MA slope illustration guide on shorting

    Posted by matt on 27th of Feb 2019 at 12:56 pm

    I drew this up really quickly - but hopefully you understand what I'm conveying.  Read over the annotations.   The illustration is overly simply and life but the point should make sense.  

    I added some additional comments

    Posted by matt on 27th of Feb 2019 at 03:14 pm

    I added some additional comments to that image below

    basically trying to convey that rarely do you get those big sell offs like I show on that bottom when when the MA's are slopped like that, unless it's blow off top or something parabolic. what tends to happen is people do indeed manage to catch a short, it works for a 1/2 day or a day, they don't take profits because they think the market should go lover because it's overbought, so it rebounds fast and they lose their profits

    the point to take away if one does short when the MA's are sloping like that, take profits quickly vs holding out for a big trade that doesn't come.  Better to hold out for the bigger short when the MA's are more flatly sloped, or short the lower high from such a condition.

    again just trying to keep it simple

    Thanks Matt!

    Posted by davidw on 28th of Feb 2019 at 10:00 am

    Thanks Matt!

    Excellent. Thanks!

    Posted by stevieb294 on 27th of Feb 2019 at 06:37 pm

    Excellent. Thanks!

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