The essence of shorting bitcoin or any other altcoins is to be able to benefit from falling prices. Therefore, shorting must be done in such a way that the trade entry is as close to the current peak of price as possible, and the exit is made below this peak at a point that can provide reasonable profit. By implication, entries and exits must be properly timed so as to make the short trade profitable.The post How to short bitcoin and altcoins: investor guide appeared first on Cointelligence.