Can I do shorting on Mudrex?

Yes, you can make shorting based strategies on Mudrex. Currently, Mudrex only supports Bitmex exchange for Sorting and other margin/leverage based strategies. 

Below is the example of simple Algo to start with short trading:

• Buy when price increases by 5% in the previous candle.
• Sell when price decreases by 3%.

This Algo, when converted to strategy in our visual strategy builder, looks like this:

After saving the strategy, we can choose the parameter for running the strategy on the testing console.

• Select Bitmex in the exchange filed using the drop-down menu from the list of available exchange.

• BTC market will be selected as default in the market section.
• Choose the asset you want to trade using the drop-down menu(currently only supporting USD perpetual contracts).

• Select tick interval using the drop-down fields.
• Select the period of backtesting for your strategy.
• Select a trading method for the strategy. (in this case, we are choosing short only).

• Choose leverage for your strategy available options are from 1x to 100x.

• Choose the starting balance for the strategy and click start test.