The market was trending higher this morning after the speech by Fed Chair Powell....and then it hit! A Tweetstorm by Donald Trump blasting the Fed and Powell. As you can see in the chart below, the cascade downward on large volume when the Tweetstorm occurred. So the question on many investors minds is what should they do to protect or minimize losses from these types of events?https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164914610836783104!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");Options to ConsiderI will be looking at what is working on a day like today when the market tanks because of a Tweetstorm. The major movers I found were Gold/Gold Miners, Cell-Tower REITs, Self-Storage REITs and CBOE Holdings.Gold/Gold MinersAs you can see in the chart below, Gold as represented by the $GLD and Gold Miners $GDX have performed very well during the Tweetstorm today. Personally, I own shares of gold/silver streamer Franco-Nevada $FNV , which is my "protection play" for situations like these. Cell-Tower REITsAt the time of writing this post all three cell tower REITs: American Tower $AMT, Crown Castle $CCI and SBA Communication $SBAC have posted positive returns today. Regardless of tariffs, fed policy, etc, people are using more and more data and no amount of bashing the Fed or Powell is going to stop the deployment of 5G throughout the United States. Self-Storage REITsGoing along the same theme as cell tower REITs, people are not going to all of a sudden stop storing stuff or renting a storage unit to store goods because of Fed policy. I manage a single-location self-storage business and there is constant demand for people looking to store things, regardless of the economy or fed policy. As of the writing of this post, Public Storage $PSA, CubeSmart $CUBE and Extra Space Storage $EXR are all in the green today. CBOE HoldingsOne of the beneficiaries of an increase in volatility is CBOE Holdings $CBOE as they are the provider of VIX futures & options. When there is an increase in market volatility one of the beneficiaries are the exchanges, specifically CBOE benefits the most. You can see in the following two charts, CBOE revenues spike when there is a corresponding spike in the $VIX. The VIX spiked in Q1 2018 and in Q4 2018 and as you can very clearly see revenue for CBOE spiked in those two quarters.