For all the popularity of the funds,
gold bulls worried about a sort of financial Armageddon argue you're only really safe owning the metal itself, something like what Diehl sells, a coin you can hold in your hand and use to trade and survive.
If you're
worried that it's too late, that you missed the
Bull Market, that it ended in June 2006; just ask yourself how much space is being devoted to the fact that
Gold is not only holding steadfast to its natural support level, but is inching steadily higher.