Short selling currency can be a good strategy if the trader believes that the currency will fall in value. In certain market conditions, traders could benefit from taking a short position and ‘selling’ a currency pair. Take the recent example of EURUSD, where many traders shorted the USD as a result of negative market sentiment.
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