I am pleased to introduce you a new website www.thechipindex.com.

What is it ?

The website provides a complete and extensive analysis of the evolution of prices and returns in the collectible casino chip market since 1996.
This can be seen as a companion website to my column published last year in the casino collectible news.

What do we learn from the website?

Many things! For example, you will learn that
- Prices of collectible casino chips have been multiplied by more than 8 since 1996.
- Chips have realized a yearly average nominal return of 11.07%, or 8.67% in real terms.
- Casino chips have outperformed traditional assets like stocks, bonds and even gold!

I read your column so I already know this. Do we learn something new?

Yes. The website also provides sub-indices by denomination : $.25, $1, $5 and $25. You might be surprised by the results…

Can I download data ?

Of course, all data freely downloadable on the website. These data can be used freely with attribution to the website.

I have a comment/question/complaint about your website. How can I contact you ?

Please, don’t hesitate to contact me in this forum. I will answer you as soon as possible.

Anything else ?

Yes one last thing. The objective of this website is simply to improve the current state of our knowledge in the collectible casino
chip market. No more, no less.