I came across this reddit article: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2h6yl3/no_faith_in_bitcoin_profit_from_shorting_it/
I found it very interesting that people are promoting some ideas about shorting BTC... which in principle would NOT be a bad idea, but getting involved in shorts NOW seems really looney.. .to suggest merely because BTC has gone down in price for nearly 10 months that NOW would be a good time to learn about shorting.. or to get involved in shorting seems to be totally looney, in my thinking.
actually i see this as bullish....but are there even enough open btc swap positions? there were only a few a couple of days ago
It's bullish that some articles are promoting the concept of shorting? Some naive people may think, "oh, I can short BTC? Maybe I should try that?"
Which would really be stupid in my thinking for people to be shorting (or learning about shorting), now.
Surely, there are a few of us, even in this thread that are probably contemplating shorting (or have already shorted around this price territory) b/c they believe BTC prices will go down somewhere between $50 and $350.
I do NOT have enough confidence to even contemplate such.. and just like always, I feel fairly clueless about the short-term price direction of BTC.
with the shorting-ads especially now it's very suspicious
after this long and crushing bear market shorting bitcoins still looks like easy money...but it acually makes you an easy target
of course it could go down to 250...but the chances that it goes to 450 "out of nowhere" are at minimum equal