Forex Pricing

Gold is priced and traded in U.S. dollars and can be purchased in both RSP and margin accounts. Clients holding Canadian funds are offered preferential currency conversion rates on all purchases and sales of gold. You can buy gold on credit and borrow on the bullion already in your margin account — up to 80% loan value.

Gold margin

$19.95* per trade flat, unlimited gold


Storage fee: CAD $0.10 per ounce per month charged to your account(plus GST / HST).


Gold spot price: USD $1726.90

Prices current as of: 2012/02/03 at 17:15:37 EST

Gold pricing

Gold is priced and traded in U.S. dollars and can be purchased in both RSP and margin accounts. Clients holding Canadian funds are offered preferential currency conversion rates on all purchases and sales of gold. You can buy gold on credit and borrow on the bullion already in your margin account — up to 80% loan value.

Prices current as of: 2012/02/03 at 17:15:37 EST
Product   Bid price Ask price
1 oz gold maple coin   $1,725.90 $1,813.24
1 oz gold bar   $1,725.90 $1,747.90
5 oz gold bar   $8,609.50 $8,720.75
10 oz gold bar   $17,219.00 $17,424.00
1 kilo gold bar   $55,360.29 $55,697.87




To purchase gold

You must have an open account with sufficient funds. If you do not currently have an account at Questrade, get started today. The pricing of our products are indicative only and may change upon confirmation of purchase or sale of the actual product.

Gold orders are accepted from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. ET. Orders will be processed at approximately 3 p.m. at the market price.  Larger orders (over $10,000 USD) received between 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. can be placed immediately.

Please phone in your order to our trade desk, toll free, at 1.888.783.7866 (when prompted press 2) or call 1.866.980.9590. We will need your account number, product description, and the number of units to be purchased.

More about gold products


Additional fees

For clients who are maintaining USD in their RESP: On any day in which you trade a USD security (including gold) in your RESP, you will be charged a $5 commission. This is a flat, per-day commission, no matter how many trades are made.

For clients who are maintaining USD in a LIF, RIF, or spousal-RIF account, go to the USD in RSP page and the USD in RSP FAQs page for more details.