I will also say at the time I transitioned from longs to shorts the market indicated it was the best option at the time.  It's not all gloom and doom, I typically will wait after the systems initiate because they enter early a lot.   So with the MES shorts my baseline break even is 6839 but not sure the market will get back to that point.   I also have bought some SPXU (minimal amount) which isn't helping either.    The biggest drawback right now is that as the market goes up, the 38% or 50% pullback point also goes up which means I probably won't get the full amount back but there should be some reward on a pullback.