"Somehow market crash anticipations and protection of gold value is the preferred debate. I tend to see market crash makes noting immune to the sell off in the 3 musketeers's mindset."
Totally agree.
The correlation of gold to inflation is much greater than the correlation of gold as hedge against market turmoil - you want to hedge, buy puts and/or short.
When was the fantasy last fulfilled that gold negatively correlated to markets in a crash and subsequent recession? Although, initially gold felt the down draft too for a good six months.
