How can you walk by the river and not get your shoes wet? In contract trading, having take profits and stop losses is quite normal, isn't it? Besides, stop talking about bull and bear markets all day; what do they have to do with futures contracts? Most people are just making short-term trades to profit from price fluctuations, and it's fine to take long or short positions at any time—neither side is absolute. It's just about how to enter the market and where to exit.
My advice is always to be open and transparent, emphasizing stop loss targets and exit prompts for each trade. For example, yesterday many people were holding shorts that were much lower than the shorts I suggested during the morning; why did they come looking for me? Because I saw a rebound in the Asia-Europe session yesterday; my main shorts were during the US session, but even I had to call for normal stop losses after the breakout.
There is no 100% certainty here; after the stop losses yesterday, many people came out to complain or criticize. A few days ago, there was a huge space where long and short positions won consecutively, making tens of thousands of points, yet the whole room was silent.