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by dotancohen 534 days ago
I see, thank you. Can they short?
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I assume that shorting an asset you don't have may incur extra costs in some brokers. That would skew the results because a Buy would have X fees and a Sell/short would have 5X fees. So on a equal distance/pips movement the Buys would always be more profitable.
No, trying for simple buys and sells first and getting that to work well before getting into other trading strategies.
Great. Thank you for sharing!