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Many many people say they are holding this, holding that for the "long term" but please tell me what exactly is your guys definition of "long term"?
For me, 1 year is considered long time. I began investing this January and I will hold one year and cash out everything January 2019. So by your definition, is this more short term or long term? Is 1 year enough time to see gains?  ???

I would consider it long term. Some of my trades literally only take 10 minutes if I get lucky. Yes, 1 year is plenty enough time to see gains. However, the cryptocurrency market has gone down by quite a bit every January for the last few years. So you may want to keep an eye out come December at the price of your coins and sell then.

One year is long term. And holding for long term is better than short term but not in all cases. You should research where your coin would be in one year. May be it can rise it between and drop again at the end of the year. So you should know what is good for your coins long term or short term.

What most people mean by "long term" is holding through ups and down until they get crazy profit like 10x-100x of initial investment. :D

Yes, for altcoin, you can consider 1 year is long term. I agree with that. If you are investing in a solid and promising coin, 1 year should be more than enough for the dev team to make something that could rise the coin value. It's usually about 6 months.

If you look at all, one year is really a lot to get at least a minimum profit. But everything depends on your portfolio and coins. Some even a year do not show what you expect from them and hope.

it depends on a lot of things.
mainly, what coin?
bitcoin is the only thing that i consider worthy of long term investment and long term in that context is 1 year or more. it can be 10 years too.
but altcoins i do not trust as long term. for them any long term is 1 month tops, nothing more.

also it depends on the strategy that you are using.
as a trader, long term hold means nothing. and in altcoin market if you hold, you lose. but if you trade daily and stay in each altcoin for a short time of their pump then you make a lot of profit.

It if's about BTC or ETH, I'm counting an year as a MID-term.

About alts, I'm counting an year as a long-term, and for some projects even very long-term. Most alts useful cycle is 3-9 months.

1 year has included long-term investment and for short-term investment may be 1 month - 3 months. Everybody has a different perception of this. However, I advise to avoid short-term investments, because the market is not yet normal and hold your assets, if necessary buy back to be a long-term investment.

I'd say medium.

Long term is holding indefinitely, until a opportunity comes to sell. For example, when the next pump cycle for bitcoin comes. Long term holding doesn't have to have a minimum amount of years, it's just that you're prepared for anything to happen before that selling opportunity.

1 year isn't short term, and isn't long term. Therefore, medium term investing should be the right term to use.

investing to hold for a year I think is too long but for people who are a lot of money does not matter, if I prefer 5 top altcoin to trade every day it can more quickly gain profit

I would reconsider setting january 2019 as a fixed date to sell your coins.  As a previous poster mentioned, the market seems to dip every year in January.

What i would do instead is set a value goal, once your coins are there you sell.  If this is in June 2018, so be it, sell, you've got what you want, is it December, fine as well.  It might as well be June 2019 though, that's something you need to keep in mind.

Setting a date might cause you to end up with a loss, break even or enormous profits.

Something to consider i'd say.

For me the investment is more than 6 months and above.. i'd say as long term investment. Which's obviously on my knowledge.. one investment or some investments, will bring us to a high profit if we're able to pick the right coins and can be examine some coins that are worthy adjusting to the holding period that we will do. Well anyway that's good enough for the long term, in 1 year it seems that it can providing a high chance to earn profit, especially holding Btc/Eth i think.

It's industry dependent and yes, here 1 year is a long term holding.

I think an year is a long term in most IT niches. For example, I'm coming from web development niche where FBA sites are selling for 24-36 months profit.

it is not a year long. long-term investment should be at least 2-3 years. it can be considered as a medium-term investment for 1 year.
a lot can change and develop in a year, but you have to pay attention to the coins you choose :)

If you try to hodl and not to trade on a daily basis, holding for a year is some kind of medium term I would say. There are people who hold their coins for years and they can be considered as long term hodlers.

In crypto, anything longer than 24 hours is a long-term, because of volatility and the fact that anything can change within a very short period and without a moments notice.

I would say 1 year is a VERY LONG TERM investment.

The long-term investment strategy I do is to buy coins at a low price and take back the investment fund and 10% profit, The rest of the coins minus profit 10% + capital is used as long-term investment.

I see, your strategy is to turn over short-term profits and reinvest capital elsewhere. Good Short-term -:- Long-term game if everything goes according to plan always. 10% is surely more than enough for a short-term investment, and even most banks don't such within a year.

Predictions are always made in optimism, as to the height a currency would attain, which is why most people engage in holding a coin for future profit. It should also be known that holding a coin is not a guaranteed success, as the market may take a turn from your anticipated range. Holding for a year is therefore, considered as a long term.

Everyone has their own perspective. I would say 1 year is very short-term. You are likely to see gains, but nowhere near as much as if you held for longer.
From a traders perspective though, even a few hours can seem long-term :)

1 year is usually short term for traditional markets but crypto currency markets are too immature, it has only 10 years of history. So holding 1 year in crypto currency market count as long term investment. Everything is changing too quickly here.

I think it will probably say a long term,on those 12 months running expect many things happen in the price value of btc.Pumps and downs but holding is still the end of your money ,I think on the end you holdings became more profitable because of flactuating.

It will depend on the coin that you are holding like for example for bitcoin that it took a lot of years to achieve that kind of price which is 10k plus dollars and potentially go even further than its own former price which almost 1 dollars each, some coins these days have a short lifespan on the market due to some factors and circumstances so 1 year of holding is enough to be considered as a long-term investment and some of them can survive like bitcoin did so it will took many years to see a promising results.

I'd say it's long term in terms of crypto. In the stock market, 1 year is nothing, but in crypto, it's considered a very long time because the crypto industry is in its infancy. I'd basically consider anything over 6 months fairly long term

6 months for new projects is enough to see what they are capable of. There are a lot of examples that the coin after 4 months has already seemed to the maximum value of the price.

Answering your last question even one day sometimes is enough to see gains, you could just buy some alts for 0.01 and sell them for 0.30 after one day, imagine that you bought a 1000 of them... So longterm is defined individually

It is definetely long term, I think short term can be defined even as less than 1-2 months. As this market changes very fast, 1 year is definetely very long term for me.

where will your funds be invested?
Bitcoin or Altcoin are equally profitable, but should always monitor the development of the market and News about cryptocurrency. longterm 1 year is enough for longterm, but must buy at the lowest price like these months and sell at the highest price.

That's long term my friend. I may not be an expert in crypto entirely but a friend told me just hodl for 6 mons at least. Coins usually pump within that cycle. As for me I hold good coins only but I trade them too. More profits at the same time.

I think holding for one year is very short term. I have hold the bitcoin, litecoin for more than 5 years.

But there's a big problem with that. You see, holding indefinitely is like losing everything. Why? Because one never really cashes the thing out and enjoys it! And your statement involves a contradiction, since 'indefinitely' doesn't have sell opportunity. Oh, and what to consider the right time to sell? You said it's the next bitcoin pump. What if it comes in a month? That won't be a long-term investment at all. And what kind of pump is considered to be sufficient? Is it btc at the price of $25k, $50k, $100k or even more? That's why I think that it's best to decide in advance the desired price and sell the coin when it reaches it without caring about its further ups or downs. The limit has to be set on price as well as the maximum time of holding, because burying your funds with you is a useless thing to do.

More than 1 year is always an long term investment because if you find potential coin it is always good to hold long term in order to make good profit on the investment you make.

Yes a 1 year is already enough for a long term. Its enough to see whether you gain a lot or lose your investment. A promising coin with good project will surely make a pump within a year. Anyway what is your target gain? 2x ? 5x ? 10x of your investment ? or you only want to cashout at exactly 1 year?

Best answer for now, in your intro. But this is not really an excuse for crypto. Otherwise you can say there is no such thing as long term in crypto because it has to prove himself. That's not true either, because to have faith and belief in a project beyond what you know or even beyond the lifespan of yourself, that is long term. Sorry but 1 year is not long term in crypto, it never was and never will be. Even ICOs roadmaps are longer than 1 year, what more Bitcoin and other reputable coins.

I shudder to think of devs who see 1 year as long term.

1 year hold would be considered as long term which i do have the same target when it comes into altcoin holding which i do decide to keep it atleast for 1 year or more which most of the time i do see gains on what im holding.It might not applicable or possible on all coins but high chance on getting profits compared into its price a year before it might not be a guaranteed profits yet there are the best time on securing profit once coins price had pumped out.

I think if you are referring to crypto markets then yes holding for one year is considered long term but at the same time it also depends on the performance of the project and team you are investing, some coins do not yoeld expected returns even afer a year but some may easily go above ten folds.

For me it is slightly different and that is any coin I am hodling above 6 months is considered long term for me. Most of my holds are long term, there has only been a handful of coins I have picked up for the short term and most of those ended in a spectacular failure.

In terms of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service any asset held for over one year (1 yr) is considered Long Term. All Short Term assets are taxed at a higher rate than Long Term assets. See IRS Publication 544, "Sales and Other Dispositions of Assets". My suspicion is that the Financial Industrial Complex ie ... Wall Street, uses the term in the context of IRS specifications.

I consider it long term too and I think if the coin is good you'll definitely see gains after a year. An example of this would be NEO, I don't have NEO on my port but I very active on crypto when it started so I have a little background of it. A friend bought at the rate of $30 to $40 something last year then NEO dropped to less than $30 after that, when NEO rise again he sold it. After a couple of months look at NEO now, I was surprised to see it trading at $100 rate which is really a great gain after just a few months.

Be sure that the coin you are investing is really good so you'll gain profit after a year.

I consider this long-term, I trade my coins when they hit my profit level at three months at the most, majority of the coins has their pump level at three to four months period and when they are performing well at the 5 months period I sell some of it, and wait for the time I break even.

As per definition in the investopedia the long-term investments are those that exceed the 1 year above, so it's safe to say that 1 year holding of coins is considered a short term investments we could only consider it as long-term if we hold for about to 2 years above.

One year is enough to considered a long term in holding a specific altcoins or coins. One year is too long in holding a altcoin that has a long term profit. Bitcoin and etherium is a example for a long term profits and for a long term investments. Holding this coins will definitely gives you a high gained in profits when there value goes up.

1 year is long term for crypto market. So many things can be changed in 1 year. Ethereum went from 10 USD to 1500 USD in 1 year.
Exactly one year hold is not a good idea though. We don't know what will happen in January 2019. Maybe we see ATH prices in December or February. Don't limit yourself.

One year of holding a coin is enough to say it's a long term. Example of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin that crypto coin is have a great potential to growth and this is for long term investment.

Long-term investment are considered when you have over 1-year holding assets but for me, 1 year is very short time to hold an asset in terms of stocks and mutual funds. But for other investment like this bitcoin/cryptocurrencies 3 years is the limit. Also long-term doesn't mean for years exactly. It means that you invest your money and wait for it to double or triple its amount. So wait for you tokens or coins to double in an investment

I think that in 2018 you should plan long-term investment in good projects and breakthrough ideas. New projects are going through the ICO process with quite a few great ideas that you can follow on the forum. Investing in long-term and supporting your favorite projects instead of short-term trading is risky if you are not a good trader.

Depends on a coins you bet mate,and very important investment amount as well.You cant predict anything on crypto market,cuzz non stable,but if made proper research on the coin youv got,and your good with them,just stick and wait.in 2017 few coins made x 50+ without any serious reason.If your not a trader,just gamble

In US, for tax purposes, holding more than 1 year is considered long-term. Other than that, when used
casually in discussion on these boards, it could vary from person to person. Someone's long term of
3 months is another person's short term.

Generally it depends on how young you are. The younger you are the longer it will be. 20 year old investor's long term may vary  between 5 and 50 years.

In banking or financial operations of borrowing and investing, what is considered long-term is usually above 3 years, with medium-term usually between 1 and 3 years and short-term usually under 1 year. It is also used in some countries to indicate a fixed term investment such as a term deposit.
It might also applies for cryptocurrency investment but a lot of crypto investors and holders consider 1 year as a long term, it might due to rapid fluctuation and high volatility of the coins.

For me 1 year of holding  a coin is  shorterm because for me the meaning of longterm is  few years or means 2 years and up.  But for sure we have different meanings of shorterm or longterm.  But if you want to earn more profit better if you hold your coins for few years or for longterm why?  Because if you do that you cn wait the price to increase very high and for sure if that happen you will earn a lot of profit.

Short term. Yes yes.. I know in crypto a single day is equivalent to ten years in the traditional markets, but the reality is that if you're looking for a good, long-term return, then holding for years is the best way to go. Look at the roadmaps of most projects, they're based on 2-3 years in the future before they achieve their main goals. If you really are trying to find the "next Google" which is probably the reason you got into crypto investing in the first place, then you should hodl for years.

for 1 year that's long term to me and the 1 month to 3 months that's I considered short term, so if you hold the coin for 1 year I think its enough time to make profit.

It would be long term for me. I am more of a short term trader so holding a coin for one year would be long term. You might want to monitor your coin holdings from time to time and take some profits if it pumps and then buy when it goes lower so that you would be able to take opportunity of the swings. You don't necessarily have to monitor the charts all the time but if you can see that double in price and there is possibility it would go down then you can sell it and buy lower so you can have more stash and more profit.

yes, Holding one year is a long term investment. It is like depositing money into a bank for interest arising at a term of 1.3 years. Short term matching trader. They have the experience and intuition to hold or sell.

Holding for one year is really considered as long term but you have to expect of profit. Because holding this for long term is a serious matter your having an extra effort to save coin in your wallet. So you must check if a coin is worth it after all of hodling coins.

I would generally consider one year to be medium term and 2+ years long term but some projects have faster development/roadmaps

For me, it depends on coins. If it related with BTC or top 10 coins, it would be the short-term investment since it would optimize, make the change and make the world better since its decentralization. If it related with new ICO projects, it would be a long-term period, no one can predict it can still exist in the next year.

Yes, one year is also considered as a long term HODL.
I'm sure there are a lot of happening in this 12 months term. In the mean time you can really see the progression of your coin.
You can enjoy a little profit by selling it when you think the price is good in the midway. Otherwise, dont care about that and stright to end of year selling or continue to next year HODL.

One year in Crypto is a long term, because things happen very fast in the space, only few projects have sustain their marketcap in a year talkless of moving higher on the marketcap rank. I still think most of these projects would failed and there is no need to over commit on mostof these projects

If we say short time of holding this will refers to months. You invest token now, then few moths from now you sell all of your token. This is what short time holding is. Long term holding is not like short time. Long term refers to years to count before you decide to sell your token. If you have already 12 months experienced of holding your token, then it will be  consider as long term holding. You hold your token to wait patiently to meet the price of your token that you have desired. This is what long term holding. Short term and long term is risky, so watch.

i consider that as a long term investment, if you say “short term” it goes like a day trade or weekly trading, if you hold a coin for the whole year, it called long term investment, but it doesnt mean your holding a coin for the whole year you automatically gain profit, NO way that can happen because it all depends on what coin you invest, and depending on the investors that supports that specific coin. be sure to choose where to invest ant what coin to invest.

The price goes down in january is like habit which will always happen if trader or holder think the same about what will happen in january.
Its not about news or technical but mostly about believe with experience.
If more and more trader have the same experience several time about price drop in january, so more and more trader will do the same every year which is selling their coin every january and its followed by other and you will know what happen. Price crash more than what we think.

I also consider it as long term investment. When it comes to crypto investments people cannot even stay in same coin for 5 straight days. Short tern trading is generally told to people who do daily trades.

1 year in most of the coins is long term but some of them like BTC, ETH and etc. are considered as mid term. In some cases long term is good because your coins can grow big, but you need to keep track on them so you can know when is the best time to sell or how much time you need to hold them.

1 year in cryptocurrency is very much long term. Bitcoin was only first introduced 8-9 years ago so 1 year is a large time span in crypto markets. Short term for me would be anything less than a month, even that I would consider to be somewhat medium term. Perhaps less than a week is more accurate to me

In my view, holding cryptos for 6 months or more is a long-term investment. Few people have enough patience to invest in long-term to make a profit. Most people when the exchange rate x2 will immediately sell, not wait and hold to earn big benefits in the long term.

all the investment more than six month are long term , It may attract quick profits from trading and short-term investment , But long-term investment are more profitable .

In accounting a 1 year is just a short term but based on my observation i think 1 year holding in cryptocurrency should be considered as long term because there's a significant change that could happen in that span of time.

I think one year is not a short time for an investment. In my opinion, one year is an enough period to see the economical situation. But on the other hand, I think ethereum, bitcoin and many other coins have really good potentials to make bigger surprises by their new top prices. So, I think long term investments can bring really good earnings.

Some people would say one year is considered as a short term investment and some says it is considered as a long term but for me i considered it as a long term because when i was very new here most of the time i convert my coins in a couple of months or even in a week and now i am trying to invest my coins like my bitcoin ang ethereum for a year or more than that because i see my future that these coins will make me rich.

Personally, I would say, long term is when the coin have increased at least 10 times my initial investment, regardless of how long it takes. It can be 10 minutes, or 10 years.

1 year for me is already a long term investment, because i can see investors doing weekly trading where in they trade when ever they see a profit and they are keeping track in their investment daily.

A year is a long time. Long-term holding is better than short-term.

That means you invest your money and wait for it to double or triple.

Yes hodling for 1 year is considered a long term investment, that is like 10 years in crypto land.

Well actually I also do trading using bitcoin. Because I believe to the potential of this coin. And in terms of holding, I think 1 year is too long for an investment. Because I already tried it that I invest a small amount in BTC but still I have my profit even if after a week. So its means if you hold it for 1year you will gain more and bigger that holding it for a short term.

For some coins, and half a year is enough for lifting. And some five years is not enough to develop, although for me it is better not to pay attention to such projects. If during any year there are no significant changes in the price, then it is worth selling such a coin and yes it's a long time.

one year depends on the coin.
For me, one year can be considered long term.
However, all coins have their expected value, and how far they will grow, and I am happy to hold on until they reach my expectation.

From my point of view, holding 1 year would be a long term investment and less than half year would be a shot term investment for me. When you hold your coins for more than one year, you should consider it carefully and make sure coin is worth it rather than changing another coin for short term investment.

 as for me it's a short term

Short term is 1 week max, mid is 1-3 months and long more than 3+ months  ;D

Its long term. I think only few people can hold that long. Me personally i admit that i can't hold any coin for a long. I always sell my coins if it reach my desired price.

That all dependes in what stage project you invest in for example if you buy in durring the ico stage one year hodl doesnt really seems long because if that project is any good there is long road ahead since most of tech used in coins is new and requieres long period of testing before implantation,just look at btc still no lighting network

Does holding for 1 year be considered short or long term? I think it's included long term, because to hold for a year it's just a long time so I can say it's long-term, I myself only hold the coin for only one month.

It's a long term invest my friend!
Short term refers to investing to businesses with as short  period of time, considered from days to few months only, while looking where to invest your money in a longer period of investment usually for a year or years...

Generally one Year is mid term but it really depends on your targets. I.E. I consider one Year short term cause in finance long term is generally related to 5-10 years giving back 100x or more.

For me long terms it's the one that lasts for several months. But everybody define it differently. One year is 100% long term and can give you huge profit but it depends about coin

long term, normally most coins i hodl for 1 year make good hodl return like qtum https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/qtum/usd

According to me if you hold for 1 year then you will get success/huge profit i think. And yeas holding for 1 year considered log term as well. So it's true that, holding for 1 year considered such a log term

Long term definetelly . shortterm means you hold and sell it imidiatelly when price was up or you want cut loss in market.and and and long term it was you hold it for very long time and keep holding your aset when it was goes up to down .

Im preffer to be active in market . ann thread of that coin you invest . so you can take advantage of market price "  or also the opposite you can aware with price of coin you invested.

For me holding a certain coin for about a year would be considered as long term because that's like a long time for you to hold a certain coin. Short term to me is like day trading or the longest would probably be a week or so.And I very much prefer holding long term than short term by the way.

I can hodl BTC or Eth for a year or even more, as they have credible and stable 'volatility' so far proven by their years of existence. But for other coins, I would prefer to trade on the go.

There are very strong projects that will bring maximum profit in 3-5 years. We must be steadfast and not tempted to sell them at a time when the price has risen very high. I think that such coins are Bitcoin, ETH, Monero, NEO, NEM. For other coins 1 year is a long time.

Some Coins from top 20 marketcap and some coins that is really good and perspective, I can hold for a long term.

Holding it within a year is already a long term investment for me, but you must pay attention in the changes in the market if you really want a better profit because in a year a lot of changes happens, it will drastically fall or rise. Before investing long term be sure that you will have a target in mind on what would you want to gain because like what I've said  many things happen within a year. Just analyze the situations that will be happening to gain a lot of profit.

It probably sounds more like short term as I remember hearing many people buy ethereum back in day and held like 3 years or something. But I.. don't surely know. I never hold more than 2 months..

Storage 1 year long enough but see coins that can be in the long journey. Because there is a coin up and down not up to a year sometimes several months have gone up and down again. If too long hold the fear down again. fix short-term but smooth deficiencies.

Long-term definitely. If you try to compare crypto to traditional markets it's opened 3 times longer, like 24/7 and that's also why it moves much faster.

Agreed. This market isn't Wall Street with only a working time of 8 hours a day. Transactions take place 24/7 and weekends as well. You might see a short term return in like 10-15 minutes in this market. One year is even more than lon-term. I would say, for crypto market, even 6 months can be considered long-term...

One can use shorting to trade during those all time highs. Sell at high and buy back once it dips. Cryptos never stay projected at an upward level. At some point they could come down. This would be opportunity to re-buy at lower prices increasing the stash of the coin and making profits alongside.

Short-term or Long-term is relative, for an individual willing to invest in an ICO and liquidate to invest in a real life project within the period of 4months might consider 1 year a long-term and vice versa.