Cooper: Short selling requires more market sentiment feel than long investing
Ben Cooper · Will Cook - Sunriver Management (Manager Meetings, EP.22) · Dec 2, 2021 · at 7:49
Ben Cooper of Cardano Group discusses the qualitative attributes and psychological traits needed to succeed in short selling.
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“Shorting is not just a mirror image of the long side. There are other things that need to be considered. And I think one important area is the kind of sentiment market feel, which I think you need more on the short side than perhaps you maybe do on the long side. And so we're looking really for a combination of stock IQ, as we refer to it, and stock EQ.”
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