ZINC — price and volatility
ZINC: price 3,782.7, 24h change -0.67%. Commodity market quotes. Updated in real time.
What this is
MetalZinc is the metal that coats steel so it does not rust: galvanising takes more than half of world output, the rest goes into alloys and batteries. The price lives on construction and the car industry, while supply is strongly affected by big mines closing. What this shows: here the contract is quoted per TONNE, as is standard on the London Metal Exchange, so a figure in the thousands of dollars is not a scaling error. Here it trades on MEXC.
Chart
Chart built from data of MEXC
What the data shows
ZINC trades at 3,782.7. Over 194 days it ranged between 3,166 and 4,064.6; the price now sits in the upper third of that range — 69% of the way from the yearly low to the high.
All-time high is 4,064.6 (September 2026); the price is 7% below it now.
Open positions in ZINC are worth $2.9M. Over the past hour open interest rose by 0.00%. That is at percentile 0 over three weeks: noticeably fewer positions than usual.
24-hour turnover is $103K — percentile 17 for the year: trading is quiet.
The daily range is 0.8% and five-minute NATR is 0.01%. That range is at percentile 16 for the year — a noticeably calmer day than usual.
The instrument lives on a single venue (MEXC). Liquidity sits in one book, so slippage here is more noticeable than on coins listed across several exchanges.
This is a commodity instrument. It reacts to inventories, weather and decisions of producing countries, not to crypto news.
NATR is 0.01% on the minute and 0.10% on the hour — the move is choppy: within an hour price travels far and comes back.
ZINC correlation with Bitcoin over 24 hours is -0.15 — it goes its own way, barely looking at Bitcoin.
Funding is +0.0132%: longs pay shorts, so positioning leans to buyers.
Over the day -0.67%, over the hour 0.00%, over the last five minutes 0.00% — it moved livelier an hour ago and has since gone quiet.
By turnover it ranks 1537 of 2041 instruments in the screener.
By daily range it ranks 1637 of 2041.
Built from current numbers and the coin's own year of history. Updates with the data.
Our observations
KairoRight now ZINC is within its usual range: volume, funding and open interest are all unremarkable.
Computed from our own minute history for this coin over a year. Percentile is the share of days the value was below today's. Description only, no forecasts.
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How to read this
- Funding is a payment between longs and shorts. A positive rate means longs pay shorts: the market is crowded long.
- The rate rank shows how unusual that rate is for this particular coin: 97 means above 97% of the last month, a rare skew. Without the rank the bare number says nothing — every coin has its own normal.
- Open interest is the money sitting in positions that are still open. Rising alongside price means new money entering; rising while price falls means shorts building up.
- The OI rank is measured in contracts rather than dollars: otherwise it would drift up with price alone and claim a record where nothing changed.
- NATR shows how much a coin moves relative to its own price. High NATR with high turnover is where today's action is.
How much money sits in open positions on each venue. The total spans every exchange listing the contract.