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We all know how volatile the market is right now especially since we are still near the all-time high. With sudden price swings and unpredictable trends, traders need to be ready with some strategies.
So, what strategies can you advise especially in protecting our capital, some technical analysis strategies? OR some diversification tactics between stablecoins, bitcoin, or altcoins?

Share some of your experiences or tips on effectively trading in these uncertain times.

Everybody has a trading different strategy because everybody is in a different situation. So, I might be using a conservative strategy that aims at wealth preservation but it is because I have a big portfolio which I can't risk on one asset. If you have a smaller portfolio, you might want to go all-in on one asset and hope to get lucky. People do that and grow their portfolios all the time. Then they diversify their portfolios into other assets and asset groups.

The markets are always uncertain if you don't know what you are doing. To those who make money, there is no uncertainty.

Traders' range is usually narrow in a day or 10 days at most, so fluctuations in such a period are limited, unlike investors who are looking for a wider range. Therefore, traders are not looking for solutions to protect their investments, but rather how to take advantage of fluctuations to increase the liquidity available to them.

I usually have a FOMO in time like this which I don’t care whether the price will go down since the amount is just enough to makes me satisfy and to avoid being left out when pump comes.

I don’t do full trading on price near ATH since there’s a lot of instances in the past that heavy correction will occur if there’s no new buyer to pump the price above ATH.

Minimal DCA and range trading is the best on uncertain time like this one.

In uncertain times, it's better to cash out and wait for later times when the market confirms its next trend and you can use your fiat or stable coin to enter it again.

It does not help you to gain additional profit in uncertain times but it does help you to avoid loss. Protect your capital is not a bad practice and because the market is always here, you can enter it again anytime you feel safer, more certain and with intact, no lost capital after exit it in uncertain times.

In uncertain times, trading or holding altcoins is very risky and it's better to exit and wait. It can cause you to miss better prices of altcoins but it is very helpful to avoid loss with altcoins if you predict the market trend inaccurately.

To protect your capital, you must make sure that stoploss is always in most of your trades, no shop loss in any of your trades means you are risking your capital, short and long squeezes can happen anytime and it's something you can't even control from this market, don't forget to make use of it regularly.

Learn to use risk reward ratio, if the trade can't give you more than what you are trading in 3 times more, it's not worth taking the risk. People who make this mistakes are mostly daily traders, you are risking a trade with a capital of $1000 for a $50 profit, it's not worth it.

Understand and read the market before going inside, take the weekend off if you must because times like this are move by manipulation, only week days can give you true information and you know true information is what drive the market, false information will only lead to price manipulation and such can bite you when you don't even expect.

in order to optimize profit on your trades its most advisable that you stick to the stable coin and bitcoin because that way you can be sure to an extent that you wouldn't be really affected by volatility because these coins have got that stability that doesn't allow them to be swept off by any form of volatility just like it does with other altcoins and sometimes these altcoins could be manipulated such that it will get all the investors in by presenting it to looking like it really promising and having a future ahead after which such can may likely get to be ruggpulled more like a pump and dump project.

With bitcoin buying and hodling remains the best strategy especially if you would wan to be investing in the long term and not the short term where you are looking to getting to taking the the profit almost immediately and probably ending the trade, short term is very good with altcoins because they are usually usually affected by volatility so easily so its most definite they may not get to do well in the long term and then you may get to loose your fund but if you are investing in altcoin for the short term the you must keep a good watch on your asset and trad so as to known when volatility is expected and when to exit so you get to maximize profit.

It is not mandatory to always trade as a trader.

A big part of the skills in trading is also knowing when to trade and when not to trade, and times of uncertainty are one period where a trader has to totally avoid trading. It is wise not to trade during such times. During uncertain time, decision-making are mostly based on assumptions. When you are unsure of the direction of the market as a trader, it is best to just observe the market and see it's behavior, so you can learn for another time when you see the same movements.

If you are a leverage trader which I don't recommend, you can go for the tight stop loss, even in the spot market you should manage the risk properly based on every trade as your TP and loss. As a trader your goals should be clear, you should be mentally prepared and plan how much profit in this volatile I want to make and how much loss you can afford if anything uncertain happens.

As most of the trade in such market seniors are in profit, I'm excluding short-term trades you should book profits according to plan, at least get something out of the market because never know what is going to happen so booking profit is also risk management, and cutting loss = profits. Keep a close eye on the news because, in a bullish market, news has a huge impact on the market. That it a quick overview of check list in the uncertain market for more keep posting (Just kidding, trying to put some spice in the post).

There is no doubt that the market is now in a bullish state but a trader should not be in a hurry to get too much. I have seen some traders who invest without any kind of analysis. They think that investing at this time can be profitable, but the reality is against this idea. The market is now hovering around 67k but the altcoins are still not bullish. Investor must verify before investing. I invested a portion of my investment at this time but also stabilized a portion there. Because I know that the market can turn at any time. Also, if there is a slight correction, I can add some more investment there. All in all I hope to exploit the volatility and expect good things to come out of it. It is also important to invest while diversifying your investments, observing which assets are profitable during uncertain times.

Personally i will say if you’re not that type of person that can handle swings of the crypto market then I will advice you stop trading and just invest into coins and do a long term holding it is more save than trading. Although while you engage in trading you can also just utilize the swing trading pattern of a trading a particular trade for over a week.

As for technical analysis strategies, my advice is just master one particular strategy and do not go moving from one strategy to another. Just backtest your strategy multiple times till you perfect it on a single trade. You don’t need to trade many of the pairs just one which align with your strategy is ok.

Yes you can diversify but I don’t see buying bitcoin and adding other Altcoins as actually a portfolio diversification and my understanding was that bitcoin controls the market. So if you’re looking for coins to avoid volatility then altcoin is a runaway place for you. Altcoins are far volatile than bitcoin

If you feel you are not sure with the market, you can always hold to the coin you most preferred for long-term like btc. I won't trust much USDT or other centralized stablecoins, as they are still managed by people you have no idea what their next plan is. I always keep in mind the time (I believe it was 2019) when USDT team admitted that they are not totally backed by fiat. So with the current situation, I won't totally trust that they are fully backed or whatever they are saying to public. No harm done if you have reservations as it is your funds.

Crypto Community Reacts to Tether Admitting USDT Not Fully Backed (https://cryptonews.net/news/altcoins/141646/)

The market isn't a perfect place for assurance. That's why speculation is the order of the day in this industry. If the market is very volatile and I don't know what bias (direction) to follow, I steer clear off the market. I don't like trying to dictate to the market what to do because I feel compulsion towards a particular direction. No! That's a wrong move. Besides, there's no point being in the market when one doesn't have any business doing so. No one has to constantly be in the market because one wants to wear that "I'm a trader" tag. What matters in trading is the profit one makes and not the number of times one trades.

When you are on such condition on which you are really that uncertain with the actions that you are tending to make just because you do look that the market isnt something that good for you to trade or dive on then
it would be better that you should really make out some break or having some pause on dealing up with the market because on the moment that you are feeling up on this way then you cant really that think off well on the things that you would really be that tending to do just because you've seen that the market is really that hard to predict as always or something you have that feeling that it is really that too gloomy
for you to make some entry or involvement. It is one of the wise actions on which having that kind of observation on making condition.

Although if we do think up generally on how this market works and behaves then it would be that always that unpredectable or something that would be random.
When it comes to opportunities then it would be something that cant become zero on which opportunities could really be there and its up to someone whether they would really be making out
some involvement or not which it would really be just that depending on them.

when the market is uncertain, it may just be good to stop trading and wait til you see the market trend is visually useful for you than just blindly trying it out in the dark.

most of us have a strategy of our own but most of us in crypto understand the cycle to follow which is almost the safest way to do it. unless you are up to scalp every satoshi you wanna get.

Hmm a good piece of advice, but as we all know the impatience and greed of getting something out of such volatility cant be endured by everyone so people mostly fall into the traps, about which they always guide others to stay conscious.

My recommendation to the newbies in the Bull market is to stay calm and keep accumulating whenever you feel the right entry point it has nothing to do with the TA and Physclology just stay in touch with the market you'll know the points the enter such as major dips.

Perhaps, just go with your instincts which sounds like gambling but not really, you have the chart and you notice that something is ticking when you see sudden spike or liquidation then all you can do is just what you feel at the moment.

To save your capital from liquidation, using stop loss is enough but technical analysis, strategies and whatever we know about trading will not guarantee you the profits either so just go and do what you wanted to do, and accept the results with no hard feelings.

it's the piece of advice i took from a forex trader actually. so originally it's not mine.  ;D

i couldn't find the exact line where i read it but basically, it says something like this;
if you find yourself in a market position where you have no idea why you entered an unsure market, you might as well exit because 90% possibility that you will lose.  always bear in mind that the trend is your friend.

Taking profits in stable coins first so that I'll decide if I'll buy back or I'll going to convert it into fiat. That's always part of the plan because before I just trade directly from crypto that I trade and hold to fiat without going through a stable coins until the time made me realize that it's a good strategy to stay it there first for me to decide whether I'll be going back and do some quick buy back and if not, that's going straight to my pocket literally.

Yes, this is true on which on the moment or time that you dont have some good feeling on making up some trading with the market condition then it would be better that you should skip or call it a day. The market wont really be lacking or would be in short of opportunities or simply it would be always having that chance or moments on which you could enter on the right time. There are really indeed conditions or situations on which you could feel
so better skip up and wait for another day because you would be making some trading again. Plus, trading into those moments on which you do have that kind of odd feeling doesnt really bring any good to you since you are having that bad feeling or odd one then it would really be just that stopping you on making good analysis since your mind is been bothered and this is something that must be avoided because it will really be giving out that huge effect  into your trading which it would really be that a disadvantage. Market could really be worst because it could go up and down like a roller coaster, its whether its been affected with some sentiments or
having no reason at all on which it would really be that so hard to point out on whats the actual reason on why the market is something like this. On the moment that you do have already experience in the market then you wont really be making yourself having those shock or having those surprises on how this market behaves or works and since you are getting used to it then you do have already the idea on what you should gonna do on that particular point or moment.

What I did is that I keep myself focused on small earnings rather than hunting big. I take the opportunity to sell when there is a price increase and not wait for its peak, at least if I could make 1% of every successful trade, I'm already happy and feel safe. It is really a matter of choice of coins and I use different styles of trading depending on the situation. Sometimes we also apply holding especially in times of correction. We need to listen to the market movements and not all the time is good for trading, there is time also to pause and wait for the price to recover as it is difficult to trade when the trend is declining.

If you know the currency is not stable and cant predict the good time to trade then its better not to trade, that is also why its better that you have a lot of options, I mean is that I personally have some currency that I currently engaging so that if I dont see a clear view, price movement or prediction in one of the currency I'm investing in then I would look for the other currencies , that's why I dont understand others that they despise altcoins, altcoins are profitable you just need to find the altxoins that has the potential through analysis and such, and based on my experience and trading, I'm saying that I still earning while trading some altcoins and sometimes in shit coins, you just need to make your own opportunity.  So that you could make any currency profitable on your own, skills, knowledge, and experience are very important.

Trading is mostly profitable if you know the market is favorable to trade, but if there is uncertainty and you are not confident on your trading strategy, or whether it will work or not, it’s best to just leave the market as it is and don’t risk your funds in trading. Sometimes, the best way to stay profitable is to never trade at all, most especially if the market seems to be not going on your side.

Trading is not just a skill game, but definitely a mental game as well. Knowing when to trade and when not to shows that you are trading responsibly, by not chasing profits even if the market is incapable to.

I'm using dual investment at binance trading, and I saw stable profit despite of uncertainty. Though I gain lesser returns it seems I got stable and secure trading and I definitely made my asset more secured compared with other ways like with futures. I haven't experienced yet with stablecoins, only ethereum was the one I got for a meanwhile because that's more profitable than other alts in my own opinion.

I usually use stable coins to park capital before making a purchase, so that if the price enters the buying area, then I can buy with that stable coin. Indeed, trading on large exchanges is more profitable, and also don't forget to choose the top coins to make trading pairs, because it will be easier to analyze them, rather than new coins which are more volatile.

In uncertain, I trade more patience and can't make short term trading target behind many altcoins or bitcoin its self price stuck and difficult raise to higher price. Its my way of trading when uncertain time but every trader has their own way or strategies keep effective earn profitable although in uncertain time in trading.
For me, keep focus with not many coins for checking or analyzing because always get separated few percent moving up or down and take opportunity as more patience waiting when raising more lower price. Indeed get more longer time waiting price moving up but its most effective strategies trading when uncertain moment in trading. Don't make your self on pressure when trading should be taking profit in daily day or not behind market price can't moving up in short term.

It's a nice enquiry, but first know that the traders/investors who are trading long-term do not have to worry much about the uncertainty of the market. All they need to do is to ensure that they know their technical levels to know what the market is doing, and since they are trading long term, it will be difficult for the market to hit the levels that they will consider as a reversal that would warrant them to either close their trade, liquidate it or the trade hit the stop loss by itself. Emphatically, technical analysis is the best type of analysis in the market, this is unless you do not know how to use it well, as it will tell traders everything possible they need to know regarding the market and will also suggest to them what they will have to do in any market situation.

However, in uncertain times, the market can be so unpredictable, so if I am a short-term trader, I will not bother myself to trade at that time, that's just the solution. Otherwise, you will be wasting money over and over again because the market could be confirming the buy signal and sell signal at almost the same time. Nonetheless, if it is an investment, then it is safer, and you can hold your investment because it is not something that will be affected so much in this situation since it is all about long-term analysis and pattern, so it is mostly covered during uncertain times.

I only advise traders to liquidate their position in investment only if the monthly chart turns bearish in a more determined view.

We need to know for beginners before entering the world of investment or trading in it that prices need to be known that no one can predict accurately, investing is full of risks. Not all alts are hated by everyone, typical people are of course different in determining their targets in choosing the assets they want to own, investors still have a lot of interest in alts, meaning alts that have very good quality or fundamentals. Agree with what you said, we can't just focus on one asset, we can look at other assets to get income or profits from investments Experience is very valuable or very important in choosing an asset

Maybe just not trade at all if you are not certain about what you are doing? I personally understand the logic that you want to make sure you know what you are doing, but sometimes we need to realize that we are not really doing anything that we need to be doing. Some people make some money the way they want to make and some people just lose money in the end, there is really nothing that could stop that, and we should consider getting better with time.

I personally believe that the best thing to do would be just recovering from this fact and not going on it at all. If you fear that the times are uncertain and trading is hard, just stop and keep it long term and hold until you find times to be a lot better eventually.

To be honest this is the time when traders make most profit as I personally try investing more time into trading because fluctuations allows us to increase the trade frequency and slightly increased the profit margin we set of trading grid wherein sideways market is the worst thing where we don't get much. It's simple during the uncertain market as there would be multiple fluctuations allowing us to increase the total trades. But it doesn't have to be same for everyone as I am sharing my strategy.

One secret you are not going to hear much about, but that is used by experimented traders is that if for some reason you do not feel comfortable with the way the market is behaving, you can simply stay out of it and stop trading for a time, it is not really an elaborate strategy or anything like that, but it is very effective, since you can avoid trading during the times in which the market is presenting some erratic movements and save yourself from trading under those difficult conditions.

In trading, every trader has their own strategy; they have their own method that always favours them; they don’t really depend on different methods; most of them use one strategy, so to me, I can’t advise any trader or give them any tips right now because before trading, they all have their own knowledge and tips they use. So you can see that giving them my own method now will make some of them confused, especially those who are new to trading or those who have already gotten used to only one method. So you can see that giving them another method may be a higher risk for them because they may not have used such a method before. 


Exactly what I’m trying to say, the strategy we use is not the same, so to me, it is improper to share our strategy, though many traders hide it because most of them don’t want people to know the type of strategy that they use. However, I also think this is another opportunity for traders that have knowledge of trading because the market is rising, as we can see, just like you did too, and I believe you testify to it because I also have people close to me who are knowledgeable traders that are making profit out of their trades these days.

For me, I have many strategies so that if one doesn't work, the other will work for me. So if I want to trade in uncertain times, I will first and for all, go and do research about it or I ask experience traders who are already into the system before I do, from what they said, I will then know if I should go ahead or not and this case, I might not trade with all my capital, so that I won't be at loss for the sake of my mental health.

To be honest, it’s hard to trade when you are uncertain with how the market moves. Instead of chasing profit opportunity, it might even bring you losses if you force to trade while there are uncertainties in the market. Even trading experts do not trade all the time, as they also need to analyze first whether the market is favorable to trade or not, otherwise they will end up with inevitable losses in trading. I suggest if you are not sure with the outcome of your trade, don’t trade. Traders should know when to trade and when not to.

Honestly, we are all experiencing and feeling up on the same way on the moment that we've seen that the market is really that moving without basing any technical analysis or even basing up with
some fundamentals but it doesnt getting in line with those sentiments, then it would really be just that normal that you would really be having those kind of doubts whether you should really be proceeding or making up some trading or not. It would really be just that up to you since not all would be that good when it comes to decision making on which they would really be still proceeding on doing such act because
they've been really that still that positive that whatever things or decisions that they would make will really be that resulting into positive on which it is really that a very wrong approach or belief
that you do have in mind. If you are in doubt then its not bad to take up some break and wait for the market to settle down.

Always buy when the price dumps and hold, that's what I always do to secure my bitcoin holdings. start accumulating bitcoin and do money management to make repeat purchases when the bitcoin price crashes. My main price target will be higher and that is for the long term. Everyone has their own strategy depending on how much capital they have or the target price they want to achieve.

I have to agree. Do not chase for big profits in trading most especially when you are trading while the market is uncertain. Instead, learn to accept small profits and be satisfied with it, as not all traders have the potentials to earn when the market is showing no positivity. Or you can always chose not to trade and just observe the market first, and come back to trade only when you see bigger chances for a successful trading. Reality is a good trader should not  be trading and hunt big profits at all times, because that will only push yourself to lose an amount you can’t afford to risk.

Experienced traders know time to stay silently and do nothing, no trade in the market. When the market is uncertain for its next movement and trend, the best practice is do nothing, don't trade is best.

If you trade, you will put yourself in risk of bad control. I understand that don't chase big profit looks to be safe practice but it is not as good as don't trade.

There are a lot of time and chances in future to trade so let's skip uncertain market time.

This is a good recommendation, I agree with you.

In any market, always use Stop loss or Stop limit order to avoid market crash and avoid big loss.

It is very important that traders means their risk management and how how to mean it work for them so that they don't end up crashing their trading accounts. In this time when the market is uncertain, we need to be very conscious of how many trades we are taking per day so that so we don't risk too much to make nothing. The market is volatile and we'll have to know how we enter trades so that we don't have to keep taking trades when anything can happen in the market that could make us lose trades.

Having come from prop firm trading I have learnt that risk management is a skill every trader needs to learn, and when it comes to protecting capital this will depend on how much capital you have...if amount you have is a lump sum then you are better off risking about 0.5%-1% per trade while if amount is much small you can increase your risk appetite to say 10% of capital per trade because at the end of the day this is not a play day people need to get paid and pay bills as we ain't getting younger... Eyes on making profit  ;D

My trading strategy is based on smart money concepts and to give myself a winning chance I trade on the 15m and 1 hour timeframes ..anything lower has alot of noise and anything higher means waiting days before my setup plays out especially that am an intraday trader ;) so I like to be in and out of the markets as quick as possible.

Uncertain market movements are very difficult for the analysis process in trading. even to determine the time to enter the trade, because the situation will be more likely to not go according to our plan.
in a bad market situation, I would be better off not trading. but if you really want to trade it is better to choose the most appropriate asset. especially altcoins or even memecoins which have very fast price changes.
Don't increase the risk with high multiplication.

In trading you must need to know what are the current market situation next is what are the possible move of the market with the help of the technical indicator, and signals you can easily manage the risk if the position you are keeping an eye is ideal to trade or ideal to skip, not all market movement is ideal to make a trade if you are not sure better prepare for more clearer possible movement. Unless you are willing to take a risk with unsure information with the chart.

I think a lot of exchanges are now supporting a fiat, cards and other payment methods but it is still up to you if you feel better using a stable coin. It may seem that larger exchanges had a bigger volume, so trades are always possible but there are users who are not satisfied on other features that they offer.

This is why there are still a demand for small and medium exchanges. Top coins are easier to analyse or they are more stable but the profits that we might get from them are sometimes smaller than dealing with a highly volatile crypto but of course, their risk are only/also high. We need to choose our side according to our personality.

Trading at a market where you think you aren’t sure how it will move after you trade will only add more risk of losing. That’s why good and responsible traders never risk trading if the market is highly uncertain, otherwise they will only end up losing their capital.

Trading is not supposed to be done at all times, or when you think you have good vibes to trade. You should consider first the market condition and if it’s not good and favorable enough, better not to trade at the moment so you can avoid inevitable losses that time.

I don't think there will be any special methods, tactics and strategies that a trader will be using to trade in this period because what you have doing in the trading field will be the same and nothing will change. Op you have to k ow that this year bitcoin has hit all time high. Though it has not reached the All (everyone) predicted price which is the $100k for this season. And all what the traders need to do is to know the chart movement so that in the trading time when the market is about to show red, you have to know fast to close the trade and know when the market is about to go up and start the trade. Understanding these two chart tools is the major thing to know in trading.

Trading is more related to control risk and capital management, if you can do both of these well enough, you will lose money.

Control risk is like, don't trade if you are not certain about the market, what it will move next.
Capital management is like, don't use all money for trading. Use a proper part of your capital for trading, that part should be small enough like 5 to 10% of your capital for trading. The rest part, much bigger, is for investment in assets that you consider a strongest and safest, like Bitcoin.

In uncertain times, it's risky to trade so let's skip trading and focus on your DCA for investment or just don't do anything. Just do your works beyond trading, do more physical activities, spend more time for your family.

Traders if watch charts too often, will get many big problems. They must limit how many trades they make one day and how many times they spend for trading, watch the chart one day. Overdo trading or watching price charts, will cause more emotional and psychological issues that will affect trading decisions.

Oftentimes, traders succeed on their trades because they use reliable skills and strategies. But what if the market is hard to predict and is very uncertain? I believe the best option to that is try not to trade and take a break from trading. You don’t trade and expect positive outcome every time you decide to trade. Some may just gone out of your control and see yourself end up trading at a loss, and that is normal in trading. Even experienced and skilled traders never seize trading opportunities at times, not because they are afraid to lose, but they just don’t have the control to win their trades despite of an uncertain market condition.

I don't force myself to trade if the market is uncertain. I would prefer just to watch the market and do nothing. I only trade if I see market conditions are good to avoid confusion in analysis.

When market conditions are uncertain, our analysis can be inaccurate. This can lead to a wrong decision to enter the market because our analysis is not precise. The choice of coin can also result in errors.

We should not do anything when the market is uncertain. This is to avoid losses that could occur because we could be inaccurate in our analysis. But if you are confident that you can overcome uncertain market conditions, you can try to analyze the coin, but be careful about sudden reversals.

Recently, the situation on the market is ambiguous and it is becoming increasingly difficult to get results from trading. But nevertheless, if you have experience, then there will be income. If everything was so bad, then few people would do this. I traded binary options, where the income is much higher, since there the percentage of income is on average 80 percent of the transaction. But in addition to the ability to analyze charts, you must follow news in the political and financial sectors. This always turned the graphs unpredictably.

If we do talk or speak about volatility then this has always been present on dealing up with the market, it is really just that there are moments or conditions on which the market is neither really that too volatile on which it doesnt really that goes along with market sentiments or new or even with technicals, or on the moment that it would really be having that sideways movement.

If you are someone whose really that having that kind of mind boggling in regarding about the movement and have no confidence on dealing up with the market then it would be better and wise
that you shouldnt really be that making yourself being forced on making up some position but rather you should that make yourself that having that break or pause at least.
Trade up on the moment that you do gain back that confidence or on the moment you've seen the market had settled down.

I simply exist the market if the setup does not suit me . The market can be very manipulative most atimes don't think it is a good idea to trade when you know the market is simply that bad it is better to stay out till things improve before jumping in . Many traders have lost their account as a result of trading uncertain Market conditions so why should one take that risk if he is unsure of the market

At uncertainty times, if we cant afford for the risk, its more better that we stay away from trading and hodl our asset in USDT till we are able to figure out a particular good and safe entry point to start our trades, its important that we know the specific trade we are going for in a particular time and also have the patient required to wait till we have the achievement being done concerning our trades.

It's the best time to trade in my opinion. That when your skills are judged and your real trader come out. Everyone can trade for long-term easily in the nonvolatile market conditions like investing into coins like BTC you know that now or later you'll get the profit.

But trading daily on different coins and getting out of the market at the right time is the best way to showcase your real trading skills.

I wouldn't want to advice trading are this point due to the volatility which could actually amount to losses by the traders but investing especially for long term of for those who are willing to stack assets can utilize the lows the market will be making this period as good entries to stacking or investing so they will be able to as much as possible maximize profits from the moves that will be seen in thw market after now in the next bull run.

Technical analysis sometimes isn't all you may need to make the best decisions in the market because it may most definitely going to have it's own effect due to the basis and the fact that the market respects nobody buy moves as it wishes.

What I'm doing is simple, because I have other holdings that I always do day trading and others that focus on long-term holdings. Because I also need to get profit even if not every
day but at least three times a week.

But of course we must have a deep understanding of trading, because otherwise we will not be able to get profit most of the time in the crypto space.

You did the right thing. It’s hard to chase bigger profits when there is uncertainty in the market, so earning a small amount is something to be thankful already. Not all traders are given chances to take profits when the market is not at its best condition, but if you are still earning, it means you are exceptionally good and reliable trader. However, for most of the beginner traders, it’s best not to do trading during uncertain times. Its hard to combat the market and instead of anticipating profits, mostly beginners end up trading at a loss. This is why trading during uncertain times is never advisable.

I don't trade when the market is uncertain but this time, we all know that it's bound to the bull run and that's why it's easier to trade.

My tip to the futures traders, just don't leverage a lot because even if we're going to North, the possibility of the market going the South is still high.

Some flash crash may occur even if the sentiment is bullish.

It will probably depend on an individual's personal financial goals and targets. Some would have low targets to be met and some would have higher targets, and they would base their trades according to their targets.

If your target percentage for each day or week is low as a day trader, you wouldn't take a lot of risks, and you will make use of the dips to buy and sell when there are small pumps after the dips to cover what you are looking for.

If you are looking at the long-term outcome, you would be better of using the DCA method to collect the cryptocurrencies of your choice and keep holding them until you see them hitting your target price.

I always use highly volatile coins and stable coins trading pairs. Sometimes it works well but sometimes, as normal I lose.
I would say that trading is just good and profitable during bull season but not during bear season. Although I was not a full-trader but with my experience in all market seasons, I could really feel the big difference. And this is what I usually did, I held during the market crisis and just went back to trading when it started to recover. From that strategy, I secured my funds but I'm not sure if this will work on others because of different styles and market approaches.

But for me, we'd rather not trade if we feel uncertain instead, hold them. There are good and bad times for trading, we must know it through market analysis and experience.

In uncertain times, price is usually boring and it does not change too much. It often fluctuates up and down with very small price change margin. It's not intersting time for trading because when you trade, you need volatility. However, if you are in uncertain time, you will now know that next big volatility will be up or down, and it's very risky to hold your position and hope that market will move up or down to give your position profit.

I will wait for the market to start its high volatility time, a big crash, then I wait for like 30 minutes or 1 hour, before I start trading. If you want a safer entry, you can wait like 4 hours after a crash to enter the market.

Trading is for both market types, bear and bull. In bear and bull market, you always will see market crash, correction but if you can wait for it to happen, wait for a few hours for market to calm down, you can trade in both bear and bull market.

Trading means you don't let your position opens for a long time and you don't hold your position in days or weeks.

One of the way is for us to keep saving when their are funds available for us to spend.
In one time or the other, problem could come that would make us seek for financial help and if we already have the fund available, we could go for it and use it to settle the problem on ground. Trading in am uncertainty time need lots of risk management and also need to have extra funds so in case the market volatility swallow our funds which should not be if we have risk management in place and if we have be following it. We just keep to keep trade simple and less risky.

I'm generally a long term holder, not really worried by price fluctuations but if I have to dabble into short term trading with some spared funds, I will consider looking at the range that price has hit the most in recent times which in this case is between $60k to $70k. I will be willing to buy anywhere  near $60k and sell around $70k. The plan will be to continue this until the range have been broken then other trading opportunities can be explored.

The market have shown serious reluctance to test the ATH, this is the reason price is always dropping back into the range whenever it crosses the $70k region. The market is probably building momentum and this will take a long time before we see any massive move above this range.

I don't think you need only volatility to trade but along with that the perfect market conditions that supports volatile crypto market are very important otherwise the volatility will only bring losses for you.

We can advise a term know as positive volatility to explain that volatility requires some positive things in it so that it could lead to profits then losses.

Right now it’s not uncertain times, we are still in a bull market. Blackrock etf is still adding bitcoins to their portfolios for clients who buy the etf.

Uncertain times are more like 2015 or 2019 where we weren’t sure if crypto was dead or not. Price went nowhere. People just withdrew their crypto because market was not going anywhere.

Those are not the same times as now.

Understanding the market situation is perhaps necessary. Trading during uncertain times is just like gambling, hoping for some luck to make a profit. There is no easy way of doing it but as a trader, we know what we gonna do that particular time and the strategy I see is to slow down and be patient because the market is not moving fast, unlike during bull season. That is why a trader doesn't just know how to trade but also how to hold. Patience is very important in trading and that also leads us to success whatever the situation we have.

If someone trades in an uncertain situation then it is likely that they are just hoping for luck from the trade they make and it would be better when someone decides to trade to know well the time they will use to enter the market in order to make a profit on the trade they make and of course every trader has their own strategy for entering the market to make a profit, patience when trading of course we will be able to analyze the market well and will also be able to make the right decisions and also they will not trade greedily.

To be ready is a must at all times because even if we think the market is in a stable condition, there are still instances that it changes suddenly and we can get shocked with it and not do the right actions which can be a reason for our losses. Technical analysis is a kind of analysis and not some kind of a strategy but it is still a recipe for us to lessen our risk and even if we lose less, I guess that still counts as protecting our capital.

Diversification is the ones that can be considered as a strategy. Bitcoin should be our base and then we need to choose a stable coin and altcoins properly because not all of them are worth it for our money.

Well, to be honest, trading in uncertain times is much more risky than calmed time. I personally stay away from the market when the sentiment is uncertain, even until the conditions are favorable for trading then I do trade because I myself have experienced this thing that whenever there is a bull run, I have noticed this thing from the trading point of view that In a bull run, the market does not follow the expected pattern it follows the UN expected pattern like it's following the trend as it is now. 
 
So if the dynamic of the market is uncertain, then it is beneficial to stay away from trading because if you stay in the market, you will lose due to liquidation. Trend is your friend, if you follow the trend, then you are right, otherwise the market can cause you to lose if you go against the trend.

Many traders have the delusion they can control what the markets do or that they are way smarter than the majority, and they choose to go against the trend thinking they can make more money this way, and while this strategy may have its merits, especially in a market that spends most of its time ranging, this is a terrible strategy to try to implement on an asset that has strong trends, like it is the case of bitcoin, so by employing that strategy they could make some short term profits, but over the long term bitcoin will reclaim those profits and most of their capital as well.

Agree. It is clear that we are in the bullish season and we are likely not reaching the peak yet. This should be easier to trade because the prices of crypto coins tend to increase more. Even if we have some dumps or big correction, it should be temporary. We can see the price of Bitcoin and altcoins to begin raising again well. TBH, I think to more comfortable trading in this season than in 2022-2023 (bearish season).

After Bitcoin ETF is approved, the future of Bitcoin and crypto market look brighter. Moreover, big companies like MicroStrategy still continue accumulating Bitcoin, it is a good sign for sure. We have no reason to feel worried and assume it is uncertain time.  ;)

2014-2015, 2018-2019, and 2022-2023 are the period of bearish seasons. So it makes sense if we feel it is uncertain time. There were many FUDs or negative news in the years, it triggered the price of all crypto coins to be freefall. Anyway, even if we have uncertain time, it doesn't mean crypto market will be dead forever.  :)

Well, you have a point. The market is not at its uncertain times actually as we are heading for a bull run within the next few months. And because of that, trading at this moment may not be attractive as majority are buying and hodling to ensure good amount of bitcoin before bull run happens.

Now, talking about uncertainties in the market, trading is not best option if there are any. But if you are an experienced trader and you know on how to make profits despite of its market uncertainty, then trading could be considered.

If you are uncertain then just dont simply make any trades.  8)

There are really those moments or times that you would really be skeptical on making any trading decisions on which you would really be bothered on making some entry or even exits.
On the moment that you are in verge in between trading up or call it a day then it would be best that you should be having a break or would be skipping out.
Market is really that volatile at the same time there are moments on which it is really that moving sideways or really that having no movement at all.

There are certain strategies of trading. If you follow them it is possible to be successful in trading. Like analyzing the market situation and then trading. Do not leverage too much. Do not trade repeatedly. There is a possibility of losing capital as a result of repeated trading.  Greed should be restrained in trading. Repeated trading in the hope of more profit risks losing capital. And newbies are seen doing the same.  Which causes them losses and creates trading diversions.

I'm keeping some USD to buy more when the price falling to where I put my buy order, when something uncertain happen it's better to avoid leverage trading cause price can fall suddenly and make your trade liquidated. Always use TA when we want to trade and look for the TA result, know the risk if we enter the market now because not everyone ready for FUD out there. 

Knowing the fair market value of any particular crypto currency on the open market as at the time of wanting to trade is a big determinant to making profitable return or loss during trade either in uncertain times or in the times when it becomes very necessary to diversify ones portfolio to include other coins and tokens as investment for future or present goals.

There's nothing like trading during uncertain times, what you call uncertain times are what smart traders use in making profits. The market is available always for you to make profits, you just have to be able to analyzing correctly so you don't enter the wrong trade. Your analysis mightn't be accurate always but it'll give you an idea of what is likely going to happen to the market and you can use that knowledge to make profits. Every time is an uncertain time in cryptocurrency as nobody knows what'll happen next.

During the bull market, there are times when the market gets bearish and during the bear market there are times too that the market might pump a little because of some positive news that the market receive so lets not think that the market moves in other one way, there are reasons why the charts aren't in one direction but like a wave that moves in opposition direction frequently. You can trade in all conditions of the market and make profits.

The market is really unpredicatable, especially if you are a day trader who does daily trade with the timeframe playing between 1 hour and 4 hours. Sometimes, when you notice that you are only using spot and not futures, you will feel it right away.

Because what you think should be like this will not suddenly happen because its direction does not agree with the analysis you made using some indicators that were used,
you know what that means.

After all these years, I have come to learn that we can make money in all kinds of trends.
There are basically 3 trends i.e. bull, bear and then the sideways trend which are all favorable to make some decent profits.
Everyone has a different strategy and it is the based on that we can make profits.
No one strategy will favor a trend, you will have to keep looking for it and keep tuning it to make profits.

If it's very easy to navigate and walk pass losses and my experiences I want to share are as follows.

-Don't trade at all: it might sound harsh but one of the ways to avoid loss in trading is to never trade at all, there is no need to force a trade when the condition aren't favorable particularly when the market is choppy without volatility, there is no need to trade when the market is not going to give much profit than what you are risking(risk management) and finally avoid trading when your conscience tells you not to, it helps sometimes.

-Learn to use tight stop-loss: I was having a conversation without one guy claimed to be a trader and he was arguing that one don't need stop loss in future trading and insist, his claim was that as long as your trade is not closer to liquidation price, you don't need to worry about stop loss that the market always comes back and then I told him what if in that process it never or something terrible happen to the market and he was silent. There are something we can't just control and to avoid it, take precautions and your measurements is using tight stop loss.

-Work more on your technical and Fundamental analysi: You can't enjoy trading without understanding how the market behave, you need to understand fundamentals news of any coin you choose to trade and learn to use that with technical to make your trades.

Actually, I'm not a regular trader or not the kind of day trader. But I am doing such trading activities in certain times. Yes, I am also well aware that market fluctuation and volatility cannot be controlled and cannot be avoided. However, lately, market movements have been quite fast and very difficult to predict. Even the opening days of each week are quite different, the cycle is no longer the same as before. therefore, sometimes it is quite difficult for me to manage it.

That's why, lately, it's enough to stop first while studying market conditions and cycles. So, this is done to reduce the risk of loss which has been happening to me lately. Indeed, sometimes we need to stop first to understand more deeply about what we should do next if the strategy we usually use no longer applies or is no longer working well. Because there is definitely something that needs to be adjusted or updated according to the conditions that occur in the market.

It seems that there needs to be a separation between entering coins or tokens that you want to invest in for long-term future purposes and trading purposes for a certain duration of time via the market. Because seeking profits through investment can be very different from seeking profits through trading which can be done temporarily on certain tokens or coins only through the current market. So it is very necessary to separate these two things so that it does not make it difficult for us to make better decisions and choices for our own portfolio.

     In the season we are having right now here in the crypto space, there is no doubt that we are really in a bull run, although at this time we are still in the current correction we are facing due to Mt. Gox's endless fud. I just read this in an article.

     Anyway, I am currently doing day trading activity on an exchange where I have assets somehow. I'm still studying now because my knowledge is only superficial, but even if I know a little about trading, somehow I can apply the rest to the actual trade itself to get a profit—not every day, but at least there is one every week.

Don't trade in bad market for long now I have lost alot of money doing that before. I now prefer to wait for good set-ups that presents itself in good market before I can put my money ,don't need more losses in my account anymore . Almost lost my account awhile back that is why I am more careful in trading nowadays

I only long when I see that the bull market is close like this. But I do set stoploss because of market volatility. And it's been working out well. Although, I do miss some short opportunities normally but I always feel like the best decision is to long wisely at a good entry point.

In bear season we cannot make money but we can make investments to be profitable in bull season because bear season is the only better time in which we can buy our favorite coin at a lower price. Bull season is to take out your profit if you have already invested in the coins the worth of which has been increased so only those can take profit who bought the coin at a lower price and the hold coin is a worthy one.

Selection of trending coin is also a good choice but I think holding a trending coin for years is not a wise idea therefore one should follow different strategies by realizing that which strategy is suited well to your asset. These days meme coins are trending so one can make profit by buying and selling some good meme coins but keep in mind that meme coins are only profitable due to its trend otherwise there is always a lot of risk with its investment.

You also do not need to trade when you are unsure, I understand that some people may feel like they want to trade no matter what happens, but the reality is that we are not going to end up trading just because we wanted to, it is not how any of this works.

I believe that we should consider how tough it is to make this work and I believe that the best thing to do right now would be just focusing on how to get better. I know that it is going to take some time to learn how to trade even at the toughest times, but if you think that you are going to do fine, then you should be capable of making a profit. Before you are that good, just avoid trading at uncertain times because if you are not good then you are going to end up losing money.

In my opinion the reason people think like that is that they have a flawed vision of what trading is about, they think of traders as if they could forecast what the market is about to do with complete accuracy, but this is not really true, so when adverse conditions are present on the markets, the best move is in fact to not trade at all and wait for the market conditions to improve, this is similar to what people would do in the case the weather was really bad, so if the place where you lived was being hit by a hurricane, would you keep doing the things you do on your everyday live, or would you stay at your home until the hurricane went by? And it should be obvious which one is the correct answer.

If you are really that in doubt then it would really be best that you shouldnt really be doing any trading at all or having some break rather than on making yourself having those forceful kind of trading on which we know that this isnt something good because you cant really think up well specially if emotions is really that setting in. Come to think that this market is always something like this on which it cant really be predicted on where it would really be going this is why when we do speak about uncertain times then it is always be on that sate. Somehow it would really be making out those huge moments or significant ones on the moment that there would really be some sort of news or fundamentals. It would be just that depending on how you would be that making yourself handling on these market conditions.

Each member has a different way of trading and taking opportunities when the market is unstable like this. I also trade several coins in my portfolio when the price goes up. Once the price goes down around 3%, I will enter again to buy. Once there is a 5% profit, I let go. Again, that's my way of trading when prices are high and unstable.

Many would prefer holding down when times are not favourable for them to trade because of the unpredictable nature of the market and high volatility which sometimes make sit appears unpredictable to speculate well on what the market may turn to, but still yet, some are taking the risk and go into trades because they believed also that in such period lies when they can make their own very opportunity which may cause them to make more profits.