C_J gold is typically inverse to the market as is the US Dollar, best hedges there is if market tanks but the indexes are holding up today.
Who you trading with? Trading 212 have short leverage stocks 1x, 2x & 3x on most of the bluechips, I’ve been short recently on tsla and now NVDA today. Basically any gains I typically get from shorts I put into my long positions to average down. I’m still a bull but it has to be done the last 15 months have been brutal but we have to be getting nearer to the end of this bear market. Still maybe not in English but best I can do!
Gold stocks too but make sure they have a good income and balance sheet not some pennystock rubbish.