SPDR Gold Shares ETF Historical Data Downloader
A desktop app that downloads SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLDUSUSD) price history on your own machine, written straight to your disk as CSV or JSON. History runs from 2017-01-26 — around 9 years — at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. A complete SPDR Gold Shares ETF 1-minute series is roughly 3.5M rows, about 174 MB as CSV.
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Windows, macOS, Linux · €9 one-time for the entry licence · get the app
What the app fetches for SPDR Gold Shares ETF
| Symbol | GLDUSUSD |
|---|---|
| Instrument | SPDR Gold Shares ETF |
| Asset class | ETFs |
| History available from | 2017-01-26 |
| Timeframes | Tick → 1s → 1m → 5m → 15m → 30m → 1h → 4h → Daily → Monthly |
| Price types | Bid & Ask |
| File formats | CSV, JSON (MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, Parquet & SQLite/DuckDB from the Pro licence) |
| Coverage | 2017-01-26 → 2026-09-17 (last completed trading day) |
| Retrieval | Local — your machine connects directly to Dukascopy Bank SA |
| Runs on | Windows, macOS, Linux |
SPDR Gold Shares ETF timeframes the app supports
- Tick (every quote)
- 1 second
- 1 minute
- 5 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 4 hours
- Daily
- Monthly
SPDR Gold Shares ETF coverage & file size, timeframe by timeframe
Every SPDR Gold Shares ETF timeframe shares the same 2017-01-26 start date, but not the same scale — coarser candles stay small while tick and intraday files grow fast. Current through 2026-09-17:
| Timeframe | History from | Approx. rows | Approx. CSV |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tick (every quote) | 2017-01-26 | very large | — |
| 1 second | 2017-01-26 | very large | — |
| 1 minute | 2017-01-26 | ~3.5M | ~174 MB |
| 5 minutes | 2017-01-26 | ~696K | ~35 MB |
| 15 minutes | 2017-01-26 | ~232K | ~12 MB |
| 30 minutes | 2017-01-26 | ~116K | ~6 MB |
| 1 hour | 2017-01-26 | ~58,000 | ~3 MB |
| 4 hours | 2017-01-26 | ~14,500 | ~725 KB |
| Daily | 2017-01-26 | ~2,400 | ~121 KB |
| Monthly | 2017-01-26 | ~120 | ~6 KB |
Counts are approximate, derived from etf session hours across the available history. Tick and 1-second runs are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. See the data methodology for how candles are built.
Working with the SPDR Gold Shares ETF series
GLD holds physical bullion and sells a small quantity of it to cover its 0.40% annual expense, so each share represents slowly declining metal over time. Across a multi-year backtest that compounds into a visible shortfall against spot gold, and it is structural rather than tracking error. Pairing this with the XAU/USD series in this catalogue introduces a second and larger mismatch: spot gold trades close to 23 hours a day while GLD trades US exchange hours only, so a join on date alone compares a full global session against a partial one.
What's inside the SPDR Gold Shares ETF file
timestamp,open,high,low,closeOne row per candle; tick files instead carry timestamp,bid,ask on every quote. All timestamps are UTC. Worked examples and import steps are in the CSV & JSON format guide.
About SPDR Gold Shares ETF
SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLDUSUSD) is an ETF CFD with 9 years of retrievable history. It is commonly used for ETF and portfolio backtesting, asset-allocation research, charting long-term performance and training quantitative models. Pick any date range from 2017-01-26 onward, choose a timeframe and the bid or ask side, and the app fetches and writes the files locally — no scripting.
Frequently asked questions
- How far back does SPDR Gold Shares ETF data go?
- SPDR Gold Shares ETF history runs from 2017-01-26 — roughly 9 years — up to the last completed trading day, at every timeframe from raw ticks to monthly candles. Every licence tier reaches all of it.
- How large is a full SPDR Gold Shares ETF download?
- The complete SPDR Gold Shares ETF 1-minute history is roughly 3.5M rows, about 174 MB as CSV. Daily candles over the same instrument are far smaller — around 2,400 rows, 121 KB. Tick and 1-second runs are larger again and are queued and resumable rather than fetched in one pass. Sizes are approximate; nothing is priced by volume.
- What columns are in the SPDR Gold Shares ETF CSV file?
- OHLC files contain a timestamp plus open, high, low and close columns; tick files contain a timestamp with bid and ask prices. All timestamps are UTC. The files import directly into Excel, Google Sheets, Python (pandas read_csv), R, MetaTrader, NinjaTrader and TradingView.
- Do you sell SPDR Gold Shares ETF data?
- No — we sell software. The MarketData Hub client retrieves SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLDUSUSD) on your own machine, under your instruction, directly from the source; we never host, cache or relay it. Your use of the retrieved data is subject to the source's terms.
Guides
- Get the app — Windows, macOS, Linux
- How to download historical etf data
- CSV & JSON format — columns explained
- Tick data vs OHLC candles
- Backtesting with historical data
- Excel & Google Sheets
- Load in Python (pandas)
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