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Isn't the trend detection equally applicable to shorting as well, with swapped signals?

Or do you believe there are more fundamental changes needed so your app can trade in shorting as well?

Yeah, right now I'm only set up to buy stocks. I haven't tried to short anything yet. I want to get to this eventually since it would be nice to make money when the market goes down too.

I'm sure you know this, but for others reading this who are novices at finance / trading, like I am - the gotcha here is that while the strategy may be symmetric, the risk is not - when buying a stock, there is a floor to how much money you can lose (the price you paid for the stock), while with short-selling, there is no such floor, since the price can rise to any amount and increase your losses to infinite. I believe that traders will use hedges to account for this, however, these hedges will eat into your profits if they are not exercised (but may save your bacon if they are!).

Yeah, I haven't explored this yet. The unlimited risk thing bothers me thought. Which probably sounds funny since this whole things is risky as hell. But, I was more looking into options or something to hedge but honestly everything takes so much time to learn about, test, and then do. So, I just wanted to focus on this and then expand.

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