If you see $ARIA as an opportunity to short, you might be able to make a bigger profit. You might say you liquidated your position at $2. What if the currency reaches the $1.50 area in the coming weeks and you're stuck? Your portfolio will likely be liquidated. This happened to me with $PIPPIN. I entered several speculative trades, each with a profit of at least $1000. The last trade resulted in a loss of at least $9000 because I was scalping but focused on a single direction (short). This can happen with some currencies, but for some currencies that are moving sideways upwards, forget about shorting. Why? Because they might not recover if they haven't reached a peak or a low point below a larger peak. This might illustrate some points that most traders don't know, and you can find examples of this.