@James WiseStart a crypto exchange in the Bahamas.

We love the feeling that a flooded, leveraged, debt-based currency gives us, but not the outcome.

Many people in appreciating markets probably gained $500k+ of equity on just pure appreciation.Additionally, many people hit it really big in crypto and experienced a 2 year run of turning less than $50k into $1mm. 

I want to make the right decision by investing in real assets and not phony ones on the internet like crypto currencies.

I also have $0 in crypto right now which I am seriously thinking about building a smallish portfolio of BTC and altcoins with a pretty even alloation.

The value of gold doesn't really change much, just the amount of dollars it takes to own some which is more a reflection of the value of the currency than the value of the gold. 

For example, currency trading.

However I only have experience with this in markets that are liquid and where the impact can be felt fairly quickly (stock markets, bond markets, currency markets).

When you combine that with uncertainty in the currency markets i.e. the whole issue of the debt ceiling the problems with Greece, Spain and Portugal commodites have become a "Safe Haven" as well as their normal roles in industry and agriculture.

Low interest rates, over supply of currency, inflow of foreign investment money, low employment rate and high stock market prices all drive housing prices to different directions.