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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Qone0 who wrote (71215)	10/6/2022 12:03:32 PM
From: Sun Tzu	2 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 catou1 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97597

Yes, because over the long time the market has been going up. In general long term drawdowns of shorting the pair has been ~30% (on par with bear markets). But a few times it's experienced 90% wipeouts. Using a simple sell and hold would have doubled your money, which is worse than buy and hold of SPX (and much worse than buy and hold of TQQQ). So this is not an easy or simple get rich strategy. But it is still interesting and at the very least should be a part of the hedging strategy.