http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/apmex.com
Domains to add to compare:amex.com and nyse.com
This graph will let you watch in almost real time, it has a 3 day lag of the amount of people looking to purchase physical gold and silver bullion from the website apmex.com. You need to put in two baseline comparisons so you can tell if a trend is real or just a common cycle. I like to use amex.com and nyse.com Just type them in the boxes and click compare. Click the Max button at the top to see a longer time frame. This should allow investors to watch in near real time the increase or decrease in precious metals investing.
Do realize that advertising campaigns, regular online traffic cycles, and errors in alexa data can skew the data. Also if apmex runs out stock, the graph may drop down resulting from people knowing that the store is empty until the date apmex posts that sales will resume.
Disclaimer: I can not be held liable for the graph data as I have no control over its accuracy or timeliness.
Actually you need to click on the max tab at the top and then click on rank. Rank takes into account reach, page views, and popularity. The reach is up 37% but the graph does a poor job of representing it. Look at the graph after clicking the rank and max tabs, it makes the trend much more clear.
thecomicsitedotcom 3 years ago
They have a 3 month 37% up swing, that is pretty big, you should also consider that they were out of silver for a long period there, so the fact that it has gone up in the face of dropping silver prices is unusual.
Usually investment demand falls in precious metals as the price declines, not so this time.
thecomicsitedotcom 3 years ago
This type of analysis is a really good idea. Great follow-up to a practical application for your earlier video.
It looks like there is a very minor trend up, at Apmex. However, it is not near as much as I expected. Hmmmm.
kevinarmstrong1 3 years ago 2