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Having known how to trade , when to trade, what to trade and what not to trade , capital management is a
Very important key in becoming a successful trader.  Alot of people make this mistake especially  the newbies like me that's why  Capital management is crucial in trading, unless you're trading randomly which a serious trader should not do. Alot of people have lost their trading capital more than once which are not even newbies.
An arm of capital management is stop loss usage. It help you to determine your loses so that trades can be closed when it's triggered. When you trade major key points level/pivot point stoploss is important. Many people don't know this that's why am writing to give concrete awareness after doing some study coupled with little trading experience.  I hope this helps as many people as it can .

In addition , Below are some simple tips that will help on our journey to becoming a successful trader :

1. Learn how to trade
2. Learn and strategize how to manage your capital
3. Make research on choosing good exchange that will favour your trading.
4. Learn to take profit at intervals

Please add your suggestion for everyone to learn from it. Thank.you

I do not think capital management is needed in the crypto currency trading sphere.

Trading is all about risk; without risk there is no gain
Traders go into each trade with a mind to lose; but the confidence to make more profits than the loss.

Always dyor

Capital management is really needed in the crypto trade. You can manage your profit to avoid the loss that you can get it from the volatility. as far as i know if this is a really important thing to make sure we can have reserve funds to prevent the dump too. Everyone must able to manage their fund properly. So many expert traders are also doing this dude.

As much as I would agree with you, I would also debunk your first statement, that capital management is very important. Investing what you can afford to lose is part of capital management.
Also, you already mentioned in the latter part of your statement that people should do their own research, which is one of the keys to k=help in capital management. So, consciously and unconsciously, you are managing your capital.
Although, it should be a deliberate act.
When you divide your trades into grids and you determine the amount per grid, you are also managing your capital.
How effective that management is, will determine the amount of profit you will get per grid.

It is true.

But from the word itself, a trader must learn how to manage his capital. And the given thoughts of OP are true as well. Avoid the trading signals that we usually see because most of them are scams.

I think it is already given that a trader should know how manage his capital. If he doesn't know the basics, then he can't survive long in the trading market. He will end up losing all his money to the market that he doesn't have the idea to handle with. What the OP stated are basic know-how of a trader. In the trading section here, you can learn more of trading tricks and tips. But if you want to trade a specific coin, you should have at least basic knowledge on the current status of the project.

Given is given but he said that he thinks that it isn't needed anymore that's why I've said that every trader should have knowledge about managing their capitals.

Things will be learned though in the long-run when a trader starts to lose and takes time to think about what part he's wrong with his traders. Lessons will be learned altogether and mistakes will be corrected following his experience.

It is needed, buddy!
You should have a good management to optimize your funds unless you do not know whether losing or making a profit. Also, funds or money management can minimize trading risks, optimize a chance for higher profits, or avoid severe losses.

Here are some sources to learn it:
- https://www.binoption.net/money-management-on-crypto-trading/
- https://steemit.com/market/@amnezia/money-management-strategy-in-crypto-market
- https://medium.com/@sol_98230/money-management-strategy-in-cryptocurrency-trading-how-to-calculate-the-risk-reward-ratio-and-8b6eb2af1a95

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OP, I think this thread should be in Trading Discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=8.0).

A simple question on this and a direction. Can you really build a strategy for management of capital without building good emotion to go along ? The answer is nope. This is because, if you don't have good management of the emotion you can not afford not to change your management strategy for a greedy goal or profit hunting which is likely to burn the account.

My rule is never buy a pump or a Hyip, never buy a new altcoin to hold for the future when no active development from the team. And always never use all your fund in market have a reserve and never sell all your position when you are not too sure of the market direction.

I always avoid coins that are in a bull phase because these are coins you can easily lose money if whales tend to sell more. In the crypto market you need to consider a lot and definitely have an investment plan to survive well. Over the past few years I've always used lots of ways to make money and that helped me avoid a lot of big risks.

Without management we cannot any work .good management is always needed. So good capital is important part of money makes trading. Trading is always riskfull.but good management gives good earnings. I think so.

These are just normal suggestion. If you dont want to lose on trading, learn to be more careful, confidence is good but always take extra caution. Dealing with crypto trading is different than normal stocks trading. Here, you can experience a highly volatile market where you can see even a 100% loss. As long as you can handle consequence like that, you can manage to stay for a while.

Not all traders have profit, believe me there are more losses than gains in here. Study shows that 90% loss in crypto trading and only those 10% knows how to deal with it fairly.

The only best thing ive learned in trading so far is risk taking, you won't learn anything if you aren't ready to lose, most especially for newbies you need to be willing to lose before you can understand some facts about trading

How will you know which coin is a pump or hyip or scam? Well a scam can be detected early minimizing losses but what about the first two? PnD does not happen right from start. It happens when whales want to pump and dump and this has no relation with the project's real ownership or how they are managing it. Besides having a contingency plan for market making and so on.

Again I ask you the same question. How will you know that suddenly development will stop and the project will fail? It is what happened with many ICO project and why the shitcoin market is in such a bad position. Let aside the excuses for bear market, I say the altcoin market was doomed from the beginning because they were never doing anything good at all.

While the OP has listed some things that as commonly known, it is not wrong to sell all your position if you wish to. Its a choice if whether you feel that project will be going up in future so you are cashing out some money and holding the rest.

Well said mate, having a good finanical management is really important in trading because trading is not a sure win situation, you may lose from it. So if you lose in trading you still have money to trade because you have good finanicial management, that is why it is really important because you are taking the risk when doing it, if you failed try again so you will turn back the money you have lost
It is normal if you lose when trading especially with those beginners out there, a simple mistake is just a normal thing because we have made from that, failure is part of growin up.

Before number 2, you can add this "use the money you can afford to lose, and don't use all of your funds to trade".

That will be useful for people who want to start trading. Without having an effort to learn to trade, we cannot know how to manage our capital, how much money we will use to trade, what kind of strategy that we need to use related to the current situations, and else.

Maybe you can add this suggestion,
Avoid new coins if you wanna trade in the long term. Although listed on the top exchanges, it isn't uncommon for them to actively engage in fraud in terms of price manipulation and trading volume.

agree, many new coins are falling in price and for the long term they cannot continue to develop due to many reasons which makes the team leave the project
Long-term investments must be made on top altcoins

You have made a very good point, the only thing wrong is your subject line.
To complement your 4 points.

After learning to trade ; always make sure you learn to understand the market emotions, it helps a lot

another very important point is to learn how to always fix 10 percent of profits in fiat currency. this will always help to accumulate fiat currency for everyday needs and investments in the real sector of the economy. such diversification is also very important

You can have general mentality of not investing into altcoins because all of them are good for a short term profits but not long term, still there will be people who are taking that chance with startups on IPOs and get fooled by IEOs here which are named to imitate but failed to deliver. If you want to keep your coins safe, buying bitcoin is what I suggest people.

Even top altcoins are not give market performers. The only coin you need to make a good profit from is bitcoin - this has been proven so may times seeing the bear-bull cycles and watching the bitcoin and altcoin markets separately.

For a good capital, putting >90% into bitcoin for the amount allotted to cryptocurrencies is a very wise decision.

as a beginner, I am very grateful to those of you who have shared this theory. I had previously been involved in business, but due to the lack of qualified management, it certainly made me lose my direction. thank you.

I think in trading depends on how the strategy or how far your knowledge of trading. I personally am not very active in trading because I don't have a high risk appetite, but next time I will try after the market is stable, have money and also knowledge capital.

Capital management is do important today. There are huge coins to invest on the cryptocurrency market and if you do not follow some kind of strategy, you will simply loose all your funds invested in useless projects.

Number 3 is the most important in my opinion, do not just trade on any exchange, trade only on exchanges with very high reputation and security since even after making profit, you might lose your entire funds on exchanges with low reputation/security. Again, go for exchanges with high trading volumes. Any trader who doesn't  use stop loss is making a grest mistake, even the coins we consider top notch might have a strong FUD unexpectedly like what happened to ENG months back and led to massive drop in price. Also, do not use same figure for both upper and lower limits of your SL, use a range so that you will be sure it picks. Lastly, remove greed, take profit when its necessary, some people still make the mistake of waiting for 100% to 1000% when in profit, a good trader checks the chart and know when to leave the trade.

Protecting your capital is not that easy, I actually lose a lot of it before learning on a hard way. I do agree on these things, you must be fully equipped and knowledgeable enough to survive on this market, choosing the best and having a best decision can help you to save your capital and make money out of it. Trading is also not easy, usually traders losses their capital within a day, so be careful on that and be a good trader who keeps on making profit.

of course capital management is very important when you have a capital large enough to be traded to avoid high risk if you see crypto market fluctuations.
but it will be problematic when people do not have enough capital to trade and only wish luck on the market flow.

I think capital management is important in any form of investment, and cryptocurrencies are no exception, even it is very important, because of the high risk. Without managing capital trade is no different than gambling

It may be a little bit wrong. The capital management used to manage our money especially to manage our profit. Fund management is really important when you will be deciding to invest in the crypto or try to build your portfolios.
Strategy is not the only thing that will determine your success but there are so many factors too.

Money management is really very important. I also made mistakes, did not know how to trade correctly and did not properly manage my capital. It was a very valuable experience for me. And I can confidently say that you need to pay attention to this.

I quite agree with the tips that you shared to help novice traders manage capital management so as not to rush into making decisions, maybe a little extra for novice traders in addition to capital management there are very important tips, namely when choosing a coin to trade because if you choose the wrong coin would be a big disaster for our capital, of course the most important thing is that we choose a Coin ranked 100 CMC to be our main target in trading.

capital management can be regarded as an accounting strategy that strives to maintain sufficient and equal levels of working capital, current assets, and current liabilities. This helps a company to meet its expense obligations while also maintaining sufficient cash flow and is primarily related to short term financial decisions.

Proper management of working capital is essential to a company's fundamental financial health and operational success as a business.

When it comes to trading, it needs fully equipped knowledge about it, especially in fund management. Any business will fall because of this thing not only in trading. If you can manage your fund correctly, then you can see that your trading life has better outcomes and for sure it succeeds than to lose.
This is a vital thing we need to acquire in all aspects of our life and particularly when you are dealing at risk.


BTW,
Since we are talking about trading in here, I believe this thread does not belong to Altcoin discussion but it should be at the trading discussion board https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=8.0.

Good capital management is very essential not just in trading alone but in all aspects of business. Learn to make stop loss if you think you are losing a big amount already. And do not trade with a wrong coin because it will only make you lose more, rather trade on a coin that is on top of the coinmarket and that is more trusted by most of the traders.

Choosing the right project by following the progress of the team behind. If you have good information regarding on how the team are working behind the project you'll be able to decide properly. It will cater the fund management and the process whether for long term or short term goals.
It's always best to research and assess properly every decision that you'll going to take as risk within volatile market is really  unavoidable.

We need it.
Are you not a trader? Managing your capital is very significant. If you can't manage your fund and you do hastily entries, your trades will probably be a mess.

What I do is to compute my capital fund with the leverage I am using so I can still move forward whenever immediate liquidation or cut loss occured. I always get my profits out and let stay my capital.

money management very crucial for all traders , if they have not any plan with their money it will be very easy to lost in market. trade plan which is contain trade risk and profit ratio will help us to calculate on how long we able survive in market. if we dont have it , i think its same think with gambling.

You are right. Many people think that you can own a lot of capital overnight.Many new investors invest without realizing it. They are suffering a lot due to not knowing the management.You need to study more before investing.

The best advice from original post lists is learning to take profits, long term hold is good but you would have make more if you are the type that take profits or change your Bitcoin to usdt and buy again when Bitcoin goes down, before you know it you will double your BTC

Of course, if you want to be profitable in this market. Then you need to manage your capital very well. In order to do that, you need to have the most detailed plan of your investments. I have seen many new investors in this market fail because they do not know how to manage capital seriously

The get-rich-quick mentality leads to immediate wrong decisions and losses. This is a known fact now, does not need proof. But the new entrants will never learn.

Research is good but it will not always reduce your losses. You have a better edge at knowing what the project is can use that to your advantage to enter/exit at proper times and thus help in profiting. However it becomes more of a 50-50 thing when trading on that asset which is a different thing. For being an investor you need to know your exit strategy as well.

To be successful in any job, pre-experience is surely needed. But how we will gain knowledge. There are two ways- theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge. To be a successful trader, it is very much important to know how to trade, how to manage capital, how to make profit, when to buy when to sell etc. But if you only read books, papers, magazine to acquire knowledge, it will not be fruitful. Beside theoretical knowledge, you need to acquire practical knowledge. For that, you should involve with such persons who are directly engaged in trade for long days. You should study the market strategy and find out how it works, You can make a personal survey on different issues of trade. You can study the failure persons why and how they failed and so on. After all you have to start the trade in small volume initially and follow the successors to be a successful trader.

 It is quite easy to gain the theoretical knowledge in crypto trading, there are sooooo many topics about how to become a good trader even just on bitcointalk, when you leave this space you can find millions of it. However it is definitely hard to figure out which one is good and which ones are bad, thats going to take some to figure out but you can simply start with indicators and technicaly analsys I guess.

 Yet one thing is for sure, practical knowledge is not that easy, it will take you a lot of money to figure out what you are doing is wrong or right, you would have to spend a bit to even fail and you will deposit more to try again and again, even when you earn some, eventually you may lose so you will have to put some more. In a sense there is no cheap way to learn the practical knowledge part here.

Yeah, there was this famous start up person who talked about how you should have at least 1 year of costs in the pocket before you even start anything, I understand what he meant in the startup world, there are so many "ideas" or even "apps" that people sit at home and work on and make it happen, but then they ask money for it, you check it and dude has basically close to nothing at all and has the audacity to ask for money when he didn't put any of his own, why? Because it was "his baby" well your baby worths nothing if you put nothing, even facebook had early partner that made it happen before it became an investor thing.

Same with capital management, if you do not have enough to cover your one year even during losses or bear markets, you will have trouble.

You made a good point about studying why and how traders fail in trading, and then make amend. Before i started trading, i did thorough research on reasons why traders fail, and everything boils down to improper risk management and greed. Knowing when to join a trade and when to leave is vital to be a successful trader, like OP mentioned ; safeguarding capital is imminent.

I have been with crypto a lot of time and tried many different things but the only thing that ultimately worked for me is trading with stable coin and bitcoin as the base. I hold 90% of my funds on either bitcoin or stable cons and making trade orders in grid style. Though it's not a high profitable strategy as many of the traders here make, it comfortably brings me about 1% of my total capital monthly as my returns.

Knowing perfect time to buy/sell is not easy. You need to be very good in technical analysis to get it right most times. However, once i make 10% from a trade, i set OCO with a tight stop loss. This ensures even if the coin dumps, I'm still in profit. I'm not saying i always gain in all my trades, sometimes i lose but my stop limit always stops me out reducing further loss. Sometimes stop limit hits and price surges up after. Trading is just so complicated, you can never get it right all the time.

We are once a newbie and I know the feeling of losing your capital due to wrong decision or lack of knowledge.

Its a must to take time learning and dont rush things to avoid the usual mistakes that we can prevent if only we did the right process and didnt let the emotions influence our decision making.

Plan ahead and stick to your strategies, dont feel bad if you lose your capital because there's always a chance to recover it.

This is safe method. Actually only bitcoin can give us a good return, I am not looking down on some altcoin but people or trader prefer the market of btc over stablecoin. Maybe before other pair are noticed but now that many stablecoin and have many choices, I think this is most radical and been utilized by current traders now. Capital is important, take note also on the fees of the exchange you are using sometime their cut is really big and only pick markets that are fair to deduct those fees.

The crypto community will generate similar posts with a stability of 1 piece/month from time to time - and people will still take loans and borrow money to buy another "breakthrough and innovative" token. The main rule can be only one: learn from other people's mistakes to avoid own.
Yes, money management is important (just like in everyday life). Yes, thinking with your own head and not making stupid and popular mistakes is also important (as in normal life). But it still won't help because everyone thinks they are smarter than others

Capital management is important in trading wherever you do trade . Trading is all about risk but with proper management trader will bring the confidence to make more profits than the loss fact . Capital management is really important in the crypto trade bcz its area is volatile . Its a expert traders things .