SPDR® Gold Shares (GLD) — Technical state
As of 2026-10-15 — re-computed nightly across the coverage universe. Closelooknet diary readings, not advice.
Trades -3.7% vs the 50-day and -7.8% vs the 200-day average, 24.9% below the 52-week high and +6.3% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 76 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes.
The moving-average stack
- vs 20-day-0.7%
- vs 50-day-3.7%
- vs 200-day-7.8%
- 52-week band24.9% off the high · +6.3% off the low
- Streak1 consecutive up session
- CrossoverDeath cross 76 sessions ago
- 50-day crossprice crossed down through the 50-day 16 sessions ago
- Stochastic%K 78.8 · %D 29 · bull cross
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FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-15
Quick answers
What is the current Closelooknet signal on GLD?
Downtrend stack — Trades -3.7% vs the 50-day and -7.8% vs the 200-day average, 24.9% below the 52-week high and +6.3% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 76 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-15; the signal board re-computes across the coverage universe nightly. A research diary reading, not advice.
Is GLD above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages?
As of 2026-10-15, SPDR® Gold Shares trades -3.7% below its 50-day and -7.8% below its 200-day average, with the 20-day -0.7% away.
How far is GLD from its 52-week high?
24.9% below the 52-week high and 6.3% above the 52-week low, as of 2026-10-15.
Mentioned on Closelooknet
Where GLD appears in the diary — 111 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.
Long reads
- Bitcoin and Gold — Cointegration as Regime, Not State
For Gold, we use the GLD ETF as a tradable proxy with longer reliable history than spot gold contracts.
- Magnificent Seven — Without Tesla, the Six Are Beating the Market
- Bitcoin — New Life for the Coins and the Stocks
3 · Bitcoin against gold and Treasuries — the hike test Bitcoin, gold (GLD) and 7–10-year Treasuries (IEF), daily closes rebased to 100 on Sep 19, 2025.
- Software vs Semis — The Axis Turned
Gold over US equities, GLD / SPY, three years.
- AI Winners — The Punished Led the Week
Last Sunday's signal sat both hedges on their decision lines: a break of 370 on GLD was to open the road to 320, and 60,000 was bitcoin's floor to hold.
- Gold and Bitcoin — The Hedges Bear No Interest
GLD closed 371.54 — a dollar and a half above the support that matters: a break of 370 opens the road to 320.
- Gold's Buyer Base Has Changed
Stance Constructive · rule-based GLD close 393.04 · -0.81% Battleground ~395 · reclaim 400 Next support ~360 Gold — the buyer base has changed The same scarcity-and-debasement crowd that carried Bitcoin…
- Gold: Not What It Used to Be
As of June 1, 2026, gold may have seen a double bottom, and as long as the $400–410 level in the GLD ETF holds, another test of the $450 level seems likely.
101 and glossary
- Cascade Tracker: The 5-Domino Model of Regime Breakdown
- Cointegration: When the Rules of the Game Change
The SPY/GLD relationship, the equity-bond correlation, the gold-dollar inverse — these are the structural assumptions that underpin portfolio construction.
- Hurst Exponent: Persistence, Mean-Reversion, or Random Walk
For a pair like SPY-GLD, the spread's Hurst tells you whether the current market is treating the relationship as a mean-reverting equilibrium (healthy) or as a trending divergence (breaking).
- Money Temperature: Measuring Regime Intensity, Not Predicting Direction
Four pairs, each representing a structural axis of capital allocation: SPY/QQQ (risk appetite, with QQQ isolating the AI speculation premium), TLT/UUP (duration and dollar — the rate regime), GLD/BTC-USD (de-dollarization channels …
- Stack Flip: When Price Crosses the 200-Day Moving Average
Ignoring flips in major macro instruments (SPY, QQQ, TLT, GLD) means missing the moments when regimes visibly change.
Dailies
- AI Trade — TSMC is ‘prudent’ on 2027: chip fund −2.0%, Dell −7.7%; software bought, Dow +0.9%
- Chips — SOXX −3.7%, now 20% below its June high; software −2.4% as hot inflation and BlackRock weigh
- Earnings — J&J −6.2% and Citi −3.8% after beats; Micron −5.1%, chip fund back under its 50-day line
- Korea — Kospi −5.5% breaks its 18-month uptrend; SK Hynix and Samsung about −8% on a China memory scare
- Korea — Kospi −3.5% on its first day back as chipmakers catch up; SpaceX deal sinks T-Mobile 13%
Rates and gold — 10-year yield 5.24%, US bond market closed today; gold fund GLD +1.6% on Friday
- AI Capex — chip index −3.4% after OpenAI's revenue comes in at $50 billion, not $70 billion; software rises
- Fed — minutes point to another rate hike by year-end; Samsung earns a record $80 billion in one quarter
Gold fell: the gold fund GLD lost 1.7% to 375.88, 24.2% below its January high.
- Oil — Brent +3.4% to $103.64, energy the only strong sector; chips and power generators sold, PepsiCo +1.1%