I think if you do dilgenceon your own with some advice added that stocks like IAUX will do ok....more leverage than GLD...but both are sound...silver seems to be trying to catch up to gold so I am investing more toward the silver miners as of a few weeks ago....who knows....gold miners have some catching up to do relative to the gold metal imho....things are overbought right now so there may be some volatility or ....there may not