Depends on your risk appetite. Gold stocks can be subject to more volatility than gold etf/ phyical, but have much greater upside. If you are looking to hedge your portfolio a bit, and don't want to get into the research side of gold stocks then maybe ETF is for you. If you want to look for gold stocks, go to the GOLD thread and look at the 10 banger thread - quite a bit of discussion on this there.
I've got exposure to both through Gold 20%, and two gold stocks BSR/ WCN who have quite large upside potentials. WCN expecting announcements Monday so depth stacking up on the right side of the equation for holders now.
