For those investors, traders and market participants that actively trade or invest in gold, the last couple of trading days have truly been historic.

Gold surged above $1800 in trading today, closing above that key resistance level. Traders in New York took the price of gold futures to $1808, which is a net gain of just over $14.

The entire precious metals complex that trades in the futures markets were higher on the day. The winner today was silver, basis the most active May contract, silver closed at $18.62. Silver was up by 1.68% on the day, which is a total of almost $0.31.