Is Shorting profitable???

[ekoice]

Have any of you got benefit by shorting?please share your thrilling experiences.

[ohforf]

shorting is very risky , increases stress thats why I left margin trading

[JasonXG]

What is shorting ? How does it work ?

[Xexen4]

short pos. risky. if coin raising lending fee incremental extremly

[dothebeats]

shorting is very risky , increases stress thats why I left margin trading

Agreed, that's why I always admire traders who do such because they have such balls of steel since it's stressful and big market movements in a short span of time can cause them big money. You need to be always on the lookout if you are a margin trader because you need to constantly make money out of those tiny ripples that you see in the market.

[Idrisu]

You can only succeed in shorting trading only if you are a professional trader in margin and leverage trading. Margin trading come with it inherent risk to reward issues. You can have your entire capital wiped out as an amateur trader but the professional and skilful trader knew when to place a trade, where to get his fundamental analysis news from and using technical indicators for entries and exists plan.

[BitFinnese]

Have any of you got benefit by shorting?please share your thrilling experiences.

It is risky  because it really can make you lost a lot if your prediction is wrong.   There are lots of people who lost tons of money because they tend to short their trades.  But if you can predict it right, shorting can really give you a nice profit.  This is the reason why lots of experienced traders try to short their trades to have profit in shorter period of time.

[duuuuude]

Can you please tell us what is shorting first of all as I have never heard about that word before and I think you should elaborate your topic by putting some more information about shorting as it may be new to many people and would not be aware about it.

[lionheart78]

Can you please tell us what is shorting first of all as I have never heard about that word before and I think you should elaborate your topic by putting some more information about shorting as it may be new to many people and would not be aware about it.

Short selling is the sale of a security that is not owned by the seller, or that the seller has borrowed. Short selling is motivated by the belief that a security's price will decline, enabling it to be bought back at a lower price to make a profit.

Read more here


As said shorting is one way of getting profit , it is quite profitable if you got it right but will give you a huge lost if you are wrong.  There are lots of professional trader that gone broke because of this strategy.  Since we never know if the price will crash or not until it happen.

[calkob]

Have any of you got benefit by shorting?please share your thrilling experiences.

No i have never shorted bitcoin and that is because i have learnt from the bad experiences of others.  even the whales get caught out on this one.  in January there was a short liquidated for $10 million, which would be absolutely gutting no matter how rich you are.

[ArdiPrabowo]

this now shorting in trading or use margin trading is not good time
because bitcoin price after crash and down price , maybe netx time can back up trend again

i want to ask where is exchanger accepted margin trading support lending too in pair USD/bitcoin another bitfinex

[jakelyson]

It can be very profitable but also very risky. Especially if you are shorting bitcoin, the market is very unpredictable and it could jump up and down without warning. You can get margin called in a matter of minutes so you always have to be on guard of your positions.

[Wintersoldier]

Have any of you got benefit by shorting?please share your thrilling experiences.

No i have never shorted bitcoin and that is because i have learnt from the bad experiences of others.  even the whales get caught out on this one.  in January there was a short liquidated for $10 million, which would be absolutely gutting no matter how rich you are.

What happened after the volitality in January should be a lesson for its holder that we should really hold our bitcoin as its decreasing its value and wait untill it rise again since this is how the currency is how supposed to occur. Thus, as bitcoin decreases its value, we should hold or buy more bitcoin so that as it rises again, we can sell it and make profit.

[kidsuzudn]

Shorting = Risky, always, because Shorting always is invest or gambling and trust me, i tried both 2, and the result luckily not too bad for me, but i saw someone lost everything . So my advice, find something that you can sure on it then invest but only long-term, no short-term. Long is good 

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Can you please tell us what is shorting first of all as I have never heard about that word before and I think you should elaborate your topic by putting some more information about shorting as it may be new to many people and would not be aware about it.

Short selling is the sale of a security that is not owned by the seller, or that the seller has borrowed. Short selling is motivated by the belief that a security's price will decline, enabling it to be bought back at a lower price to make a profit.

Read more here


As said shorting is one way of getting profit , it is quite profitable if you got it right but will give you a huge lost if you are wrong.  There are lots of professional trader that gone broke because of this strategy.  Since we never know if the price will crash or not until it happen.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Einstein.  For those who don't know what shorting is, I hear Google can give you some answers, and check the above link that was provided.  And be prepared to get ass raped, because your potential losses are UNLIMITED. 

Of course shorting can be profitable.  But with bitcoin?  With this amount of volatility?  I wouldn't.  I'm surprised these exchanges even allow it.

[bravehearth0319]

Have any of you got benefit by shorting?please share your thrilling experiences.

I think its profitable but it has high risk and too danger in terms of investing in short term tradings. The only traders doing this things are veterans and experts, however some of them are taking advantage of short terms trading and I don't know how they do that.

[clickerz]

shorting is very risky , increases stress thats why I left margin trading

Profitable? I should say Yes and NO. It depends on your luck and as he said above, it is very risky. In addition that he is on margin trading, the pressure is high for you to gain and here the emotions will come in.

I am also doing short trading but on small amount only, like in Poloniex that the trading movement is very fast you could lose in an instant. But it is exciting also

[wuvdoll]

shorting is very risky , increases stress thats why I left margin trading

Profitable? I should say Yes and NO. It depends on your luck and as he said above, it is very risky. In addition that he is on margin trading, the pressure is high for you to gain and here the emotions will come in.

I am also doing short trading but on small amount only, like in Poloniex that the trading movement is very fast you could lose in an instant. But it is exciting also

Shorting takes skill that depends on the mechanics of the market transition from higher to lower prices, and when it comes to the bitcoin market as in overall it is very hard to predict when the transition are going to happen, and shorting requires perfect timing and devinesive trade mangament so unlees you have a good cap then I don’t recommend doing it.

[Kemarit]

As what others have said, shorting is too risky and only the experience of the trader do it. Even those who have deep knowledge of this sometimes lost as well. You can even lose 100% here. So unless if you are a very professional trader who has built up the needed experience through out the years of study to play this kind of game then short selling is for you otherwise, stick to short or long term investment to see you profits.

[freemanjackal]

i am trying to understand margin trading, some one helpme to fully understand for instance if i set a short position on eth
at x price, if the price of eth rise over x am i loosing money? and if it goes down am in profit?