I guess it also comes down to how comfortable you are trading...

I guess it also comes down to how comfortable you are trading corrections against a 39 month downtrend, which largely depended on unsubstantiated information, which then ended mostly with an "unforeseeable" announcement of questionable quality.
Germany, India, 50 days money in the bank just to name a few!

***Wouldn't I make more money with stocks that were going up from left to right***
Seeing how many opportunities there are elsewhere it is easy to answer that question, but it probably comes down to how desperate one is to push one's long standing agenda of MNS being an ATM - as in Automatic Teller Machine despite the falling trend and the disappointing track record!