#Gate Community 2025 Mid-Year Selection What is the mindset of those who want to benefit from the bull run with a long-short equity strategy?

1. Greed and the "I want it all" mentality

These people are not satisfied with just making money on one side; when they see an increase, they want to go long, and when they see a pullback, they want to go short, fantasizing that they can perfectly catch the top and bottom, profiting from every market movement. A phrase they often say is:

"I can catch the rise, I can also short the fall, the market is all in my pocket."

But the reality is often:

Long position stopped out and then shorted, short position missed again, in the end, long-short equity strategy.

2. Overconfidence, mysterious operation players

These people often have a certain level of experience, believing themselves to have "strong technical skills" and "great market intuition," excelling in high-frequency trading and pursuing extreme returns. They may truly achieve long-short equity strategy, but more likely they are:

In the early stages, I made some small gains, but I didn't manage my position well during the last wave of the market, and a pullback wiped out all my profits.

3. Emotional trading, chasing the long on uptrends and chasing the short on downtrends.

In fact, it is not a strategy, but an instinctive reaction of chasing the rise and killing the fall.