It really depends on how you look at short positions. If you also have a long portfolio, and you would like your returns to be less market correlated, then shor

It really depends on how you look at short positions. If you also have a long portfolio, and you would like your returns to be less market correlated, then short positions can be fine. I’d recommend almost every retail investor never short anything, but the math can be different if you are a large fund or institutional capital