that goes both ways though, hedge funds talk their book on the long and short side The difference is that it is generally much easier to make money on the long

that goes both ways though, hedge funds talk their book on the long and short side The difference is that it is generally much easier to make money on the long rather than short side. Stocks generally tend to rise in value, which acts to passively eat away at the returns to shorting. And with shorting you have unlimited downside while your loss is capped with a long position So if you are shorting you are fighting gravity and have to sometimes be more vocal to compensate for that. If it were easier to short stocks, maybe people could make money without being as vocally critical