From 2008 to 2012 you could've made a lot of money with gold because the banks flooded the market with gold shares every Friday evening right before the exchange closed down in order to combat the rising gold price. Of course it went right back up the following Monday. The good old days. But even the people who bought it at the highest price right before the end of the financial crisis, after which the price dropped, are well in the black numbers now, if they held on to it.