Who publishes Pawn Board and what it measures

Pawn Board is an independent editorial desk. It measures one thing: the price of gold in Sri Lankan rupees, derived from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka's published figure for the world ounce. This page explains who runs the desk, how the measurement is taken, why the hour is repeated, how a correction reaches it, and how the site earns.

Who publishes this site

Pawn Board is published by an independent editorial desk. It is not a broker, not an exchange, not a licensed adviser, and it holds no client money. The desk exists only to take one public figure and turn it into a small table that a reader can check against the source. The desk does not sell gold, does not buy gold, and does not handle any transaction. It publishes a measurement and states plainly where the measurement came from.

The desk has no staff names to give, no office, no founding date, and no history beyond the pages a reader can see. It is a desk, not a person, and it answers for what it prints. The address on the contact page reaches the person who reads the sources and writes the table. That is the full chain of responsibility: the desk, the source, and the reader who checks one against the other.

What the desk measures and how

The measurement begins with one figure from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka: the world ounce in rupees. That figure is taken as published, on the day it is published. The desk then divides that figure by the ounce and multiplies by karat over twenty-four to produce the rows a reader sees for the pawn of eight grams and the other weights. No other source is mixed in, and no adjustment is made.

The sources are named under every table, with a link, so a reader can check the figure at its publisher. The desk reads the source, copies the figure, and applies the arithmetic. If the arithmetic is wrong, the table is wrong, and the desk corrects it. If the source publishes a figure, it is used as is. The desk does not smooth, average, or predict.

Why the hour is republished

The hour is republished because a figure read in the morning may be replaced by a different figure later the same day. The desk records the hour it read the source, and that hour travels with the table. A reader who sees a different figure elsewhere is then able to ask whether the other figure was read at a different hour from the same source.

The hour is not a promise that the figure will stay the same. It is a timestamp, nothing more. If the Central Bank publishes once a day, the hour is the moment the desk read that day's figure. If the bank publishes more than once, the desk states which publication it used. The hour tells the reader when the measurement was taken, so the reader can decide whether the figure is fresh enough for their purpose.

The desk's responsibility and corrections

The editorial desk is responsible for what appears on this site. That responsibility is narrow: the desk must read the named source correctly, apply the stated arithmetic correctly, and republish the result without adding or omitting a figure. The desk does not answer for what the Central Bank chose to publish, and it does not answer for what a reader does with the table. The desk is responsible for the copy and the calculation, not for the market.

Corrections reach the desk through the address on the contact page: editor@pawnboardlk.pages.dev. That address exists for corrections. A figure that is wrong is corrected, and the correction is dated. The desk does not accept corrections by phone, by message, or in person, because a written message leaves a record that the desk can act on. If a reader writes to say a figure is wrong, the desk checks the source at the hour stated and corrects the table if the reader is right.

How the site earns

The site links to one broker, FxPro, through an affiliate link. If a reader follows that link and opens an account at the broker, the site is paid a commission. The reader pays nothing to this site and nothing extra at the broker. The commission comes out of the broker's own revenue, not out of the reader's deposit or trades.

The desk states this plainly because a reader who sees a link to a broker should know that the link is a paid one. The desk does not recommend the broker, does not advise opening an account, and does not promise any outcome. The figures on this site describe what gold costs in rupees. They do not describe what a reader should do with that information. The affiliate link is a way for the desk to be paid if a reader chooses to act on it, and it is disclosed every time it appears.