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Goldman Sachs Physical Gold ETF
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How do I turn this into 25K to pay for my grad school?
AAAU - any long term investors who can explain how one exchanges shares for bullion?
Have any AAAU investors exchanged shares for physical bullion?
Discussion on precious metals - pros and cons of precious metal stocks, ETFs, and physical holdings
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I have limit buys on AAAU under $39. His only saving grace against the devaluation of the dollar and runaway national debt is tariffs. What does he do? $2000 stimulus checks? Can’t help himself. The value of the dollar is going down, down, down. Your high priced stocks and bitcoin are an indication of that.
I use IAU and AAAU.... heard a great question a while back re: gold... ok... everything goes to hell... you have a bunch of gold in a drawer... Now what? will we actually be able to do anything with it? could we go to the market and buy food with gold? Who knows?
When I looked into it, I found GLD had significantly more exposure, short interest and thus IV. They also have low cost buys for crazy long periods. Call options near the money are $1.30 for AAAU at 12/19 strike. It's nearly 20x that for GLD. The lower exposure also allowed for some bargain buys playing the bid/ask spread. I would be curious to see how I would have performed had I gone GLD, but AAAU has been my best performer this year by a long shot.
back to back to back AAAU national champions
Been a big AAAU guy for about a year and a half. Big fucking win.
Why AAAU instead of GLD? GLD has more liquidity
Look into AAAU "Goldman Sachs Physical Gold ETF"
You’re doing something seriously wrong! Started with 1,500 and I’m up 1,400% the past year. Mostly TSLA puts earlier in the year and AAAU and SLV calls.
Why did Goldman Sachs gold etf AAAU go up 4% AH?
You dont have to. AAAU is your long term friend
AAAU is better than GLD but shitty options chain. For those doing shares get into AAAU instead of GLD. AAAU has half the expense rate of GLD, most importantly, every share of AAAU is covered with GOLD. No chance of getting screwed if there’s a run on physical gold.
No need to apologize. All good. 1.By "above 4" I mean invest recurring in SMH, VOO, AAAU and SLV. 2. Invest in SMH. Don't invest in individual stocks. Investing in SMH will automatically invest in individual stocks present in SMH.
What will cause a gold and silver top? I bought all this AAAU back at about $20 and still have it. More room to run?
AAAU- this is a ticker for gold investment. SLV- this is for silver investment. VOO- this is S&P 500 investment. SMH- this is the ETF for the semi conductor industry. These are Indexes right? And how can I automate this investing (DCA). And you are saying that these big players in the semi conductor industry are going to do well?
Don't get overwhelmed. I have been where you are right now. I used to watch loads of YouTube vids, articles, podcasts and the other bs on the Internet for investing. After a lot of trial n error, I found this which works for me always. Below are the tickers i invest in every week automatically no matter what the market is.( This is called DCA- dollar cost averaging). AAAU- this is a ticker for gold investment. SLV- this is for silver investment. VOO- this is S&P 500 investment. SMH- this is the ETF for the semi conductor industry. I work in the semi conductor industry so I know how important the coming years will be for TSMC, ASML and US players like Nvidia, Intel and AMD.Hence the SMH ticker. Just do recurring investments for above 4 even if it's as small as 1$ everyday in each. I started with 1$ each in above 4 every week day and kept on holding it till now. I don't regret it at all since now the average cost of my investment is so low that idgaf even if the markets are down. I read this somewhere which still holds true - Your time in the market beats timing the market.
Do like the rest of us have done for almost a year, rotate into defensive positions, value stocks, select international ETF, and gold and silver The bubble will definitely burst. Nobody knows if it will happen tomorrow, next year, or later Tickers: T, VZ, D, AES, BRK, DAX, FEZ, UAE, FXI, ILF, AAAU
Ideally I would like to continue this approach until maybe 10k then sell and sit on cash or rotate the cash into something that fits current market conditions. However this market is making me increasingly paranoid. With all of these picks I follow a thesis for each individual stock. If the thesis breaks I sell. I know it appears to be random stocks but I’m very confident that most of these still have a lot more room to run. I typically have been taking just under half my profits and have been putting them into a Roth IRA containing AAAU, VOO, and SCHD. I like the advice and I will definitely start making a journal of what’s worked and what hasn’t and start skimming more profits.
Have had a chunk of cash in AAAU for years, and it’s doing great.
I bought bullion in 2001 and haven't transacted since. At the time, physical PM ETFs (like SGOL, CEF and AAAU) didn't exist. The gold has kept up with the S&P 500 over the past 24 years, the much smaller silver investment has lagged. Physical metals are insurance against collapse of the paper metals markets, and more generally, fiat currencies. The metal futures exchanges underlying the paper ETFs only have reserves covering a tiny fraction of the value of ETFs that hold only futures contracts (GLD, IAU, SLV). In the past couple of years, a number of "whales" have stood for delivery on the LME and COMEX, withdrawing gold and silver to be transferred to their own vaults. This is frowned upon by the exchanges, but for foreign central banks or billionaires, can be a cost effective way to accumulate or to arbitrage between the exchanges. The interval between standing for delivery and actual delivery has lengthened from days to months. Ultimately, when there's *no* physical underlying the futures exchanges, the ruse will be up. What's the value of GLD or IAU then? I think selected precious metals miners are better investments than physical PMs now, and that where my interest has been for the past year. I'm planning on selling a portion of the gold (eagles) and all the silver (pre-1964 coins) and when the prices hit targets well above current, more for rebalancing than for need. And yes, one can walk into any coin shop and get a price near spot for them. I bought for small premiums above spot (\~$280 and 4.80/oz, respectively) 24 years ago, but at present, coin shop bids above spot are a pipe dream, due to short term market imbalances (Americans are liquidating their holdings, even as Chinese and Indians accumulate). Should individual investor demand return in the US (as during the pandemic and in past PM cycles), the premiums will as well.
I'm increasingly bullish on VXUS, AAAU and FXF
Think I'll stick with VXUS and AAAU
I've been rebalancing out of US and adding positions in AAAU and FXF. Convinced that if the Senate is dumb enough to pass the current bill (they won't), we'll go back into correction territory as the yield on the 10-year shoots up over 5%. If there's a protracted budget battle, then we're likely to hit a debt crisis in July or August and the markets go back into bear territory. Nightmare scenario is Trump vetoing whatever comes out of Congress at the 11th hour, and the ensuing default causes a genuine market crash
I shifted some funds into FXF last week and maintaining AAAU for now
VXUS, BNDX, AAAU and FXF looking better by the minute
BNDX and VXUS and I'm probably going to grab some FXF to go with my AAAU position
They buy shares of a gold fund. AAAU, for example.
Been holding AAAU for a little over a year now and it’s up 61%. Probably the best investment I’ve ever made. I should sell it now I guess.
I have been looking at gold ETFs, I see that IAU's vault is in NY....is that safe since Trump is in power? maybe buy gold ETF that's stores in london, swiss etc or am I thinking too much? I am looking at GLD, SGOL, IAU, AAAU.
Even if Trump and his bullshit goes away, we're still looking at a looming debt crisis that Congress is woefully unprepared to handle. AAAU and VXUS for me moving forward, though it may not be long before there's HYSAs paying double digit yields
AAAU and VXUS? Absolutely
AAAU/SGOL/GLD/IAU, GLD is the best? IAU the vault is in NY, maybe don't buy that since gold vault is in NY?
I dipped my toe back into VTI last week and now I'm pretty much resigned to rotating most of my portfolio into VXUS, BNDX, and AAAU for the foreseeable future
Watching my AAAU and VXUS positions keep going up while the US indices just keep dropping
I had no idea.. if vanguard blocked all speculative assets they'd have no business. That's wild. Gold doesn't generate revenue and is a shiny speculatively valued rock, but I can buy AAAU on their platform.
Ha, I’m kidding of course. Im looking forward to tomorrow. I’m holding a good chunk in cash and have been DCA’ing. I should have bought more AAAU though. I was up 8% on that and expect tomorrow it will skyrocket.
Should play it safe until the smoke clears. Something like FTSL or AAAU and chill. Or be a degenerate like me and go long NVDA and short TSLA.
Check out SGOL or AAAU - both backed by physical gold, and I think at least some of it’s vaulted in the US. But yeah, def worth digging into their prospectuses to be sure
gold was up today, means we are way far from the panic stage. I shouldn't have sold all my GLD, AAAU, PHYS two days ago.
Maybe buy $GLD Or $AAAU with some of your gains so you can capitalize on this shitshow Europe ETFs like $EPOL, $EWO, and $EWG are going crazy as well
I hold FGDL. Any difference from AAAU?
I hold FDGL. Any difference from AAAU?
I'm hedging with gold, and im not alone. Someone bought $1.3M of AAAU this morning at open
I’m up 40% on AAAU in one year
Sorry bud, the market doesn't reward real... IAU, AAAU... gold shortages reported in London. If you haven't heard it lately, I'm proud of you for trying. Get back out there! You got this!!
AAAU it’s a good bond. One of the few things to grow in 2008.
https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio 40% VOO 35% TMFC 15% BRK.B 5% IEI 5% AAAU TMFC has a fairly high expense ratio but the returns outweigh them. The back testing goes as far back as 2018 which I feel is fairly indicative of typical market conditions, considering we experienced a bear market in 2020. If you strictly want the highest returns possible invest 100% in TMFC. The Sortino ratio is higher but the max drawdowns are massive. My mixed portfolio has the same Sharpe ratio with much lower max drawdown. Like I said it requires yearly rebalancing. If you just invest 100% in VOO or TMFC you won't need to rebalance.
This will look great with all my AAAU physical gold
I don’t know man, I bought AAAU at the beginning of the year and I’m up 22%. Seems pretty good. 12 years ago I was just poor and stupid.
It is an unconventional war. We used to have the decency to not murder children even in war. That is the problem. No organization that harms children is an ally regardless and someone that you want to have power or influence. Iran is backed by Russia. Israel will likely target stuff that forces the hand of the UN against Iran and Hezbollah. I don't like Iran because of their proxies that enact violence against children. It lets me know what they will do if they obtain power which is everything they accuse Israel of doing. They will create groups that murder. Encourage violent protests. Right now gold and bonds are a good go to. Typically what I am trying to do is dollar cost average into QQQM about 80% and then 20% AAAU. Then rebalance if gold goes crazy. The NASDAQ is still mostly growth stocks and value plays. TSLA might weigh it down until it reports revenue growth or a new product. They have the manufacturing down. But I think then IWF would be a decent alternate.
Same. I held some AAAU for years while it stayed flat. Then I bought a house last year and needed some cash so I sold. Now this. I get buying stocks is a long game but I swear every time I sell for any reason triggers a spike.
Unfortunately, neither bonds nor gold ETFs offer the stability one thinks there is with those asset classes. Go see a chart of BND. It fluctuates as much as 5% in any given year - and it has been down much more than that from its peak in 2020 (-17%). Gold ETFs are even worse. Take AAAU for example. 20% fluctuations each year. Compare those to VOO. VOO is up 179% since 1/1/2014 \~10 years. % change within a year is sometime more than BND on the downside but it is up \~8-10% per year on average. 2022 is the big outlier year on the downside after a similar upside in 2021. BND is down 11.26% in the same period. Which is the more stable, less risky asset class? Which is the better investment?
What is the most convenient way to bet on gold prices? Something like AAAU?
I won't discuss whether gold is good investment, but if i were to invest in gold, I would buy from the UK royal mint. they can store it for you for a cost. it's legit and the Uk government. Some pretty coins as well. I mean, that's if I wanted to hold the actual metal. As an American, I know there are ETFS that invest in actual gold where they are holding the gold itself. I think AAAU might be one? I doubt you can invest in this in poland, but maybe there is a similar one you can.
ride out the bear in gold and silver stocks...................NEM HL ASM AAAU
gold, silver and platinum ready to scream........HL, PLG, AAAU
NEM and AAAU holding...................gold stocks
AAAU id a steal here with gold at $1833
I like gold here......................AAAU
You're absolutely right. I bought IAUM, BAR and AAAU and none of them has. Not sure why. Maybe they have different holdings i.e. physical gold vs. mine shares?
I've traded PHYS and AAAU. Either I wait too long to sell, or I sell too early, you know, the usual problems.
VTI, VXUS, BNDW are the ones furthest from their target allocations so mostly those (in addition to AAAU, KRBN, ICLN, QYLD, XYLD, SCHD, and SCHY). I use a spreadsheet to ID what is furthest from target every week. Every other week I sink cash into O to build for purchasing a commercial property. Also, IBonds.
You should work this in to your strategy, allocate a certain percentage to PM in your asset allocation and set rebalancing bands or scheduling. I'm 20% gold. Do not bother with silver and copper, they're less commodity money and do not have the price action inverse the rest of the market like gold does historically. For viewing gold in the context of modern portfolio theory, look at Golden Butterfly and Permanent Portfolio. Do not invest in gold miners. If you use an ETF, which you will need to do in tax sheltered accounts, read their prospectuses and make sure you know who the custodians are. Split the money into multiple ETFs even - I use AAAU, SGOL, and IAU.
I made my normal weekly investment. Technically I should be putting cash into VTI/VXUS/BNDW since they're the furthest off their target allocation, but I sold a bunch of stock a few weeks ago to pay off my house and cover my yearly IRA contribution. So if I buy more VTI/VXUS/BNDW I'll be in wash sale territory. So in waiting til mid June to start investing there again. Instead I invested more into my positions for AAAU, KRBN, and ICLN. Once June rolls around it's back to VTI/VXUS/BNDW.
I'm gonna buy ticker AAAU, 100-250 shares depending on how I feel when I wake up
This is not an easy question. I recommend a diversified portfolio of stocks that increase their dividend. In addition have investments in hard assets/natural resources (i.e. Barrick Gold (GOLD), Blackrock Resources & Commodities Trust (BCX), Chevron (CVX), Physical Gold (AAAU), VanEck Vectors Agribusiness (MOO), VanEck Vectors Natural Resources (HAP). For Income consider Econfin Sustainable and Social Impact Term Fund (TEAF), Global X MLP ETF (MLPA), and Quadratic Int. Rate Volatility & Inflation ETF (IVOL).
Question: I’m looking for a safe place to store money that isn’t a savings account, I’m mainly doing this to beat inflation and my current saving simply doesn’t even come close. Obviously whatever I put my money into needs to be pretty safe and liquid. This lead me to do some research over the past few weeks and I’ve come up with this: 60% BND 30% RPAR 10% AAAU I should also add I’m on the younger side and it’s not a ridiculous amount of money, I will also be leaving a good chunk in a savings/checking account as easily accessible money. Any help on this would be great, I’m all ears.
Simple. Gold etfs - GLD, IAU, AAAU
"Dollar would be unattractive because inflation, no? I mean, the premise for a correction is that inflation stays high, right?" Inflation is pretty much everywhere the same. Also during the big correction on stock market, dollar tends to spike up shortly. It happens because investors sells stocks in panic and naturally exchnge them to dollars, so you have demand peak on this currency. TLT have similar tendency during stock crisis. I think in long term USD is going to be weaker, as US are shifting more and more towards socialism, higher taxes, which screws the business, etc. Also at some point dollar is no longer going to be the world-wide currency used for international deals. Once China's military will be big enough they'll stop using USD to buy oil, or something, but this is just my bet... "And EM are still dealing with Covid in a much larger way... Though that might make it a good place to stick money if you're looking longer term. Hmmm..." I think the same. If EM has problems, it means they're cheaper. CAPE of EM is way more reasonable to me. Not long-long though, mybe up to 10 years. EM and developped markets tends to outperform earch other once every 10 years. 10's were US's decade. It's time for EM now? "VWO" Yep, I think this is the best one for US investors. EMIM is for EU folks. "AAAU" or GLD, IAU, but i think you should check [this](https://www.hereincome.com/the-best-gold-etf-for-europeans/) out. ZKB or UBS ETFs should be the best, if you have access to them. "VFH maybe -- banks could benefit from higher rates." Higher than inflation - maybe, but having higher interest rates than the actual inflation sounds like golden grail to me now. "FWIW" Didn't found. ISIN?
Dollar would be unattractive because inflation, no? I mean, the premise for a correction is that inflation stays high, right? And EM are still dealing with Covid in a much larger way... Though that might make it a good place to stick money if you're looking longer term. Hmmm... Bonds I really don't have a good handle on, but it seems bad when inflation is high and rates are low, it's not a good time to get into bonds? Wouldn't it be something to do *after* interest rates rise? Metals I expect would be popular if there's a hefty correction... VWO, AAAU? Something like that? VFH maybe -- banks could benefit from higher rates. FWIW, I'm just theorycrafting here.
There could be a scenario where the demand for gold skyrockets but gold miners can’t fulfill that demand for whatever reason, in which case gold will rise but the miners will fall. Hold the commodity directly or buy a gold ETF like AAAU.
And why can't you just buy a gold ETF which mimics the price of gold like AAAU rather than buy physical gold? That's just as much of a hedge against inflation. Why do you need to own something tangible?
AAAU (Perth Mint) is my safe gold option. It's basically buying gold through a stock, and it's backed by the Western Australia government.
Yeah, I didn't trim any broad positions, just the highly interest rate sensitive ones. I primarily reduced my stake in precious metals (AAAU and SILV). I know its not common to own metals on this sub, but I quit believing the transitory narrative back in April. I've enjoyed the trade, but realistically, I only see downside for rate sensitivity going into the FOMC meeting. I'm still bullish metals long term and plan to buy again once the dust settles. My logic on the NASDAQ getting damaged by inflation is this: High inflation -> Bond yields rise -> NASDAQ hurt by higher yields
A mutual fund can sort of be thought of like a concierge service. You give your money to a mutual fund, and they pool it with other investors and use it to buy securities from hundreds or thousands of different companies, and the fund manager's job is to make you money, so they'll be buying and selling stocks in an effort to give you the best possible return for a desired level of risk. Mutual funds aren't traded on the open market - all trades for the day are processed once a day, right after the market closes. A mutual fund tends to have higher fees because it's being actively managed by that person whose job is to make you money, and they charge for their services. An ETC is an exchange-traded fund that you can buy and sell whenever the market is open. They have a specific purpose, a set of criteria they use to determine what stocks are chosen for inclusion and in what proportions, and the fund managers generally aren't looking to change their inclusion criteria in order to improve the fund's return. ETFs are only "managed" in the loosest sense of the word, that "somebody" at a firm is executing trades, but that somebody is very likely to be a computer program following pre-programmed instructions. Thus, the fees are very low and in some cases non-existent. An index fund is a particular type of ETF that attempts to track "the market" as a whole. Different indexes will try to approximate the composition of different benchmarks (e.g. $SPY is the S&P 500, $QQQ is one of many that are pegged to the NASDAQ 100, etc). Trades are usually done to rebalance the ETF's holdings so that as a given security becomes and bigger or smaller proportion of the benchmark in question, the index fund mirrors that in how much it holds of the company. The other type of ETF that's popular are industry-focused ones, so if you think, for instance, air travel is about to surge, you could buy $JETS, which tracks the performance of the airline/airport industry as a whole, or if you want to invest in gold without buying literal gold, you could buy $AAAU, which tracks the performance of various companies that are part of the gold industry.
You recommend buying the metal outright, or in stocks like AAAU. I think the metals do tend to recede, but maybe fair better than the market. Would be interesting to research (I’ll come back).
The $AAAU in my managed assets portfolio is up 6% in the last month. That's not even supposed to be possible. What a fucked up market we're in
I bought AAAU . Goldman sachs physical gold etf.
There are commodity etfs where each share represents an amount specified in the prospectus that is redeemable as a physical ounce but if you don’t redeem, they hold it for you. Examples: GLD IAU AAAU BAR GLTR has gold, silver, platinum, and palladium PALL is just palladium Word of warning why I haven’t bought in yet and am just watching: based on Roman soldier pay 2000 years ago vs soldier salaries now, gold is worth about the same (roughly .02% growth per year) now and then so unless you are betting on inflation or your country has an unstable currency, I’d wait a tad