Here is the close out of the short trade from the other day, exited on yesterdays opening for a nice profit. This shows that there is value in shorting at times against strong trends in short term trading.

Not all trades work out like this, but if you pick your spots carefully, you can succeed. As you can see from the chart there have been very few short trades my system has generated in the last 30 days, which is good. When markets run like this they are difficult to trade, because most of the time they trade a bit more two sided.

For the average investor, I suggest staying on the long side here, and buying pullbacks. Fighting a trend like this is a losers game over time. In my early days I used to fight trends like this all of the time, and learned from the school of hard knocks not to do it. I did do it here and profited, but I have 20 years of experience trading, which gives me a small advantage in picking my spots carefully.

If you choose to do it honor your stops and keep your egos at the door. When a market is running like this there is no telling how far it will go. It could stop tomorrow, or go for quite a while.