@TheWolf534@FTMO_com Keep in mind, your short exposure doesn't have to look 'great'. Your testing sample size is extremely bull-skewed. What matters is that it doesn't lose too much in bull markets while helping significantly in bear markets. It doesn't need to test profitable on its own.
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For that reason, I trade equal long and short exposure on yen pairs, crypto, and commodities. Yen and commodities especially are subject to government intervention during crises or when things go too far, which creates solid trends in both directions.
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A long-only bet on USD/JPY is a perpetual bet on the yen's collapse, which seems unlikely given Japan won't let that happen. These aren't like indices, which have an inherent up-bias due to how they're constructed; the strongest names get added, the weakest get removed.
Robert Carver explaining one of the most fundamental concepts in trading, the different risk premiums and why they exist.
take 3 minutes this Sunday and watch this.