The spot gold price could hit $5,000 this year, and you'll surely be disappointed if you missed out on the opportunity. However, you might not want to bother with shipping, storing, and insuring gold bars or coins. Furthermore, certain types of investment accounts don't directly allow gold bullion investments. That's fine since there's a near-perfect workaround with the Sprott Gold Miners ETF. There's no need to hold physical gold, and many investment accounts will allow you to buy and sell an ETF such as SGDM.