If you had $5,000 dollars what stocks would you pick?

I'd wait until the present bounce off the bottom is gone and the touchy-feely nonsense about there maybe being a recovery this year has passed, and go into ultrashort ETFs for the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P. If you can find one going ultrashort on retailers specifically that would be good too.

No reason to prefer one much more than the other. Nasdaq seems to be falling faster than Dow most times though.

The entry point is not an exact science. I'd say if the Dow goes back up to 7500 that's a good entry for ultrashorts.