1/Bull markets make you feel like a genius.
Bear markets expose you.
The best traders profit in BOTH directions.
Here's the complete shorting playbook.
5 setups. Real examples. Exact entries and exits.
Save this. 🧵
2/First — one concept. Understand this and everything clicks:
In an uptrend → moving averages are FLOORS. Stock bounces off them.
In a downtrend → those same lines become CEILINGS. Stock rallies into them and gets REJECTED.
Same line. Opposite job.
Every setup below is built on this idea. 🧠
3/5 moving averages. Know them:
10-sma → First ceiling 21-sma → THE key line. Break below = confirmed short ✅ 50-sma → Where you take first profits 200-sma → Final target
When all 4 stack above price and point DOWN = Death Stack ☠️
Stock follows the declining 21-sma all the way to the bottom.
4/RULE: Only short FORMER LEADERS.
Not penny stocks. Not junk.
The stocks everyone loved at the top. Big. Liquid. Institutional.
Why? When big funds sell — they have millions of shares to dump. That pressure lasts weeks.
Higher they flew → harder they fall.
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