Metals-API Blog: Comprehensive Precious Metals Pricing API

If you need LBMA Platinum Pm (LBXPTPM) historical prices per troy ounce to power a daily close chart, feed a backtesting engine, or reconcile ERP valuations, you can get them quickly with the Metals-API. This guide shows how to fetch LBXPTPM daily closes using two focused endpoints—the time-series and OHLC endpoints—plus a Python example that returns a clean vector of closes you can drop into your analytics pipeline. We’ll cover units (troy ounces vs grams), base currency, timestamps and timezone, caching to control costs, and how to handle weekends and market closures. By the end, you’ll have everything you need to integrate LBMA Platinum PM fix data into production. For API setup and broad...