Do you go LONG MORE or SHORT MORE?

Do you go LONG MORE or SHORT MORE?

Please vote on the poll.

Thank you.

Um....that depends on the market? Why would you want to have a bias toward a certain direction? That's setting yourself up to hold on to losing trades and hesitate on taking good trades.

Naturally yous are all wrong. A biase is good if it is correct. As any knowledge/opinionis are. Now, it depends on weather one wants fast profits or slow. The mkt has a biase of going down about twice as fast as it goes up. So that will be a lead with a biase of what you want to do. One needs have a fast reaction and a solid/sure opinion when going short to prevent a good loss.. If one wants to use patiences and am not sure..go long and hang and just see. I love with the same mkt biase as it has..short.

Are you saying any knowledge/opinions are correct?

You say "One needs have a fast reaction and a solid/sure opinion when going short to prevent a good loss" vs....going long? You mean I don't need a fast reaction or solid opinion of where the market is going when I want to buy?

So you think if all else fails, just go long, hope for the best and you should be fine?

If you're not sure, you shouldn't trade. Period.

Where is "I trade LONG and SHORT the same amount"?

I said long, mostly because more pairs have been trending up lately for me. But really I don't care which way it's going as long as I'm going in the same direction.

I find myself looking for the shorts as I think they move faster then the longs....I guess I picked this up from stocks.

I can;t quite understnad how ppl can take any principle from equities and apply it directly to forex. In fx you are trading one ccy against another ... unless one ccy tends to move significantly and consistnetly more than another ccy there is no difference to the change in upward or downward price action whether you're talking about delta or gamma. I will admit that this is more relevant when talking about the majors and not the crosses.

Acccciii, I know what you are saying. The question was why have a biase? No one is certain of anything. Nothing, nothing is for sure said the pointed headed professor! Student asks "are you certain of that"? Prof. Yes! O;K; back from Mars. No one is cock sure they should never have a loss. Every trade is a hope, luck, maybe, I guess so, lets try this,etc. So in a short, one will not have a good chance/luckery of countering a bad trade. Its over & you take whats there. In a long trade you may have hours, days, weeks, months, years to counter & look see, come see, come saw, etc. Now, that is considering the biases, of course...like the ero/$ up & trending. That is for all mkts that have been going up, trending, for years. For biase going down trending for years then one can have luxery of a counter on the short side & be careful on the long side!!! Where my first post applied was in a ranging/static/fixed/bound mkt...always watch your short closer and you will have luxery time on your long to correct. (I did not mean , in my other post for trending market biase). Now, if one says, as you did, if they are not sure they shoulden't trade. That is unrealistic...no one would ever trade then. To prove it if one was certain, they would put all their account on every trade??? Why Not? They are certain. No, because one is uncertain they use the big money management approach, and everyone does. So that proves no one is certain, but they still trade. Your 'not trade' if not certain, statement makes no sense. I am one who does often put my whole account on a trade as I am certain but, I'm the only one (1) exception. I will put my whole account on in Fri payroll. That is an easy one. To ANSWER another post, Yes one can apply the stock, commodity, S & P, etc all other mkts to the currency mkt type in their moves. All the mkts move similiarly...I have traded them all. The touch stone of being smart/wisdom/knowledgable/etc is the transfer {TRANSFER} of bits & pieces of information from another circumstance, another life, another failure. another success, etc. unto a current application. In all these mkts there are many direct applications to be utilized, among them. If one wants to iceolate their brain function into little bitty segments...that is termed closed mindedness & lack of wisdom..

I voted long because most of what I trade is trending long (on a daily, weekly chart).

Things could easily change and if/when they do I will be short. Just follow the market

long for swap
spread my lot thin and wide

I am a natural shorter. Shorts seem more intuitive to me than longs. I guess it's a gravity thing or something.

I trade based on receiving positive interest returns. My trades, considering the pairs I trade, are all long positions.