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 There are basically two types of trading on binance generally (SPOT trading and FUTURES trading

📌 Spot Trading: you buy any coin of your choice at any given rate, you HODL for it to rise higher, you sell at any point you feel it has risen enough

📌 FUTURES trading: you predict whether a particular coin is going to rise of fall in price, if it goes in opposite direction from your prediction, you lose your money and your coin

Note: In SPOT trading, you can never lose your coin, the worth of your coin can only reduce but your coin remains to rise again in worth when the market goes green.

There are 3 actually, the last one is margin trading. It might seem the same as futures however its slightly different than futures.

Basically on margin you got much less leverage, usually 10x instead of 125x. You also pay different fees and the bitcoin that you long, is actually bought on the real spot market. So you are not buying a derivative like you are on the futures platform.

With margin you pay a fixed rate depending if you long or short bitcoin. And on futures the rate is determined by the funding rate or the futures premium/discount. So they are more or less the same but with different rules.

For newbies, spot trading will be a better type of trading as they do not have to worry about the price and as long as they can hold the coin and not sell at a low price, they will have a chance to sell at the next high price.

Future and margin trading will not suit newbies, especially if they do not have much knowledge in analyzing the market and they will panic to see the price is down for a little.

While in spot trading, you are not actually losing if you do not sell your coin, in the future and margin trading, you can lose all of your funds if you do not close your trade.

Be careful deciding which types of trading you want and I suggest using spot trading while learning more about trading.

On binance, there is margin trading, it is merged with spot but not the same as spot, it is even related more to future trading because you can leverage up to 10x using margin trading.

Also 1x long on future trading should not result to liquidation, what can result to liquidation is 1x short or increasing the leverage which incresses the risks, I will not encourage anyone to go for future and margin because they are very risky, million of dollar can easily be liquidated in just few minutes or hours.

It depends on the coin, I will say yes if you are talking about bitcoin, but many altcoins are shitcoins, their price will dump but will never rise back and remain shitcoins forever, newbies should know, learn and understand the coin he wants to trade with.

Newbie reading this shouldn't just jump into trading as it isn't as easy as you read, there is no guarantee the next high price as majority of the coins been pump today dies down before the next bull runs come along. The only coin that can guarantee you the next high price is Bitcoin and instead of trading, holding is the best option.

Skills and experience is needed if you intend been profitable in any of the three forms of trading on the Binance exchange and instead of jumping on any coins listed on binance exchange, carryout some research to guarantee you're not trading some hype bullshit because Binance exchange has been guilty of listing many of those of recent.

When you think of it, it's more like they no longer carryout in depth research anymore before listing a project, they're just after the community speculating on the project, putting their hunger to dominate the exchange industry over the safety of their customers.

You can if you sell all of it. That's how you lose your coin there when you sell it at losses or even in profit.

You no longer own and you no longer don't have that coin of yours because you've already ordered it to be in sale and somebody took that order.

OP,is this post about the different trading strategies or just the types of trading?
The bulls and bears have different strategies.Bulls are buying low and selling high,the bears are selling now and expecting the price to drop,so they could buy at a lower price.
There's also scalping,where the trader is buying and selling multiple times per day,making small profits out of multiple trades.
The traders,who don't have a particular strategy are called "sheep",if I remember this correctly. ;D


There's a risk of losing your coin,if the crypto exchange scams you,or your trading accounts gets hacked. :(

Spot trading is most secure and safety option for crypto currency trading, maximum people use spot option for crypto trading but i see many people use future trading option and at the end maximum people lost their fund. My clear opinion is that Spot option is better than Future trading.                         

The best way to raise which type of trading is suitable for you is to try both options and then decide.

I would prefer to clarify trading into two categories

• Gambling trading: When you simply make buy and sell orders, without your own research about projects and liquidation formualas, etc.
  
  • I meant when you see price skyrockets or plummets, you have to make your research why did it happen. If you simply make buy or sell orders because of big green or red candles, you will complete your trade with loses. Not all dips are great to buy and can help you get profit.
• Knowledgeable trading: when you are traders who already do in-depth research about projects & exchanges (liquidation) for your trade and have your own risk-benefit management.

I appreciate your post here even though it requires more and more study and discussion so newbies can understand. It's easy to say that this and this goes with this but the practical application would be the best way to learn. Like registering to Binance or any other exchange that provides those different markets and just see the features in it.

One of the best ways to learn about trading is through the academy of Binance. I just appreciate how they provided so much knowledge and just made it into the academy. It's worthwhile reading. 

https://academy.binance.com/en/start-here

With my view as a trader I can say future trading is trading and spot is hodling where we can consider investors, this is the way I see it. This class of people are those that are always scared of fud, they jump out at any slightest assumed negative news. They are always scared of doubling there money in both ways, that is in falling and rising of price like a real futures trader.
In futures is the trader. That person with passion to fight with others to spontaneously take out his or her share of the daily or swing money revolving in the market. This futures can be considered to have some pattern of trading like the scalper, daily trader or swing trader. This is my genuine idea of it because I don't see a hodler to be a trader.

I know about this two type of trading Spot and future trading, but i see one more option on Binance exchange, margin. I don’t know about this but i always use Spot exchange for Trading.          

This is literally true but there is some cases when the coins value becomes nothing and then removed by the exchanges, we only could sent back the coin the our wallet or move it to another exchange who still list the coins.
But if it's already happen with big exchange, the coins must be so dead and the price won't recover, there are several coins which experienced this, so becareful and always placing a stop loss even trading in spot

i have never tried futures trading, i just found out now. so future trading is very risk to trade if we are not experts in that field. but i see on binance there is p2p, what is p2p? i have never tried trading on the biggest market (binance).  ;D

I rather say, margin trading is quite risky than the future trading in Binance, it seems like they have been the same faces that are profitable but they had different types of the risk level.  Trading isn't an easy job and might newbies here will mislead that it's easy to gain profit in trading, I never spot trading but margin and future are quite opposite to me.

However, I'm didn't have much technical idea about this.  In Binance FAQ there's a video that explains you much better than me.
What Are the Differences between Margin and Futures Trading (https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/d4b75eabeebf4a35a607f17a99fca8f4)

You are true about spot trading, in spot trading you are buying an asset and no matter what happened to the price the number of your coin will still the same but in regards with futures trading you will need to leverage your coin in simple terms it is like betting your money and your money can be lost. So for beginners it is recommended to stay in spot trading rather than going to futures immediately.

that's why most user in binance preferred spot trading because on that way they can can really tell that the money/capital is totally safe wherein unlike future trading that in just one mistake there's a chance to have a massive loss, perhaps only long term holder can enjoy such features in binance because they're good at making technical analysis in such way. And short term traders are for spot trades only just to obtain quick profits.. Lol

I am just away from the futures trading. Because it seems like a gamble to me and I am not good in the gamble or predictions. Whatever I am trading in is just spot trading. Future or margin trading isn't for all. Because everyone isn't a good analyzer or predictor. So without much experience, it's hard to win in margin or futures trading. Spot trading is quite safer than futures trading for beginners.

For newbies, I'm suggested you.You can buy token or coin holding is best option .I think,Trading  for newbies is not an easy. When you start trading then you need to more patience and control your emotion.Most of newbies don’t control Their emotion and they lose money cz when coin price little dip they did sell their coin and lose money. So you can hold and i think you can get good profit total in future from your holding coin or token.

I think futures is a very misused word. Traditional Futures contracts have and expiry date while perpetual swaps don't have any.

What is very common in cryto derivatives exchanges are perpetual swaps with very few futures contract.

So the best way to say is there is spot trading and derivatives trading not (futures trading)

Emotions are a weakness for everyone. because if trading cannot control emotions then the trading strategy will not work well. In addition, beginners also have to choose whether they want to trade SPOT, FUTURES or MARGIN. Spot is safer for beginners because when you buy it you just have to hold it until you make a profit. Holding good coins for the long term or as a long term investment would be great.

For futures and margin trading it is not suitable for beginners who are new to trading because of the greater risk of loss, the determination of leverage must be as wise as possible so as not to be exposed to Liquidation.

I I always advise people that still new in Cryptocurrency not to near future is better they are stick to stop that everybody knows that the price of the coin will drop and if you are holding a good coin it will definitely recover again with time but If you are into future you can get liquidated at any moment and you lose all the money you put in the trade, I just believe future trading is just like gambling you are gambling if a coin will pump or dump with is very bad. If you are into future make sure you use small lavagera you can make use of stop lose when necessary thanks.

One  of the pros on doing spot vs futures/margin trading is that you dont totally lost up the coins you do have but rather lose its value but as long you dont close your position or make some sell then
you wont lose nothing which is totally different with futures.

This is why when you are just starting of with trading then stick with spot for long time and trying to familiarize everything and trying your best to be  sustainable.Most of the time i do consider
futures/margin to be on that gambling part.

Risk is high but reward is also high too but since we are minding off about long term run then i wont really suggest this type.

Well so is speculating on the spot market without any prior knowledge analysing the market. Basically if you're into trading without the skills of analyzing the market then what you're doing is gambling with your money. And that's what majority of the so called traders in the industry are doing, which is why statistics is against traders when it comes to been profitable.

Future trading is just advance trading, and not gambling if you know what you're doing. if you have enough funds you can keep your position open for as long as possible but make sure to close the contract before it expires. Newbie aren't advice to engage in future trading because of the risk involved as that aren't risks a newbie should be taken.

Stick to spot trading for the moment and gain as much trading experience as possible before wanting to engage in advance trading (which is future or margin trading) because you'll need all the experience possible to succeed over there.

I also did the same way, only trade for spot trading. Spot trading is much easier to do, but surely it also has the same risk of losing money. But the future has a bigger risk because it can lead to losing everything, while in the spot mostly just decreases the number of money if selling at a lower price. I assume most people prefer to choose a spot trading than future, especially those people who are still newcomers in crypto trading.

I'd rather stick to spot trading than gamble to future/margin trading since I am really that good when gambling since I just play when I want to pass time. So for beginners, spot trading is always the best choice but before they even start to wonder in actual trading newbies must have first to practice more on a demo account and until they are confident enough to hurdle the spot trading actually.

But for some advanced user/people who just like to gamble with a lot of experience in trading then future/margin is for them. The higher the risk the higher the rewards.

Future trading can lead to maximum losses and it is the most risky depending on the leverage used, the higher leverage used the higher gain or losses can be but people can lose than gain which makes future trading the riskiest. But not that they are not secure or safe, they have the safety and security spot trading have, but maximum safety is on noncustodial wallet which you have completely control over.

Best to use low amount of money, $50 is not bad for spot trading while $20 is not bad for fututres. Also going above 5x leverage is gambling while 5x leverage is still if high risky that can easily result to liquidation.

Choosing which type of  trading you venture into depends on the trader and how much patience they can adopt. Both are risky and risky if a spot trader lacks patience and discipline they might sell the dip out of fear and still run at loss. Like wise a future trader who would lose of their prediction doesn't match the direction of the market.

Non of the trading types is easy not even margin trading which is even more deadly for a starter or even a professional trader because most times since you are trading with assets that was given as a loan you might apply greed so as to raise a person capital

First Iam going to answer this base on what I learned and know.


In addition to this ideal basic type of trading or rather a reminder, you need to focus on its market cap on its highest. Likely if the market cap reaches more than 2 times a month you could have a great deal of income return. Yes on SPOT trading you can never lose a coin but you need to look wider and out the box, if an ICO or a value of a coin hits one capital/ cap in a month it is a big no. At first you may see its cheaper and you attracted to the most basic rule of trading buying low and selling it highest even if its HOLDING a coin.

in trading and it specifically point out on another coin it is a risk but for me from my point of view with it is bitcoin and ethereum this spot trading would really be good and be applied to the idea and type of term of spot trading.  

You can HOLD on a coin that has the potential to grow or potentially grown many times a year.



This type of ID is applied to all coins you can lose it and win it but it is connected to spot trading it is no different as it is connected but not the HOLD.

Specifically, you need to pick the right coin to play with and the big candidate for that is bitcoin no other ICO of me in which base on my point of view.

Future trading and spot trading are good for traders to earn well in the market. When you are focusing on future trading at this season we are, is a good idea because many coins has reduced price in the market. Any trader that is  purchasing for future Profit making will really achieve good profits at the end of the trading. If you really understood what you are doing in the market , you will never loose you coins than to achieve something good your trading.
Spot trading required experience or good knowledge before you can buy any coins of your choice and hold until the price of that particular coin increase before you can sell to earn well. In this spot trading you must not joke with your time and knowledge, for you to get it right at the end of the market.

There are many many types of trading. To this you add staking, margin, grid trading, and now a days Liquid swap is also way popular if played with the right coins. Moreover, these all are not just recent players, they are way too old and peeps are doing it since before the binance.

I have seen so many staking threads on the forum all the time. Then in the beginning of 2020 liquid swap trade started popping up. It's nice to see we more options in the crypto world than share market or stocks.

It is true, but if you do not sell your coin and still hold when the price is down. You will have a chance to see your coin price increase someday so you will be back to see the high price for your coin and make a profit. But many traders decide to cut loss their coin when the price is down with the hope that they can buy back at a lower price. I think that will depend on their strategy to be applied in the trading and every trader will have their own strategy to the current situation in the market.

Cut loss and buy back is kinda basic thing to do once market is at bad situation but unfortunately not everyone can able to do that since many is unsure about what will be the outcome at the end of the day, also they are afraid on what will happen if they are out and didn't follow at the market at that day but hopefully other will realize that cut loss is best option for us to recover if we lose in value but also make sure the coins or the tokens we buy is listed at the top and a worthy one.

Many of them are late to use stop loss and finally, they are getting lost in a big-money by selling their coin. If they can set the cut loss before the price drops, making a cut loss will be good as they can buy back at a lower price. But most of them do not realize that instead of placing their stop loss in a rush because they do not analyze the price before. That makes them get more losses because they are unsure how deep the price will go down.

Not a single strategy is going to work for the traders, they need to change the strategies from time to time.

Yes, I prefer spot trading, When my financial condition is sufficient for daily needs. However, spot trading must have patience, and must have a high mentality when the market is dump. This trading technique is perfect for new traders, provided that don't buy coin memes. Since the future of the meme coin is unpredictable, it may die in the market due to the abandonment of its owner.

Yes, that's right, mental stability is really needed in trading. Never panic when the price drops, it will make traders sell it so fast when the market goes down. By buying a good ALT, then we just need patience to wait for the market to rise and sell it when we get a profit by holding to avoid losses.

Spot trading is less risky but I do not know if the use of the word secure is correct here, trading always involves a risk and what many newbies do not understand is that those that are actually successful in any form of trading are those that can manage their risk correctly and this is what ultimately separates the good traders from the bad traders, since bad traders take too many risks and while this can bring profits once in a while once they make a mistake and make a bad trade that is when they lose a significant amount of their capital to the markets.

They all have the same risk, especially if you are not knowledgeable about the market even if you do spot trading, you can still lose everything in an instant. I personally thought about types on trading is about, day trading, short term and long term trading well we all have different classifications on types of trading. Whatever it is, if you're into trading you always have to do your best on your analysis and continue to improve your knowledge so you can have a good trades.

For the experts or experienced traders, trying to expanse their trading to "future or margin" is no problem. They have enough knowledge and experience to trade in "future or margin" properly. I only warned newbies to avoid using "future or margin" because they still have not enough capacity to begin trading there. The focus for newbies is to learn first, so spot trading is the safest place. While the experts/experienced traders, may target bigger profits, so future/margin can be the right place for them.

This two type is only on binance because we have more than two types of trading, merging trading is also there and others such as you mentioned, futures trading is kind of gambling in nature you can take action as a trader all you can do is to set a trading outcome and wait for it to happens, this is risky and not advisable for newbies.

We should always point out that there are specific coins that their price can decrease but holders should not cut loss because the price of the coins will increase back, coins like bitcoin, ethereum, binance coin and some other coin like that, but there are some coins that are shitcoins, their price will decrease and never increase back but dump more, some even later become dead coin. We should know the type of coins we are dealing with, not all coins are good to buy.

This is most newbie mistakes, because they buy and the price dump, they will decide to cut loss which suppose not to be, they cut lose and they lose money, what is funniest most is that some people will cut loss and the price will not decrease further but start to increase, or the coin will just take a little further decrease and start to increase, this happened to me many times when I was a newbie.

Indeed, I see that many of us cut loss the coin by selling at a low price when the price is down. They do not think that the price can increase anytime, so they only think that selling their coin will save them from a big loss because the situations seem to be getting drops too deep. Well, that will depend on how our analysis because as long as that is about the potential coin, I think we can still hold the coin and buyback for more when the price is down.

I think it is how we can manage our emotions related to the current situation at the market and how good we can analyze the price so we do not get the impact from the downtrend. Maybe it will need more experiences to have that control and that is worth learning about that.

Unfortunately those people are not too much involved in the crypto world, if they were involved then they would know that crypto prices crash all the time, and it will crash again in the future, many times as well. What matters is not the crash, what matters is that you should either do nothing and wait for it to go up or you could buy even more after it crashes to drop your average purchase price and then make a profit.

Long story short the best way to make profit is to never sell when you are in a loss. This doesn't work in horrible coins of course, if you are holding a horrible coin then you can sell, but if we are talking about something like bitcoin they always hold until you profit, it will eventually go up there.

The two main basic types of trading is
1. Spot trading
2.Futures trading
THE SPOT TRADING: this is a type of trading usually recommend for newbies coming into the crypto space. The spot trading allows you to buy a particular coin of your choice and allows you to HODL in your own person wallet for a certain period of time and then sell when the coin appreciates in value. Spot trading is safer because you don't lose your money except you sell below your buy price.
THE FUTURES TRADING: This type of trading is usually found among experts and it's associated with high risk. The futures trading give you the opportunity to use a certain amount of leverage to trade a particular coin. Futures trading require enough skill and discipline to help avoid emotional problems when the market is against your analysis.

Futures trading had more risk than spot trading imagine a trader leveraging with 125X compared to spot trading which is more less 1X a big drawdown or pull back of price will liquidate a future trader's portfolio whereas a spot trader will have their portfolio intact though in a loss, with a good strategy a trader can earn reasonable amount of money in spot trading though requires a considerable amount of funds, thus a good advice to all newbies to start trading with spot trading.

Spot and Future trading are also found on some other exchanges, not only in Binance. Since Future trading has become popular, many exchanges try to have their own future market because many traders possibly try this market. Mostly in the top exchanges, the Future market will be found, it already becomes the main part of crypto trading now. Although it is riskier than Spot, Future offers bigger profits.

Based on my personal experience I do hold some coins in SPOT in my binance wallet and based on my observation there are some specific coins that was worth to hodl in spot trading even if the price of the token decreases because there is always a chance that the price may certainly goes up again and no need to question if bitcoin, ethereum or any on the listed top token in the market are worth it to hodl. Now, I personally hodl coins that was related to NFT games and defi and I still hope it's worth to trade in spot trading i'm still holding and wait till the value gets high again, hopefully.

There is nothing bad to hold in spot as a trader, but not also bad to hold in future. The fee in future is less than the fee in spot, this can be a good way to lessen fee for traders, but not swing traders or holders because they do not trader often like day traders, holding in spot is not bad at all. But I will advice you to move the coins to your noncustodial wallet if you know you only want to hold, to be able to have full control over your coins.

Also the coins listed on future trading are not much like those listed on spot trading, I mean just only few coins are listed on future trading on exchanges, that is the reason some people will like to make use of margin trading all because they do not see the coin to trade listed on future trading but coins listed on spot can be used to for margin trading, that is why spot trading and margin trading are together.

That will happen many times and if we are not ready for that situation, we will not survive in the bad situation instead will leave the crypto because of disappointed with the situation. When the crash comes, we need to calm down and be patient and try to use the moment to buy more.

We need to have a strong hand to hold the coin, especially in a crash situation but that will depend on the coin itself. If the coin is worth holding, then that will be okay to still hold in the crash market.

I will have to disagree with you there, risk exist in every single form of trading and in every single asset you choose to invest, but the risk has different magnitudes, for example it is not the same to invest in bitcoin than to invest in a coin that is being released today, investing in bitcoin has a risk but investing in a new coin has probably 100x the risk you are incurring by investing in bitcoin, and the same is true with spot trading and other forms of trading like futures trading.

Well, all I know is the most basic part of trading is the sell high and buy low, that is the only basic part of trading that I have known since I was entering the trading world. And the OP mentioned is not basic for me, it required a lot of technical strategies before you will potentially gain profit on it. There is no basic strategy in trading that you will gain so fast, it needs patient and just achieve your aim target profit. Spot trading and futures trading are far different if we compare them, but all of them need patients because all of them are in a long-term trading plan. Traders would always prepare for whatever happen to the market.

Has anyone had experience with trading NFT games? I mean pre-sales, public sales, and then re-buying at public sales? I have seen many videos on YouTube where they do this type of practice, where with only 1 BNB that is in 500USD they can multiply it sometimes to 2000usd or more, of course knowing how to do the type of trading, but it is a trading that I think is fast, that has its great risks, but that gives high profitability.

New project usually experienced a price changes really fast because the volume is still low, it's just like the projects finding it's real value before volume going up. Many people doing scalping to the new project to multiple their capital but it's very risky. If the timing is not perfect, we could also loss 50% in a minute. Not worth it if wen are just speculating without knowing what project we are in, and it won't make you profit all the time, there will be the time you will get high loss.

Aren't you also getting a coin in the future trading? But instead of getting it today you will get it at a future point in time. If prices drop then you make a loss because you could buy the coin cheaper at the spot market instead of from the future contract. For me holding a losing coin is not a bad idea. If you don't need the money right away and don't have a better alternative to invest in, why not just hold the coin for a few month. I can understand day traders who want to minimise their risk and will sell a coin as soon as it starts to turn into a loss. I made good returns with HODL.

I think not need to use Spot and Future trading before understanding about trading that which one is the best for his, it maybe bad for him, becouse if he use both trading without any knowledge then he can lost his fund. So he can watch video and others people’s opinion and also he can use demo trading.             

Affirming that spot trading is a better option for newbies might sound easy to them but to me, any trader can decide to trade spot market in respective of your status in the cryptocurrency market. Spot trading is just like normal buying and selling we usually do when we buy a coin and later sell it to other investors and make our gain.

Spot trading might look easy and comprehensive but also have it own risk which can be minimal per say. Let the newbies know that there are certain risks attached to all forms of trading.

In my opinion, if you are good at futures trading then you can easily tackle the spot trading because futures environment is known for high volatility whereas spot markets are always known for highly technical analysis obedient which means you can make use of technical and fundamental analysis more effectively with sport trading.

So, to find which type of trading is good for a beginner, I guess not needed to check on both the environment just checking with futures alone will be enough and fortunately we are having demo trading facility for futures trading these days.

I had been here in cryptocurrency business for a couple of years and yet, I never try to use Future and Margin trading.
Most of the time I used spot trading and I don't see any problem if I stick unto it. And according to what I read, watch in youtube and
heard for some rumors, Future and Margin is much more higher risk rather than Spot trading and I think it is right, actually.

It's not just newbies alone. Even as someone who has been in crypto trading for four years now, I don't like the so much noise and unnecessary risks with margin and futures trading, so I stay with spot trading. It gives me far better peace of mind than the other two. However, despite how safe I think spot trading is, I know it's still not ideal for newbies to jump into it without prerequisite knowledge of what crypto trading is in general and then have the set skills for trading it. Every newbie should be equipped, first of all, before venturing into trading no matter how simple they think it's.

I always prefer spot trading as I'm also a trader , and doing spot trading always because it has some hope of rising the coin and get back to the original position but in future trading I don't even think that in future trading it also happens, What do you think? I means some traders think that they have some hope of getting the profit back?

I don't have big money so I use margin trading at X4. It can make you a bit more money with swing trading if you know what are you doing. The risk is there but still it's worth for me.

Maybe Margin trading is profitable for you but as a beginner nobody can use margin trading becouse have risk on margin and Future trading so i think Spot trading is suitable for everyone becouse easily we everybody can recover their loss on spot trading.                

there are few tips of trading you can take good profit to follow these steps.
1st expert market analysis this step is very important to understand the market position that what is the risastance and what is the supurt cone of market
and the 2nd number is Proprietary and quant rating this is important section use also stop limit and another thing that invest your small amount in first time 

I mostly prefer spot trading, I'm doing it also and having much profits from the previous one or two years, in crypto it is real one and having much benefits as it is a little risky but not that much as the future trading, so it is never betting and can gain much profit through spot trading, and this is the best one to work on, so this was just my opinion.

You are right. Spot trading does not make us feel hard to trade as we do not in a rush to trade. We only need to buy the coin when the price dip and hold it after we buy. They can sell it later, especially if the price starts increasing and they can determine what price they want to sell. But spot trading can be dangerous for people who do not want to learn more about trading as we know that the market can change at any time. Maybe those who want to start with margin and futures trading want to feel the thrill of trading and test how good their skills in trading are. But back to that, if they do not have enough skills, they will hard to profit. So spot trading can be good for learning for the beginning.

Personally I do not like the idea of using leverage however you are using a very small amount and if you have a tight stop loss and you know what you are doing then your risk is still manageable, however we have seen many cases of people that lost everything in a single trade as they used 100x leverage without a stop loss, this means that their risk was sky high and sooner or later they will make a mistake and their whole account will be wiped out.

Spot does really has lesser risk than the futures. It's very known and only those that are good to it will go for futures and if there are newbies that thinking it's a quick profit method, it's true but they should be prepared before they become liquidated. It's not always that they're going to be liquidated but that mostly happens when a sudden turn of the market happens and it's not in their favor. That's why I don't like futures and my heart faints for it so I don't do it.

Spot trading is also safer for beginners because if they make a wrong prediction their assets will remain safe and only their value will decrease.
When you understand spot trading and can do analysis of course everything will be easy, just how to do good management and manage emotions when trading.

I am more into spot trading, maybe future can be more promising, but as we know risk behind it is bigger too. Maybe any trading style, as long it can give you profit, or at least not give you much stress feeling, will be good to pick. Because both maybe have their own benefit and risk and people freely choose what fit to them.

I like futures trading. I am making good profit from futures trading till now. However, it takes a lot of research on coins. I kept up-to-date news of coins all the time. I would match their work by looking at the roadmap of what this project will do in the future. In my opinion, it is possible to do better from futures trading.

^ Spot trading like selling high and buy low is almost the same.
But in spot trading, you need to be patient at all because it needs time before you can consider it is okay. However, there are too many styles in trading that you can apply, as long as your portfolio is ready for trading and you already understand you can buy it and use it. People should understand that trading is not an easy way of gaining profit.

And that is the thing, this is similar to what we see in poker, there are many people playing at the low stakes tables but once you can make money in those tables and you try to move up then you will find out that the level of play has increased significantly and it is way more difficult to obtain anything out of it, the same is true for spot and futures trading, spot trading is not easy but it can be mastered by some traders but the moment they try to move to futures trading then they will have a lot of problems as the skill level increases significantly once you move out of spot trading.

Still its a gamble amd there is no guarantee to make profits even when we took the right coin whereas in spot trading we are in complete charge so we can make profits as long as we hold longer and there is no time limit for that.

I never agree with people who choose futures trading because in my opinion it is gambling, it is very clear not when we choose wrong we will lose money. the whole gamble is so.
different from spot trading where we buy a coin that we can keep until whenever we want either in the future it will go down or high in price. it all depends on the analysis and also our luck in choosing.

right, spot trading is more profitable and we can research carefully, and this will be easier to do, for me. different from futures trading which seems to just need luck, so this is like gambling which ultimately makes us disappointed with the end result

Spot trading is good and once you are clear about which coin to buy and when to sell,  your risk is reduced significantly. The only threat to your fund is the exchange itself.  Future trading is not difficult as many would have you believe.  The same position you take in spot is applicable on future. The only difference is the duration and the leverage used!

No, that is a big difference. When you are not able to hold your positions forever until you prefer to, then you will be enforced to exit as the expiry of the contract which must be a very big disadvantage of futures trading. In spot trading, I will be able to hold for years until my position get back into profit zones. For example, think about the people who bought bitcoins above $15k by December 2017; they might have got back to profits zones only by 4th quarter of 2020 - exactly 3 years of waiting.

Leverage on the other hand, could be utilized in our favor if we are too good in technical analysis but considering against the market volatility, I guess staying away from availing leverage might help anyone to crack profits even in highly fluctuating market conditions.

I use the leverage provided by the Amarket broker in the amount of 1: 1000, and I can say that it really helped me out and helped me a lot.

Yeah, only newbies will share like this and I am sure no reputed forum member will have positive opinion on leveraged trading for sure. Perhaps you might be a paid shilling of above mentioned broker. I am seeing people do suffer a lot when availing 1:5 leverage itself but you are shilling about 1:1000; definitely zero chances to be realistic.

Being too good in TA may not be possible for 90% of traders as real time TA results are almost 50-50% profit/loss ratio and taking it toward 80-20% is purely based on how inattentively we go for TA. Hence, leverage trading cannot be utilized at most cases.

During spot trading you need to be less careful because if you do something wrong and end up losing money then you could wait and then you could still profit. Let's assume that you bought bitcoin at 50k and then it dropped to 30k and you lost money there, but if you could wait and not get out then you are going to be making profit now, and that's how you do in spot trading.

You buy something and hope that you would profit quickly, like making a profit during the 30 seconds you buy and that's the dream, but if you ever buy something that end up dropping in price then you at least have the chance that you could get out later than you expected and you would still be fine. That is why spot trading is a bigger market than any other market.

A large majority of crypto traders focus on spot trading even though they also trade on futures. Spot is the backbone of any trading especially in crypto. Its the place almost all beginners start from (I did so too) and even though I still use margin and trade futures, I always have a couple of spot positions that I just keep open for as long as I want.

Only downside is the lower profitability since 1% on either side of the market will always = 1%.

And how long you have been trading with that insane amount of leverage? Because I can guarantee you that there is no trader in any market that can trade using that kind of leverage for more than a year, you are compounding the volatility of this market 1000x and when we take into account the volatility is already very high in the market then even the most insignificant dip can be more than enough to completely wipe out your account, however if you have to learn the hard way be my guest as it will not take a long time before you destroy your account by using such a  high leverage.

They are more or less the same, but you forgot to say that Futures is a lot riskier. With margin trade, you can easily strand small price reversals whereas with futures you get immediately capitulated

Yes, that forum member looks like a paid shill as they are talking about a broker in many topics as far as I have come across. So, basically if someone is talking about leveraged trading positively then that must be a fake one in most cases.

Being too good in predicting market direction with the help of technical analysis is not easier for most traders. When most traders are failing with their technical analysis part then obviously they must avoid leveraged trading to protect their capital. I had experience of going for leveraged trading but in the end I understood that spot trading is profitable even with smaller ones.

Actually, there are some other types of trading as some members here given information, right?
But for me, I only focus on Spot trading. Why? because I am not really good at analyzing the chart or doing technical analysis. I have tried doing trading in the future market, but I really couldn't and I will not risk my money more in the future market.
That is why I choose Spot trading because it is less risky than future

Actually the two major trading systems in Binance spot and margin but another trading system that you find in Binance exchange platform that's p2p trading. One can easily transfer or trade with local supporting currencies.

it's easier for spot trading, I've experienced it myself, because we just buy a potential coin and then hold it until we get a draw and we exit the market. I think many people prefer it, especially in cryptocurrencies that have this high fluctuation

Only experienced traders should invest in futures trading. Futures work on the principle of derivatives,  making it more profitable and more risky. Spot trading is instant and best for beginners. 

You do not even have to be that "smart" to be trading on spot trading which is why I love it as well. I mean you need to be smart and be good at math and all that if you are doing chart reading and trading constantly, but if you are not doing that, if you are only caring about the situation like "I buy it now, then I will be able to wait as long as I have to whenever there is a good increase" then you do not need much.

I have been doing it for years and I really need nothing to do that, I just do nothing when it drops (maybe buy some more) and then sell it when I am in profit, which I do not even sell for most cases, just ones that I want to get out. This is why I believe it is really great for people who do not want to deal with all of the hard work other trading methods bring in.

nice comment , how often do you buy /sell do you have algo for it ?
When do you sell I mean after 5 % - 10 %  gain ?

Which is why it is stated over and over again in most honest books about trading that leverage trading is something that should be engaged only by the experts, a newbie or even a good trader do not have the necessary tools to be able to manage their leverage correctly, you need a lot of experience, a system that is highly accurate and a trader that can act on the blink of an eye to save their account if they notice there is something wrong going on.

In my opinion almost all kind of active tradings are not suitable for 99% of people (and 1% belongs to pro traders) as those necessary tools and knowledge is not sufficient with them. Against ever-changing market fluctuations, we must need to keep updating our tools and knowledge to stay secured in trading which is not an easier task hence most traders ending in losses.

So, which type of trading will be definitely profitable: holding or long term trading.

I regularly suggest everyone to go for long term trading so that we could easily beat market fluctuations.

There could be at least 10 different types of trading methods are available and a trader does not need to master all of them but must adopt a method which is profitable for them; this way long term trading will be profitable for almost all the 100% of traders.

The use of high leverage must also be balanced with clear knowledge, don't just use high leverage but don't know how to do analysis. must be very wise in using leverage. Futures trading is a very dangerous trade when compared to spot trading. High leverage will provide high profits if the analysis is correct, but if it is wrong to predict and is beyond a guess, then big losses will occur. must always be wise in determining leverage.

Both have tasks especially for newbies but I find futures riskier especially if you aren't well informed about the capability of your coin. Holding would be better for beginners so they would know how to deal with the changes in the market and they could switch to futures when they completely know how to apply at least the basic strategies of trading.

Basics type of trading,scalping trading ,day trading,momentum trading,swing trading and position trading.Most important is can manage and focusing one trading.This are the methodes can you manage to  those activities and operation of trading to take care every tasks and hold the company

These different methods of trading are classified according to time required for closing one trade or by the strategy we are using to predict the direction of market. Honestly not all the traders need to know about all these things but they should adopt one trading method based on their capital amount and level of knowledge in technical analysis.

I am just into position trading because I'm not having enough time to watch market all the times. With the help of position trading we can leave off market screens at whenever we need to, which is not at all possible in day trading and especially while scalping.

Leverage is the highest form of trading that has the highest level of risk/reward ratio. You may lose all of your money or you may make more money than you can imagine. This means that you can't make too many mistakes, even the slightest mistake will cause you to lose all of your entry. Margin of error being so small causes everyone to either be very very good at trading if they are making a profit with leverage, or they end up with nothing at all, literally zero money left.

I tested way back years ago on bitmex demo and I have realized that I am no way near that level of a trader, I rather keep on being a long term investor and occasional trader. This way I know my level, and I know how good I can become, and I make a profit, sure not good enough like a 100x leverage bull run type of income, but it is an income nevertheless so I am happy with it.

Actually spot trading means that do trading instantly. While future trading is somewhat prolong. I think that spot market is little bit full of hazards. If you are not familiar with trading and are new in trading then you should give preference to future trading. There is less chance of losing money.  people often choose future trading and they think that there will be more profit in the future.

For all newbies and old trader's Spot trading is one of the best choice and Future trading are always risky for new traders.
I agree with you that if someone trade on spot market and if suddenly market is crash then their token value will down but token quantity will same and they can sell their token when again market will recover.             

Even though I have been trading crypto for 5 years, but I prefer spot trading, the reason is simple because the risk is smaller than futures trading.
After all, I did have a bad experience when I tried futures trading several times, suffered a considerable loss at that time. So for now I only trade
on the spot market, as long as I choose potential coins, if the price drops, I'm not worried because the potential coins will recover quickly. Although
I admit the income I get from spot trading is not as big as future trading, but if I accumulate it will be big too, then I am quite satisfied with
the spot trading until now.

I suggest for beginners it is better to take the spot method. This method is much safer for them, because they will not lose a lot of money if they fail. They just need to be more patient when the coins they have haven't gone up yet this is quite a difficult challenge, usually many traders are stuck with their own emotions. For the Future method, this seems more complicated for beginners.

Everyone knows what works best for them, I’ve seen a lot of people who would always tell you that Futures Trading is the best for them, and there are also those who would prefer Spot Trading. So, it is up to you as a trader to know what is right for you, whatever you feel that you will be able to do and do it perfectly, then it is best to just do that. Mostly what I do is Spot Trading,and I hardly do the Futures Trading.

But, it’s good to always try out the different ways of trading, they are quite fun and you will also get to experience them and learn a lot, and as well get to know what is going to fit in for you better. That’s it from me.

Yes, spot trading is the safest trade for us crypto enthusiasts. Not only for beginners, those of us who have been in crypto for a long time are also advised to use spot trading. it is safer to trade futures and will not be harmed by dump market conditions. The key is for those of us who use spot trading, patience is very important for us to have.

There is also margin trading i think :)

They are both different things or type of trading. Hodling is not trading and a trader can also hodl same coin so it is not only for beginners to get such advise. However a beginner can desire to trade, he or she can therefore learn how to do that. Learning it is to know the level of risk involved in it and the elementary of trade. Emotions involved in it is important because hodling is far different with trading that carried fast volatility and high risk.

A regular holder will take longer to hold and a trader they hold it for a while and tend to think about volatility quickly so this is a slightly different realm but almost the same, beginners must learn what they want including their emotions must be controlled not to destroy it when the market is bearish and maintaining patience is also an important value, especially for a holder who must be stronger to face the red market.
But that's how a trader will target a sell mark in a short time with a small percentage profit.

Probably some times, I had seen many coins like they down by 1000 of percent and due to the attack of some hackers the coin lose its price or even some coins lose their liquidity, which affect many of the traders, as I had seen a coin Squid coin which dropped by many percent in which most of the traders lose their money, which is very bad for the trader and their investment.

Trading in futures for newbies will never be profitable, this is the easiest way how to throw away your money in an instant, unless you have someone that is giving you free signals on what coin you will enter a trade on a certain price and exit the market on a certain price, then that's a different situation. However, if a person is entirely exploring how futures trading work, he is only gonna lose his money while being frustrated on figuring out how to chase his losses.

In general, I do not try to divide trading into any types and so on. For me, trading is just a process of working based on the knowledge and experience of a trader.

In my case I do the trade that is in the medium and long term, the reason is simple, if there is a significant movement of the market it gives me time to react, if I start sclaping, which is the short-term trade, or trade at very short term, I am not that fast, and well I think that this way I would lose a lot of money, for me long-term trading is safer because I would react and I think I would react in time, of course I would do this with a good Stop Loss to protect myself Although currently there are some exchanges that have tools such as those offered by bitfinex, which is to have the stop loss and take profit at the same time, only then would it ensure well not to lose in the movement.

It depends on how you become a trade some of the people does not want to watch the market over the whole time and they make long term trading its more ideal with this is the spot trading you can manage with the buy low and selling high the coin you have, next is the short term trading this kind of trades mostly happens in the futures trading in this trade we must need to have a fundamental knowledge with the basics such as the technical analysis, technical indicator, leverage and the TP and SL. It depends on the trader what kind of trade they will try to apply.