Because they depend on access to open stock markets it was widely impossible for gold ETF users to trade during this century’s key news flows:

1. Northern Rock failure [6:30pm Fri 14th Sep 2007]
2. Bear Stearns failure and sale to JP Morgan [Sat 15 Mar 2008 – Sun 16 Mar 2008]
3. US bail out of Fannie May and Freddie Mac [Sun 07th Sep 2008]
4. Lehman Brothers’ failure [Sat 13th Sep 2008 – 1:00am Mon 15th Sep 2008]
5. rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB by British Government [Sat 11th Oct 2008 – Sun 12th Oct 2008]
6. the 2010, 2015 and 2019 British general election overnight counts
7. the 2016 Brexit referendum overnight count
8. the surprise 2016 election of Donald Trump
9. the contested 2020 US Presidential election result [5th Nov 2020 6pm – 12am].