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The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF ticker symbol is BATS: COIN. The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust â the exchange-traded fund's formal name â announced the COIN symbol in the fourth amendment to its S-1 filing in July 2014. At the time, the Winklevoss ETF planned to trade on the Nasdaq exchange. COIN refers of course to Bitcoin, the digital currency upon which the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF is based. The choice of ticker symbol mimics that of the SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE Arca: GLD), which simply dropped the vowel from the word gold..
It was State Street Global Advisors that launched the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in 1993 with the introduction of the SPDR. Since then, ETFs have continued to grow in popularity and gather assets at a rapid pace. The easiest way to understand ETFs is to think of them as mutual funds that trade like stocks. This trading characteristic is one of the many features that have made ETFs so attractive, particularly to professional investors and individual active traders. (For a background on what ETFs are and how they work, check out Introduction to Exchange-Traded Funds.) The Benefits of Trading Like a Stock.