I forbid myself from speculative trading as a consequence of idiosyncratic principles that I live my life by. One of many symbolic rejections of toxic profiteering that infests our neo-mercantile society. I have enough digits in my bank account that adding any more would be unambiguously greedy and distasteful, so in the end it would be violating my principles simply to debase myself. No thanks.

Anyways you'd need some kind of window of when a stock is going to collapse to short it. Good luck predicting this one.

I respect, and adore your philosophy.

For a short, I think you don't need that strong of a window. For an options combination, yes.