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Defiance Gold Enhanced Options Income ETF (GLDY)

Equity Hedged | Exchange Traded Fund | NasdaqGM
15.53 USD -0.09 (-0.576%) ⇩ (April 21, 2026, 10:26 a.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★☆☆☆☆ | Long-term: ★★★☆☆ | Dividends: ★★★☆☆
Hot Take | April 18, 2026, 10:36 p.m. EDT

GLDY offers a high nominal yield but is currently trading at a deep discount to its moving averages while models predict near-term price stagnation or slight downside bias. The very high volatility in dividend amounts (spikes of 5-6x typical size) suggests a leveraged or complex income structure that may not be sustainable without causing share price erosion, capping the dividend rating despite the attractive headline yield.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
AutoETS ✓0.052640
AutoTheta0.067296
AutoARIMA0.085827
MSTL0.086459

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoETS

Forecast Reliability
Score 59%
H-stat 2.12
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.626
Excess Kurtosis -0.66

Dividend Data

Dividend History
Date Dividend Yield %
2026-04-16 0.091 0.585171
2026-04-09 0.089 0.574395
2026-04-02 0.088 0.577702
2026-03-26 0.086 0.590513
2026-03-19 0.097 0.615600
2026-03-12 0.099 0.603957
2026-03-05 0.096 0.595256
2026-02-26 0.097 0.595416
2026-02-19 0.093 0.595589
2026-02-12 0.096 0.618603
2026-02-05 0.095 0.630789
2026-01-29 0.101 0.600361
2026-01-22 0.098 0.608219
2026-01-15 0.169 1.075504
2026-01-08 0.164 1.070539
2025-12-31 0.152 1.016014
2025-12-24 0.180 1.164026
2025-12-18 0.122 0.805161
2025-12-11 0.159 1.068254
2025-12-04 0.158 1.075482
2025-11-26 0.209 1.440352
2025-11-20 0.167 1.181336
2025-11-13 0.170 1.170214
2025-11-06 0.168 1.182467
2025-10-30 0.177 1.251236
2025-10-23 0.221 1.536618
2025-10-16 0.223 1.489807
2025-10-09 0.189 1.312400
2025-10-02 0.134 0.942301
2025-09-25 0.127 0.913055
2025-09-18 0.094 0.681316
2025-09-11 0.136 0.991505
2025-09-04 0.140 1.041910
2025-08-28 0.113 0.857401
2025-08-21 0.130 1.001969
2025-08-14 0.118 0.907362
2025-08-07 0.138 1.056443
2025-07-31 0.163 1.266165
2025-07-24 0.147 1.122153
2025-07-17 0.169 1.299664
2025-07-10 0.138 1.060880
2025-07-03 0.180 1.388241
2025-06-26 0.139 1.067284
2025-06-18 0.124 0.955188
2025-06-02 1.054 8.200725
2025-05-01 0.607 4.763597
Additional Data
trailingAnnualDividendRate 0.0
trailingAnnualDividendYield 0.0

Info Dump

Attribute Value
All Time High 20.69
All Time Low 14.72
Ask 19.96
Ask Size 2
Average Daily Volume10 Day 55,040
Average Daily Volume3 Month 61,081
Average Volume 61,081
Average Volume10Days 55,040
Beta3 Year 0.0
Bid 11.15
Bid Size 2
Category Equity Hedged
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Day High 15.6
Day Low 15.5
Esg Populated 0
Exchange NGM
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 16.17236
Fifty Day Average Change -0.64735985
Fifty Day Average Change Percent -0.04002878
Fifty Two Week Change Percent -23.137081
Fifty Two Week High 20.69
Fifty Two Week High Change -5.165001
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.24963754
Fifty Two Week Low 14.72
Fifty Two Week Low Change 0.80499935
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.054687455
Fifty Two Week Range 14.72 - 20.69
First Trade Date Milliseconds 1,743,600,600,000
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGM
Fund Family Defiance ETFs LLC
Fund Inception Date 1,743,465,600
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Ipo Expected Date 2,025-04-02
Language en-US
Legal Type Exchange Traded Fund
Long Business Summary The fund is an actively managed ETF that seeks current income while maintaining the opportunity for indirect exposure to the share price of SPDR Gold Shares, subject to a limit on potential gains related to increases in the price of GLD’s shares. While maintaining indirect exposure to the underlying ETP, the fund aims to generate additional income from its options investments when GLD’s share price rises, based on the specific put options it sold. The fund is non-diversified.
Long Name Defiance Gold Enhanced Options Income ETF
Market us_market
Market State REGULAR
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_1873582014
Nav Price 15.6321
Net Assets 38,358,280.0
Net Expense Ratio 1.04
Open 15.6
Previous Close 15.615
Price Hint 2
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type ETF
Region US
Regular Market Change -0.09000015
Regular Market Change Percent -0.5763699
Regular Market Day High 15.6
Regular Market Day Low 15.5
Regular Market Day Range 15.5 - 15.6
Regular Market Open 15.6
Regular Market Previous Close 15.615
Regular Market Price 15.525
Regular Market Time 1,776,781,580
Regular Market Volume 16,066
Short Name Defiance Gold Enhanced Options
Source Interval 15
Symbol GLDY
Total Assets 38,358,280
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Trailing Three Month Nav Returns 2.29377
Trailing Three Month Returns 2.29377
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 17.02491
Two Hundred Day Average Change -1.4999104
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent -0.088100925
Type Disp ETF
Volume 16,066
Ytd Return 2.29377