About Gold Stater

What is Gold Stater?

Gold Stater lets you log every piece of gold you own (bars, jewelry, coins, anything with gold content) and know its true EGP value at any moment. We pull prices for every karat (24, 22, 21, 18, 14) and for the ounce from the Egyptian market every 30 minutes, compute the value of each piece by karat and weight, and sum your whole portfolio.

It's not just a price table. The app computes your gains and losses since purchase, shows the real per-gram price you paid after crafting fees, and gives you a full view of your portfolio: current value, cost basis, profit or loss in EGP and as a percentage. All of it without entering a number every day; prices refresh automatically.

Who is this for?

Gold Stater is built for Egyptian gold holders and buyers: the family that buys jewelry as a gift or investment, the saver taking bars from the bank, and people who have inherited gold and don't know its current value. If you own any gold piece, Gold Stater tells you what it's really worth, without relying on a seller's quote, a shop visit, or manual spreadsheets.

The articles and analyses we publish here are aimed at the ordinary consumer, not the professional trader. We explain the difference between karats, the gap between the local and global prices, and answer common questions like "why is gold more expensive in Egypt than globally?" or "how do I value a necklace after crafting fees?".

Pricing methodology

The prices shown on the site come from Egyptian market data we aggregate across multiple vendors and sources, refreshed every 30 minutes. We also track the London spot ounce price so we can compute the local-vs-global gap, a meaningful indicator of supply and demand pressure in the local market compared with the global trend.

The full details on how we gather data, how often, the formulas we use, and how we handle outages or missing data are on a separate page for complete transparency.

Editorial standards

The content we publish is governed by a few rules so it stays reliable and useful:

• One unified data source: every number in every article comes from the same database that powers the live prices on the site. No manual estimates, no figures from miscellaneous sources.
• Daily cadence: the daily brief is published at market open and the weekly wrap on Thursday evening. If a major global or local event (exchange-rate shift, central-bank decision) occurs, we publish a follow-up right away.
• Corrections policy: if a number or context turns out to be wrong, we fix it in the same article and add a transparent note at the bottom with the date and what changed. We don't silently delete older pieces.
• AI-assistance disclosure: we use AI models for the first draft of some daily briefs. Every published article goes through human review before publishing. The goal is speed, not replacing editorial judgment.
• No investment advice: the content is purely informational. We never say "buy now" or "wait." We present numbers and context; the decision is yours.

Who writes here?

All content is published under the byline Gold Stater team. We don't have named individual editors or a network of authors; the articles and daily briefs all go through the same review, and we sign them as a team. That's deliberate: our priority is data accuracy and clear explanation, not building personal brands.