SGOLETF / Fundabrdn Physical Gold Shares ETF
Verdicts genuinely change. Free email alert the moment SGOL's does — no target price to set, unlike "Alert" above.
Whether this fund clears the published standards, and the filings behind that answer. The screen runs first and nothing on the trading side can override it.
Structure, momentum, positioning and levels. Separate from the Sharia verdict above, which this side never overrides.
UNVERIFIED No usable holdings filing was found for this fund.
Gold — physically backed, allocated. Screened on its product structure, not by looking through to holdings: there is no issuer behind the metal to screen.
| Holding | Status | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | COMPLIANT | 100.00% |
The fund owns gold outright, held physically and specifically allocated. There is no issuer to screen and no balance sheet to compute ratios from — ownership of a permissible asset is the entire question.
Gold is a ribawi asset, so an exchange must be spot. AAOIFI Shari'ah Standard No. 57 permits an investment product where the metal is fully owned, physically held and specifically allocated, which is what an allocated bullion trust is.
A minority position holds that the T+2 settlement of the SHARES still breaches the spot requirement for gold and silver. That disagreement is real and is not resolved here. This is a structural read of a known product, not an audit of its filings. It cannot see metal lending, interest earned on a cash sweep, or a custodian arrangement that generates yield.
Methodology breakdown computing — it will appear here on its own.
Trade setup
Whether the technical picture shows an edge right now. Separate from the Sharia verdict, which this side never overrides.
Why this signal?
The factors behind the read, each shown with the figure it rests on, including the ones pointing the other way.
abrdn Physical Gold Shares ETF (SGOL) is currently considered halal (Sharia-compliant), per our own read of what this product is, rather than a look-through to its holdings. See what it holds below, and the reading of its structure that decided it.
🕌 In-house Compliance Research
Computing the full ratio and business-activity breakdown for SGOL — this runs off the critical path so the page paints first. It will appear here on its own.
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Classic floor-trader pivots from the last completed daily bar. Highlighted pills are the levels bracketing the current price.
Price Forecast
The range is measured volatility (ATR over the horizon), not a target — a wider band means a more volatile asset, not a stronger view. The direction is the indicator tally below. Every forecast is recorded when made and scored against the real price when it comes due, including the wrong ones. Not a recommendation, and not a fatwa.
Technical Summary
Standard indicator thresholds (RSI 30/70, Stochastic 20/80, CCI ±100, Williams %R −80/−20, MACD histogram sign, price vs. average) computed on daily bars. A summary of what common indicators say — not a recommendation, and not this site's own trading verdict.
Every indicator, and what it reads
| Indicator | Value | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| RSI (14) | 34.10 | NEUTRAL |
| Stochastic %K (14) | 10.70 | BUY |
| CCI (20) | -265.64 | BUY |
| Williams %R (14) | -89.30 | BUY |
| MACD (12,26,9) | -0.07 | SELL |
| ROC (10) | -4.63 | SELL |
| Momentum (10) | -1.85 | SELL |
| EMA (10) | 39.06 | SELL |
| SMA (10) | 39.21 | SELL |
| EMA (20) | 39.49 | SELL |
| SMA (20) | 39.36 | SELL |
| EMA (30) | 39.82 | SELL |
| SMA (30) | 39.92 | SELL |
| EMA (50) | 40.20 | SELL |
| SMA (50) | 40.95 | SELL |
| EMA (100) | 40.77 | SELL |
| SMA (100) | 40.27 | SELL |
| EMA (200) | 41.94 | SELL |
| SMA (200) | 42.97 | SELL |
About abrdn Physical Gold Shares ETF
The Shares are intended to constitute a simple and cost-effective means of making an investment similar to an investment in gold. An investment in physical gold requires expensive and sometimes complicated arrangements in connection with the assay, transportation, warehousing and insurance of the metal. Although the Shares are not the exact equivalent of an investment in gold, they provide investors with an alternative that allows a level of participation in the gold market through the securities market.
Background via Yahoo Finance — informational, not part of the verdict.
Weak — low conviction, small size or skip
SMC — Top Down
Market structure by timeframe, read from real bars. A bias per timeframe rather than a forecast — timeframes disagreeing is information, not noise.
| Timeframe | Bias | Bars |
|---|---|---|
| 📅 Daily | BEARISH | 43 |
| ⏰ 4H | BEARISH | 49 |
| 🕐 1H | RANGING | 98 |
| ⏱ 15-Min | BEARISH | 130 |
| ⏲ 5-Min | BEARISH | 234 |
Momentum & Volume
Rate of change and relative volume against this symbol's own recent history. Momentum describes what price has done; it is not a claim about what it will do.
Peer Movement
How the rest of the sector moved over the same window. Context for a price move, never a cause of one.
Peer movement computing — it will appear here on its own.
Before you act on this
The questions worth asking about any verdict on this page, answered plainly.
Is a fund screened on its name?
No. HTR reads the fund's filed holdings and screens each one, then reports the result by weight. A fund marketed as Islamic still gets the same look-through as any other.
What does unrated weight mean?
It is the share of the fund whose holdings HTR cannot cover far enough to rate. It is reported as unrated rather than counted as compliant, because a holding nobody screened should not look like one that passed.
Does the issuer's board make it compliant?
It matters, and it is noted, but it does not replace the look-through. The board's judgement and the holdings screen are shown separately so you can see when they agree and when they do not.
How often is this re-screened?
When the fund files new holdings, and on a rolling basis besides. The date on the verdict above is the last time this fund was actually recomputed.
Open research, not a fatwa. HTR applies published screening standards to filings and publishes what they say, including when they disagree. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell. Verdicts can change when new filings land.
Compare with
Same screen, different answers. Comparison is where the standards disagreeing becomes useful rather than confusing.
Peer screening computing — it will appear here on its own.
Insider Activity (90d)
Insider transactions reported in the last ninety days. Insiders sell for reasons that have nothing to do with a view, so a sale on its own is not a signal.
NO DATA 0 buys · 0 sells
COT Positioning — E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE
The weekly CFTC Commitments of Traders report for the broad market it tracks, not for this symbol. Positioning context for the tape — it says nothing about this company.
NEUTRAL report date 2026-10-20 · Asset managers net 901377 (-14458)
AI Summary
Plain-language summary of the evidence already on this page — the Sharia screen, structure, momentum, and order flow above. It explains the read; it doesn't make the call. Generated on demand (a live AI call), never run automatically.