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Trading or HODL

The goal of most investors generally is to buy low and sell high. This can result in two quite different approaches to equity investing.

One approach is described as "trading." Trading involves following the short-term price fluctuations of different stocks closely and then trying to buy low and sell high. Traders usually decide ahead of time the percentage increase they're looking for before you sell (or decrease before they buy).

While trading has tremendous potential for immediate rewards, it also involves a fair share of risk because a stock may not recover from a downswing within the time frame you'd like—and may in fact drop further in price. In addition, frequent trading can be expensive, since every time you buy and sell, you may pay broker's fees for the transaction.

Be aware that trading should not be confused with "day trading," which is the rapid buying and selling of stock to capitalize on small price changes. Day trading can be extremely risky, especially if you attempt to day trade using borrowed money. Individual investors frequently lose money by trying to use this approach.

A very different investing strategy—called buy-and-hold—involves keeping an investment over an extended period, anticipating that the price will rise over time. While buy-and-hold reduces the money you pay in transaction fees and short-term capital gains taxes, it requires patience and careful decision-making. As a buy-and-hold investor, you generally choose tokens based on a company's long-term business prospects. Increases in the coin price over years tend to be based less on the volatile nature of the market's changing demands and more on what's known as the company's fundamentals, such as its earnings and sales, the expertise and vision of its management.

Such a strategy can be super profitable. Here are some examples:
  Spectrecoin  +48228%
  Neo  +90450%
  Ethereum  +95390%
  IOTA  +105505%
  NXT  +391776%
(data for the end of 2017)

And how do you think, share your views on the pros and cons of trading and long-term hold in the comments.

Holding definitely pay,  but if you know TA it's really a plus to it, as you gonna know when to opt out of your trade

If you are not a exceptional trader who makes lots of money by trading, holding is always better than trading in terms of profit, these examples prove that, it is impossible to make these gains by trading.

This happend. You wont go back and buy etherum that low. Not all of coins do like that. Thats why when you invest and decide to hodl forever you risk more than daytrading. You risk all campital invested. Beacuse wrongly chose coin can turn out scam coin with no product. Many of coins never recover to ICO price. You cant show us 5 biggerst gainers from ICO to Now and tell us hodling is better. Chance to invest in 5 best is like in lottery.

Daytraders choose high volume coins with high variability. They jump into coin, set stoplos, grab even 0,5% profit and jump to other coin or the same 5 min after. They risk small % (when trade is not going well they cut looses to jump and earn istead of making it worst) of investment each trade. If trades are not profitable (summary of all) they can alwais stop, change strategy or stop at all (for example when my wallet will drop 10% after week of trading i give up and put everything into bitcoin)

That makes hodling riskier than daytrading.

Is it more profitable? For those who chose good coins it can be. For those who didnt for sure not. Hodler make 1 decission. When its wrong all capital is lost. Daytrader makes dozen of decision each day. And each decision gives him -1% - + 5% (depends on trader).

Current hodler (who buy today) will get totaly different gains that hodler who buy years ago. Is something jump 1000 times in few years it can jump 1000 times in next few or drop half of it or even all. You can't say hodling was better since now so since next few years it will too.

Those examples shows that it was better to hodl from 2012 to 2018. But it will never show that it is better to hodl from now to 2024.

Personaly i hold bitcoin. Daytrade it to increase its amount (with success) and also invest into altcoin deeps for 1-3 months grabing 10-200% gains. I think thats the safest way in todays market. I think that bitcoin price will remin stable for next few months (6-10k)

I'm definitly not person who read whitepaper and say - thats great project. Ill invest my money and hodl for years. Beacuse i know that whitepaper is just document with words that can be written and none of statement there will be delivered. I know that team can be faked. I know that currencies can be hacked (like verge). I know that product can not be delivered. I know that other project that is not on market yet can deliver the same product earlier or can jump on market with higher (payed) hype.

Take a look at Historical Snapshots from 2013 year. You will find many coins thats price is higher then today. Hodler that invest in them in 2013 lost. INVESTING IN CRYPTO IN 2013. When marketcap was dozen times smaller.


Accoring to wikipedia NXT was created without announcing any ICO (Initial coin offering) with total 1,000,000,000 coins amount. On 28 September 2013 Bitcointalk.org member BCNext created a forum thread announcing the proposed launch of Nxt as a second generation cryptocurrency and asking for small bitcoin donations to determine how to distribute the initial stake. On 18 November 2013 fundraising for Nxt was closed.[6] The genesis block was published on 24 November 2013.

That kind of risk you had to take to gain 390 000%. 1 coin for half satoshi from guy from forum who wrote - send me some bitcoins ill send you some coins. That was in 2013. When cryptocurrency investor was here only for technology. Visioners. And now in 2018 you are posting NXT as na example to proof that hodling is better.

holding a coin for the long term requires positive information for the foreseeable future, holding a coin has a high risk if we do not read a valid news source, but to five coins of your choice it has good prospects

Trading is definitely lucrative if you can catch the market movement accurately.

For inexperienced trader, it is better to choose the holding option to avoid making the wrong trading decision.

Yes, long-term investment gives you a better chance of not losing money than intraday trading.

Trading is good for the market manipulation who ever involved in the trading field mate. But personally I wish to hold the Bitcoin and alts I have with me bro. Then if I am saving means I don't have the fund on exchanges mate.
Only I used to go with the real time wallet which is dedicated for the coins mate.
Mostly private key secured wallet would be a good one.

i am team hold i always buy coins and saved for long term i like it because it is safer and more profitable when compared to the daily trading this is very risky, i just prefer it for long term

Holding is a good virtue, Hold is gold " We all know about these two sentences. But sometimes you will regret by holding your coins. All coins are not good and even you don't know which coin will give you good profits, right? I agree with your example, But NEO, ETH, IOTA Was a truly a good coin and their product seems very promising that's why many people hold those coins. But if you hold low-value coin then you will not make profits. So, trading is better than Holding in some term and Holding is better than Trade for specific people. But Both together is great.

When it comes to risk then you are correct simply holding for long term would really somehow give you the chance to make profits without worrying too much on the price on daily basis since you are holding for longer time then you are expecting profits for more months or years but there are people who do loves to risk out and do short trades which is indeed can make you money more than or compared on just holding it up.

Investors live on market many years but trades usually do not survive. It is not my opinion it is a fact. Even professional traders and funds sometimes go bankrupt. I consider that trading is a bad idea to trade. Anyway you may try to figure out everything yourself  but you should understand that traders are usually professionals and what is your advantage to overplay them?

for short term trading i think should have trading skills. they must have high analysis, mental, and discipline, because trading like this has more risks. but different from long-term trading where we do not need much time each day to see the chart, and i think it's easier to analyze it

According to me you should try buy & hold. Nowadays bitcoin price getting low & it's easy to buy while price increase then sell it & earn huge profit so, I suggested to you buy & hold.

The market has been losing ground after a bitcoin fell sharply to $ 7200. According to my analysis you need to be very careful when trading at this time, bitcoin prices are showing signs of strong convergence and will be able to continue strong fluctuations in the coming time. You need to have a specific trading plan and always be willing to stop losses as needed.

Actually if you go for holdings you can have profit with unpredicted one. And when you go for trading you can have profit with your own decision that the value will be higher than expected.
So both of the two will be preferable and it would be based on how you do so on your mind set.

If you are not a professional trader or you dont want to trade then its better to do the buy and hold strategy.

The pros of trading is faster profit while the cons is more risky.

The pros of long term is less risky than trading and the cons is it will be longer for you to get your profit.

In my case, I use two strategies together. Buy and hold in case of bad market conditions like this, and when the market is good, make profits through split sales at the appropriate target price.

Trading or hold depending on the which price that want to buy  and how big the marketcap of that coin.  We should use fundamental analysis when  decide to hold any coins,  and always use technical analysis  for short trading. We have doing both because is hard to predict the price of each coin.

Trading is the best choice at this moment, you can see that the market is constantly fluctuating and unpredictable, the price of bitcoin and altcoin are constantly adjusting. Due to the sharp drop in the price of bitcoin, altcoin prices have been steadily declining in recent days, so I think that at this time you should be in a position to reduce the risk.

I believed buy and hold of crypto currency which some called investing is the old fashion way of making profit through cryptocurrency while trading require some strategy and chart reading. However, I don't believe in the XSPEC and NXT posted by the OP.

Trading is knife with two edges. As long as you know what are you are doing, it could be a very good strategy to multiply BTC. However, you need to investigate carefully the alt in which you are entering. Timing is essential - buy at the dip not at the peak is a must. Last but not least you need to convert your profit, not to wait too much because you could get greedy and the coin may return to the original state and never come back. The truth is you need experience which will you have with time.

I prefer to always trade than I just keep the coins I have if you just keep or hold the coin it will be difficult to make a profit. better daily trading although the benefits you get little by little can be a lot.

I would say . .

Trading of sleeted coins is best when it comes to the short trades. For example, I have made nice profits from teh coins like XRP, TRX, ADA etc as they are cheap one and I can buy as much as I want them. This gives me more profits when they move upwards and definitely these coins have huge swings along the way to profit you nicely.

HODL on the other hand is best fit for those who are here since very long time now, for example, NEO, BTC, ETH, LTC. They are bold and they just need time to get more valuation per coin.

With a market that is turning east and hard to rock as you are now, you can see that bitcoins are constantly decreasing in recent days. Because I think this moment is not appropriate to hold, but this time you should trade short, surfing short. The market is constantly changing trade needs to be very careful and always observe the fluctuations of bitcoin.

Take a look at to the coins since 2016 till now , most of them has been multipled , the thing is in that time it was just beginning , like DOT com companies , Many of these altcoins would vanish in future , Holding could be a good idea if you are holding good coins or tokens ,I don't expect that sharp percentages like 2016 _ 2017 , But still there is potential in many of them .

I think, that holding is good, but it takes a lot of time. Also you need to find really good project, which is really perspective. It`s hard but if you found one - profits are provided. For example - TraceTo. It`s a decentralized KYC network, which uses technologies such as SmartContract and AI to verify. I suppose, that it really good chance to earn money, cause systems like this are in deficit, so TraceTo will be in demand.

This is depend on the your duration to make profit, if you want to make montly profit so then you have to do short or swing trading, but if you want to make speculation and want to make profit yearly so hold will be the best choice because not need consuming much times for that, just buy and forget it in a years.

If you don't have the knowledge or time for trading, you're better of with hodling.
Trading isn't for everyone. You really need to know the market and anticipate what's going to happen.
If you invest in top10 coins and wait you have a very big chance of making money after some time.

Today, you think it is easy to believe in ethereum or neo and buy and hodl them but when they are just existed, it is not that easy to believe in those projects and so hodl for years.

Personally I just HODL all my assets. Sell them now is not smart decision. Because according to TA (and I believe it) in this year we will see only flat of whole market. But absolutely sure that the market will reach new records next year. That's why we must be patient and don't sell now in red market.

Easier said than done. Eventually the far majority of the coins, and especially tokens, will become obsolete and redundant. ICO tokens are purely hype driven at the moment, and for that reason it's a horrible long term investment. If you also take into consideration that governments are somewhat trying to crack down on the free market aspect of them, then it's even less of an interesting investment.

Ethereum is what people consider to be a good coin (one of the best available, people say), but this 'good' coin needs to find another use and purpose aside from ICO's. If ICO's remain Ethereum's main value and use generator, I honestly don't see it end that well in the forthcoming years.

My personal favorite coin aside from Bitcoin is Monero due to its privacy features, but I am realistic enough to know that while it fundamentally is a groundbreaking coin, it isn't a good long term investment due to regulators likely going to hit all privacy focused coins real hard.

Bitcoin is the only coin that offers stability. Altcoins can't offer that, regardless of their technical engineering.

This entirely depends on the person. If you don’t have funds to invest for long term and are interested in short term gains ten you can opt for trading. But a person needs to have a full knowledge about the market trends and an ability to carefully analyze the technical graphs and charts. I think holding is a better option as you just have to buy some coins, keep them for some months or until they rise in value.

Buy and hold for long term is for the people that want to invest but don't know how to trade, or for the people that don't have time to keep on watching the chart, trading can be very profitable but it consume a lot of time to do the analysis and collecting the information, and also the market is very unpredictable, so trading is only for people that already gor basic and want to dedicate the time to make money from trading

if I choose to trade, karen if trading we can know a day can get any profit as long as we want to trade with really and also if we have a busy trading for day to day.

Every person decided for himself whether he or she needs to buy or to hold. I think that it is better to hold than to trade regularly, however, everyone should set his or her own goals and decide whether he has enough skills and time for daily trading

Trading vs Buy and Hold depends on the crypto. For me I split my investment to trading when it is good for day trade and Buy and Hold if the crypto is potential for long term.

Just hold it and leave it. Put a time period as your target. For example 1 year. Try not to look up the price for such period of time.

Tricky question...some times holding will be good option.especially top 20 coins

Trading is good enough for me, but i prefer to hold because it is much more profitable in a mid - long term, if you know what i mean.. Holding can give you much more profits than just trying to make a few percent of profit per pair.

I think these all options are good but the main thing is how to do if you do this with proper understanding and good knowledge and with good training then you have a good skill of trading and you are a good market understanding trader and have the skill to choose the best option in according to the market position because the market situation is the main thing to understand other things comes next.

If you can’t hold it mean you have not patience and for being a trader you must have patience only then you can earn good amount of profit, I think now a day price is not really high so buy and hold not the perfect time to sell mate, holding with patience can give you more profit specially in trading you will have to hold for long term trading, because I have notice you have very small patience so don’t go for day trading.

Basically in gaining more profit we should aim for better holding terms, and the plans should be long term as most of people did. Lets grab the opportunity while price still at lower value, then you'll be surprised when it reached higher price so you could take the profit you ever dreamed of. Hold after the buying period and remain on your principles.

I believe that abnj should not invest long term at this point, you can see that bitcoin prices are continuously decreasing in recent days. According to my analysis, bitcoin prices will be able to continue to fall deeply in the long run because prices Bitcoin is in a bear market for long term. Therefore, long-term investment at this time will be very high risk.

of course more profitable trading because with trading quickly you can get very much different profits by buying after it hold back, it seems it can be uncertain what you hold can provide benefits.

But not all investment can give you a good profit because sometimes the coin that you invest is not good and posiboe that you lose your money if the price get dump, so my point is it's depend the person what knowledge they have if they good in trading or in investment. Anyways, for me i want to choose buy and hodl my token 'cause i have no skill and knowledge to trade my coin that's why holding is my choice and i choose the top 10 coin that can give me a profit.

sometimes with a concept like that always holding the coin for long term it is very unfortunate, because basically if we take the gap there sometimes more profitable.

Yes trading is profitable but of course it will depend on how you play the market and sometimes you will still incur actual loss, while in investing you can only have paper loss. I actually do both because I still want to become active in cryptomarket while I'm holding great coins like bitcoin. If you can really do both much better since you can have active profit and security in the future.

Hence, I believe the active user will get the best returns as in many cases people believe that holding means buying a perfect coin and leaving it for few months but you should also note the development of the coin as if company is stuck with some issues it might take more time than usual for your money to grow. There is no doubt that trading involves more risk than buying and holding a coin but if you want to taste more profit you need to take more risk, never the less both trading and holding involves risk. So, it depends upon user to user how much they can take risk in a particular field.

My strategy is to use 60% to hold altcoins (trx, ada) and 40% to trading bitcoin or others altcoin. That way I can add ammunition for holding coins. Nb: If I don't failed in trading.

I would say that trading is more profitable vs. Buy and hold because you can get easily more profits in trading if your technical analysis is good while buy and hold helps you better profit ahead but it takes a months of year the difference.

Nope I think trading can also be profitable more than holding back. if you already have much experience about bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets. maybe you can get daily profit from daytrading and surely it will benefit you more? holding for a certain time will only give you one profit only but trading can give profit many times

well, I also think like that. most likely more trading has the potential to make us earn substantial profits. well, just for now, I prefer to buy, and hold back. although the mountains are not so large, I think that it is a good option to reduce risk.

I think there is no difference between buying and holding until when the value appreciate before you sell and trading whether for short period of time or long period of time as all is trading. And The issue of investors buying low and low with the intention of sell high is the only thing rational thing that every investors has to do.

For people who do not understand more about trading in that way they can do trading. they can benefit by holding the token or coin they want.

That's really not the best advice. Although, you're correct about the holding strategy but he/she still have to check the best sometime incase any better chance arise and I don't support setting a timespan either due to the volatility of crypto currency.

Well all are profitable as long as you know how it works.
Trading, Buying and Holding have risks that you may either lose it all of gain huge.
In my own opinion, people engage in Trading are more prone to loses than buying and holding.
Significantly, Trading needs a lot of work and analysis for you to engage in it continuously. The fact that the market is extremely volatile, there is much higher possibility that you can lose more than gaining if you don't have the knowledge, proper decision making.
While Holding and Buying are inseparable.
I say trading can give you money in short or in long term but with cautious. Buying is a bit seasonal and holding is everyone's' favorite but still holding is more effective in long term basis.

It takes the right skills and timing to win by a day trading, of course, people do it to earn profit but losses sometimes are unavoidable given by the fact that the market is unstable and unpredictable expect to lose and win at the same time, while for holding the only major risk is that when you are holding worthless crypto then you probably want to rethink and save your capital and time.

You just pointed out super profitable holding but what about unprofitable. Many exchange-listed coins in 2017 traded below ICO price.

yes maybe for the coin, but will all the coins experience the same thing? I do not think so, so if you decide to buy a coin and hold it for a long time I think you are also making a bet for it, so I think daily and long-term trading, has the same risk.

Trading and holding both are profitable but trading is more risky than holding also more profitable than holding.As trading is quite risky so if you you have very proper knowledge about trading and also good experience of it then i recommend you to do trading neither never do it beacause you can loss your all currncy.so trading needsgood knowledge and also experience.
In other way holding don't need any type of experience you have to need just good knowledge about coins and it's also less risky than trading. So it's depends on you that which one you choose from these both.

In my opinion now better buy and HODL TOP 20 coins. Not buy temporarily ICO tokens, because them price very strong less after ICO.

For me trading is more profitable but it is more riskier, specially if you do not know what you are doing.  There is a lot of money that can be made when you know how to trade.

Buy and hold will still give you a lot of money if the coins that you are holding is the right one and it is also less riskier.

It will also depend on your time. Reading and studying the chart of the coins is also time consuming so if you do not have a lo of time Buy and hold could be the better strategy for you.

Holding a quality coin for long term naturally keep the pressure off you. You will see trade and project or idea behind any coin for exactly what they are. And if your coin is quality coin, it will grow in value naturally!

Trading method it should be risky if your not totally professional trader person,,compared buy and hold, although both of them will risk but if  buy and hold should be minimal your  risk ,but reminder (buy and hold coin well depend upon to kind of your coin if have profitable or not in the future,

You are right budy,
Day trading is very risky.
We need to focus on notice the market.
But holding is hurted.
For me my  self, i can't hold for a long time.
Ifi have some money i prefer Trading than. Holding
Even the result sometimes bad.

Yeah see the magnitude of the change in price increases proving that holding will be very profitable. especially if you hold it for a long time but that does not mean trading should be abandoned. many people who successfully use trading for their daily profits and maybe it gives them a bigger profit or can pay for their daily needs

Trading in a time when there is fluctuation in the prices I okay and you can actually trade some of your coins but not all. I say that because when there is fluctuation in the prices of the coins you own and the market is also stable, that is actually a signal to the big rush in the crypto market in the future. Right now, I am trying to trade whenever I feel I can earn but am also holding some of my coins and reinvest the money I earn in trading for buying some altcoin. This gives you output in future.

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I always feel these days that the idea of holding is just so over rated. My portfolio of coins and tokens from $700 last year hit about $12000 at the beginning of this year and there I was holding through which I am now back to around $1600.

As a trader, I could have traded that huge fluctuation, and be able to hold even more position for the long run and even benefit hugely from the profit if I had even bought the same quantity back at their dip. If you can learn how to trade, it pays you more in the long and short term unless we want to deceive ourselves.

Yes If you are not an exceptional trader who makes a lot of money with trade, holding is always better than trading in terms of profit. This example proves that, it is not possible to make this profit by trading. Holding coins for the long term requires positive information for the foreseeable future, holding a coin has a high risk if we do not read a valid news source.

of course there always a momentum where the price will come down temporay as the roadmap isn't running at the moment. after ICO end, team of the ICO project should prepare and make everything is on its place before its moving on. and then there always a people who trying to sell and buy below the ICO price. no doubt.

but if the ICO as roadmap already running, then we should hold it. just HOLD.

both are good but the achievement of trading is you can making profit and minimize your losses and in my view in trading you should able to utilize all of opportunities to making money and if daily trading is more profitable i think this option would be good rather than buy and hold for long term purppose but it all depend on the habit of people that some of them more prefer to daily trading but some of them also more likely to choose long term holders

Pros of holding for a long time? You can be lazy and just sit on your couch worrying about nothing if you did your research.

Cons? You will get too lazy to go to your day job and sometimes you just feel you should not until you lose your job.  ;D
Another con? You are becoming impatient and want to withdraw but still cannot click that exchange button since you are also becoming more greedy.  ;D

Crypto market need all these features in balanced manners we need to trade when there is movement and buy and hold when we want long-term profits. Holding alone wont work

I prefer to do the trader rather than just hold the assets I have because by becoming a trader you can get a lot of profits, not only that you can also grow the capital you have more than ever before.

If you do not have enough experience, it is better for you to choose a long-term investment. Because short-term trade requires certain skills and knowledge in the field of cryptocurrencies. In addition, a mistake with short-term trading can turn you into a long-term investor.

Yes many coins are now trading below the ICO price which I am seeing now in the market. If you are telling about the current market then it is not good to blame the holding because right now the whole market is down and if you will not hold now then when the market will recover then you will regret as then the price of many coins will increase much higher.

There are many coins which are created with weaker projects and products so these coins may not get a high value because not much investors invest in a coin with weaker project so try to avoid that coins.

The cryptocurrency market is a very unpredictable one and very volatile, and in order to succeed and make profit in this market you have to adapt to it, so sometimes buying and selling might be the right choice and sometime just holding on to it is better, so you can't have one particular strategy that is always going to guarantee you the win, however holding might seems like the safer and easy route, but in some cases it may not always lead to profit.

real trader never do that. I am a trader and I never hold. I trade 100% of my balance.

Nothing can make you a millionaire if you don't invest enough and that "enough" level is some serious money.
Even if you invest in BTC at some point and buy it for 10k you'll have x10 when it reaches 100k and that's awesome but in order to become a millionaire you'll have to invest 100k and that's a looot.
Few will become millionaires in this game and the rest will lose big time.
Like in every other market.

If you're deciding to hold altcoin, maybe you should check and do a research before doing that. I think it is risky to hold altcoin, you need any good signal or news, but i can't believe that news. Altcoin need to be traded if you want to get profit as soon as possible. I won't to take risk if i hold altcoin for long term.

I suggest if you are not very experienced with the crypto market, it will be better you buy and hold. Trading is for the experienced marketers

Financial markets are always very harsh and cryptocurrency is also so, you will not be able to succeed if you do not have the knowledge and experience in this market. Experience from the market and those who have had a long time to enter the market to grasp its rules.

XRP was a great coin but with the current up and down in price only people with huge amount of money to invest or buy the coin will make nice profit using the short trading method. However, LTC does not fit in the cryptocurrency which should be trade or invest in a long-term cause the coin is not looking good in the market ever since Charlie (the creator) sold all his holding.

I think the choice of trade or hold is if we buy coin at the expensive price should hold, and if you are going to buy coin should trade because the price is very difficult in the guess in the middle of the year. this is my experience over in the crypto world

it looks like trading is better than you just let your assets can not grow, while if you are trading then you can grow the assets you have can be more than ever until you can become rich.

Yeah, that is always the thing that limits a holder anyway. A trader stands a better advantage to make more in the long run than someone who was just busy holding through. The fact that this is even a very volatile market makes it interesting for a trader to trade the huge fluctuations.

For instance and for those who are saying holding is better, with long term style of trading trends, I have been able to increase my bitcoin quantity for the long term, which is one thing a holder will never get as they will keep holding that same quantity all through, but you need good knowledge to be able to make such decision in trading anyway.

Yes trading is good for market manipulation that has ever been involved in trading partner pairs. But personally you want to hold the Bitcoin and alts you have with. Holding the coins for long-term positive expectations for the future.

If the market rises, more likely I would pick trading for example if market is at 9k and above I would pick trading but now my investment is at risk and the value of bitcoin had been reduce due to down fall for the results I will go and HOLD.

Still if market is fine for trading and it is stable Iam for the lonh term investment if it is bitcoin.

Trading continuously will make you tired and will give you less after less profit and will make huge profit after a long of hard work. Hard work also exists in the long term investment but you will not need to work continuously and tired but you will get huge profit after a long time or within a year. Long term investment is very responsive and a relax investment; trading has also importance on different sides.

If you ask my sincere answer, regardless of what state is in ICO, it can never bring huge profits. If such a project proves to be successful, even then a person does not earn any reasonable amount.  I have never ever recommended this stuff. Getting good profits from crypto world is a lot easier and quicker than this. Buy a coin that has shown high values in the past and hold it for long. This is the right way to deal with it.

For me,a person can only trade if he is already prepared for the risks that trading could bring because if not,trading can create big losses in him.It requires more expertise and skills particularly day-trading.But if you want to have less stress and less hardwork,then go on long-term investing.You just have to wait for a long period to gain good profit but still you have to be patient at all times.

I agree on that. I believe that trading is more amazing than buy and hold, because trading can bring us a huge amount of profit on the spot if we are lucky. I think trading is more profitable than buying and hold because buying and holding for a long term is really amazing but it really needs a big patience in order for us to wait for the exact time or maybe price to sell.

Better daily trading though the benefits you get little by little can be overwhelming. I prefer to always trade than I keep the coins I have if you just keep or hold the coins it will be difficult to make a profit

Yes, that's about it.
You can't make any money, let alone think about becoming a millionaire if you don't have the proper knowledge and experience.
And some luck.

Luck is the product of work and trying over and over again, you can`t win if you don`t try. I think answer on this is very simple, do both, why not? Prices have their peaks and bottoms, nobody tells you that you need to be perfect trader you can sell when you in nice profit, don`t be greedy and you will do just fine. For amateurs like most of us are patience is needed, buy at some price if you wait long enough price will grow, don`t wait top like I said sell on some good profit for you and buy something else with potential, and what has potential, look at here about which coin people talk mostly, active communities are the key for success.

Buy and hold is always a part of trading and when you decide when to dump you always have your strong hold despite of how unpredicatable price value it has. However we're not certain at all aspects but it doesn't matter as long as you knew how to put every situations within your control.

most people choose day trading because they think its more profitable than buy-hold method. day trading maybe risky, but if we can get it in the right time it will be great, and about the time, i think every person will have a different POV about this, there's people which keep watching the market, and the others are just check it again after a few hours.

I think you have to take the risk and go for at least position trading over just mindless hodling.  The main reason is I think each day in this space could equal a month 3 years from now and everything you multiply now will be worth exponentially more at a later date.   The window of opportunity for massive easy gains is closing a little bit each day and you don't want to waste these  years especially.. concentrate on multiplying bitcoin with every trade and ride the bitcoin gains up as we go parabolic again later this year or next.  You have to go for broke now... or you will regret it later.. even if the projects you are in gain 10X over the course of 3 years.. it's just not good enough compared to the opportunities presented daily.

trading and holding works the same for me there is a slight difference between two, you can trade if the price goes and up and down also same with holding you can earn if the price goes up but you can lose if the price goes down it is better to trade rather than hold your money and wait until the price having a good value soon.

Trading and holding, buying etc are the key word in marketscap.when altcoins price is slow step price then appropriate to buying and holding, when price is pumping then suitable to trading.

must be smart in seeing the situation to be able to get the price and also we do not need to keep it. now there are many ways to be able to trade including what you say

A Bit of both is much more safe because day trading can be very lucrative if you have a decent amount of money to invest in it ( not considering crypto leverage trading )and MOST IMPORTANT, you know what you are doing which comes from practice, Also you can diversify your investments through doing a deep research on coins/tokens with "Great Expectations" that convince You not the person that writes the article about that coin/token.
Its all about deciding your target ... Speculation,Hedging.......etc

If you have got better mindset for ICOs and you think this is better for you than trading and investing in some coin, go for it. We all are here to advice you what we learn from the market and what we learn from experts. But that is not necessary for you to listen to us. We may be wrong in your case and this ICO system can be profitable in your case. So research by yourself.

it looks like the best is trading, because with trading you can take advantage of the capital you have to be able to earn profits very much and not only that if you apply the trading capital you have can grow into very much.

Do not forget emotional control, and this aspect is very important.
Many people underestimate this, but this is very important and affect your trade.
Patience, Carelessness and Greedy are part of the trade that must be controlled.

Three options are here and I will choose all as these are in the benefit of an investor or trader and if follow these three, this will lead to profit as we know hat long term holds are benefited and result in huge profit. Trading has its own importance and long term holding is of own importance. If you trade continuously with valuable coin you will get profit and if you hold for long term then you will get huge profit. For a productive person all these are equally good.

HODL pays if you do not know how to trade, but if you can trade, you will actually be making more in the long run anyway. The essence of trading is to take advantage of the fluctuations and all in all, you are still going to be making a lot anyway at the end of the day whereas in holding, you are doing nothing but just holding through all the fluctuations in between irrespective of what happens in the market.

The best way is to learn how to even follow trend anyway as that helps the more to take advantage of any market even as a long term holder.

Being smart in trading thing have got more value than being strong and being wise. There are people who can’t just make up to the right time because they are not. Sometimes being wise doesn’t work here. Rather you need to be flexible and sharp minded to just cater and observe the change and reasoned to it as soon as possible and in better way. So yeah be smart.

In fact, holding is even more risky as you stand to either profit a lot or lose a lot in the long term. Traders benefit more from the fluctuations in the short term as well as the huge increase in the long term as well. I got into trading because I could not look at my portfolio going up in huge percentage and coming back down in huge percentage when I could have taken advantage of that to hold more position in those coins to have a huge increase in the long run than just holding all through.

 Believe this depends on every personality, more calm person as I am, dont like trading much because it takes so much emotional tense

I think trading is much better . I like the following exchange. The YoBit Currency Exchange supports a large number of trading pairs. YoBit has many different additional functions besides trading, the exchange gives its users free crypto-currencies.

Both are good enough and are equal in profitable sizes, that is why i think that trading is good if you want to make some easy bucks in a short period of time, but hodlling is profitable.

I might prefer trading. it is a short-term opportunity that can make a lot of money. But, most people prefer to buy and hold. it is because they feel that the potential of a coin will appear if it is held for a long time. well, i also do that often.

you will need lots of patience for Holding.
It’s a new Technology revolution that will take over the world.
It’s a fast revolution, but still a revolution.
Any revolution takes its time.

And you should Hold your coins, it should be a huge profit if you have patience.

All of them are good, though it depends on a person. I think that trading every day  you can earn more but when holding the risk is not so great. I think it is better to hold and wait until the price is really favorable

Trading for me is for only who has a enough fund, have confident to gamble and enough knowledge of trading. Trading is risky but money is faster to earn and bigger. While buy and hold is for newbie in this crypto world and less knowledge about trading so it's better to them to wait long term than to loss lots of profit.

of course I prefer to do trading because I see with trading nad abisa mendaptkan profits that are very much different if you just hold the capital you have certainly will never be able to get the benefits.

Buying and holding strategy is not complicated, it is exactly what it looks like. You are just buying and maintaining an investment, regardless of whether the market is rising or falling. Using this strategy, mentality is not receptive to everything that the market speaks. So attraction to buying and loyalty is simple.

no holding of investment will never give you loss it's my experience if you buy coin and hold it for longterm you will face highest profit because every day the demand are going increase that's why price are also increase and holder are get high profit but in trade some time market price are go downward and traders sell their coins in low price.

As trading is quite risky so if you you have very proper knowledge about trading and also good experience of it then i recommend you to do trading neither never do it beacause you can loss your all currncy so trading needsgood knowledge and also experience.
In other way holding don't need any type of experience you have to need just good knowledge about coins and it's also less risky than trading. So it's depends on you that which one you choose from these both.

if you just apply a buy after that you hold the asset and hold the bitcoin you have without trading it seems like a mode; that you have will not grow.

Well I am a bit different thinking that I prefer buying and holding of crypto currency which use to call as investment, it is a good way of making profit in crypto currency in buying and holding you will not remain worry about the market situation all the time as once if you will invest then you will sell it later long ago but in trading you will have to keep your eyes on the market as it has high profit but is time consuming so I choose simple way of making profit as buy at low price and hold with patience to let it grow.

I think  it's depend on our decisions I believe that both trading and holding is both profitable. But it is really different. If we wanted to have an income everyday we can do trading while if we need a big income we must sacrifice and hold for a long term. Holding is really profitable because we can select the best price to sell but we really need an income for our daily needs so we need to do trading also.

It's better to learn trading than just buying and hold. If you learn trading, you will know how the market works. Either going down or going up you control your money easily and without any hesitation. In buy and hold, you would only learn how to be patient. What if the price doesnt go up? Instead of having a principal for trading, you wasted your money and time in holding coins. Got the point?

we are on the same path, I think doing trading is better than doing a hold especially for a beginner, knowledge of how the market works is an important point here, you will not be able to be successful trader without knowing it

Yeah this isn’t that much complex which we have just considered at our own. This is simple but just need the matter of choice and strength to give it in its own way for the user. If you are happy with holding, just hold and make good money. If you think you should earn money from them, buy more. Don’t just listen to fake news and observe every single move of the market.

better to hold for a while but we benefit from selling at times like this. the buy sell is very risky with an unstable price.but for those who are not patient, prefer to trade because they want to profit quickly.

These are three different states and you will choose all of these separately with specific times. In order to know about the perfect market timings you would need to monitor the market before making any single decision otherwise you may face with problems. Trading with more valuable currency and buy Bitcoins in a low market which will give you benefit and hold it for long term so that you enter into the market where your coins have high value.

both have profit but if you look at the crypto market begging. the crypto currencies have increase the price every months it's means buy and hold can be the best for investors they can gain high profit form crypto in hold for longterm. and in trade have also profit but when the market go down you will sell your coins and face high loss. holding money is more than better from trading.

trading is not something easy, it requires knowledge of the understanding of graph analysis if you just rely on luck or gambling it is very bad. I would suggest if you use the buy and hold method for long term it will be profitable and more secure from loss

in coin holding investments is very risky because the price of coin can change rapidly.
if you intend to invest long-term you should be able to know the coin is suitable or not for long-term investment.
the selection of your coins is indeed a good enough coin for long-term investment.
a little extra, I think coin IGNIS same TEN is also suitable for long-term investment.

Indeed, in choosing long term we couldn't determine exact when it will achieve its peak price expectations. But if you trade it and have day trading, well its our definite and concrete decisions to choose the very promising coin based on your analysis. Don't have that mindset that long term trading is same with how long term works in the actual scenario, but the reality is they really differs from each other because day trades is more risky compared with long term.

The market has been fluctuating continuously and it is hard to predict, you can see that bitcoin prices in the early days of 2018 are constantly decreasing and the recovery force is very weak. After dropping back to $ 6000, the current bitcoin price is at $ 7700, I believe the bitcoin price will be adjusted to $ 8500 before falling sharply, so you should trade short term by day to be able to reduce Minimize the risk.

It is you who being an investor need to make a choice in between trading and holding as both things can help you in making of some good earning but the only condition for that is to do the thing in which you are more skillful and that you think doing that will lead you to make some good money. Do not go for holding of the coins if you don’t think you will be able to hold your nerves at time of dump.

To trade or to hold will depend on the entry price of an individual and if he is making good profits with current price then he can trade some of his coins and if he is not satisfied and looking for higher profits then better to hold them.

It depends on the price of coin in the market. Why would you have to trade your coins in a lower price if you can hold it and wait for it's price to rise then trade it. That'll give you more opportunity and a lot of income as well if you'll be able to trade your coins in a high price.

Are those really true numbers?

Because I rolled over my eyes twice after reading those numbers. I think no one will really believe that number because too off the box! 5 figure % hike is too much that too from December to now which is just few months of period.

No doubt that HODL is always beneficial but its not that beneficial as you have predicted it here.  :P

I will always motivate everyone to hold because it benefits the user as well as the market from the unwanted shocks and dumps!

You can see that the market is constantly fluctuating strongly when bitcoin prices are constantly adjusting, the price of bitcoin adjustment for altcoin prices plummeted and recovery is very slow. The market is in the primary bear market, so I think you should trade short-term by day so that you can minimize risk and make a profit in a safe way.

If you have better option than trading and selling which can make you earn higher than anything so why you are going on the opposite side of it, holding had been great opportunity of earning and it will keep on earning good income for us. I always suggest all my family and friends to hold their investment as it is the only way for successful trading, trading now will be panic trading which gets you low profit/.

cryptocurrency is very young and unmatured market once crypto market touch one trillion dollars all the top altcoins prices will increase to 10x or 20x so holding already proved in 2017 and it will prove in this year as well

If you are not that familiar with trading or lack of experience then the best thing you should do is to hodl. That’s the safest way for your money to profit with lesser supervision and gives you an ample time to learn more on trading.

Buy and hodl while you learn the basics of trading, then start doing it with small amounts.

I do better trading than buying after holding back with a long time because when you trade you can mendaptkan profits that very much from the capital you have for trading, do not let the capital you have do something from the capital you have to be able to provide profit for you.

Trading is much better more than holding because you can always earn profit in the market while holding will not make you earn more profit since there is no assurance if the coin you are holding will grow in the future or not.

The choice of which trading method to use depends on many factors such as the time available for trading and the capital size of the individual trader as well as the profit expectation. Just like you said, it is very important to avoid borrowing money to put into trading because it can be very frustrating and it can as well deny you the opportunity to use your patience in time of downtrend. But whichever method employed there is still need to combine both the day trading strategy with buy and hold to make maximum profit

Holding must be a good direction. And undoubtedly it's functional way. However, this is a long-term plan. So the losses are very low in the holdings. I support it. But sometimes there is good profit in daily trading which is not even in long term planning.

I prefer to trade because you can make a huge profit in just a little amount of time, but yes, sometimes it is more than risky because you can easily lose a lot of money because of that.

That's right. There are so many things that could happen, even after just a month or two, more so if you plan to hold for a year or so. For me, holding is the way to go because I don't have enough time to spend on checking the market closely and on seeing how the trends and movements are affecting the coins. But, how I wish i could do that. That's the difficulty of having a full-time job and other stuff, as much as I want to venture in deeper, I really can't so I choose holding, which is a more passive approach. But, if you have the time and energy to actually take a closer look at the market, trading is a good thing to try as well.

I prefer to trade because it is more profitable, but in terms of usage and how much time you are going to hold, it just depends on what your vision is (if you prefer to trade or not)

yes I think so. holding is better for all crypto users, hold do not need strategy like trading. hold just need the basic knowledge about crypto and we should choose coin that have a good potential so we do not need worry about the price because when the price go down, it will recover again.

Holding is better for all especially if you don't have so much time to spare studying charts. Holders gain more on a longer term

Depending on the ability and conditions of the investor that can give the form of reasonable investment. If you are good at technical analysis and have plenty of time to watch the market, trading is a viable option; otherwise, if you are not good at technical analysis then choosing some good coins and keeping it in the times few months is a good thing to do.

I personally prefer holding. Hope it will bring more volume and higher prices. Used to lost some money when trading tokens but gain much profit by holding.

Trading requires a lot of work during a day, watching every currency you would like to trade with is tiring by itself, meanwhile hodling is just a ticket to the rollercoaster.

Good to hold from trading.I have lost a lot of money in trading. So now hold. If you hold the coins for a long time, then many profits are possible. Before doing business, there will be a lot of research. It is better to trade then.

It will really depend on the capability of a person,  trade if you have a lot of time or hold to see if there will be profit. Both methods are risky but we know that from the start that any method of earning  here will be risky because of the volatility of the coins. For the meantime,  since all cryptos are having a hard time getting a good price,  I prefer to hold especially my coins who have good prices before.

if you apply the trading capital you have can grow to very much. And it seems the best is trading, because with the trade you can take advantage of the capital you have to be able to earn very much

Thats right, I think it will depend on the capability of someone, if you have the skills to trade such as extensive knowledge and great analysis. then you have a lot of free time may not be a matter of choosing trading. if you do not have free time, and not very good at trading, you can just hold it..

At such moment, better is to learn rather than to hold. Holding would be temporary solution to the problem but you can’t control your complex mind for longer time until you haven’t any technical answer and strategy for your problem. Better is to learn in mean time and then implement back all the technical aspects of your trading. Best luck for the good and bad times.

Well.... In my personal experience if we want make investment for short term in cryptocurrencies trading is best choice because we can get active income if we can make constant profit in trading cryptocurrencies, in trading money is never sleep that's great chance to getting money in cryptocurrencies. But if we want to be investors will be better to buy and holding the cryptocurrencies especially for bitcoin and other alternative coins which has good fundamental of aspects.

if you trade then you can grow the assets you own can become more than ever until you get rich and it looks like trading is better than you letting your assets can not grow

I am sure that if you are deep in the crypto world, you have to combine all of these activities. Yes, it will eat a lot of your time but will give you good money.

you arfe right i depend on capability but now a day the market price are red and traders did not do trade because in this all the market are going down because the bitcoin have bad day you he should want just hold their investment tell the market price are recovered.

At this time, when the market is continuously fluctuating and bitcoin prices are continuously decreasing in recent days, I believe you should trade short term by day, the market is showing signs of continuation. The market fell sharply in the coming days and may reach $ 6,000. The market is bearish in the long run so long-term investment is very risky if bitcoin prices can not recover.

The market in recent days is fluctuating continuously and is constantly falling sharply, you can see that bitcoin knitting prices continue to decline sharply over the past few days and there are no signs of recovery. Therefore, at this point you should not invest long-term and only short-term investment by day to be able to profit from the lowest risk.

The market is in the bearish trend in the long term, so I think that at this point you should only trade short-term by day to be able to minimize the risk and earn a profit safely. The current price of bitcoin is at $ 6400 and according to my analysis, bitcoin prices will probably continue to fall and will reach $ 5900 in the coming days.

Right, trading needs to have a thorough observation in the market and an accurate forecast on it's movement. For new investors it is much effecient to do the buy and hodl before trading to avoid a much bigger disaster in their investments.

long term trading/investing is still beneficial despite the fact that the market are now falling because we all know that this crash is only temporary, soon the market will still recover back to normal and only those who hold long term will only get the benefit the most.

 you cannot also do short term trade these days because the coins are still bleeding, that is why buy and hold is the best strategy to do so far. holding alone would also do , if you dont have any cash to spend at this dip.

I do not think that there is such a big risk in long term holding, short term trading can be consider as more risky as compare to long term investment and holding. I myself have invested my money for long term and now I am too much confident about my investment and will hopefully give me a good profit after some time.

Study what the necessary things that you can do to make a good profit instead of being down of the market. Research a useful tools on how could you trade or even hold your coin without losing too much of your savings and definitely at this point you should think wisely of what action you would take due to being unstable of the market.

Right.Instead of being stressed by the continuous fall of price,why not grab this chance to make more profits than waiting for the price to go up.Buy low and sell high,that's the most popular method in trading that will minimize your losses somehow.And even the safest way to gain profit in a long term investment.While it demands less stress than day trading,but still you should be knowledgeable enough especially when things are happening far from your expecations.

I think you should not buy and hold at this time of the market, the market is in the down trend so the price of bitcoin and altcoin will be able to keep falling very strongly, you should be careful before all variables price of bitcoin. If you keep the long-term, the higher your losses, the more losses you will have. At this point you should only trade short and finish the day trading.

This is something that depends on the trading plan. If you are trading Litecoin or ripple or NEO, you can trade for short term and this can also be profitable. The case of buy and hold can work in long term in the crypto are Bitcoin and ETH.

Looking at the current market, I think the concept of buy and hold can be perfectly executed and it could also prove profitable in long run. All one need to do is to make the wise decision.

HODL is only suitable for those who have the money to live until the coin has fallen and is again waiting for growth. for the rest, we need daily trading. but ujednani trade is sometwenty minus - you tend to worry and destroy your nerves)

Trading includes keeping a regular check on the prices and buying and selling according to that.It needs some experience and skills.It can help you to get really quick profits but if you don't have enough skills then you can face huge losses also.On the other hand buying and holding is bit simpler than trading.It just includes buying the coin and holding until you find a good price to sell.Holding can be beneficial to those investors who have enough patience to let their coin grow but holding will only be profitable if we know that what is the right time to buy and sell.It requires our trust on the coin because for the time we will hold our coin we will have to face many ups and downs.If we will not have patience and will commit the mistake of panic selling then even holding can make us face losses.

Trading give a feeling of been in charge and the satisfaction that you are making it happen whether in profit or loss. Trading also open you to see opportunity apart from daily trading. I think traders are better holders because they see quality coin everyday.

This is a pretty good choices to profit. Practically if you want to have that fast money you must be trading your coins or rather tokens that fast and circulate that on the market. In the other hand if you are here just for investment and to have fun at the same time to profit you must buy and hodl and wait for your time to got paid and profit by terms of selling what is good to be sold.