Daily Global Gold ETF Holdings (bold.report)
Total troy ounces of gold held across all listed gold ETFs worldwide, at daily granularity from bold.report — the daily counterpart to the monthly regional WGC Gold ETF view.
Switch between daily/weekly change bars, total holdings, or assets under management. The orange line tracks the chosen series. Source: bold.report.
How are holdings vs flows different?
Holdings change reflects every adjustment to bar lists: expense-ratio bleed, custodian reconciliations, and creation/redemption. Fund flows isolate primary-market creation/redemption only. The gap between them is the implied expense drag.
Source: bold.report Gold Data API
About this data
This page tracks the total troy ounces of gold held by listed gold ETFs worldwide at daily granularity, compiled by bold.report from each fund's published holdings. The chart switches between the one-day and seven-day change in ounces, the running holdings total and assets under management in dollars, and a table ranks the largest funds by current holdings. Because a fund can only add ounces when an authorized participant delivers bars to the custodian, the daily change is a direct read on physical investment demand, available weeks before the World Gold Council's monthly figures. A string of positive weekly bars while price is rising says the move is being bought; holdings falling into a rally says futures, not ETFs, are leading.
Source: bold.report Gold Data API, which aggregates daily holdings in troy ounces across gold ETFs globally from fund disclosures, updated each trading day. WatchGold polls the feed every two hours, so a new day's figure appears within hours of bold.report posting it.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I read the daily and weekly change bars on the gold ETF holdings chart?
- Each bar is the change in total ounces held versus a prior reading: the previous trading day for the daily view, or the latest reading at least seven calendar days earlier for the weekly view. Green bars above zero mean metal entered fund vaults; red bars mean it left. Consecutive weekly bars overlap, so they should not be summed. The Holdings view shows the level itself and the AUM view restates it in dollars, where price moves dominate.
- Why do gold ETF holdings fall when there are no outflows?
- Expense drag. A physically backed gold ETF pays its management fee by selling a sliver of its gold, so the metal behind each share declines continuously: at GLD's 0.40% annual fee, roughly 0.03% of holdings a month, even with shares outstanding unchanged. Custodian reconciliations add small adjustments. Fund flows on the companion page count only creations and redemptions, so the gap between the two series is the implied expense drag.
- How often are global gold ETF holdings updated, and who publishes them?
- Each fund discloses its holdings and shares outstanding every trading day, and bold.report aggregates those disclosures into a single global total in troy ounces. The World Gold Council publishes the authoritative monthly series in tonnes by region early the following month. WatchGold carries both: this page for daily timing, the WGC gold ETF page for regional breakdown and long history. For conversion, 32,150.7 troy ounces make one tonne.