I love this article, because it shines a new light at looking how trading works to me. This sure might be a help, but as you stated in the introduction, while shorting might seem to have more benefits for a trader, it simply is the worst to people who are going in long. Thus this sets up a new question: doesn't it mean that traders who short with the only intention of shorting, have more power and leverage to bring the stocks to a fall than people who are investing in long? Or does it just seem that simple to me?