Bitcoin Trading vs Bitcoin Investing
What is Bitcoin trading, and how is it different from investing in Bitcoin?Clearly when people invest in Bitcoin, it usually means that they are buying Bitcoin to “HOLD” for the long term. Because, they believe that the price will ultimately rise, regardless of the market situation either ups and down that occur along the way.
Usually, people invest in Bitcoin because they believe in the technology, ideology, or team behind the currency. Bitcoin investors tend to HODL the currency long-term.
HODL is a popular terminology use for cryptocurrency community’s while Bitcoin investors buy and HODL for the long term, while the Bitcoin traders buy and sell Bitcoin in the short term, whenever they think a profit can be made.
The Traders view Bitcoin as an instrument for making profits. Sometimes, they don’t really care about the technology or the ideology behind the product they’re trading. Of course, people can still trade Bitcoin if they do care about it. And many people out there invest and trade at the same time. But why are so many people looking to trade cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, all of a sudden? Here are a few of the reasons:
· Firstly, bitcoin is very volatile in nature. For that, you can either make a good amount of profit if you manage to correctly anticipate the market. If not you can too loss your capital investment
· Secondly, unlike traditional markets, Bitcoin trading is open 24/7.
Most traditional markets, such as stocks and commodities, have an opening and closing time.
With Bitcoin, you can buy and sell whenever you please.
· Thirdly, Bitcoin’s unregulated landscape makes it relatively easy to start trading, without the need for much long identity, verification processes. Compare to trading stocks and commodities.
But, all traders are not the same and there are different types of trading methods.
For example, day trading involves conducting multiple trades throughout the day, and trying to profit from short-term price movements.
Day traders spend a lot of time staring at computer screens, and at the end of the day, they usually just close all of their trades.
Scalping is a day-trading strategy that most of the traders love to. Scalping attempts to make substantial profits on small price changes, and it’s often referred to as “picking up single pennies in front of a steamroller.” Scalping focuses on extremely short-term trading, and it’s based on the idea that making small profits repeatedly limits risks and creates advantages for traders.
Scalpers can make dozens or even hundreds of trades in one day. Meanwhile, swing trading tries to take advantage of the natural “swing” of the price cycles.
Swing traders try to spot the beginning of a specific price movement, and enter the trade.
Then they hold on until the movement dies out, and take the profit. They try to see the biger picture without constantly monitoring their computer screen. Swing traders can open a trading position, and hold it open for weeks or months, until they reach the desired result.
This is a clear understanding of trading and, how is it actually accomplished?
How can someone predict what Bitcoin will do?
There is no one can really predict what will happen to the price of Bitcoin. However, some traders have identified certain patterns, methods, and rules that allow them to make a profit in the long run.
People follow two main methodologies when they trade Bitcoins or anything else for that matter:
Which is fundamental analysis and technical analysis.
The Fundamental analysis looks at the big picture. In Bitcoin’s case, fundamental analysis evaluates Bitcoin’s industry, news about the currency, technical developments of Bitcoin such as the lightning network, regulations around the world, and any other news or issues that can affect the success of Bitcoin. This methodology looks at Bitcoin’s value as a technology regardless of the current price and at outside forces in order to determine what will happen to the price.
For example, if let say America suddenly decides to ban Bitcoin, this analysis will predict when the price will probably drop.
While the Technical analysis tries to predict the price by studying market statistics, such as past prices movement and trading volumes. It tries to identify patterns and trends in the price, which may suggest what will happen to the price in the future.
Technical analysis assumes the following: Regardless of what’s currently happening in the world, price movements speak for themselves, and tell some sort of a story that helps you predict what will happen next.
Which methodology is better?
A trader who have the both knowledge and mix both methodologies will probably yield the best results.
Bitcoin Exchange
Bitcoin exchanges are online sites where buyers and sellers are automatically matched.
An exchange is different than a Bitcoin company that sells you Bitcoin directly, such as Binance. This type of company will usually charge a higher fee.
An exchange is also different from a marketplace such as Local Bitcoins, where buyers and sellers directly communicate with each other, in order to complete a trade.
The complete list of buy orders and sell orders are listed in the market’s order book,
which can be viewed on the exchange. The buy orders are called bids, since people are bidding on the prices to buy Bitcoin. However, the sell orders are called asks, since they show the asking price that the sellers request. Whenever people refer to Bitcoin’s “price,”
they are actually referring to the price of the last trade conducted on a specific exchange.
This important distinction occurs because there is no single, global Bitcoin price that everyone follows. And sometimes, Bitcoin’s price in other countries can be different from Bitcoin’s price in the US, since the major exchange in these countries include different trades.
Aside from the price, you will also sometimes see the terms high and low.
These terms refer to the highest and lowest prices in the last 24 hours. Another important term is volume. It stands for the number of overall Bitcoins that have been traded in the given timeframe.
Significant trends are usually accompanied by large trading volumes, while weak trends are accompanied by low volumes.
A healthy upward trend is accompanied by high volumes when the price rises and low volumes when the price declines. If you are witnessing a sudden change of direction in the price,
Experts recommend checking how significant the trading volume is, in order to determine if it’s just a minor correction or the beginning of an opposite trend.
Types of orders.
A market (or instant) order refers to an order that will be instantly fulfilled at any possible price
So if you put a market order in to buy let say 5 Bitcoins, you will find the cheapest sellers possible,
until it accumulates enough sellers to hand over 5 Bitcoins. In other words, you might end up buying three Bitcoins at one price, and the other two at a higher price.
In a market order, you don’t stop buying Bitcoin until the amount requested is reached.
With market orders, you may end up paying more than you intended, so be careful.
Meanwhile, with a limit order, you will only buy or sell Bitcoin at a specific price that you decide on. In other words, the order may not be entirely fulfilled, since there won’t be enough buyers or sellers to meet your requirements.
Let’s say that you place a limit order to buy five Bitcoins at $20,000 per coin.
Then you could end up only owning 4 Bitcoins, because there were no other sellers willing to sell you the final Bitcoin at $20,000.
The remaining order for 1 Bitcoin will stay there, until the price hits $20,000 again, and the order will then be fulfilled.
A stop-loss order lets you set a specific price that you want to sell at in the future, in case the price dramatically drops.
Stop –Loss Order
This type of order is useful for minimizing losses. It’s basically an order that tells the exchange the following:
If the price drops by a certain percentage or to a certain level, I will sell my Bitcoins at the preset price, so I will lose as little money as possible.
A stop-loss order acts like a market order. Trigger, once the stop price is reached, the market will start selling your coins at any price until the order is fulfilled.
Maker fees and taker fees.
The Exchanges want to encourage people to trade. In other words, they want to “make a market.” Therefore, whenever you create a new order that can’t be matched by any existing buyer or seller, you’re basically a market maker, and you will usually have lower fees.
Meanwhile, a market taker place orders that are instantly fulfilled, since there was already a market maker in place to match their requests. Takers remove business from the exchange,
so they usually have higher fees than makers, who add orders to the exchange’s order book.
For example, may be let say you put a limit order in to buy one Bitcoin at $20,000 (at most),
but the lowest seller is only willing to sell at $21,000. Then you’ve just created a new market for sellers who want to sell at $20,000. So whenever you place a buy order below the market price
or a sell order above the market price, you become a market maker.
Another example,
May be let say you place a limit order to buy one Bitcoin at $22,000 (at most), and the lowest seller is selling one Bitcoin at $21,000. Then your order will be instantly fulfilled.
You will be removing orders from the exchange’s order book, so you’re considered a market taker.
Trading Price Chat
There are different types of prices graph but the most recommended one is to use the Japanese candlesticks
Japanese candlesticks.
They are based on an ancient Japanese method of technical analysis, used in trading rice in 1600’s. Each candle shows the opening, lowest, highest, and closing prices of the given time period. That’s why you’ll sometimes see people refer to candles as OHLC (Open, High, Low and Close).
Depending on the colours of the candle, let say the candle is green or red, you can tell if the closing price of the timeframe was higher or lower than the opening price. If a candle is green, it means that the opening price was lower than the closing price, so the price went up overall during this timeframe. On the other hand, if the candle is red, it means that the opening price was higher than the closing price, so the price went down. In the image, you can see the opening price in the wide-bottom part of the candle, the closing price in the wide-top part on the candle, and the highest and lowest trades within this timeframe on both ends of the candle. When we’re in a bull market, most of the candlesticks will usually be green. And if it’s a bear market, most of the candlesticks will be red. So what are bull or bear markets?
These markets are named after these animals because of the ways they attack their opponents.
A bull thrusts its horns up into the air, while a bear swipes its paws downward.
So these animals are metaphors for the movement of a market. If the trend is up, it’s a bull market. But if the trend is down, it’s a bear market.
How to analyzing Price Chats
Resistance levels. Occasionally, Bitcoin’s price seems to hit a virtual ceiling, and you can’t break through it for a long time.
That’s a resistance level. So if Bitcoin fails to break let say $20,000, the resistance level is $20,000.
Usually, at a resistance level, you will see a lot of sell orders, and that’s why the price fails to break through that specific point. Meanwhile, there’s also a support level. Because, there’s a price that Bitcoin might not go below.
Support levels act as floors by preventing the price of an asset from being pushed downward.
A support level will be accompanied by a lot of buy orders set at the level’s price.
The high demand of a buyer at the support level cushions the downtrend.
Historically, the more frequently the price has been unable to move beyond the support or resistance levels, the stronger these levels are considered.
Here’s a common characteristic of both support and resistance levels:
They are usually set at a round number, since most inexperienced traders tend to buy or sell when the price is at a whole number.
So usually, a lot of buy or sell orders around prices let say $20,000, rather than a price like $20,034. Because so many orders are placed at the same level, these round numbers tend to act as strong price barriers. Psychology also creates support and resistance levels.
For example, when the price of bitcoin is at $1,000. Therefore, there was a strong resistance level at $1,000. But once that level was breached, a new psychological resistance level was created: $20,000.
Precautions before You Start Trading
The most common mistakes that people make when they start trading, in the hopes that you’ll be able to avoid them.
· The biggest mistake you can make is to risk more money than you can afford to lose.
Take a look at the amount you feel comfortable with. Here’s the worst-case scenario: You’ll end up losing it all. If you find yourself trading above that amount, stop.
You’re doing it wrong. Trading is a very risky business, and if you invest more money than you’re comfortable with, it will affect how you trade, and it may cause you to make bad decisions. Mostly, you may end up losing a portion of your money that you can’t do without.
Another mistake that people make when starting out with trading is not having an action plan that’s clear enough. Because, they don’t know why they’re entering a specific trade, and more importantly, when they should exit that trade. So clear profit goals and stop-losses should be decided before starting the trade.
· Leave money on an exchange that you’re not currently trading with.
If your money is sitting on the exchange, it means that you don’t have any control over it.
If the exchange gets hacked, goes offline, or goes out of business, you may end up losing that money. Whenever you have money that isn’t needed in the short term for trading on an exchange, make sure to move it into your own Bitcoin wallet or bank account for safekeeping.
· The fear can appear in the form of prematurely closing your trade, because you read a disturbing news article, heard a rumor from a friend, or got scared by a sudden dip in the price (that will soon be corrected).
· The greed, is actually also based on fear: the fear of missing out. When you hear people telling you about the next big thing, or when market prices rise up, you don’t want to miss out on all the action. So you may get into a trade too soon, or even delay closing an open trade. Remember that in most cases, our emotions rule us. Be aware of your natural tendency towards fear and greed, and make sure to stick to the plan that was laid before you started the trade.
Conclusion
Regardless of whether or not you made a successful trade, there’s always a lesson to be learned.
No one manages to only make profitable trades, and no one gets to the point of making money without losing some money on the way.
The important thing isn’t necessarily whether or not you made money. Rather, it’s whether or not you managed to gain some new insight into how to trade better the next time.
If you want to be successful at trading, you’ll have to put in a significant amount that you can afford to loss that money and time to acquire the relevant skills, just like any other venture.
If you want to get into trading just to make a quick money, then maybe it’s better just to avoid trading altogether. There’s no such thing as quick, easy money, without a risk or downside at the other end.
However, if you’re committed to learning and practicing you will become a professional Bitcoin trader
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