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GLD

GLD

SPDR Gold Shares

ETFsPCXUSD-19.8% from ATH
Current Price

$397.63

Drawdown from ATH

-19.8%

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

C

Marginal

Graded against GLD's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: GLD's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.

What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days-4.93%
May 5Jun 16
About GLD

SPDR Gold Shares

The Trust holds gold bars and from time to time, issues Baskets in exchange for deposits of gold and distributes gold in connection with redemptions of Baskets. The investment objective of the Trust is for the Shares to reflect the performance of the price of gold bullion, less the Trust’s expenses. The Sponsor believes that, for many investors, the Shares represent a cost-effective investment in gold.

The reading

How Dipsern reads GLD right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is GLD doing right now?

In plain terms: GLD is 19.8% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

GLD (SPDR Gold Shares) is 19.8% below its historical peak. Tape reads in a moderate correction, with the last trade at $397.63. A drawdown of this depth is where patient buyers start paying attention. Historically the asymmetry begins to favor accumulation here, especially when paired with structural demand.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

History at this drawdown level is well-populated for GLD — 359 confirmed observations in the 20%-to-15% band. The Dipsern engine uses these to compute a rolling median rather than a mean, because medians are robust to the kind of fat tails you find in etfs return distributions. The win rate (% of episodes that closed positive after 90 days) is shown in the segments table below.

Interpretation

What this means for GLD

For broad-index ETFs the historical base rate is exceptionally stable; for narrow thematic ETFs (e.g., ARKK, cannabis, leveraged), drawdowns are deeper and the sample size at each band is smaller. Moderate corrections are the highest-information zone for the Dipsern signal: enough drawdown for mean-reversion to matter, not so much that fundamentals are likely broken. Watch the prediction-error column — if past signals at this level were accurate, the current one is more trustworthy.

Comparable signals

Other ETFs at similar drawdown levels

Five tickers closest to GLD's distance from all-time high. Same category, one tap away.

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Global X Telemedicine & Digital Health ETF

-22.7% from ATH

Teucrium Soybean Fund

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Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for GLD. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-50% to -45%6
-45% to -40%143
-40% to -35%590
-35% to -30%726
-30% to -25%153
-25% to -20%178
-20% to -15%Current359
-15% to -10%790
-10% to -5%1060
-5% to 0%1360
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of GLD's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.

Years of history

40+

Drawdown bands

20

Look-ahead bias

None

Data sources

4

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Signal computed Jun 17, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.