Gold is the metal for long-term investment, but after the price rose up to the clouds it is not interesting to invest money. It is a bubble which will burst as well as collapsed real estate prices.
Gold is only for long term investment because the value not going to dump always increasing but your money will sleep or a long time. That is why i choose to invest in bitcoin because i want to earn fast as i can to have other investment like real state if i got lucky here.