Highest so far that year
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 18 April 2017, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Highest closing price since 4 November 2016
Gold closed at $1,291.70 per troy ounce on 18 April 2017, up $2.300 (0.18%) from the previous close of $1,289.40.
Notable session: highest close of the month.
This close extended a run of 5 consecutive sessions of gains. Runs are more informative than any one day inside them: they show direction holding rather than a single session's noise.
At the time, no session earlier in the year had closed higher.
This close sat 31.61% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2011-08-22.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $1,233.60, making this a +4.71% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $1,291.70 per troy ounce on 18 April 2017. That is $2.30 higher than the previous close of $1,289.40, a move of 0.18%.
The gold price rose on 18 April 2017, gaining $2.30 (0.18%) against the previous session's close of $1,289.40.
At $1,291.70 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $41.53 on 18 April 2017. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 18 April 2017 18k gold was worth about $31.15 per gram and 14k about $24.23 per gram, against $41.53 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 70.8 on 18 April 2017, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 70.8 ounces of silver.
A month before 18 April 2017, gold was around $1,229.80 per troy ounce, so the close of $1,291.70 is a gain of 5.0% over the month.
This close was session 5 of a consecutive run of gains. A run is counted by closes, so an intraday reversal that still closed in the same direction does not break it.
It closed 31.61% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2011-08-22.
The most recent higher close was about 5 months earlier — 110 trading sessions before this one.