"There has to be an applicable symmetry to your investment process, otherwise you are deluding yourself that you can pick "winners", if you can't pick relative "losers" as well." This is one part but you must consider the payoffs as well: shorting gives you a maximum gain of 100% and maximum loss of unlimited, with a long position being the reverse. Given the payoffs, it actually makes more sense to focus on being long.
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