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How to Be a Bearish Systematic Nasdaq Trader

Shorting the market provides opportunities to capitalize on bearish price patterns versus the dependency of only profiting from a rising market for traditional long only investing.


Taking short trades or participating in day trades, can be challenging. Measuring and managing risk and having a strategy to participate is essential when shorting the market.


In 2024, we saw how the Nasdaq was up on the year, but all the net gains were at night while the net price action during the day was negative. This is an example of a Nasdaq strategy setup that can be used to take advantage of short selling opportunities while also measuring, managing, and scaling risk.


This setup uses the Portfolio Money Management Algorithms on 30 E-mini Nasdaq strategies.


The strategies can also be used to trade the long side of the market.

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