Come on guys, shorting is working very well, and has no reason not to in Bitshares 2.0, don't be shy. When you short your money is in good, automated trustless hands
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But you should try shorting with some little amounts first in order to get the feel of it. Importantly, shorts over the price feed *seem* to short a wrong amount of BitAssets : you don't short the number you ask for shorting, because the collateral put is based on price feed, and when you short over price feed, there is not enough collateral to guarantee the number of bitAssets you write down. That still works however, but look at the collateral amount rather than the bitAssets amount.
You can short over price feed and so have some free money even if BTS don't climb... at the condition that the peg will hold one day, which he'll very probably do in 2.0. Even now, I'm quite confident that the peg mechanism is not bad. Shorters have not much risk except margin call, which is hopefully unlikely now.
And you can have a 30% premium on BitBTC now !!