Metals or Bullion have always been a favourite commodity of large Investors, the reason behind that isn't investing, the reason behind that is hedging, it's a general market assumption that precious metals like Gold and Silver go up in times when the stock market is bearish which means the correlation between both of them is highly negative which gives a great opportunity to large Investors to hedge their exposure of stocks in times when fear looms around the shares, essentially one thing is proven that precious metals have never been able to provide a better return than stock indexes, forget about comparing them with cryptocurrencies.