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There is a saying among the forex traders that "the trend is your friend" and if you really want to make it in forex you have to learn how to follow the trend. Many of us tried to used trendline, moving average cross to identify the position of the price and used them also to identify trend and some time it assist us to place a good trade. However, I have learned in cryptocurrency to focus on events and news about bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general and this has been actually helpful. My question is what have you learned in bitcoin and Altcoins trading that you did not know exist in illiquid market?

I did long term trading so to decide to buy any coin i use fundamental analysis. And to more understanding the fundamental of the project i learn it in their white paper and also looking for other review in some youtube channel related crypto and some forum. For tecnical analysis in crypto i see little bit different with forex trading because the volume also different and cryptocurrency market more fluktuasion.

Your question is too good, when entering the bitcoin market in particular and cryptocurrency in general; I learned a lot of things for myself, first I had to be patient in business, always wise to analyze the market; Stumbling many times in investment has made me stronger in both mind and spirit. Finally, two important things that I learned are the patience and knowledge of the bitcoin market analysis.

I have learned that you have to be a little ballsy and go with your instinct and intuition. I made a few really good trades this past week because I went with my gut and within a few hours of the two trades I am talking about, both had massive gains and I made quite a bit of money.

I guess what I am trying to say is that charts help, but this is crypto and it is massively volatile.


Go with your instinct and also do your research.

I learned that crypto currency trading is not just easy as what other said. The most traditional method for trading is buying at low and selling at high value is kinda hard to know. Most of the time need a patience and luck in every trade

Due to the fact that the crypto markets are not as liquid as other traditional financial markets, there is a bigger element of manipulation going on by the whales and other big fish trading cryptos. I often times see one coin being controlled in price by just one or two big whales and they do as they like to make the price benefit them and take many smaller fish down by their tactics. I have also seen more FUD AND FOMO buys and sells arriving in the crypto trading space, even worse and bigger than in traditional markets.

Even after so much time spent I can't say that I learned to trade. Its not something that you can learn just like that, to many unknowns in trading, we deal with many informations and analyzing them in seconds and making decision is not exact since. Sounds like I learned that with trading anything can happen.
Crypto is crypto, there are many people here without any knowledge and ota easy to manipulate with them, that is why markets are so vulnerable to manipulations of any kind. Be ready for impossible is my advice for people who enter in crypto trading.

Long term trading is a good way of making money, instead of doing short trading. Due to it is more safer than short, but you could have a lot of profit in doing short term though it can't be deny that is it too risky, it is just need to monitor it from time to time for you to avail the chance to earn big in it.

I am in crypto market since 2014 and even still feel i am just like a newbie with trading, experiencing with cryptocurrency trading i learned a lot, yet to understand much more to become a good trader. I have faced ups amd downs during the period while some moments were severe to decide how to manage the situation, i hope this forum helps me to understand whole strategy of trade

Because the price is much easier to move in crypto, i learned to set really low buy orders, and really high sell orders. There are many times when there are sudden pumps and sudden dumps, and if you set the orders on them well, they can be very profitable.

Also, I agree with paying attention to altcoin events. They tend to prove the price quite a bit, followed by a dump after the event / a few days before the event.

Basically, crypto prices move much faster than any markets, so trade accordingly for profits

I'd say Forex and Stock Exchange is completely different from cryptocurrency trading. In stocks the movements can be predictable unlike in cryptocurrency where nothing is certain.

I been almost 3 months in this crypto world and have a lot to learn more. So now I have some techniques to gain profit. Being a trader the one thing to be bear in mind was buy a coin at a dip and sell it at a pump. You need also to control your emotion and put the knowledge as the leader
When a coin and you analize this has a bright future, dont be greedy for money think the profit you can earn if you hold it a more little time. And when a coin is not to great for you sell it when the time it pumps.-hope it help you

I learn to accept the result and try to fix the strategy to get more profit. Look's not interesting what I learn but for me that's the value of trading. When we can accept the result, it will be easy to keep disciplines with our strategy. Meaning we will never panic to buy/ sell/ hold even the price go on the wrong place. Fix strategy is never make the same mistakes. From there, you'll understand always loss, mostly because make the same mistakes. Just like that and thank you very much.

exactly!
in time I have learned that all of these things are good, and you gain a lot of good information by looking at trend lines, etc and even doing some technical analysis. but at the same time it is not the most reliable thing to have when it comes to trading, specially trading altcoins.

the "news" is the biggest thing that can change the course of a cryptocurrency. not to mention how many pump and dumps take place in the altcoin market which is practically impossible to find and predict.

on one hand we have a lot of tools such as TA which are not 100% reliable. on the other hand we have a market that is manipulated which makes everything that much harder. and that is the most important thing I have learned.

Focusing on events ir more appliable to hodling then to day trading. I don't see much sence in the other types of trading in crypto rather than those two. In day trading you can easily apply all indicator to the chart and it will work fine unless nothing serious happened. The day trading is not that different from fores. It seems like speculations are the same everywhere.You can pick more volatile pair and set a higher leverage in forex to get the same amount of profit as in crypto day trading. Another thing is hodling, whis is what crypto famous for.

I have been trading not so long ago, but I have already mastered several basic rules. Patience is the main thing. As long as you are patient, you are successfull. You can trust only yourself. If you want to do well, do it yourself. Do not hurry. Everything comes in time to the one who can wait.

Being patient and waiting for the right buy-in price and for the right cash-out price is one of the major lessons that I've learned. I was never a very patient person and lost a lot of money because I jumped in too early into an investment, or couldn't wait any longer and sold it at a loss.

The feeling is mutual to you dude in trading industry you need a lot of patient why? Because the market is full of big whales the price can be change any time you need also to be calm in any problem that you encounter in trading and last do research always trust your self dont join in any pump and dump group because you never win by joining that group.

Your emotions are your biggest enemy in trading, be it cryptocurrency or traditional stocks. Usually, fear and anxiety kicks in whenever your position feels to be unsafe especially in unexpected crashes just like what happened in Dec 22, 2017. If you let your emotions get the better of you, most of the time it will result into actions and decisions that are made hastily and not thought out carefully. Also, gauging out the general sentiment of the market before taking a position is also vital in performing successful trades as you know what to expect in trading against other traders.

Never trust anyone who is involved in trading because most of the media channels will entice you to buy this coin and buy that coin and this can cause you to lose a lot of good profits. I've been involved in this and lost a lot of money but that's my most valuable lesson

I have learnt that patience is a huge criteria in trading.Being patient is the mos important if you have done your research.As Buffet says ''The Stock Market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient….''.You can see the importance of patience

My advice is to keep an eye on the Google trend graph for "bitcoin", "Ethereum", "Litecoin" etc.

Google trends tracks how many people are searching for those keywords, and when the graph spikes, there is usually a surge in price as well as these noobs invest. When google trends turns down, trading volume and price usually drop as well.

Google trends also shows which countries are doing the searching. Not all countries have cryptocurrency exchanges, so surges in the USA, Europe, Korea have more effect than surges in south america or africa.

The fact is that apart from patience, nothing more has to be done. If you look at the current state of things, you can be sure that the price of Bitcoin is very much delayed at $ 11,000. Many users invest in Bitcoin for $ 15,000, exactly when Bitcoin showed its maximum value when it grows from $ 20,000. If this continues, then there will be no patience.

Events and news is one thing,if you looking for the long term market,never take any nasty decisions and sell off your coins because then you wont be able to get back to the coins you sold unless you are following the market round the clock which is impossible or make a entry point hoping you could get in before the recovery.

If you have a big bag of a small coin good luck trying to exit all your coins because if you did at once you would smash the book right down. Sucks to be holding onto a lot of valuable coins you can't get rid of, truly awful feeling :-\.

Just nailed the point as patience is the most important aspect of trading and trader should never panic which we all tend to do when we are new to trading and the as trader one has to be more optimistic as there are ways to make the most when the value of a particular crypto currency drops as i have seen traders going through tough time but it's their patience and hardwork which makes them rich and successful.

Patience is a virtue, that is what you have to keep in your mind. And always trust no one but yourself. Trading needs a lot of knowledge and you have to always be informative when it comes to the pricing so you won't be losing any amount. Don't ever be listen to others about when to trade, you have to know it in yourself.

Yes as we need to be up to the date with all the global news and events about crypto coin if we need to be a good trader and also we need to have our own market research and then take facts and figures based on that research to see where we stand in understanding the crypto market and panic selling is the worst and last things a trader can do (even new traders do sell off the coins at lesser price when there is a dip).

Trading is not that easy so its great things if you learn how to have patience. I learned that trading with cryptocurrency really need patience becuase its very volatile but no matter what happen your target price will be hit on the right time, learn control emotion, study more about trading so you will be confident for every trading decision you will be made.

This is the most important thing to learn in trading. You must have a very big patience because if you or me is a short tempered trader. I bet you, we will lose constantly but if somehow we managed ourself. We will avoid this. Another thing i learn from trading is to never stop learning because if we don't learn from it. We can't be successfull and i always accept the fact that if i lose some of my investment. I won't mind it and just find another trading opportunity because it will only distract you.

I earned a lot making scalping or day trading but what you said it is very risky. Yes it is risky you must enter and exit at the right time or else you will lose your money. Sometimes I make day trading that turns to be a long term because of wrong timing on buying coins, instead of going up it goes down more. But sometimes day trading would make you profit easily.  ;D

Think always with your head and do not buy something according to other people's opinion. Perform technical analysis yourself

there is the big lesson:  forget how much money i earned and how much money i lost. keep a cool head and dont let them affect the next trading decisions.

I learned to be patient, dont let your emotion control the decision you have to make and dont trust easily in so many speculations. Its better to be updated in the news about cryptocurrency and balance the situation because only yourself can decide how your investment would be like as time passes.

Timing the market and so you dont missed the right time when to make profit with your holdings.

Over my short stint of trading full time, I'd say this has been the lesson you'd need to hold on. Timing is everything in these markets, that's why it's very difficult to do this full time and make it a profitable, even with bots. The guys who do this full time are simply talented.

Crypyocurrency trading is not easy as what we do in the real world because you must always updated with your altcoins and other than that when you want to enter the world of trading other than being intelligent you must also have patience because if you want to gain huge profit you must know how to hold before you trade it

New investors coming into the market when it’s hot.

They have no knowledge about the coin their investing in, they are just looking to make money - The sad thing is that the market is volatile and the veterans are making money from this swings.

People are greedy so although we encourage everyone to invest only a little portion of their investments, they go all in, in hopes of getting millionaires by night.

So as i was saying, the market goes up a little, they pride of their investments to friends - their friends don’t want to miss out so they buy in because of FOMO (Fear of missing out) - Then something happens, the veterans are taking some profits and the market percentage goes down (We call this correction).

It’s very hard for regular people to understand this phenomenon and they are being fed with news like “The Crypto Bubble is popping” - What do you do as an individual who invested all his life savings and watch shitty news which influence your emotions? - That’s right, you sell them to minimise the loss.

Do you know who is there to buy you out? - The veterans who sold their coins when the market was hot.

So you are left out of the market with a loss of maybe 20% of your investments and now you are spreading bad words about Crypto and Blockchain, that they are a ponzi scheme and so on - The problem is, people are very easily influenced and they will form a bad opinion of this new technology - That’s not very good.

It doesn’t make much sense while you trade both of them. The only physical difference that they have is decentralised network and centralised network. To be picky, I would say both work on the same principle of news, comments, happenings around the world and get affected with them.

We need to stay up to date with all the kinds of trades, no matter what is the nature of trades.

Speaking on the regulatory fronts, I have learnt very well that decentralisation could be pain in the ass whenever we see the artificial manipulation of the market. This thing can not happen in the centralised manner, where the whole thing actually depends on the world news and nothing else’s.

Trading just for me a good way to increase your btc and then i have to invest it in the major crypto for long run. i used to do short term trading with a specific amount of btc and then put the profit into some high potential crypto for long run. Although long term trading is more profitable and it is more safer than short, but you could have a lot of profit in doing short term though it can't be deny that is it too risky, it is just need to monitor it from time to time for you to avail the chance to earn big in it.

For me the very interesting that I have learned in my life is that I am able to manage my time and my money well, it also boost you to have your own techniques and strategies for you to earn more, as well as learning to overcome my fear of losing some of my money and the emotion whenever I am seeing the price goes down.

Cryptocurrency trading is very risks like others treated it. It is not easy at first but when you are ready into taking challenges you can come up with the difficulty and you can faced the reality. Like once in lose accept the fact and serve it as a lesson. Also we must have learned the patience and not too emotional in order for us to achieve of gaining profit.

I've learned so much in crypto that i think i will never learn in real life. This tested my patience most of all. I'm actually a fomo guy, but eventually i learned to do trading without emotion. Just setting your target price and stick with it.

That's the difference between crypto trading and forex. Crypto is more speculative and a couple of negative news and fuds can greatly affect how a certain coin moves. That's why more than technical analysis, i think it's more important to be aware of recent news and happenings in the crypto world for your own basis

I learned to be need patience its a key for trading and earning something. If u want to do some profit u need to wait for your profit