Are your rules symmetrical?

I came to a point where my trading rules are not symmetrical, i.e. I use different rules to go long and to go short. I heard that stock market is biased toward upside but not sure if it makes sense in the currency market. Common sense tells me that currency market should be symmetrical, but on practice I see different patterns in downtrends and uptrends. What is your opinion - do you think position entry rules should be symmetrical or not?

There can be an asymmetry because currencies reflect different economic realities.

Typically "risk on" movements usually go up more slowly (rising stock markets) than "risk off". That is, people panic faster than they get greedy; a bubble is a time they don't, but these only last a short time.

In currencies, 'risk on' are trades which are positively correlated with economic growth and carry trade. So long AUD/JPY is a 'risk on' trade (basically betting on Chinese industrial demand) and so would be Brazilian real.

Any emerging market currency is a 'risk on' vs a developed market currency.

Long CHF might be seen as a risk off trade, so when things are crappy in the EU, short EURCHF, and this may decline faster (panic) than it rises.

my rules for long and short is the same. It is based mostly on technicals and is trend following in nature hence the same logic applies.

However that is not the main problem. Transition (or some call it the bend/retrace/sideways) is the problem. Identifying when it has entered the sideways period and subsequently identifying when a new trend has started while not giving back all my profits is the biggest issue I have.