Shorting for profit hits different...there's this odd guilt, like you're cashing in while others are bleeding out. Wins don't always feel like wins.
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SquidTeacher
· 17h ago
That's absolutely right, shorting is like this... The joy of making money is diluted by a strange sense of guilt, it feels like dancing on someone else's corpse.
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TokenRationEater
· 18h ago
This psychological torment... Making money from short positions is indeed exhilarating, but that feeling is really hard to describe, it's like counting money when others are suffering losses, winning makes you feel uneasy instead.
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SudoRm-RfWallet/
· 18h ago
Short Position is happy, but this happiness always comes with a bit of guilt... When making money, I can't help but wonder if others are getting liquidated over there, and that feeling is really a bit extreme.
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SatoshiHeir
· 18h ago
It should be noted that this psychological paradox precisely refutes the superficial understanding that most people have of the market. Shorting is not a moral issue, but rather a process of value discovery—on-chain data indicates that behind every big dump lies a signal of prices returning to their true value. Your "guilt" is essentially a remnant of fiat thinking, without a doubt.
Shorting for profit hits different...there's this odd guilt, like you're cashing in while others are bleeding out. Wins don't always feel like wins.