iShares Gold Trust
ARCAIAU short interest surged 39% in a week to 0.88% of float, though one-day decline of 16% suggests recent volatility. Cost to borrow nearly doubled to 0.48% year-to-date; availability remains extremely loose at 2,562% of short interest.
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IAU — the iShares Gold Trust — has shed 5.2% in a week and nearly 10% in a month, yet the options market is running its most call-heavy configuration in at least a year. The options story is the clearest tension in…
IAU dropped 5% on the week to $84.32, yet options traders haven't flinched — the most striking feature of this week's setup is the gap between price action and derivatives positioning. The options signal remains the…
Snapshot as of 23 Jun 2026
Options traders are overwhelmingly bullish on IAU. The put-call ratio hit 0.167 on May 19 — a 52-week low and 2.7 standard deviations below the 20-day mean. That is the most call-heavy positioning this ETF has seen in…
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