BAR: GraniteShares Gold Trust

What does BAR hold?#

Each share of this fund stands for a small amount of real gold kept in a London vault. Its price follows the price of gold, minus a small yearly fee. It does not pay interest or dividends.

It tracks the LBMA Gold Price PM.

What is the BAR expense ratio?#

BAR charges 0.1749% a year. An expense ratio is the yearly fee a fund takes to run itself. On $10,000, a 0.1749% fee comes to about $17.49 a year.

You never get a bill for it. The fund takes the fee out of its own value a little each day.

How has BAR done since 2017?#

From September 2017 to October 2026, BAR returned about 13.2% a year. Say you put in $10,000 at the start. It would have been worth about $30,912 at the end, with every dividend reinvested.

Prices through October 16, 2026. Figures use daily closing prices adjusted for splits, with dividends reinvested. They do not include taxes or the cost of buying and selling. Past results do not tell you what will happen next.

BAR returns by year#

What was BAR’s worst drop?#

A drawdown is how far a fund falls from its last high point. BAR’s worst fall was −26.3%, from January 29, 2026 to July 16, 2026. By October 16, 2026 it had not yet climbed back to that high.

The chart shows how far below its last high the fund was on each day. Big drops are normal for some funds. They matter because selling during a drop locks in the loss.

Which Tactfolio strategies hold BAR?#

No classic strategy holds BAR yet. You can add it to your own rules in the builder and see how they would have done.

How does BAR compare with similar ETFs?#

Funds that can stand in for BAR:

• GLDM: SPDR Gold MiniShares, 0.1% a year
• SGOL: abrdn Physical Gold Shares ETF, 0.17% a year
• AAAU: Goldman Sachs Physical Gold ETF, 0.18% a year
• GLD: SPDR Gold Shares, 0.4% a year

See all 8 BAR alternatives, compared on the same dates as BAR.

Test BAR in your own rules#

Tactfolio is a platform where you build rules-based investing strategies, backtest them on decades of real prices, share them, and run them automatically in your own Alpaca account. Open the builder, add BAR, and see how a rule such as “hold it only above its 200-day average” would have done. Strategies run on daily prices and hold US stocks and ETFs only.

The details#

Prices come from Tactfolio’s stored daily prices for BAR. Each close is adjusted for splits, and dividends are reinvested on the day the fund pays them out. CAGR is the steady yearly return that turns the starting value into the ending value. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns.

Fund facts come from GraniteShares. We checked them on October 17, 2026. Read what a backtest simulates and how to read drawdown and CAGR for more on these measures.