Hi The Last Bear,
                       Handing over a portion of my funds to an investment manager both for the bear and bullish markets would be my best option, in the short term (1 year) would be interesting. I will NEVER be too much improved then where I will be in 3 months.
                        I love the robots because I can see things happening and think it's fine. To be involved at some level is great. I need to be hands on involved, as long as I accept where I'm at I'm fine. Bruce

After big days working I enjoy trying hard in something different.

I prefer trading a bear market by re-entering on pullbacks and exiting once trend resumes. I avoid going against the trend (I decide on a trends direction by looking at my current and one level higher timeframe).

In the above way you don't really need to have any indicators nor be accurate with your entries/exists as there is quite much margin for error and you can still be profitable.

  TheLastBear posted:
  Did you mean you re-enter on rallies? I may have misunderstood you, but you said you do not like to trade against the trend and since a bear market is a downtrend I thought you meant you enter on rallies and cash out once the downtrend resumes. I may be wrong...


Does a pullback means going against the trend?

On Investopedia it says that a pullback is:
'A falling back of a price from its peak. This type of price movement might be seen as a brief reversal of the prevailing upward trend, signaling a slight pause in upward momentum.'

While a Rally is:
'A period of sustained increases in the prices of stocks, bonds or indexes. This type of price movement can happen during either a bull or a bear market, when it is known as either a bull market rally or a bear market rally, respectively'.

The way I see it, if you have a rally and a pullback and the trend continues, in a pullback you enter much earlier as a rally is already a continuation of the trend. Please correct me if I'm wrong .

Alright, so you do trade bear market rallies as far as I understand from your statement and therefore do trade against a trend. I mean as far as I understand what you are saying is that you enter during pullbacks in a bear market. Trading with the trend would have you wait for a bear-market rally, then enter your shorts and profit as the downtrend resumes. Please do correct me if we are still not on the same page. Either way we have a discussion :)