I am avoiding doing trades for the last couple of weeks. Especially when Mt. Gox moved 47K Bitcoins to a different wallet address. The market is kind of down trends at this moment and I believe most of the short trades will be on the down side. As for now, I am just watching the market.
But still, the platforms have active traders. There are more traders now than it was last week. I guess because of the present market condition, traders/bettors take the risk because they thought it was easy to analyze the market; there is an ongoing sellout by the German government, so we can expect the market to still be in the downtrend.