Metals-API Blog: Comprehensive Precious Metals Pricing API

You need to quote, hedge, or reprice nickel exposures in real time, but your downstream systems expect a USD-per-troy-ounce price, not the usual LME-per-ton convention. By the end of this guide you will request live LME Nickel (LME-NI) rates from Metals-API, read the USD/oz field you actually need, convert to other units used in trading (kg and metric ton), and wire this into a Python workflow you can ship. What you will build: a clean USD-per-oz feed for LME Nickel We will focus on a single, dependable building block: the Latest Rates endpoint for LME Nickel (symbol: LME-NI). You will: Call the latest endpoint for LME-NI and USDLME-NI in one request. Parse the response to get USD...