Quote from DHOHHI:
GOOG -45
BIDU -43
AAPL -13
RIMM -13
Then buy more of your beloved stocks.
You still don't get it -- the economy -- the impact of housing, subprime, foreclosure, oil, consumer spending, etc.
Markets don't go up forever. That's why any decent trader plays the short side as well as the long side.
Um you're logic is flawed because you don't know when the to precisely enter the short side. You cant rely on the news of you're own personal biases. What you may think is bad news and a dire situation may not be.
Consider August 16. Tons of doom and gloom. But was it a good time to go short? Nope. neither was august 14 or 15 because the market rebounded sharply after.
Can you make gains going short? Yes, but it is less work just going long, buying dips in this huge bull market.