GLD

hermeskino715

Damn. GLD about to go red :sadpepe:

drew-gen-x

$VXUS and chill. Well don't chill, but BTD's. We are arguing the same side. US stocks are expensive. The economy is in the shitter. But the money printers are gonna go Brrrrrrrrrrr Hedge w/ 10% $GLD position.

baconography

GLD just cannot hold a lead, jfc.

Dirkredblade

You're doing great, just keep maxing your Roth IRAs, avoid debt besides the house and you'll have a great retirement. There's always going to be doomsdayers, and there will always be reasons it's scary to invest, but the stock market is the best growth engine for your extra money. Even in the great depression, if you had invested in US and foreign equities and some bonds, and a little gold & re-invested dividends, you would have made a little money over a 10-20 year period. All that to say, just keep doing what you're doing. One note, even though you didn't ask, personally, I would change the VTWAX (or just switch future contributions) to VTIAX- it's 100% ex US. VTWAX is still 60% US, so you've really only got 12% ex-us. I would try to get at least 20% ex-us. If you're worried about flat or negative time periods, you can add like 10% of a bond fund and 5% GLD etf. Or don't- as long as you keep investing and don't sell, long term 100% stocks should beat a portfolio with bonds and gold.

rootyoot

Despite the rip in the market, SLV and GLD are still safe plays considering the war is not over just a “2 week” smoke screen. Random bombs dollar down slv gld up

Adventurous-Ad-7890

Not really…have 10x GLD 420 calls which will print…

tinydisaster

GLD

drew-gen-x

I BTD on more World stocks ex-US & Pacific Asian ETF's than anything else this time around. $EWJ, $VPL, $VXUS, and $GLD made up 80% of my BTD buys for the last 2 weeks. There's so much growth to like in this region & the stocks were hit harder than most since they are more energy dependent than many other regions. Higher risk, but also higher rewards.

D_Pablo67

Gold is not speculative. It is conservative. Over long periods of time (20-25), gold and the S&P 500 have about the same appreciation, but move in opposite. Accordingly, many believe allocating 10% of your portfolio to gold (GLD) or gold miners (GDX) is wise diversification. Gold ETF like GLD does not pay dividends, where most S&P 500 companies do, as do most gold miners. I own EMXC (emerging markets ex China) for diversification beyond the USA. I would buy EMXC at $78 or lower and allocate up to 10% of portfolio.

HugeAd5056

Was right about GLD. Up from $422 on Monday open to $442 right now. XLE did dump on the peace deal though, so you got that right.

Bagholder147

I think GLD and SLV about to rip.

Bagholder147

GLD and SLV about to go off.

TouchTipz

!banbet GLD 415 1w

softboiledjadepotato

so funny when, SPY, USO, GLD and VIX all trade higher together... ok who's fibbing?

AnotherDegenerateFK

GLD holding surprisingly well 

Concept-Plastic

My GLD calls are killing me

rootyoot

SLV and GLD been a little to quiet lately 👀

2starsucks2

GLD

Existential_Entropy

Lol I didnt read all that, but I did something similar. Saw market freaking out, saw GLD drop a bit. I bought a call. Motherfucker dropped to 420 from 450 overnight. I just took the L and moved on. I think gold does go up long term, but not yet. Hodl shares now or wait.

Carfar_Farcar

Gimme one more fake GLD rally and I promise I'll dump my calls and never touch the fucking thing again.

trentcoolyak

Hedge with calls? Lmao I actually have conviction. If I’m wrong I’m wrong it’s not that much of my portfolio. Also why not buy puts on BTC? Bruh. 1. BTC IV is significantly higher, so if I think they’re both equally impacted GLD puts are just a cheaper way to bet on this thesis. 2. BTC already crashed for essentially this reason. My entire thesis is that BTC already lost a huge premium when people realized it had a high delta, while GLD hasn’t faced the same correction

Carfar_Farcar

My GLD calls are only down 39% since I opened them last week, it's usually goes down more when I jump back so this is promising.

drew-gen-x

90% ETF's, 10% stocks. $VXUS, $GLD, $EWJ, $IGV is how I'm weighted now. I might add $VT and I'm not totally convinced $IGV is a long term hold. It's just more reasonably priced than the value $SPY names right now. Long foreign stocks & gold.

Critical_Promise5068

Just bought sofi, GLD, and nbis

drew-gen-x

I see the $SPY, $QQQ, and $GLD are all Green w/ less than 20 mins to market open. Yet, a large part of Reddit is as bearish as ever waiting for the latest oil rig tanker zombie apocalypse headline tweet from Iran terrorists to justify their narrative. I'm beginning to wonder if any of these oil rig tanker zombie apocalypse people have ANY money in the market. Consider that before listening to anyone here & why would you listen to that noise before making your financial decisions.

Fhyzikz

Selling puts on GLD on red days

Icommandyou

Already sold my SLV GLD to pay for Dino blood

HugeAd5056

GLD call makes sense XLE put probably gets you nothing SPY put probably gets you nothing if held too long If you’re trading a scenario setup, you have only one high probability scenario: inflation will show up in CPI reports and everyone knows GLD hedges inflation. World wide inflation is inevitable at this point. The only question is how much and for how long. SPY is too resilient thanks to passive holders and optimists. And there’s evidence the war is cooling down, even though two jets were shot down (one of which is an A/10 which is slow enough to be shot down even when it was newer 4 decades ago; this isn’t evidence of much new difficulty). In essence, I doubt SPY pulls back much from here at all really. But if that’s a scenario you envision, you’d be far better off with VXX calls out of the money because they’re way cheaper and if SPY is going to drop that much, VXX will be moving sky high. That and SQQQ. XLE lags oil price. And even if oil decreases but stays elevated you can expect XLE to only go up. This isn’t like past scenarios, and you and others have outlined why where you’ve mentioned it’s not only the Strait that is impeded but also Russian oil. Oil is definitely going to be elevated for a while… XLE’s value isn’t going anywhere. I’d simplify to GLD calls and VXX calls. Less waste. Even if the war was concluded tonight, GLD still rises as inflation hedge. If you don’t think so then the combo might as well be: GLD calls - **inevitable**, lasting inflation (world wide; only question is how much) VXX calls - in case sentiment get worse SPY calls - in case of early resolution

Andthesuch

!banbet GLD $395 two weeks

GornsNotTinny

Right? I bought defensive yesterday with proceeds from a stock that had been under performing. Bought VDC, GLD, BEP, and threw in a little RCAT. Kept about 1/4 in cash. Didn't close out my position totally, but reduced some old MITTX since the tech exposure is higher than I currently like. I don't know if I'd call this timing the market though; I expect to hold these stocks for at least a year, and probably longer.

badboyfreud

One major thing I haven't seen anyone mention yet: "In the U.S., physically-backed gold ETFs are taxed as "collectibles" rather than traditional stocks, resulting in a maximum long-term capital gains rate of 28% for holdings over one year. Short-term gains (held $\\le$1 year) are taxed as ordinary income. High earners may also face an additional 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT).  **Key Gold ETF Tax Considerations:** * **Long-Term Gains (Held > 1 Year):** Taxed at a maximum rate of 28%, higher than the 20% cap for most stocks. * **Short-Term Gains (Held**   **1 Year):** Taxed at your ordinary income tax rate. * **Tax Treatment:**  Physical gold ETFs (e.g., GLD, IAU, SGOL) are treated as collectibles by the IRS. * **Alternative ETFs:** Gold ETFs that use futures contracts rather than holding physical gold may have slightly different tax rates (e.g., 26.8% top rate). * **Tax-Advantaged Accounts:** Gold ETFs held in IRAs or 401(k)s are not taxed until withdrawal, allowing investors to avoid the immediate collectible tax rate. * **Alternative Investments:** Gold mining stocks or ETFs that hold mining companies (rather than gold itself) are taxed as regular stocks, benefiting from the lower 15-20% long-term capital gains rates."

bukbukbegak

Sold most of my calls this morning but holding December calls for USO, GLD, LNG, and other energy plays

foira

Gold miners are a leveraged bet on gold i.e. are path dependent.  GLD does not dilute over time Average miner does High quality royalty companies avoid this pitfall but sell at a premium. 

Outrageous_Tip_2133

I am 40% in SPY/VOO, 25% in QQQ, 15% BRK, 10% cash, 5% GLD, and 5% Bitcoin. If you are holding tech (or QQQ, you would have noticed that the downturn had already started before the war. I have just been increasing my cash position since the war started and kinda regret not buying some SPY when it hit 630 earlier this week. I think any moves below 640 wil be bought quickly from now on.

Carfar_Farcar

Panic sold half my GLD position at open in case it actually drilled, it didn't, bought back in and now I'm back to almost being flat on the position. What a silly day it's been.

Fhyzikz

GLD seems to be starting to behave less like a risk asset now based on the chart. Nice. All you regards get shaken out?

Fhyzikz

Nobody in WSB cares about GLD or SLV anymore. That means it's time to start scaling in. Everyone here is jacked to the tits on oil now which is a strong bearish signal for oil. Sell

trentcoolyak

You don’t understand correlated returns or risk adjusted expected returns are and speaking out of your ass. These are extremely basic concepts that any half decent investor should know. Are you a bot? My positions are literally posted IN THE POST. They have more than doubled in value since I acquired them. The fact that someone with your level of financial literacy is so ardently advocating for GLD without understanding the basics of why institutions buy it is making me even more bearish

ClueLessWits

This last year has been VERY good to me regarding GLD and COPX, and I look forward to continued wealth accumulation from gold and copper sectors. Let's not beat around the bush. Basing an argument on 'correlations' is at the very BOTTOM of argument strength. Power bottom, much? :) That's why noone is throwing data back at you because you have yet to provide anything worthwhile. I mean, if you're so down on gold, post your positions, and let's see who ends up being right. Best of luck!

Abe2025

Come on GLD go up you hoe

drew-gen-x

$EWJ, $VXUS, $GLD, and $IGV. All my buys for the year have been over the last 2-3 weeks. I know you asked about stocks; but I've moved entirely to ETF's minus small positions in $CASY, $T, and $DE that I would have to pay way too much in capital gains to sell.

Andthesuch

GLD to 370 because that means the US dollar is strong. Do it for America.

drew-gen-x

I might have just done one of the dumbest trades I have ever done and fallen into the next bull trap. I hate tech stocks. But I just bought 100 shares of $IGV to hedge against my $GLD, $VXUS, and $EWJ heavy portfolio. I decided to buy reddits fave software stocks as a hedge against my gold & world stocks : P

drew-gen-x

I agree and disagree with you. The Fed will absolutely print. But so will the BOJ, BOC, India, etc. They're all gonna print. It's race to the bottom. The Fed is no longer the only one using the license to print playbook. Hedge w/ a 10% position in $GLD.

drew-gen-x

This might be a bull trap, but I bought back a bit of the $GLD than I sold yesterday. I had a bit of extra cash since I made a dumb bet and bought $SQQQ yesterday. I just moved my $SQQQ position & gains into $GLD. This might blowup in my face. I'm not particularly bullish, but instead of debating politics; I just look at charts. The world is what it is.

Carfar_Farcar

Gonna sell my SPY puts at open then go back to bed. I already know what my GLD calls are gonna do I don't need to see it.

ClueLessWits

We've all been trying to be nice about this but thankfully we no longer need to be. You are a moron and your post is drool-catcher worthy. You use words that you likely don't know what the hell they mean. Nobody made the claim that gold is a hedge. Everyone who has any form of money treats gold like a store of value. Recent events have not changed the long term view. The financialization of gold makes short term plays viable given asset treatment such as GLD, converting a piece of the market into risk on/off, while the war evaporated chances for interest rate cuts, putting pressure on gold/silver and strength in the dollar. Expected market behavior otherwise. None of this shit is a surprise, beyond your lack of understanding, that is. Your complete inability to fathom any of this means.......you don't belong here.

Appropriate_Ice_7507

I feel like MM is gonna pin me down and ass r@pe me for the next 8 hours. All my calls like MU, msft and GLD will expire worthless and my puts on USO, definitely expires worthless. Sad thing is, I won’t even get to come as I’m not ghey and don’t like ass play 😭

Dry_Umpire_6129

Golden Dome was just a diversion, I knew it! Buy GLD!

TropicalOinkment

Where were you when GLD WAS KILL???

KungFuBucket

For the most part, still heavy on S&P and still invest on the regular but I have been branching out to add GLD and a couple individual AI stocks in my “fun money” portfolio and playing with some foreign stocks

Opposite_Day_9771

I sold a week after it started. I'm still holding INTC but bought oil like DVN and my DOW is finally even. I also dumped gold miners but still hold GLD. Planning to buy PSLV later. Miners are not profitable if oil hits 200. It's better to hold the raw material instead.

claytondpark

Fucking boolshiet, closed my GLD and spx puts y'day and bought calls, fml

SomePolack

So what happens to GLD/SLV next week 

drew-gen-x

Compare the $SPY vs $GLD or $VXUS or nearly any other world indices YTD or 1 yr charts. The $SPY has been losing for awhile now ever the Trump tariffs. There's just soo much infighting lately that few have zoomed out and looked at the bigger economic picture.

PResidentFlExpert

You may want to get more granular than 5 year periods. Plot the 30 or 90 trading day correlation coefficient between GLD and SPY since 2020 and then add a plot of M2. You’ll see that your argument works against you. From 2020 to early 2022 both assets rise in a correlated fashion with increasing M2. Once the Fed stopped cutting rates they decorrelated, with GLD outperforming. They’ve resumed correlation over the last month(ish) because liquidity is sloshing around and nobody knows what the post-war landscape will be. Once things settle down we’ll see GLD continue to outperform; the war has interrupted the trend, not killed it.

drew-gen-x

Pretty good day. S&P up +0.72%, $QQQ up +1.22%, $GLD up +1.72% I guess the markets will live to fight another day. I'm down -0.61% YTD. I can live w/ that all things considered.

NervousSWE

>Bitcoin already went through this exact narrative repricing and never recovered the "uncorrelated asset" premium Bitcoin was never a safe haven asset except in the collective delusions of crypto bros. >Edit 2: Really excited to revisit all of these GLD fanboy comments in 6-12 months from now. Even if gold is down for the year, your DD is bad. Gold is moving moving with the economy because the shock in prices (bad for the economy) means lower chance of fed dropping interest rates and likely increasing which is bad for gold since U.S. bond yields will go up. The second order affects of the war you're referring to (If they happen) take time to understand. Central banks are continuing to purchase gold at increased rates. I'm not arguing that gold will close the year up or down I'm just saying your underlying thesis that Gold is somehow now the same as some digital gambling currency because "gold go down with stock" is a little retarded.

Carfar_Farcar

Made up for all my losses this week today and decided half porting into GLD calls at the top was the play. I really do belong here.

shasta747

You literally found the reason GLD dumping in your post, it's the oil price action, no need to wander too far off that. Most serious traders have gold in their port and likely sitting on profit, when the stock market dips and they want to buy and raise cash, that's when liquidation comes into the equation. What do you think they would sell? I see nothing changes in gold fundamentally, I think you could make profit short term but $150P is quite regarded, it's cheap for reasons :))

trentcoolyak

I'm happy for you then! My point isn't that GLD is a useless asset class, it's that it's due for a very big correction back to its true value as a hedge against inflation — which it's currently very disconnected from.

trentcoolyak

Major copium I've been seeing everywhere. If you plug your ears and blame "liquidity" every time your "uncorrelated asset" perfectly traces the market you don't have an uncorrelated asset anymore LMAO. GLD's delta pre 2005 is literally 0. From '08-2020 it is slightly correlated but often has more "liquidity" issues like you're talking about. But since 2020 the delta has grown from .20 to .70 in 2026. Like yes there are liquidity moves in every asset class but you can't ignore the reality that gold is no longer the safe haven it used to be.

trentcoolyak

You can admit it, how balls deep in GLD are you right now?

trentcoolyak

Look how mad the GLDards get when someone finally calls out that GLD is a memestock

drew-gen-x

It looks like we might be hitting some resistance levels and slowing down. Since I am an idiot I will take some profits and sell some $GLD and $EWY that I BTD on heavily. Both are finding heavy resistance on either their 50 or 20 DMA. I'm still overweight both, but I don't need to die a hero here. Profits are profits.

Throwaway1021920087

GLD is struggling to get above 440. Maybe this is a sign to dump my calls exp tomorrow hehe

trentcoolyak

You know what has also never happened before? a 250% gain in 2 years (GLD: Feb 2024 188 --> Feb 2026 483) Why are you so confident that GLD is crash proof when it's obviously no longer behaving like a hedge against inflation. It's behaving like a meme stock

Throwaway1021920087

my GLD bear credit spreads blew me out the water but I also bought some calls yesterday that are now ITM

Pretty_Dragonfly_716

Tell that to GLD where I put some money yesterday am

isolated-cat

IDK gold kinda showing strength. long dated GLD calls could be the move here. fundamentals haven't changed. initial war shock is over. huge upside?

Fantastic_Pirate3948

GLD moving worrying anyone?

shortitforever

SPY price / GLD price

Pretty_Dragonfly_716

Hope y’all grabbed some GLD today!

drew-gen-x

I trimmed $GLD at close by 10% to clear my margin. Maybe I'll BTD on some worthless US Treasuries tomorrow : )

drew-gen-x

Let's see how we close. That will tell us whether institutions are buying into DJT tweet of the day. US Treasury yields matter more for foreign markets & peeps than Americans. I think you may time your $TLT trade which I still have a hedge position in. But for Americans it is better to own $GLD over $TLT to hedge our USD currency risks. We have to balance inflation & loss of USD purchasing power vs the price of equities (even if they are expensive). I am NOT bullish at all; but these indices prices are worth BTD in as part of a long term DCA investment strategy. I still think you should hedge your $TLT port with $GLD & $VXUS and maybe $VT if you ever feel a wild bullish hair up your ass : )

DISAPPOINTING_FAIRY

I have only made wrong decisions since late last week and I'm sad. I dumped a decent chunk of AAPL 0DTEs on Friday right before it dove, took -3K and it would have gone to +25K. And yeah, while I was always going to end up getting trapped in puts yesterday and today, I picked META, which has recovered almost 10% from where I got puts, compared to SPY's 3%, so even the long-dated stuff got fucking nuked. oh and I took a modest profit on GLD calls this morning instead of holding them. because of course

A55BAG

Crypto surprisingly weak, but GLD is ripping

drew-gen-x

I might move some cash from $GLD to $TLT. I was hoping to trim at 426, but I might be getting too greedy : ) I really don't want to use anymore dry powder. I fired off way more the last 2 weeks than I maybe should have.

Aggressive-Ad-2707

I was told GLD will hit $3500

ReleaseThePodGeoph

!banbet GLD 430 1d

ReleaseThePodGeoph

!banbet GLD 430 EOD

No-Dust-1722

It depends on your goals and investment thesis. I invest in GOOG on its own so I can weight my overall portfolio relative to other tech stocks in the index. Lots of people do 5/10% in precious metals like GLD and SLV.

hermeskino715

GLD dropping at the cost of SPY. Wtf man. Leave my metal bros alone

thekoonbear

Yeah owning puts most certainly did not make money from IV going down. Thats not how options work. They made a bunch of money from GLD going down and lost some of that to IV going down.

drew-gen-x

It's early , but $EJW +0.6%, $VXUS +0.74%, $GLD +1.3%, DXY 100.42 & falling. Crude Oil 103.56. There are 2 trades going on that are interconnected since crude oil is priced & sold in USD. The DXY short squeeze & crude oil/ war trade. But if foreign stocks & gold are catching a bid then 1 of these 2 trades might be unwinding. Shorty short bears are unfortunately short both trades. The $QQQ trade could still head south & bears will still be hurting. Now if US stocks also get a bid there will be a lot of bears swimming naked tomorrow.

Eduardusthegreat

Anybody got calls on GLD. Gahhhhdammmit I should’ve bought qqq puts

Pretty_Dragonfly_716

Say what you want but at some point GLD is going to moon because of inflation

drew-gen-x

Let's say you're right. I fired off half of my dry powder buying $VXUS, $VT, $EWJ bouncing off their 200 DMA and $GLD bouncing off its 100 DMA. I could have waited & I did BTD too soon. But i don't need this dry powder today. I still have a job and 6 months of emergency cash. Cheers : )

drew-gen-x

$TLT rallied today. $GLD was basically flat. People were buying assets besides just Crude Oil, today. I believe we've hit the bottom. At the very least, selling exhaustion is starting to set in.

MachineGunBeatings

My trail stops tripped on GLD & XLE. Still holding strong on USO though.

Queasy_Soil9646

I don’t know how to play GLD or USO. I’ll stick to what I know. LOSING MONEY ON SPY

TheyLuvInvader

Yes I have it inside of a category now I will prolly seek out long term investment with it and treat it like how I treat GLD and VTI

aka_crashoverride

GLD psssf ...what a follower, get ur own life bro.

M18PowerKing

SPY, DXY, USO, XOM, and GLD are all up bigly. Get fucked, bers.

drew-gen-x

$VT is trading at 10/10/25 lows; and $SPY is trading at 8/20/25 lows. Many indices including $GLD are hitting support levels where bottoms were formed 2-4x over the past 52 weeks - 2yrs. $SPY and $VT have had 4 straight weeks of loses. Nothing goes down in a straight line forever. And looking long term, is it more likely that all the World CB's print more or less money in the future? Is it more or less likely that the $10k in cash you have stashed in your savings account will buy more or less stuff 1-5 yrs from today?? Is it more or less likely that the price of $SPY, $VT, or $GLD will be lower or higher 1-5 years ago than today? Please don't let politics influence your long term financial decisions. There will be a different POTUS in office 2 and half years from today and likely yet another different POTUS in office 6 and half years from today.

A55BAG

Asians were buying gold even though their stocks were dumping today. GLD trade is back?

TracyM45

Put my 2k in GLD now worth 5k

warm_fork

I can't believe i missed my chance to buy GLD calls at $400 😔

triwyn

GLD delist when?

BarbellPadawan

GLD 700 before SPY, just as I predicted 🤌