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Strategies & Market Trends : DAYTRADING/SWINGTRADING STOCKS with INTRADAY INVESTMENTS -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: - who wrote (318)	6/23/2001 5:04:54 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 565

Steve, have you guys ever gone back and tested your trades to see if there are any statistically valid difference between the longs and the shorts? In other words, for the same stocks or sectors, under certain circumstances, would longs outperform shorts or vice versa? I am thinking about a theory that if, say, we are in a bear market, wouldn't shorts then consistently outperform longs because you are trading with, not against the trend? Ramsey