Do you Favour Longs or Shorts?

How successful are your long trades compared to you short trades?

  • Longs trades are nearly always more successful

    Votes: 14 10.9%

  • Long trades are usually more successful

    Votes: 16 12.4%

  • About half and half

    Votes: 50 38.8%

  • Short trades are usually more successful

    Votes: 32 24.8%

  • Short trades are nearly always more successul

    Votes: 17 13.2%
  • Total voters
    129
JillyB

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It is said that as traders we tend to favour either one or the other - Long trades or Short trades?

Do you have more profitable trades on Longs or Shorts?
 
this is a trick question ??

if the general trend, (whether you believe such a thing exists or not :) ), is up, I would be more inclined to seek out "cheap" (low-risk) longs ( longer-term chart up, look for shorter-term chart down, but turning up ), and the opposite for seeking out "cheap" (low-risk) shorts.
(I would say "pullback", but as yet, I am unable to mathematically prove its existence.)

my predeliction for shorts or longs would be determined by the market direction, so would have no real preference.

however, your question reminds of a "fact" that the market falls more sharply than it rises.
something like it falls 3 times faster than it rises.

wonder if any traders have experience of making money "faster" on shorts than longs ?
(sorry if this is going off-topic)
 
Due to some odd reason...my shorts always work better than my longs.......
Only after seeing this poll I realise why.
I think that because I am a short term trader it is easier to see a market top and short the market because being a trader you know what the upper limit is and you scalp for a couple of points on indices.....
I trade forex generally and my maximum gains have been on waiting for tops and shorting it....
I dont know if my view counts....
Take care
Happy Trading Rav :cheesy:
 
I've tweaked the poll question and options to make it a bit more easier to understand. All the existing results are still valid with the updated options. Happy voting! :)
 
neil said:
Shorts in hot weather
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hhhmmm i dont know. personally i prefer to wear nothing but a pair of rubber underpants and a gimp mask. (maybe some socks). nothing smells that good when it starts getting hot down there. nice and funky! sure way to get the front of any queue - especially down the local.

:LOL: :LOL: :cool:
 
We are not officers or gentlemen at times.

charliechan said:
hhhmmm i dont know. personally i prefer to wear nothing but a pair of rubber underpants and a gimp mask. (maybe some socks). nothing smells that good when it starts getting hot down there. nice and funky! sure way to get the front of any queue - especially down the local.

:LOL: :LOL: :cool:
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I can think of something ,Chubby Brown frequently also shares this observation and does a nice piece on it..... pheeeeewwweee tiger.... i am sweatin like a P.I.G. :p


on topic, either or.
 
long 40 attempts 28 successful (70%) avg overall points 15 per trade.
Short 37 attempts 27 successful (72.97%)avg overall points 27 per trade.
The reason for this I believe is because the shorts just happen faster and my system is time limited.
 
I also have the perception that prices fall faster than they rise, so i prefer shorting, especially when the longer timeframes suggest downwards movement.

However, when i first started trading shares via spreadbet, i preferred going long, as it took me a while to get my head round the idea of shorting - because you buy shares :arrowu:
 
The primary trend should determine which way round you should be. Having said that, I have had more successes going long.
 
I can't really argue for either;

Generally speaking, if I go over my trades, I'll find I placed more short trades than long trades on a day when whatever I'm trading is down, although I'll also tend to find that my longs are profitable, and on occasion, I might have actually made more going long than short, even if I placed less trades in that direction.

Conversely, on occasion the opposite may be true and I'll have had more long trades than short despite it being a down day for what I'm trading.
 
what is best is relative to desired markets
stock related markets tend to have fast moves down, but there are commodities that show the complete opposite. the moves up are fast and the downs moves are slower relatively
so in essence preference is relative to individual markets
 
The long and the short of it is that, in principle, essentially they are both the same.

One is simply the converse of the other.

That's the way I see it anyway.
 
As an intraday trader, I trade predominantly in the direction of the Intra day & lesser-Intermediate delta time frames....Going with the higher frame (trend) always gives the runners...

It doesn't make any difference if I'm hitting either the Bid or Ask. I'm just after the highest probabilities in any given situation.

:)
 
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