Trading

Bearish

Describes an expectation that a price will fall, or a position set up to gain when it does.

Bearish means expecting prices to drop. Someone bearish on a token might sell it, avoid it, or open a short to profit from the decline. The term works as shorthand for pessimism about almost anything, a bearish setup or a bearish macro backdrop.

Being bearish in a long bull run is expensive, since the market grinds higher against you. But unchecked optimism is how blowups happen. Skilled traders treat bearish and bullish as positions to be sized and timed, not identities to defend.

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