gregg greenberg is a reporter with thestreet.com. lots of different ways to play gold as you know from the fund side, etfs and mutual fund, of course gold or gold mining, let's begin with gld the slippedgold trust today slightly while the underlying gold prices were up slightly but what should investors expect from gld? >> well, the glg has rallied in the last two weeks over expectations that ben bernanke will ease further. but year-to-date it's only around 6% as compared to 13% for the s&p so it has underperformed. >> just half the rally that we've seen for the precious metal etf there. what about the gold mine err-- miner stocks as opposed to those that invest in gold but companies that are mining the gold, gdx the most popular here, an exchange traded fund, the investigator gold miners slipping just a fraction today but again has been trying to rally since that summertime low. >> well, the gdx and gdxj which is the etf attracts the junior miners have really severely underperformed the gdl which is the gold etf which tracks underly

gregg greenberg is a reporter with thestreet.com.hat ben bernanke will ease further. but year-to-date it's only around 6% as compared to 13% for the s&p so it has underperformed. >> just half the rally that we've seen for the precious metal etf there. what about the gold mine err-- miner stocks as opposed to those that invest in gold but companies that are mining the gold, gdx the most popular here, an exchange traded fund, the investigator gold miners slipping just a fraction today but again has been trying to rally since that summertime low. >> well, the gdx and gdxj which is the etf attracts the junior miners have really severely underperformed the gdl which is the gold etf which tracks underlying gold and that is because gold miners have had a really horrible year. you look at the earnings for barak and newmonth and gold corp. have really been off quite a bit and that really dragged down the miners. now mining stocks have rallied over the last month so maybe the bottom is in, but we're going to see if that is true going forward.