Gold miners are just stocks which mine and stream. They need some love.
EEM looks priced to perfection with room for more upside. YTD kurtosis is sitting at 3.
NASDAQ, ARKK, and Homebuilders are overdone for this year.
Beginning....I like to look for prospects which aren't getting much attention, and get in early before they start attracting attention and money starts to pile in.
For example on RUT, I like the 8/25 1845/1925 on the call side + 8/31 1850/1840 on the put side.
Or if you don't like that then you can just use the inverse ETFs.
I predict that the market correction ends on the OPEX date of 8/25.
The QQQ will bottom to around $345. IWM will bottom to around $182. SPY will bottom to around $425.