Trading a Bear Market Crash: newbs are fkd, Why don't talking heads help?

I can't help but feel bad for the legions of newbie traders, less than a couple year's experience, who are shitting their pants being bagholders/buying dips... : o

What pisses me off is the talking heads on financial news tv who fkg REFUSE to tell the public:

a) how to short stocks

b) how to buy index / stock puts

c) how to trade inverse ETFs like SARK/UVXY/SQQQ/TZA

somebody help me understand, why don't talking heads Ever discuss bear/short strategies??

they're hurting especially new traders, with bs buy the dip commentary

 

newb traders are always getting rekt. Someone has to pay the bills

 

we were all newbs too.

 

this.
Thinking that you somehow get a shortcut to profits is delusional. Profitable traders perfected their craft in the trenches, no exceptions

 

We use to say that retail traders have to pay for the mistresses and the cocaine habits of the guys trading on the floor(of the stock/commodity exchanges).

 

not many people help anyways. even people with good intentions, who think they are helping others, often are doing more damage than good.

 

over the past few decades,
99% of the financial analysts / professional writers will say
buy buy buy or hold hold hold.

only 1% of them dare to say sell.

 

"good intentions pave the road to hell."
Believe it.

 

You're making the faulty assumption that these talking heads know j''ck about the markets or where it's headed. If they did - they wouldn't be talking heads, would they?

Of course, if they're making recommendations at all, i.e., buy, that's a different matter.

 

re: hold
Be forthright! It was the best strategy for decades. I understand my remark is sacrilegious for a trading forum.