costco definitely is the cheapest among all with various discounts but they sell out in minutes. the other choices are reputable online gold dealers like apmex/sd bullion. plenty of youtube videos from PM stackers. you can study them and learn the differences between coins and bars and their premiums etc. Keep in mind gold stores wealth (preserves puchasing power) but it doesn't grow it. Also, there is this higher long term captial gains tax rate. Gold is dense. you can eaily put one kilo in the palm of your hand. Safety could be a concern but you can easily put 3 kilo (worth 300K USD) in a ziplock and put it in your toilet water tank haha. If you don't mind USD from this round of gold rush, you can also look into paper gold (GLD,BAR etc), they go up and down lockstepped with the spot gold prices and they are very liquid. Compared with the physical, the risk is of course it is a fractional system where for each one dollar with of GLD there is only a fractional of physical gold backing it up. In a blink GLD can be shutdown and USD deposited into your account overnight and you wake up in the morning watching physical gold price go up another 30%. The other option is to buy the gold miners (GDX, GDXJ). gold miners are cheap and literally printing gold daily and they are also making daily highs (but no where near historic highs). gold miners are stocks so they are completely different from physical or even paper gold. do your own research first of course.
costco definitely is the cheapest among all with various discounts but they sell out in minutes. the other choices are reputable online gold dealers like apmex/sd bullion. plenty of youtube videos from PM stackers. you can study them and learn the differences between coins and bars and their premiums etc. Keep in mind gold stores wealth (preserves puchasing power) but it doesn't grow it. Also, there is this higher long term captial gains tax rate.
Gold is dense. you can eaily put one kilo in the palm of your hand. Safety could be a concern but you can easily put 3 kilo (worth 300K USD) in a ziplock and put it in your toilet water tank haha.
If you don't mind USD from this round of gold rush, you can also look into paper gold (GLD,BAR etc), they go up and down lockstepped with the spot gold prices and they are very liquid. Compared with the physical, the risk is of course it is a fractional system where for each one dollar with of GLD there is only a fractional of physical gold backing it up. In a blink GLD can be shutdown and USD deposited into your account overnight and you wake up in the morning watching physical gold price go up another 30%.
The other option is to buy the gold miners (GDX, GDXJ). gold miners are cheap and literally printing gold daily and they are also making daily highs (but no where near historic highs). gold miners are stocks so they are completely different from physical or even paper gold. do your own research first of course.