Ya, you see a lot of advertisement about buying gold because it goes in opposite direction with the stock market. Maybe that can be a portion of your diversification.

actually that "we buy gold" company is nothing but a huge scam, they give you less money than you would get from a pawn shop

what I meant was for @newseller to look into the possibility of investing into gold.

Typical "buy low (super low) sell high" strategy is probably making "we buy gold" company a lot of money. They even have the money to buy Super Bowl ads.

Gold is seen as safe right now, but that could turn around very quickly if the economy starts to recover or demand fails to keep pace.