Short Only Stock trading

Duration 1-7 days hold time - what you think?

It would be very unique managed money offering yes?

 

Yes, it would be unique…

Is unique the benchmark?

it would be a unicorn if profitable

 

i had a guy tell me he would move me to dubai if i would do a model for him.

"If you can make a short only, dude, Ill pay you in Dubai full time...and include daily ration of Humus"

he seemed quite crazily excited it might be possible. i dont trade stocks but they are easy to model so i am working on this thing now. he said "Short is the holy grail"

 

Should be possible.
Lots of stocks dropping while the market goes up.
Fade wxy's picks

 

but what is special about short only? to a stock trader.

 

Well for one thing you are more likely to take your losses quickly.

 

lol i am working along the lines of getting a signal to go short today for tomorrow open and then if its profitable open position by close tomorrow then set high of that day as the stop. let it run a bit.

 

Since most institutions are long beta there is demand for such a strategy which is naturally negatively correlated with what they have.

However, it is difficult, both technically (you will be a contrarian to most mainstream professionals) and mentally.

 

Check out Jimmy Balodimas.

 

it's pretty doable for me mentally cause i am a futures trader who has made lot's of money shorting the sp - it's fast addictive action for me. i believe in shorting, i am comfortable.

so even in a uptrend i can easily figure out where to short and about how long it will last using derivatives of velocity. it's strange to me this isn't evidently mainstream. i do have some big losses though, part of the game.