The idea of profiting from gold is slightly off, its purely just a metal a commodity and does nothing at all just sitting there as a metal. The correct growth allocation or expectation for gold is just plain flat zero.
However to do nothing or be inert under pressure is useful, the world has many risks and obviously as FIAT grows weaker the gold appears to be rising in price even if its value is flat. That is a use, if there is a growth in people requiring that use thats where I guess the idea of profit from gold occurs. Long term we have to say its still a flat growth product, it never alters.
Holding BTC again I think it should be used actively in order for an expectation of gains, BTC by itself if not used imo is far less valuable then put into its best use remotely securely and enabling trade mostly of digital products is how I see its best purpose and so highest value.
Purely holding BTC I would then be a commodity speculator, especially those who borrow funds in any way to hold BTC then they are forced into being speculators or traders with the costs of trading that should be expected. Its a hard game to win and people blame BTC for that, the prices flies all over the place but thats the dollar price as the BTC itself didnt alter. So the two assets do have this kind of dynamic in common.
Anyway I wanted to post this chart, its stocks [Dow Jones Index] but its over a century of history. Gold is super long term and somehow BTC appears to have long term dynamics in its movements. I dont often look at monthly bars on a chart but I do with BTC so its pretty long term in its moves imo. This is an interesting chart with epic change in prices over so long etc. much of this price change is a reflection of Dollar altering so substantially.
If we discuss Dollar it was by the gold standard for a long time and the chart history is relevant to projections forward for any long term asset or commodity we want to discuss a Dollar price for imo.
Tone Vays had it in a video