Same here. I'm trying to figure out how to short ETH. Unfortunately, I'm a noob and don't know my way around.
Another way of shorting is to get an ETH loan from someone, covert it to $ and then wait for ETH to fall. When it does you can buy more ETH, pay back the loan and keep the profit.
P.S.: GDAX is owned by Coinbase
EDIT: bitfinex doesn't work on the machine I'm using. Guess shorting will have to wait for later.