All products have a normal price, a top price and a bottom price.
we do not let products pricing keep going up or down.
we would have loved to do so but players do not really react to a high price.
I would have expected that if a price of a product is very high most of the time, many will start corporations and produce the product and the price will normalize.
this does not happen, so if we just let it go with the market, we could end up with a very high price and any corporation that needs gold will bankrupt.
gold is not a very good example, but electric power, if we let it go, will bankrupt each and every corporation.
Same with services and high tech services and there are more.
pricing normaly follows the market in the range of 50% to 150% of the normal price.
This is a factor 3.
Gold is in permanent shortage and reach the max level.
Gold mining is very profitable. if someone will start many gold mines, (find countries that have a lot of gold), there could be very high profits.
5T is for most players a lot of money and if you have 10 such mines, or other mines (all raw materials are very profitable) you will end up with 50T.
I am wondering what you meant by the trading of gold on the space markets.