I don't expect much until we get past Friday so my short positions are very small right now. I took off my last long today and stalking my short entries cautiously. I'll likely put them on Friday afternoon or early next week.
Ww with shorting? Its faster than longing any ways why cash if market is dropping versus invested if market is up should Be no bias
I will be looking into a similar casino stocks play tonight. The idea is that you take advantage of any extreme rips in the market, either way, and can play different time frames without having to worry about theta decay or option quote spreads/hours/liquidity. You are buying time and not losing it and, if they go down further, your LT pick is further de-risked. This could be someone else's pairs trade idea, but I wouldn't know.
System been short near highs of February, many shorts/hedged for past 3-4 years, hedged long term dividend stocks with futures which were also hedged in case of market going higher. System has produced nothing but add on's/hedged to downtrend, couple still current including H&S short. System can only start looking to reverse under 1800. Swing, don't do in futures as they become add-on's, and scalping-seldom in a trade longer than 3 minutes. System does 3-5 week spreads/hedged. Been a very fun year waiting for the "last" signal for ass-kicking home runs. Pays to hedge so long as one is financed to do so, not cheap, but system is very often too early. System doing more and more of buying weekly options, very fun. Eventually will stop scalping and do stock options, no/low commissions, can't beat it.
...along with well timed tweets jawboning the market higher with aluring promises and 'maybes'. Trump has the gift of the gab and so he'll use it when all else fails.