out and see if I can help

 

[TreasurePirate69]

TreasurePirate-I think he's looking for downloadable data. I think he meant useless as in he doesn't want to have to type it up.

I'll check it out and see if I can help

Salura: You are a better man than I am. When a new member comes in, asks for help, and then calls the help you give them "useless" I'm inclined not to bother helping them any more. I think he should be able to handle googling for "silver historical price data csv perth mint" on his own. If not, then I really don't care.

 

[Salura]

Lol of course in a "better man" I'm a woman. J/k

I've learned to parse through people's words to get to the true meaning. Folks forget you can't hear tone and inflection in a post. 90% of communication is non-verbal, so text based communication lends itself to mid-communication. The younger generation seems to fall prey to this a lot.

 

[TreasurePirate69]

Lol of course in a "better man" I'm a woman. J/k

I've learned to parse through people's words to get to the true meaning. Folks forget you can't hear tone and inflection in a post. 90% of communication is non-verbal, so text based communication lends itself to mid-communication. The younger generation seems to fall prey to this a lot.

There is a big difference between:

"Thanks for the link. Does anyone know of any other sites that might offer this information in CSV format?"

and

"That's useless, .... I can't do anything with a graphic of numbers."

But maybe I'm just turning into a crotchety old man.

 

[Salura]

Lol tact and diplomacy are gained with age and wisdom.

 

[kenw232]

Thanks, the Perth Mint data helps.
Precious Metal Prices | The Perth Mint

 

[TreasurePirate69]

Lol tact and diplomacy are gained with age and wisdom.

You'd think that I'd be old enough now to have gained at least ONE of those attributes. But alas...