Many experts including Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Gerald Celente and Peter Schiff expect gold prices to continue to rise, hitting $2,000/oz in the coming years.  (The price as of right now is $1,088/oz).  So if you thought you missed the gold bubble, well according to those guys, you haven't. 

But what about stocks?  Investor Howard S. Katz in an article for Commody Online says "[t]he only reason that the stock market has gone up since 1933 is that F.D.R. introduced the printing of money and the easing of credit. As interest rates go down, stock yields go down along with them, and this of course means that stock prices and P:E ratios have to go up. (F.D.R. knew this. His motive was to rob from the poor and give to the rich. So you see, pretty much everything you have been taught is a lie. And we are now very close to the point where that lie is going to cost you dearly.)  So you are buying into a very overbought stock market. If Bernanke has to tighten, then it will drop like a stone."

If these investing gurus are right gold is by far the most profitable way to go.  let us suppose you bought gold at $1,200/oz today.  If it does indeed hit $2,000/oz in the coming years that is a profit of $800/oz or 66%.  Good luck getting a 66% profit from your stocks. 

There are several good places to buy gold online.  The Economic Survivor has no affiliation with any of them, but personally, I normally buy my precious metals from APMEX.  The reasons are 1) the prices are generally really good, and 2) you can order the gold online.  Very few other companies sell their gold online.