Not one source
Your API never rides on a single source whose fall takes your price down with it. It draws the price from more than one independent source at the same time, so it keeps flowing however one of them stumbles.
How it works
What keeps the price in your API live and honest?
From the moment the price is fetched to the moment it reaches your API, every step is designed for one goal, that your system builds on it with confidence. Here is how it does that, without complexity.
Six pillars
It looks after itself
The delivery to your API needs no watching and no intervention. When a source stumbles, Barq switches immediately to the next best without stopping, then returns the recovered one to service automatically.
It never lies
Every price your API returns carries an explicit state you read before you trust it, live, market closed, or stale. So you never build a financial decision on a dead price without knowing.
It knows the market
Your API's price tells a market holiday apart from a source outage, so a correct closing price stays "closed" rather than "stale", and its verdict resumes the moment the market opens.
Arrives the instant it happens
A live stream reaches your system at the same instant, with no delay, so your customers experience is built on a genuinely live price and not an old echo.
A stable contract
The shape of the data your API receives stays stable and ready to consume, with the per-karat prices computed, without an update breaking what was built on it.
The price journey, step by step
From source to your decision, one unbroken path.
01
Gathers from several sources
Barq draws the price from more than one independent source at once, never relying on one.
02
Verifies then adopts
It weighs the sources and verifies the price before adopting it and returning it from the API, and if a source stumbles it switches immediately to the next best without the price stopping.
03
Attaches the state
It clothes every price in an explicit state signal, live, or market closed, or stale, and attaches the per-karat gold and silver prices, ready to use.
04
Delivers to your system
It exposes the price via the API on demand, and pushes it in real time over the live stream, so your systems read it instantly or receive it the moment it changes.
In finance, the wrong price is worse than no price.
So Barq was built around one idea, never to lie to the system that builds on it.
No single point of failure
A source outage does not cut the price off from your API, thanks to multiple sources and automatic failover.
Honesty before speed
Barq never passes a price it does not trust without saying so in its state, so if the source drops during trading the price becomes "stale" at once, and never deceives you with an old price.
It tells a market close apart
Barq knows the market holidays and breaks in Riyadh time, so a correct closing price stays "closed" rather than "stale", and resumes the moment it reopens.
A stable contract
The shape of the data your API receives does not change suddenly under your system, and any change is coordinated in advance.
Live in production
A platform serving real systems in the sector today, not a promise on paper.
Market hours
When the market opens and closes
The metals market schedule, a fixed reference you can return to anytime. Barq follows it exactly to tell a correctly frozen price apart from a stale one.
The market is open
closes in
- Trading hours
- The market runs around the clock every weekday, except for a short daily break and the weekend.
- Daily break
- From 12:00 AM to 1:00 AM every day.
- Weekend
- Closed on Saturday and Sunday.
- Official holidays
- No additional holidays are scheduled right now; they are announced as they occur.
All times are in Riyadh time (GMT+3).
A price layer you can rely on starts with a conversation.
If you run a gold shop or a platform, or you are building a product that needs a reliable live price, tell us what you need, and let us see how Barq serves you.
Contact us
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