Think about it this way, if someone came up to you and started telling you about how UFOs, 2012, big foot, unicorns, fairies, and hob goblins are all completely real, would you not feel a tiny bit intellectually superior to that person? Or would you treat that person as an equally intelligent...
How badly can you get blown out by short selling a stock for about a month? What about a week?
If you don't have a lot of capital to begin with, you have to allocate a large percentage to a single trade. So if your 20% allocation blows up 500% you would lose your entire account.
Does...