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I was looking for some ways to increase my profits and eventually decided on margin trading. I am aware of the risks, but the potential gain impresses. What should I consider before going in for margin trading and which exchange offers more favorable conditions for that?

You say that you are aware of the risks but I feel the need to reiterate that you should consider the fact that you can not only lose ALL of your investment, but you can lose more than that. You can end up losing more than you invest, as in, you have to deposit more money into your account to pay your debt.

That being said, you are right that there is potential upside. I trade stocks on a margin all the time, and if you are very careful then it can be a powerful tool. With crypto, however, it seems very reckless and dangerous to me. Crypto is notoriously risky and hard to predict. By trading on a margin you are gambling with money that is not yours. Trading crypto (as opposed to holding long term) is luck based, and the vast majority of people lose. I would highly recommend not using a margin for crypto.

If you want to make real money consistently, trade stocks.

I would say go to poloniex, but to be honest I didn't really enjoyed doing margin trading. I prefer to choose and hold long term altcoins or BTC. I think it's less risky and it gives nice profit as well. Also, although I recommended poloniex, I think they are very laggy, and that didn't help me when I was trying to do margin trading, since I was trying to do it on fast price movements.

I was considering poloniex myself, as well as cex and coinbase. Now I am not sure about coinbase, of course. They definitely have hard times. So there are two options left - poloniex and cex.
As far as I know poloniex is among the pioneers for offering margin trading and must have won the audience’s trust. But what attracted me on cex.io is that they claim to use a risk-preventing system that protects your balance from becoming negative.

The first key of margin trading is not starting to margin trading. No, I'm not kidding. This is the reality. Most of the margin traders are losers who lost all of their money.

Your choices are:

-Poloniex (not trustworthy, slow withdrawals and shady "DDoS attacks";
-Bitfinex (potentially not trustworthy, does not process fiat withdrawals except for very large amounts);
-Liqui.io (not trustworthy, accounts come with "interest");
-Coinbase (moderately trustworthy, but practically no customer support and some degraded services).

You have no 100% safe options. 

As for CEX.IO, they have another attractive option for margin trading. You can open a position with a collateral currency of your own choice.

Both poloniex and cex have this same risk-preventing system (some method of Proof of Solvency) - in fact, I would assume all platforms that offer margin trading have it, since it is firstly to protect themselves and the lenders, in the case of Polo.

With crypto markets extremely volatile, I would highly recommend a practice account on a forex platform first, using the same leverage, before ever trying out crypto.

I guess most traders are attracted in large part by volatility, and forget that there are actually two sides of cryptocurrency margin trading.

Thanx for starting this, I’m interested in the topic as well. ;D
I’ve read many reviews of different exchanges, but first-hand advice would be much better.
In case of CEX.IO, it is said they offer friendly solutions for margin trading even for beginners. Has anybody tried it?

the best placed margin trading, if you want much profit but high risk too in poloniex
because in there volume transaction is big, move price  up and down is big too

Don't search where start.... search how to survive..

A friend of mine has been doing margin trade of a long time already and he advised me that if you will go on margin trade you need to be sure with your position before placing because one wrong move then you might lose your money or you will be liquidated. In short you have to be good in reading chart or at least a good trader before doing so to avoid losing money.

if you want leverage trading go on Forex (400-500 leverage) where the "system" is safer... if you loss, you loss for bad choice not for lag, wallet offline, Blockchain congestion, site down, scam,bitcoin crack,ecc..
In forex you can find secure stop loss (only some brokers)... here nothing is secure... the probability that you loss all is very high.

You should first learn that it is not risky, it is tricky. The risk is everywhere and you have to choose how much to take for the best possible profits. I am currently working on marine trading by investing on newly launched ICO's. These are very profitable because they are initially sold at base price with lots of giveaways and cheaper rates. When these are launched in the market their value changes and goes higher as lots of people already invest in it. This multiples the base price by 10 to 20 times higher and leaving you behind big profit as you would have invested with base price. That is just one simple trick but only works when it is ICO and it is being listed on some best wallets and exchanges around the market. This is also applicable for long term investment when you come to know that the ICO is popular and being invested regularly in the market.

Is it true?
I have not tried it yet.
Is there an explanation of how it works. I want to learn. ???

I only know that poloniex have margin trading. From what I heard it has a higher risk compared to your ol' trading. I know some people who benifit and actually are getting a lot of profit in it. The only thing I can say is, be prepare for the possible loss and only risk the money which you can afford to loose.

There must be a reason why margin trading is not that popular in cryptocurrency although some exchanges are offering the platform. And it can be because, as told by some replies here, cryptocurrency is something that is a roller coaster ride and hard to plot and predict compared to forex and commodities.

Now, I fully agree, why create a headache when in fact we can just hold onto our coins and still make money? Or just use the normal trading system in Poloniex and Bittrex there is no need to go with margin trading at all. I do bought some coins especially newly introduced ones in Bittrex and it is a good way to increase one's hoard of Bitcoin. 

There are actually lots of them offering margin trading if not to mention Poloniex. Among them are also CEX, Kraken, Bitfinex… That’s why I am a bit confused.

Start with Poloniex for first time. Cool graphs, low rate for loans.

First of all, don't do margin trading. Margin trading is how you make money fast. Stick to you what you have for now, especially if you are a newbie to the forum(so i suspect you might be a newbie at trading as well). I know that you are aware of the risks, i just want to remind you again that you can definitely lose a lot due to margin trading, and the interests that are charged are pretty high. By using margin trading you are playing a negative sum game.

Kraken has margin trading, so does poloniex. These are the two exchanges that I use often. Polo i don't use often anymore because it's got a lot of problems rn. Bitmex offers bitcoin derivatives and pretty sure you are able to trade with margin as well.


As i said, don't use polo. I wouldn't even recommend bitfinex because they seem to have issues every few months, not something you would like. CEX has high spreads, kraken is the best imho.

100% agree. Since you are new to margin trading, start small. After you catch the trick of doing it, try to play with bigger amounts.

According to the comments there are not so many supporters of margin trading… Why’s that? ??? Because of risks only? But I guess everything related to cryptocurrency involves risk.

Not only because of risks. It also requires skills and expertise. And if you are a complete newcomer you obviously lack them.

The most important thing to know is what you know and that is you are "aware of the risks" margin trading is all about risk and like the business man said "the high the risk the high the return. If you know how to management risk and used stop and take profit features on poloniex the sky will be your limit. Remember the warning on margin trade on most trading sites "don't invest the money you can't afford to lose".

Have more type in trading and Margin Trading is a type for day trader have good experience and skills in trading. With day trader, they always check chart and have more time for work, because if they have a misstake, they will take a big loss! Exchanger and Holder are type useful and friendly with newbie

In my view margin trading is not that easy. It has got more risk than normal trading. Even a small mistake will lead to a big loss. Have never been into margin trading, have come across poloniex providing the service. With margin trading the only benefit is that even with small capital we can try to make larger Volume trading. Experienced traders seems successful with margin trading.

I believe margin trading but with very small position size must be eliminating possible risks. But out of greedy almost all the traders will never prefer small position size when they will be having more capital exposure to trade with. That is the reason mostly margin trading are ending up losing capitals.

There are few set of rules which must be followed for margin trading, if you are very much careful and following them then making money with margin trading will be easier and consistently achievable.

try etoro.com, they added bitcoin, ETH , DASH and you can copy traders if you don't have skills, but can only trade with BTC/USD OR ETH/USD or DASH/USD.

All margin trading platform only offer trading pair mayor crypto,  and in this situation of market  actually a lot of others altcoin below top 10 ranking increased the price more than 200% in a month,  so if you are still beginner trader is better more focus on spot market and avoid margin trading. But if want to try it,  in my opinion Bitmex is good platform for margin trading and very important  to use leverage not more than 5x,  others good platform for margin trading is fxopen broker, they has low spread. 

It is now possible to trade margin on most exchanges. The advantages of leveraged trading are very clear and another important advantage is the security aspect. Crypto traders should strive to minimize the number of coins they hold on exchanges.

Today, most of the exchanges allow margin trading with the advantage of leveraged trading which is very clear to the trader and the most important advantage is the security aspect. The user can strive and minimize the number of coins which they hold on exchanges. It also allows opening increased positions with no bitcoin required, in this way the user can hold less amount of coins on exchanges.

We do not consider forex. For example, trading on BitMex stop loss is as easy to adjust as in the forex market.
I agree that the risks are directly proportional to the profits - this is yes.

Truly you could earn more by margin trading, but that plan is to risky for me so I have decided to turn back on my regular trading so it could be safer.

What is up with all these margin topics here today, check out the trading discussions on bitcointalk (where we are right now) and count how many margin trading topics are alive today, it is not really normal. I mean margin trading is not that new neither, it is quite new compared to other types of trading but it is not couple weeks old thing. I am fearing the worst case, new people getting into margin trading to make a lot of money thanks to leverage and than leaving with their hands empty.

If there is a new wave of newbies trying to do margin trading we should try to find a way to keep them away from it before they know what they are getting into. Margin trading is risky and if you do not know what you are doing you will lose all the money you have. We can't have new users going around telling non crypto people how they lost all their money in some exchange.

Look trough tese tips:
1.Start small
In the beginning stages, it is more important to start with small amounts of money that you can afford to lose.
2. Understand interest rates and conditions
3. Be careful of major news events and decisions
4. Pay attention to squeeze
5. Always use a Stop Loss

In my opinion in this situation of crypto market is bad idea to do margin trading because alot of crypto in the bottom price, so to make huge profit is not necesary to jump in to more risky trading, because so many altcoin has potential to offer more than 100% profit in 1  month. But if you would like to do that, use only 5% of trading balance and use broker of Fx open or Weltrade because both broker offer low spread.

I would not suggest anybody to do margin trade unless they know the risks and have money at hand to pay the loan in case market does not turn out to the way it was supposed to be. I know several people do day trading with a margin trade strategy but its risky and would give me a headache because I would not want to lose the money that I put in.

Some people have the guts to do that because they trust their skills or they get some inside info on how market is going to perform. Still its a matter of luck and knowing about whales who manipulate markets to able to successfully do it.

Did you try with bitmex or poloniex? I see that you can get a bigger profit in that site but the risk will bigger too. It is not easy to do margin trading because we trade on the up and down of the trend of the coin, so you need to always in front of your computer at that moment. And when something change and it's opposite with your trading, you need to close your trade and take your profit before it's lost. Besides that, you need a bigger balance to start if you want to make a bigger profit too.

Before you start by use real money is much better learn and try it first in demo account,  there are alot of trading platform that provide margin trading,  for example many Metatrader platform also offer crypto pair, and some crypto exchange also launched margin trading,  like poloniex,  Okex, Gate.io, Bitfinex,  Huobi,  Bitmex. Between all that platform, choose that offering low leverage start from 1x, and avoid platform that offer minimum  10x leverage.

This is by far the best suggestion. The demo account is really where you can know how you are. Just because you made a ton of money on the demo account doesn't mean you will make money. Do not forget that demo account is not the real one so people react differently and do not expect to be a master when you switch to real one because a person who made 500% return on demo could lose all his money in one day at real one.

Moreover, the purpose of the demo is to see if you will lose the money, because if you win at demo it means you may win in real one or lose in real one however if you lose on demo that means do not even test the real one. Hence its just an elimination process and if you lose money there and fail to be a good trader that means do not even attempt to test the real one.

before I entered the trade, I did not know about a trading, I just wanted to be able to fully utilize my knowledge about it, where it would cost a lot and earn a good way and good profits available that and before joining a trade, try to get margin trading in any way to start earning.

PrimeXBT (https://primexbt.com) offers up to 100x leverage for: BTC/USD, ETH/USD, XRP/USD, LTC/USD & EOS/USD.  


What makes its conditions favourable over other leverage trading platforms is that it aggregates liquidity from 12 different exchanges with the most volume and trading activity, simultaneously and in real-time.  This means for instant and optimal price-acquisition on the one screen/platform, thus mitigating the risk of slippage.  

The platform also allows for short selling, so you can use leverage to multiply profits in any kind of market condition, be it bullish or bearish.  

Leverage is best utilized to take advantage of small but near certain price movements, as a positive increase or decrease in the market of just 1% instantly doubles your position (with 100x leverage).  Likewise it can also be lost just as quickly, so (as always) never trade with more than you can afford to lose if using such high leverage.   With PrimeXBT you can’t fall into debt with the platform, all you stand to lose is your initial position - before the leverage is applied (causing a margin call).  However you can also implement stop-loss and other advanced orders to prevent this from happening.  

It’s typically advised to start out with lower leverage (2-10x max) until you are confident and highly proficient in conducting technical analysis and reading market trends.

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Margin trading is too risky for beginner trader, because our balance possible going to zero because of leverage. If you want to try it is better test your skill in demo account, there are alot of trading platform that has product margin trading. To get demo account you can choose broker that offer MetaTrader platform. Metatrader is best platform to trade any asset with margin include crypto , forex, stocks and indices.

Okay, let me explain a few things

First of all, you should always remember that with margin trading you are basically playing against the "house". And the house in this case is the exchange where you margin trade. You may be playing against an exchange even when you are long with your own coins, but it is always the case with shorts. In practice, it means you should expect things which you normally wouldn't, for example, exchange forcefully liquidating your margin position on some completely arbitrary grounds (like an alleged glitch in the system)

Second, you should understand how the margin system is supposed to work, i.e. when you are likely to have your position liquidated, and here I mean real liquidation, not the one like described above (i.e. wrongful liquidation). If you don't know or understand how it works, you better stay away from margin trading on this exchange until you do. Otherwise, you risk losing your balance due to a technically legitimate margin call. And remember at all times that you are playing against the house with margin trading

if you want to trade then do it naturally as possible. on the basis that you only have to sell higher than when you bought it. this is a thing that happens in the trading world. the huge profit potential is an attractive attraction, but please be careful that the potential for loss is also very large. make decisions must pay attention to everything, analysis and market situation.

There are alot of trading platform that allow to trade crypto with margin, but we have to know which level leverage that they offer and we should be choose that have low leverage and they provide demo account. I prefer to use metatrader platform to trade crypto with margin, because in this platform also available others pair of others asset, so if price of crypto sideaway we can trade on that others asset.

Margin trading is not an easy job we need to get expertise in trading mostly because I heard it from many people that margin trading is one of the most risky one in trading.

Those who offers demo accounts will be a good start for any traders who's new to this type of trading, you can take advantage trying how things works without losing your money, the demo account will help you to predict and assess what influence do the trade will move and by keep doing your practice you will be able to anticipate the movement.

Be careful with margin trading, don't go and do like gambling with the trend, else, go and analyze study everything around to have a successful strategy.

I'm not sure if there are demo accounts for that

You see, margin trading involves a lot of really complicated stuff on both ends of the stick. It is demanding not only on you (in terms of trading expertise) but on the exchange as well (in terms of technical complexity), so it is unlikely that you will be able to find demo accounts offering this type of trading to novice traders

Further, such demo trading can in fact turn harmful in the end, especially if it is a bit different in respect to things like margin calls and similar tricky matters. In other words, you can easily get into wrong habits which may cost you dear when you switch to real trading

Margin trading can be good way to earn huge profit if we understanding price action, but offcource with more high risk. Before trade on margin trading, we have to choose and understanding about level of leverage first, for crypto pair the ideal of leverage is 3x because crypto has high fluctuacion. And for forex pair we can use 500x because forex has low volatility.

Margin trading in my opinion is similar to gambling by rolling dice. You are predicting movements in the market while also stopping yourself from getting liquidated. On top of that you need to repay the loan that you took. It seems attractive but remember that the trading site does make a lot of money from the bitcoin futures trades and they are advertised much more nowadays. If you are willing to take the risk and go for that 50x leverage you are free to do so but without backup of analysis you will fail and even if you do have sound analysis end of the day markets are unpredictable.

There are other ways to trade and make money. Its not that the 100x number should attract you. Anyone gets reminded of ponzis? (no pun intended)

That's not margin trading done right

You don't necessarily have to go for 50x leverage as in that case you would in fact be mostly gambling. Personally, I never use margins greater than 1.1-1.2. In other words, my margin positions are enough collateralized to withstand any sudden price swings (though I had my positions wrongfully liquidated in the past)

Further, the interest you pay is not big provided you don't borrow funds when the market starts to move in earnest. The bottom line is that you can in fact use margin trading without exposing yourself to a lot of risk and you won't be gambling at that (at least, as long as trading itself is not gambling)

It's just an experience, nothing can be said without experience, It will be able to understand it till a certain stage. It will be necessary to know if you need an Old Trader.

When you margin trade, you trade with leverage.  Which means your deposit to trade, or position, is multiplied by the amount of leverage taken.  Likewise this is reflected in your ROI. 

For example if you had $100 and traded with 100x leverage, your position would become as powerful and as profitable as a $10,000 position. 

If the market went up/down in the right direction by just 1% you would instantly double your ROI, giving you a $100 profit as opposed to only $1 if no leverage was applied (1% of $100 = $1, and 1% of $10,000 = $100).

Using the same $100 example, let’s say the price moved positively by 5%, you would make a $500 profit, as opposed to $5 if no leverage was applied. (5% of $100 = $5, and 5% of $10,000 = $500).

What’s important to note however, is these while these small price movements do offer much greater ROI with high leverage, they are also far more risky.  The greater the leverage the smaller the margin and less room for error.  With 100x leverage your margin is only 1%, which is why the strategy is best utilized on small but near certain price movements.  Here is a really good explainer video detailing how it all works on the PrimeXBT 100x leverage trading platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMnX0Z2KKok (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMnX0Z2KKok)

High risk = high reward.  The beauty of leverage is however, you can risk much less of your own funds to access much greater rewards.  Just be prepared for the worst, and never deposit more than you can afford to lose.

Leading leverage Providers:
 
Prime XBT - up to 100x on BTC, ETH, EOS, LTC, & XRP
Bitmex - up to 100x on BTC
Huobi - up 10 5x on BTC
Kraken - up to 5x on XBT, ETC, ETH, REP, & XMR
Bitfinex - up to 3.3x on all available assets
Poloniex - 2.5x on BTC

I don't want to complicate things but the usual advice I can give is to learn the basics. The charts, the candles, fundamental analysis and technical analysis. If there are vague explanations, try not to give up by searching all the possible easy explanations.
There is no impossible when you are determined to learn. I've been there before and I only read, read and read then try to go on a trial margin trading. Bitmex offers a practice demo trading just like the actual.

If you are a beginner i think you should start with Poloniex despite the fact that it's too risky. And i strongly wouldn't recommend to try it.
If you want to be confident you should use resistance levels. 
I read an article provided by Monfex where is written that "One of the basic ways to use support and resistance levels in trading involves buying near support during an uptrend (when the price is generally moving up), and short-selling near resistance during downtrends (when the price is generally falling.) "
What do you guys think about it?

Margin trading involves borrowing capital at relatively high interest rates from a cryptocurrency exchange so you can access increased leverage. This allows you to access increased profits if the market moves in your favor, but also comes with the risk of increased losses.

The risk is too high even though can be managed and the only way to still manage it is when you leverage low, but we have some greedy people that would never take this into consideration, so they will still tend to leverage high to the extent of losing their money, sometimes when I hear margin trade, I see it a system that is created to punish the greedy ones because why would you borrow when you can simply continue to trade with whatever you have normally and then keep turning over.

It is good to take some risk though, but we still have to be very wise in taking risk, risk like that of margin trade to me is not the type of risk that I will really say that it is worth it, it is better to just buy coin and then be a long term holder than to go into margin trade.

Try margin trading on the Binance and Huobi exchanges. One of my favorite exchanges where I started trading regularly. The main thing is not to forget to study the theory well in order to understand what you are dealing with.

You guys dont even read the comments from other users before putting in your post right?

Just because some exchange is your favorite does not mean that the OP should visit them for margin trading. Be objective in your views and not personal choices unless clearly stated. Huobi is another ponzi scheme market for those who like to drink the coolaid thinking their altcoin will become huge.

Anyway I dont you have any experience with margin trading because it is not same as spot trading and needs a lot of clam nerves with a large volume of spare cash to be able to profit from.

Before you start margin trading you have to test your trading system. If you trade with leverage without specific strategy, then you will lose eventually everything.
Also don't use high leverage like 50-100x . Althouth there are sucess stories and I also achieved outstanding ROI https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5177585.msg52223769#msg52223769 ,
I persuade you to start with smaller leverage to get experience

As for exchange, check out my post, for me there are 2 main exchanges - Okex and Bitmex https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5168885.0

Margin trading is actually very difficult. You must be highly focused, have extensive knowledge of charts and signals, and must have trading discipline.
In order to trade successfully, you need to identify more market trends in a short period of time.
There are many things you need to learn and experience. You should take some high quality trading courses to get a better grasp.

Before trading on margin, you should consider the amount of knowledge as well as the frequency of your work. because in margin trading, it is very stressful because you can burn out your account within minutes if you are not focused enough.
If you have all the qualifications, congratulations and you can place orders at Bitmax or Bitmex, these are the two exchanges with the highest volume.

That its right dude but before going to margin trading why not try firdt the regilar trading platform to practice the basic of trading like how to buy/sell how to use limit order, market order because margin is high risk. As of now my favorite margin site is bybit.

Have you considered trying CEX.IO for margin trading? I started margin trading there as its interface is kinda native. Now, I am thinking about trying trading at their new platform, https://cexbro.com/. And it allows trading BTC, ETH or LTC with 10x leverage. But just in case you will decide to try it, the platform is currently available not in all countries or US states. So, make sure that nothing will prevent you from using it.

You can use OKex quite cheap interest rates, Okex support 3-5x leverage with many different trading pairs. In addition, Okex also has futures contracts and permanent swaps with higher leverage.

I have tried Okex margin trade too and I really agree with you that they are wonderful, Okex is one of the best exchanges, though I am having little issue with them as regards their decisions to delist all privacy coin, but what can I do, I think they all want a crypto space that is free of scammer.

Another exchange that is very good to try is also Binance margin. I have only tried them once ever since they created them though, but I think it is also worth trying and we know how perfect binance has always been in all its dealing, but I think Okex is still the best for now, though I have not traded on margin trade for a while now because of the fluctuations of the market which is making it quite difficult for one to trade and you know that margin trade could really be a very risky one, so I don’t want to take my chances this period until the market is a little bit settled.

When you talk about Margin Trading (http://"https://cryptolinks.com/crypto-margin-trading), you have to be extremely sharp and alert. I just don’t think there is option to be lazy. The first part to begin is to get proper Crypto Knowledge, as just starting up trading will put you in tough situation, so with having proper route you are always making better decisions. After that you need to pick right option to be able to benefit from and able to gain through to perform well and succeed.

Since Binance launches margin trading opportunities for its users, I decided to try to diversify my activities, since Binance inspires confidence in me more than other resources.  But studying this issue, I came to the conclusion that margin trading really allows a trader to use leverage to borrow with leverage, providing himself with a higher profit potential than traditional trading.  But given the current state of the cryptocurrency market and price indicators for the past week, I consider margin trading to be a very big risk, especially for inexperienced traders who did not practice this type of trading.

A premature trader should never even take step in going into margin trade because when it comes to trading, this is the most risky part of it that I use to avoid, I don’t go into margin trade at all because this could make us lose all the assets that we have built in years within second depending on the amount of leverage that we are using.

Many traders that even have proper knowledge of trading are still finding it quite difficult to cope with margin trade not to talk of those who does not even have much knowledge about it, and margin trade in cryptocurrency is nothing compared to that of Forex trading at all because the level of volatility in cryptocurrency makes it extremely difficult to cope with margin trade, but it could really be huge profit for anyone that knows how to hit the jackpot.

Please don't even think about margin trading before you have your feet wet with normal spot trading and some experience with the testnet aka a demo account. Most of people lose their accounts and believe me you don't want your tuition to be that expensive.

So trade on the testnet as long as you need to become comfortable with order placing, risk management, taking profits and then start with a small account.

As for platforms I recommend Deribit and Bybit. Bitmex is famous for those server overload issues so I'd stay away from it.

I agree, there are many people that are attracted to margin trading because they have heard stories about the incredible profits that they can get in a relatively short amount of time, but what they do not seem to understand is that you need to have a very precise strategy and you need to know what you want to achieve with each trade that you make, otherwise you could lose all your capital in minutes, I know that many people will think that I am exaggerating but I'm not and in fact we have seen several examples of that happening to people in the forum.

This is precisely my problem with using margin trading in this market, I understand that those that do this in forex do so because that is an incredibly liquid market and the movements in that market are smaller, but in the market of cryptocurrencies where you see such a huge volatility, why people choose to use margin trading? Bitcoin went from 3500 to almost 14000, that is close to giving 300% in profits in a matter of months, is that not enough for people? Why do they want more?

Have you tried exchange  50x. me?

Here is description of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYoKpjXdv0c&t=10s

Because of "Greed" for sure and knowing human beings aren't really contented if they wont able to achieve those high leverage profits.We can compare the risk factor on using up margin between forex and crypto markets.

In forex its already giving me some heart attack even volatility is really small,how much more on crypto where price can swing up 10% a day?
but somehow people are looking after on possible profits that they can generate on that's why they do love to try into this market.

On the one hand, this type of business has many pluses. However, margin trading has another side. Exchanges do not sufficiently disclose the risky side of cryptocurrency trading with leverage. Inexperienced traders, who watched several videos on YouTube, are led to this and give their last money, wishing to double it soon.

The result is quite the opposite, and they lose not only their savings but also get into debt.

I think there is a risk to go in debt with margin trading when you are a trader and you manage investor's money. Then somehow you lose everything and they put you in debt until you return money.
For sure it is rare case, but this is the only thing coming up into my mind

Investing in cryptocurrencies is as risky on its own

And I'm not sure about the debt part. How are you supposed to get in debt by margin trading? In the worst case scenario your position gets forcefully liquidated which might potentially lead to a complete loss of balance, though not necessarily as you could just have insufficient collateral to keep your current margin positions open (for example, when price moves against you). Honestly, this is the first time I hear you could get in debt with margin trading (unless you mean something else, of course)


But why would anyone want to trust an inexperienced trader with her milk and honey, so to speak?

Exchanges don’t have to declare the risk before the said trader too would know that trading with margin is a very risky business that people should try and avoid, because there is no way that you would want to trade on leverage and not be greedy and this is where the problem comes from.

The risk in margin trade would have actually been low if people were leveraging low, but like you said, because they have watched some sort of videos that are making it look so interesting leveraging high, they also get involved in it, thereby making them loose their money by not applying some risk management options to it. If people are to trade on margin trade, the highest leverage that anyone should even go should be 2x, 10x is still manageable, but anything going far above this should really be disregarded.

Last month, i'm thinking on learning how margin trading works but it will be hard since you need to always check the market every minute since the cryptocurrency is very volatile and unpredictable but i know you can set a stop-loss incase the price goes down.

I know that margin trading is very profitable as long as you know what you're doing and keeping up with the markets flow.

Society thinks risk could be avoided if they are going to be aware of it, they carefully collect data and information which they think that could be the key to a successful plan when Trading or engaging in the field of cryptocurrency.  


I agree. Maybe they thought that every Trader who use this trading method will not totally deposit a capital on their trading account because there are certain individuals that will lend some money to them as a kick start, but it doesn't work like that. Market Trading is also like the other method of Trading that you will be depositing a certain amount of money that you would use as a capital. You'll start to make leverage with the specific ratio of borrowed funds to the margin.

For example, you'll open a Trade that cost $10,000 and the ratio is 10:1, then you'll have to commit your $1,000 capital.

That is true. It takes a lot of work and as the saying goes, big things require big efforts. The more you will put in to a work, the more you are going to get out of it. However, I think for a beginner, it is best to learn more than trading and make himself aware with the behavior of his coin. Once he achieves this milestone, margin trading will not remain a difficult task. The most significant skill after knowledge is patience. That cannot be ignored either.

That makes sense, but while greed is pushing them to use marging trading in this market at the same time it seems they do not understand how dangerous it is, there are traders clamming to be using 50x or even 100x of leverage and that means that even the smallest movement in the opposite direction of their prediction can be enough to ruin them and not only that it is likely they will develop bad trading habits in the process that will cost them even more money in the future.

Its unhealthy which is what my point is. Doing margin trading only increases the mental trauma to any commoner. I dont know if any trader exists who makes money everyday from margin but I doubt they do because most of the top traders are spot traders and not gamblers.

The leverage does attract a lot of greed and that is what fuels the market of margin trading. Because the markets are more in a stagnant phase in the 8000-9000 USD marks people are getting desperate not having a big swing to sell/buy on. So they are moving temporarily to other more risky methods, which I pointed out in another such thread yesterday.

I feel that newbies should stay away from margin unless they learn the basics of spot trading before margin trading.

That's not the only option (or rather, a direction)

When prices become stagnant (though I wouldn't call the current market that or even stable), first thing many traders do is narrow their trading ranges and likely increase volumes to squeeze same profits from less price action. This is also risky as the longer market stagnates the stronger it is going to move when it finally starts to move. In this manner, these traders get caught in the action by either suffering losses or losing profits, wherever the market goes


Agree

If you can to make a quite exact prediction and have own trade system then why not? For learning and some 'casino' effect, you can use a small part of your funds. An important task to solve is which exchange use. Bitmex has good liquidity but with some technical problems due to p/d. And their funding happens 3 times per day. Now a quite good choice is OKex with his perpetual swap and funding once per day.
With margin you can check own knowledge about price moving  ;)

Margin trading is extremely profitable but the risk is similar, I think you should be aware of leverage and capital management. I have just witnessed two new members of my group liquidate their accounts in just one week, because they use leverage up to 50x and use all assets to trade. Their common point is that they are overconfident and involved with the winner's mind.

About the trading platforms, I think you can choose Okex they have margin trading with USDT, very suitable for downtrend. Or you can choose future or perpetual swap with higher leverage.

Margin trading is no place for a newbie mate because even experienced traders sometimes get caught up in this game of losing your funds to the whales. However, if you feel you've got the balls to venture into margin trading then i suggest you use Binance Exchange as it's one of the popular exchanges with huge investors.

Begin your study of margin trading by learning the basics of risk management, as well as conventional trading. Margin trading is an extremely dangerous thing, not only because of the high volatility of the market, but also because the exchanges themselves can technically close orders and put you in a hopeless situation.
This has happened to me several times.

I understand that under current conditions in the cryptocurrency market, margin trading is very dangerous in itself and if a person does not have sufficient experience or time to trade, it is better to refuse this type of trading.  Nevertheless, I have repeatedly come across information that margin trading is the best choice for professional traders who consider this type of trading to be the main source of income.  I think this already says a lot.
But for beginners or traders with no experience, any loan in the cryptocurrency market is a strong danger.

Yes and good thing that we do have google and youtube that we can learn for free, so there is no reason for us not learn it, if we really want to learn. Then, one thing is focus on one exchange first, I would suggest to go to Binance, and start learning there,  you may refer here for guidelines, https://www.binance.vision/tutorials/binance-margin-trading-guide (https://www.binance.vision/tutorials/binance-margin-trading-guide) , aside from this, read some articles too.

consideration first is about liquidation. and the second is about interest rates. so that we can make the right calculation for profit and loss. and I only know that good exchanges for margin are Binance.com and Bitmex, because these exchanges are in the top 10 exchanges.

They are crazy and greedy, the leveraging itself is not the problem, but the greed of the people applying it is the real issue here, how can someone jump leveraging at 2x which maximum should be 10x and go and leverage at 50x, then they keep blaming margin trade, if they had leverage at 2x every time they trade, would they still not be in business by now rather than the way their account has been liquidated, so their greed is what consumed them.

I am not arguing that margin trade can be risky, but there is always a way to manage every risk. The best way to manage the risk of margin trade is just to leverage low, once you can leverage low, it would be impossible for the money to liquidate easily except if there is a long downtrend for a very long time.

If you want to trade against the dollar, I like the Bitfinex exchange, the most pleasant trading terminal, there are all the necessary trading orders, stop loss and take profit. If you want to earn bitcons, then you can try trading on Bimex.

for beginners you have to practice trading if you directly to margin trading you will get big loss, dont see big profits from margin trading if you cannot trade because other people will easily get your money in margin trading, if the biggest market for margin trading is BITMEX exchange

Yes, margin trading cannot be a starting point for a trader due to its inconsistent results but traders may switch over into margin trading after hands on experiences in spot trading. This way they may handle all the pressures of margin trading and convert their all of efforts into profits from the small capital. Yes, you may think about margin trading only when you feel like you have relatively small capital to convert your efforts into profits for a given time frame.

Personally I never suggest anyone to get into margin trading as it is a platform for wiping out all our capital when market moves slightly against our expected market direction. Better always sticking with sport trading as it gives enough time to wait and hold our positions on the occurrences of unexpected market directions.

Binance has recently increased their margin trading returns from 20%-120%, but i dont know if they've already launched this new rates. I would suggest that to take extreme caution in doing this, because despite its staggering gains that could definitely make you rich in an instant. It could also make you loss everything and this method are for experience traders only.

Choosing a platform for margin trading is the last step but you have to follow a lot of steps before it. You have to start gaining some knowledge about how margin trading works. I have seen a number of people going for margin trading with no previous knowledge just because they can have major profits but you should understand that without knowledge there are none profits.

You have to devote your time in learning more and more about the trade calls. You can never make a mistake by buying at a wrong price in margin trading as the price reversal might make all of your funds get liquidated in just a couple of seconds.

I would actually suggest to go for margin trading only if you have gained some previous experience in spot trading. Margin trading is a lot helpful for all those who have limited capital but posses the capability to overcome huge risk for huge profits. Margin trading actually allows us to trade wit 3 times more capital than the actual capital invested.

This makes us able to gain major profits keeping risk as constant. There are number of people who are gaining huge profits from margin trading but also there are some who had none profits but also lost each of their funds used for margin trading. In-experienced traders going for margin trading would never give you profit.

The fact is that I always meet a fairly large amount of information that professional traders main type of earnings is margin trading, which gives a very large profit.  But at the same time, everyone who reads such lines should understand that the professionalism of such traders should be at a great height, with a very large amount of knowledge and experience.  Margin trading makes it possible to use large amounts of capital for trading that a third party provides to the user, and you need to take into account the fact that it is almost like a kind of loan, non-payment of which leads to big problems.

As a long time trader, in looking for the best trading platform is to difficult in the way when they process our digital coins, because in one wrong move our profits will be neglected. And also many trading platforms are not trustworthy, some degraded services and slow withdrawals. In trading we don't need a high profits, we need a platform that will surely secured our digital money. I would like to introduced to you this trading platform named "Yobit.net" it is a legitimate trading platform that will surely secured your account to others hackers. I'm using yobit.net for a long time so that I'm really sure that it is safe, because it uses double authentication to verify that you using your own account.

Concerning the matter of margin trading, the consequences can be so high that many people decided to settle instead for digital trading.That way they themselves have control over their money, in the end having stable and less risky profit for the long term is more important than having a large burst at extremely high cost.

So like most of these guys on here, I wouldn't recommend margin trading unless you absolutely have the knowledge and large amounts of cash you can do without since the risks are so high.

Margin trading takes up the bigger share if you compare it with spot trading. The outcome is bigger and thus is attracts a lot of people specially during times of high market movements. There is chance to make money in both ups and downs here.

They are professionals here but you cannot deny that they wont have some sort of inside knowledge or that they are having a team monitoring the world news every now and then so they dont miss out on trades.

Well that is the risk of margin trading. You have to use some money to be able to ask for a leverage and then use that to place the contracts.

I'm not new to margin trading, but I noticed this strange maths at BitMEX that I can't explain. I should profit from a trade but I ended up with loss.
So I opened long position with Limit order at 6528.5, order quantity 1075 contracts, leverage 10x. Order was executed (multiple Buys) and it cost me:
0.0439+0.0291+0.0214+0.0038+0.0663=0.1645 XBT

Then I opened Limit sell at 6609 and received only 0.1626 XBT.
How is it possible that I lost money but I sold at higher price than I bought??

Screenshot from BitMEX Trade History:
https://i.imgur.com/G8Pj7cC.png

in my opinion, it is difficult to trade because of the large amount of capital and collateral, don't bet your money on a doubtful transaction to avoid high risk.try to choose bitcoin for a long term investment.

These are difference in opinions and methods you know. Spot trading vs Margin trading is a debate and this never ends. Some people like to take risks and try the gambling portion that options and futures provide them while some try to hold it as an asset and sell or buy to profit. While the market is being stagnant or not moving much up or down the spot traders are basically helpless and not having any trade to do because for them to make a profit they need the high upswing to sell or high downswing to buy.

So there comes the demand for another method of making money which is Margin. Thats how this has developed and mind you volume of margin trading is way more than Spot trading in average.

Before you start margin trading, you need to understand the spot market. And only when you yourself can correctly determine the direction of the market, you can try to take the minimum leverage. The most important thing is not to use the maximum leverage that reaches X100.

I guess all the traders who are into margin trading must have been into spot trading earlier. I mean only because of not finding enough profits from spot trading, most of traders are going into leveraged trading but as per many people's experience margin trading is not at all profitable for them because other than usual struggles a trader may face in spot trading, they must need to undergo lots of other things to take care in margin trading which makes it more complicated. I agree marginal trading is profitable at the same time it is highly risky if you miss few things to follow/take care.

I agree, to enter margin treading a trader must understand fully the spot trading but I do not think that alone will ensure their success in margin trading.

I would say  bitmex, bitfinex and poloniex, but to be honest I dont really enjoy doing margin trading. I prefer to choose and hold long term Bitcoin or Altcoins.

But I dont think that it is how people who go rekt start off. :P
It happens to them like they are scrolling FaceAche and InstaHater (;D) and then see this ad which tells them about getting 100x returns using bitcoin. Now this broke guy has heard of bitcoin and thinks this is my chance. So they click the link and sign up without even knowing that its called margin trading and basically a gambling, not spot trading.

Of course for beginners 2x is enough. Even with that they are going to lose a lot of money before they can make any. So the trader needs to have enough cash at hand to tide over this time and also to keep liquidation of positions at bay.

Because of the fear of one losing more fund than one is trading by plummeting into payment of debt in an unregulated market like cryptocurrency wherein TA can be rendered useless by some manipulations makes me stick with spot trading. I have seen good technical guys have their trades reverse because of news from some corner that may even be a FUD.

You should have good knowledge of leverage rates before you start trading margin. For the leverage you will use, you should pay attention to the calculations such as the interest you will pay on an hourly basis, the percentage of that leverage, the rate of doubling your money and the zeroing rate, and then you should learn the basic trading rules. As a suggestion, I can recommend you the FTX exchange because it was the best quality among the exchanges I have used so far. Especially compared to services such as Binance, there are many trading pairs here, high trading volume, reliable support team, and besides all these, it offers a chance to trade with USD. There is something I want to emphasize here, you can trade with USD, not USDT.

I believe that every trader who plans to engage in margin trading should represent the risks of this activity and initially invest little money in order to gradually become involved in the margin trading process.  but in my opinion, a person should first of all have the maximum trading skills on the spot market, that is, have very good experience in simple buying and selling cryptocurrencies, which includes the ability to read cryptocurrency charts and the ability to make the right decisions. But any trade as a result should not do without fixing earnings and diversifying investments in order to really observe the results of its activities, since this positively affects not only the psychological state, but also the further results of your trade.

When you want to start  margin trading the most important thing is know about technical analysis  and than know "aware of the risks" margin trading is very risky.you need to know how to management risk and used stop and take profit features on various leverage exchanges the sky will be your limit.  consider the notice on margin trade on a good number trading sites "don't invest the capital you lip service have enough money to lose".

Bitmex is a great platform with a small fee (about  0.075% taker fee)

Start with math.First, learn how regular trading works, create a demo account and practice until you feel absolutely comfortable.
Then study the numbers that are offered in margin trading, including interest and exchange commissions.
Calculate on paper the difference between regular and margin trading, including all possible risks.

margin trading is really not the place for newbie to trade. It is very much related to your trading psychology and strategy. To minimize your risk, you should learn a lot about popular indicators like RSI, Fibonacci, EMA. Those are the indicators that help you choose a good open order point and take profit accurately. But first, I recommend you to use the demo account to experience. margin trading is a high risk game that can make you lose all your money.

Margin trading, unlike spot trading, allows a trader to earn money not only when the cryptocurrency market is growing, but also when it is falling. This way you can always be inside the market and not wait for it to grow again for trading. But do not forget about the risks that may arise using margin trading.

Margin trading is a form of trading with leverage, you can spend small capital with large leverage to make more money. Good at this day trading field, every day you can earn thousands of dollars. But to get that success, you need to learn more and experience on demo account more. because according to statistics, more than 90% of margin traders will usually lose money in the first 3 years. So you need to be serious about learning indicators and looking for good leaders to be able to teach you. Never be greedy and use large capital to conduct margin trading. Try your trading strategies with small capital for a period of about 6 months to check if your trading system is good or not. Study slowly but your future will be in the top 10% of winners.

Margin trading could be very profitable tool, but it is very dangerous. Why do you think that Bitmex genereated such profit? From margin trading, I do not know about anyone who really trade with leverage on daily basis. You can loose your whole portfolio in few seconds!  :-[

Margin trading can be risky if you have no expirience and start to trade with high leverage (100x)...For starters,it is better to use 2x to max 5x leverage,and good indicators...because,margin trading is liquidation game,and whales know that

Good advice! Margin trading is like gambling. You have to manage your will to avoid losing money for nothing. Start from the small leverage such as 2x to 5x is a good strategy. However, this is just the temporary plan. Don't treat margin trading as a profit-making method. You know it! There's nothing such as easy money!

You are right there are many risks in margin trading. If you do not know the trade well the danger is higher in margin trading than in day trading Therefore, apart from leverage whales usually set the worth of the currency therefore the loss is higher. it's very difficult to form a profit in margin trading Here strategies often fail.

In general, margin trading is usually very risky and not recommended when participating in this market. However, there are many people who prefer to choose this trading method because the profit is often very large and, if lucky, can reach x2 or x3 assets. Of course, the high profit, the risk will also be very high because if not careful, you will lose all the assets you have.

I haven't ever tried margin trading with crypto but from experience with Forex I strongly suggest you get yourself a Demo account somewhere and get some practice in with fake money. Its ridiculously easy to get liquidated with margin trading.

If you can keep your head above water for a few weeks actively trading with a demo acount...then you  might just be be ready cautiously try the real thing. Good luck.

Margin is a very popular service of most exchanges today because of the profit rate it brings. You can margin on Bitmex, Binance, Huobi, OKex, Kucoin ... I personally use binance because of its liquidity. Binance is also a reputable platform, high volume and full of tools for me to use such as trading view, stoploss, take profit

Margin account is a brokerage account in which the broker lends the customer cash to purchase stocks or other financial products. The loan in the account is collateralize by the securities purchased and cash, and comes with a periodic interest rate. Margin funding is, it is the funds brokers to arrange to finance your share purchase, giving you the opportunity to invest more than your investment potential and increase returns on investments.

Before even starting. You must prepare yourself and block all emotional attachments. It's good that you know the risk of margin. Even just a small mistake can cost you thousands. So just be careful and really do your studying or research before you make a trade.

What's the best platform for margin trading for a newbie? I'd like to check HitBTC or Bitmex first. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

If you are already familiar with trading without leverage you have to only test out one of the demo leveraged trading platforms that some exchanges offer, for example BitMEX does have demo trading that you can test leverage trading using it before jumping into it with real money, there are a few things that you have to learn if you already have experience with trading without leverage, matters like: how much leverage works for you the best and the risk you're willing to take, and how to use stop-loss and take profit which are very important tools when it comes to leveraged trading, my suggestion is to never use anything more than 3x leverage for crypto trading.

- To secure your transactions as well as protect your assets, you should choose Bingbon to trade. I have been trading on this platform for over a year and have never had any problems with my account. In addition, it is completely lag-free when having a large volume of transactions at the same time. In particular, Bingbon's spread rate is considered to be the most stable and you will not need to worry too much about getting an absurd stop loss.

- The video below will guide you to trade in Bingbon the most effective way :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXBhvzPHLI

Bitmex is good enough, once it was the pioneer name along with Deribit. Now though things have started to crackdown a bit from the authorities and many other exchanges also saw this as a new market and therefore launched their own margin trading options on their existing exchanges - like Binance.

Now for a newbie though, I hope you are not a newbie in margin trading itself, because if it is so then it would be better to learn about it first then get busted trying to go 50x like a real noob.

Margin trading is not for everyone though. Make sure you know the things before you step in. No reason to jump into something totally new just because the market was too stagnant at that time for Spot trading - this was how margin trading in crypto came into existance at one time and its craze started in the mid-2018 when bitcoin stuck gradually at 6k USD.