Which would u rather be short -- SPX @ 2600 or Bitcoin @ 7000?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by pinetboltz, Oct 29, 2017.

Which would u rather be short -- SPX @ 2600 or Bitcoin @ 7000?

  1. SPX @ 2600

    52.9%
  2. Bitcoin @ 7000

    23.5%
  3. Neither - just wanna be short vix futures with VIX @ 10 for the roll yield

    23.5%
  1. pinetboltz

    pinetboltz

    thanks for the replies!

    i was actually spending most of tonight looking into the ways of shorting bitcoin, then was debating the relative merits of bitcoin vs s&p

    for bitcoin, i guess the appeal for me personally was how it actually had decent retracements on its way up -- the hands dont seem quite as sure/strong as s&p, eg. when Jamie Dimon made the comment about firing any trader who traded cryptocurrencies, bitcoin had quite a sizable dip, seemed like the market was rather skittish. also the fact that the parabolic trajectory is right out of the quintessential chart for 'stages of a bubble' in finance books
     
    #11     Oct 29, 2017
  2. johnnyrock

    johnnyrock

    I would rather be LONG QQQ.
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    #12     Oct 29, 2017
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  3. whoa.. hahah what.. kind of like housing never goes down>?
     
    #13     Oct 30, 2017
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  4. I think I'd rather be short the SPX @ 2600. (Probably lose less money, slower)
     
    #14     Oct 30, 2017
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  5. shatteredx

    shatteredx

    Short SPX 2600 if I had to choose. I'd prefer to be long on both.

    Takes two sides to make a market I guess.
     
    #15     Oct 30, 2017
  6. SteveM

    SteveM

    All things equal, I'd rather be short Bitcoin.....there is a far higher probability that something like Bitcoin gets a very rapid 30% flush up here than the S&P doing the same....sure the emini can drop 30%, but it won't do it as quickly as Bitcoin could.
     
    #16     Oct 31, 2017
  7. maxinger

    maxinger

    Neither.
    can trade reversal but cannot trade against trend.
     
    #17     Oct 31, 2017
  8. pinetboltz

    pinetboltz