Excellent advice.  Another way to get in more easily is through a gold-based ETF in your 401K.  A simple reallocation is all that's needed - sell 5%, preferable from a lagging fund, and purchase into a gold-based ETF. The switch from the Fed to a gold standard has to be SEAMLESS.  Middle America would be devastated by even a minor hit to our volatile savings.  And Trump wouldn't get elected in 2020.