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>* Traders will devise a suitable risk management plan prior to initiating a short position. Unlike the media driven nonsense about a large activist shorting a bull market permanently, many traders can and do make leveraged long and short trades all the time, with the intention of exiting at a loss if the trade doesn’t go immediately (for some definition of immediately) in their favor. *

In my experience working at prop firm that was trading (speculating) on futures, this is the case. We would enter leveraged short/long positions based on some kind of signals with some kind of risk framework for all assets in the portfolio.