Notes

How to read every chart and table on the Main tab, where the figures come from, and how the app decides what is good, bad or neutral.

How the app labels things

• Reserve Levels: Headline Moves — worked out in this order from the reserves and gold columns:
  • Drawdown reserves fell % or more on the month — negative: the bank may be spending reserves to defend its currency.
  • Building reserves rose % or more — positive: more buffer.
  • Buying gold smaller move, but the bank added gold tonnes.
  • Selling gold smaller move, but the bank removed gold tonnes — negative.
  • Steady — nothing to act on everything else — neutral.
• MoM trend bar — green to the right of the line = reserves up, red to the left = down. Every row uses the same scale, so the longest bar is the biggest mover.
• Gold activity — Bought tonnes added, Sold tonnes removed, No change less than t moved, Not reported no tonnage published. Only tonnes count — a higher gold price is not buying.
• ⚠ check source — the figure came from a news report quoting the bank, because the official page could not be opened when it was researched. older than days — the latest figure that could be verified is old.
• 24h — a headline from the last 24 hours, pulled live when the page opens. Today — a release due on today's date.
• The tally bar under the headline counts banks by these same labels: green = Building, gold = Buying gold, grey = Steady, red = Drawdown or selling gold.

Reserves by asset class (chart)

• Each bar is one month: the official reserve assets of the central banks on this page added together, split into FX (foreign-currency deposits and securities), Gold, SDR (the IMF's own reserve unit) and IMF position (money lent into the IMF that can be drawn back at any time).
• Total shows the US-dollar size; % by asset class shows the mix, so gold's share can grow even when the total barely moves.
• Source: IMF International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity (IRFCL), pulled when the page opens. A bank is counted in a month only if it reported all four parts; the table's last column says how many. Taiwan is not an IMF member, so it is not in this chart. Small "other reserve assets" are left out.
• Gold is valued at market prices, so a gold rally lifts the gold bar without any buying — Gold activity in the table below shows tonnes.

FX reserves by currency (chart)

• Each bar is one quarter: the currency mix of all foreign-currency reserves that central banks worldwide report to the IMF (COFER). It is the world total — the IMF does not publish this split country by country, and most banks on this page do not publish their own.
• Others = Canadian and Australian dollars, Swiss franc and all other currencies. Only reserves whose currency is reported ("allocated") are included.
• A falling dollar share can come from the dollar's exchange rate as well as from selling: when the dollar weakens, holdings in other currencies are worth more in dollars.
• Quarterly, published about three months after each quarter ends.

Main table

• Latest reserves — the bank's total official reserve assets (foreign currency, gold, IMF position and SDRs), in US dollars, from its own latest release. Click "source" under the date to check it.
• As of — the date the figure refers to, not the day it was published. Banks report on different clocks: India weekly, most others monthly. A date marked older than 60 days is the latest that could be verified; ⚠ check source means the figure came from a news report quoting the bank because the official page could not be opened when it was researched. The grey line under a reserves figure says when it is not like-for-like (FX only, weekly, converted from local currency).
• MoM trend — change against the bank's previous month. The bar's length is the % change, on the same scale for every row, so the longest bar is the biggest mover. Part of any move is just prices: a weaker US dollar or a higher gold price lifts reported reserves even when the bank did nothing.
• Gold activity — tonnes added or removed over the latest month (World Gold Council / the bank's own data). Gold value changes are not activity — only tonnes count. Gold data is published later than reserves, so the small grey line says which month or quarter the tonnes refer to; under 0.1 t counts as no change.
• Reserve Levels: Headline Moves — a label worked out from the two columns before it, in this order: reserves down by or more = Drawdown (watch for currency defence); up by that much = Building; otherwise gold bought = Buying gold, gold sold = Selling gold; anything else = Steady — nothing to act on. The line under it is the latest dated news for that bank.
• Currency Allocation: Composition Shifts — the bank's latest published split of its foreign-currency reserves (US dollar, euro, yuan and so on) and how it moved since the disclosure before. Most banks publish this once or twice a year, and some never do; those rows say so.
• Gold & Alternative Assets and Forward-Looking Signals — the latest dated disclosure or policy statement, with its source. Where a policy meeting is coming up, its date is shown.
• 24h headlines — each bank's news from the last 24 hours is pulled when the page opens and sorted into the column it belongs to (gold, currency, reserves or policy). No 24h line means no matching headline in the last day.
• Banks you add in User settings show here as Awaiting data until their figures are researched into the page.

Figures last researched: .

Key Data Releases Due Today

• Releases due today come first, then everything due in the next 7 days, earliest first.
• Dates come from each bank's publishing calendar: weekly releases by weekday, plus dated releases. "Expected" or "around" in a name means the bank has not fixed the day and it follows the bank's usual pattern.
• Relevance is worked out from the main table: for a reserves release, the last figure and move it will update; for a rate decision or minutes, the bank's latest policy signal.

Tables

• Tap a column heading to sort by it; tap again to reverse.
• Press Filter above a table to show a filter box under each heading. Typing text keeps rows that contain it; in number columns >500 or <0 compares values. Closing the filters clears them.
• Long text shows two or three lines — press more to read the rest.