Gold hitting ATHs - what's everyone doing now?

• •Okay, so gold just smashed through the all-time highs, and honestly, a year ago I would have just shrugged.
• •But now, as a bonafide gold IRA owner, it’s a whole different ballgame.
• •Being in the music industry down here in Nashville, things can be feast or famine, and I just wanted some stability for my retirement.

Okay, so gold just smashed through the all-time highs, and honestly, a year ago I would have just shrugged. But now, as a bonafide gold IRA owner, it’s a whole different ballgame. I rolled over about $65k from an old 401k into a gold IRA back in October, mostly because I was just getting so sick of the volatility in the stock market. Being in the music industry down here in Nashville, things can be feast or famine, and I just wanted some stability for my retirement.

I remember looking at charts and feeling like I was buying in kind of high then, but my advisor kept saying it's about the long game, diversification, and protecting against inflation. My main goal wasn't to get rich quick, but to preserve what I had. Now that it's actually happening, I'm feeling a mix of stoked and a little nervous. Is this the new normal? Or is a correction coming? Part of me wants to high-five myself, and the other part is wondering if I should be doing something, anything, right now.

Most of my portfolio is still in that gold IRA, around that $65K mark, and I haven't added anything since then. I've been trying to keep up by reading articles and watching some of the market analysis videos in the Learning Center – super helpful for understanding the bigger picture, not just the daily fluctuations. But sometimes it feels like there's so much info I get analysis paralysis. What are you seasoned gold investors thinking? Are you holding tight, or are any of you rebalancing given these new highs? I'm curious to hear different perspectives.