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I will be using LocalBitcoins, if I have 0.5 BTC I can sell up to 85% of that in my own advert then the rest on another person's advert. Is there a way to make a profit this way? Or is 0.5 simply not enough to start with?

Yes this is enough but u dont forget important thing. Trading have very risk. İ try two time and i ll lose.

Thanks, and that's a shame. I hate to hear fellow Turk lose. :p

0.50 is a pretty "Huge" amount of start trading.Not sure what you mean by selling upto 85% of that.If you're trading on localbitcoins ,keep the sale's margin low ,not as crazy as getting rich in one day.Depends on the type of payments you're expecting to receive.Lot of scams with Paypal exchangers,stay away from them.The best method that worked out for me was Bank Deposits.Sell coins for IMPS  bank transfers.

0.5 is ok to start trading in fact invest only what you can afford to lose so you'll be fine what ever happen to your trading ventures,there's always a risk involve on trading but you will get used to it as you proceed,it's impossible not to lose specially if you are not a veteran trader..

I think 0.5 is a good start and i think you can make a large profit with that amount .. local bitcoins is one of the market that you can sell your bitcoins person to person..
You can also use it for altcoin to trade. to make more profit..

0.5 BTC is a big amount to start with as if the price keeps fluctuating by 20-25%, you'll be losing 12.5%. LBC and Paxful have a lot of scammers sending funds via PayPal and Skrill who would be willing to sell for a 20% markup too and BTC being irreversible, you would be at a loss. Why don't you try Coinbase or coinsbank for trading?

There is no minimum amount to start trading, I believe even someone with 10 $ can start with trading.
I see you wish to trade just with bitcoin, more money you have bigger profit you will make. And I think your amount is pretty good.
I think trading and earning on price fluctuation is very risky, you need to be careful with this or you can lose much more then you make profit.
Try with less money, and never be greedy.

It is true that this amount is enough for trading but i will say that is much bigger and good for a good start, but that is not true that trading is risky, it is risky only for those who do not have experience for trade or do not have skill in there,if you are new to trade and do not know much about trade then do not trade and if you are with good knowledge then take your start.

0.5 bitcoin is enough to trade. But if you trade dont fear to lose your bitcoin. Like in altcoin if you want to earn just wait even if the price dump, patience is a virtue. because waiting more time is the key of success trading.

0.5 BTC is enough if you use a combination of something like localbitcoins and bitstamp or any other bitcoin exchange. This way you can buy through bitstamp and sell on localbitcoins at a higher price or just vice-versa by buying on localbitcoins and selling on bitstamp. While you will grow, it will be slow and not enough profit for long. Would just suggest to keep increasing this amount slowly as you gain experience.

yeah thats right trading id very risky

Good question.I also wanted to ask this.What is the good amount of bitcoin to start trading?Please tell me the minimum possible amount

Check how often are people selling in localbitcoin, but I would suggest you to take a look at the altcoin exchanges like poloniex yobit etc and probably starting trading altcoins but first you should research about that coin and see the trading trends, 0.5BTC is enough to start trading with.

You should have to start with that amount, as that amount is much bigger for a starter to start trading, some people are there who are starting trade from 0.001

My minimum capital in trading is only 0.005 i started trading that time a very small capital but in good way of trading the 0.005 grow to 0.5 in one month that is the time i start earning bitcoin my profit i roll it only in trading then my profit i keep it to my btc wallet until the bitcoin become 700$ wow my btc got double. So the min. Of 0.005 now its 1.6 btc

yes 0.5BTC is enough to trade with but what i don't see anybody else mentioning to you is this: trading on localbitcoins.com needs reputation and although the spread is high you can't just get in and start making money because people would prefer someone with old account who has built some trust and trade with them.

and why did you choose localbitcoin for trading bitcoin? why not an exchange?

for me, there is minimum how much bitcoin you can start to trading. it is about, how well you ready for trading. because in my experience, i start trading with just 0.001 bitcoin, and i get profit in 1000 satoshi. if you want to try with small amount, you can try with yobit, there is many coin with low rate.

and if you have 0.5 btc, then you are good to start trading. but my suggestion is, do not trade all of your 0.5 btc, you should separate it for like 0.25 btc for trading, 0.25 you can keep for the next step to trading. and you should remember the quote "do not put all your eggs in one basket".

If you dont have some money(small capital) you can trading altcoin, because its better than trading Bitcoin

When I started trading in bitcoins, my initial trading amount was 0.01 bitcoins. Therefore starting with 0.5 bitcoins is a big plus for you. Localbitcoins has good people and at the same time has bad people. As long as you will identify the right people, you will reap your profits without any problem. If you want to trade on LBC, it is better to look for people in your localty, those you can find easily and they have a good reputation on the site. You can look at their trading history and reviews that have been done by those that they have traded with.

0.5 btc is enough to start trading however besides the capital trading needed skill to do so and i think the main problem from trading is could you predict the exact situations and got the profit and recover your loses if sometimes the prices down because only with cut loses will safe your money and could be useless if you start trading with huge money but always be loses for me even with 0.001 btc you still can start to trading

As long as you have enough fund to trade, you can start trading.
Usually it doesn't need too much to start trade but remember trading still like gamble means you will likely to loss.
I'm usually gain some fund from faucet like freebitco.in

0.50 Btc is a Good amount to start trading but be careful about trading because if you don't have complete knowledge about Trading then you can Lose your Money. So My suggestion is that Do Trading but Carefully....

One needs to develop a profitable system. Most people, I think, just dive in head first without a plan. When I first started trading, I looked at some charts and thought, "Oh, this is so easy. Buy when it starts going up and sell when it starts going down." I proceeded to lose half my bankroll in a day. (This was in the aftermath of the April 2013 cycle)

I picked up the pieces and worked hard to develop a good system. The most important thing is getting a good handle on risk/reward setups. Always have an entry, exit, and stop loss plan. The idea is to make big gains, small gains, and small losses. If you can cut out big losses, that will give you a big leg up. No one is ever right all the time, and it's important to never get married to positions. And you need to set take profits with regard to your risk. If you consistently get 2.5-5x gain for every 1x loss, you will do very well. It's more of a grind than a lot of people think.

Its better to have a good amount to start trading because the bigger amount of capital is the bigger amount to get profit. But the minimum amount in trading i used is 0.05 btc then i start trading with that amount i buy coins is small price until i wait to that coin get rise but until now is dying so my capital instead of increasing they become 0.004 hahaha i lost my money in that coin.

This is pretty good advice, maybe it's better to focus on certain altcoins instead of starting to trade Bitcoins since you might have a bit less competition that way.
Anyway it's good to start with a low amount.

There is no any minimum to start trading and you have pretty good amount of bitcoin to start. Just keep in mind that trading is same risky as gambling, so u have to be prepared that that plan can fail and you loose your money.
I wish you luck and tell us in time how it was. Best regards.

0.5 btc can be enought for trading but u prefer some exhcange site where you can buy other cypryptocurrencies with your btc which have big potential tl grow really fast and double your money so easy.

well, 0.5 BTC was very good to play early trading, in fact it could be quite a lot for a beginner. but I guess using 0.5 BTC as the start of trading, as with 0.5 BTC you might make about 0.01 to 0.05 BTC every one trading, and if you choose the correct coins, perhaps earning can you get more, but in my opinion , for a beginner, it may be better to use 0.1 BTC for starters

Yes i think 0.5 btc is a good amount to start trading, too bigger amount is not required when you are starting trading even if you have the funds i advice to start with a medium amount in which u can get some profit and more and more experience about trading at the same time.

Im not familiar with localbitcoin so I don't have an idea about that own advert things.

But anyways, if we are to answer if BTC0.5 is enough to start trades, well yes and that can be considered as a huge amount as a capital. You will feel the profit even for a minimum of $30 price movement but of course much better if above on that.

Goodluck and remember to watch closely the price especially when there is a price rally.

I think 0.5 BTC is not enough if you wanna trade on localbitcoin, because you will trade bitcoin to fiat money only, need much time until there are people trade with you and velocity of money is slow. I think if you wanna still trade on localbitcoin you need 5-10 BTC minimum.

I need to have an amount that is at least worthy of not treating like gambling money. Enough to force me to have some discipline. Probably different for everyone. For me, 1-2 btc.

I think 0.5 is much enough for starting trade at there, if there are problems with local bitcoins then he should have to try some other exchanges for selling and buying bitcoins with fiat and altcoins, one of my friend has started with about less than 0.10, and he is successful with that.

0.5 BTC is enough for you to start as a novice player in this trading game.
If you are only opting for LocalBitcoin then you can go for their automatized trading system. Although it is still not available everywhere.

Better luck with your trading but be careful of certain imposters who can scam you your money since there are numerous trades happening of selling a trusted LBC account.

you can always start with little as $1 buck worth of any coin but for decent profit it really depends on vol the site and the pumping.

With 0.5 btc id be tempted just to trade alts rather than bitcoin. You still have the chance to make small profits with bitcoin by just following the swings of the market but whenever i try to do it with bitcoin the price seems to go up after i sell and then stay their meaning if i want to recover the same amount of bitcoin i have to then buy at a higher price than what i sold. Bad trading i know.

1$ is little enough to start trading you cannot feel your earnings with that if you put that kind of amount in tradings your effort and patience waiting for the pump is useless thats why its better to have big capital on tradings its because even if you do shortrades but still you can earm big profit by this thing and yoy can repeatedly do it again in again and you can also manipulate the price if you have big capital and earned by this doings.

1 Buck is nothing since you have withdrawals fees at most exchanges even upto 0.002 BTC. @ Preev that's 1.30.
My advice would be to have a minimum of 20 dollar available when trading.

It happens to most of the traders, not only you. So for that what I do is, I will keep accumulating small quantities now and then and will sell only when I make some decent profit. I will wait for prices to go up and I never buy or trade with borrowed money so I can wait until prices go up to sell. Just keep trying different strategies and you may find a better one to follow.

I think there is no minimum to start trading, as soon as you have money you can start it
But if you have only low capital, you will only make small profit with that

It depends on what are going to trade and how much you want to earn, in order to earn a lot you need to have big capital, if you are just started to trade then i suggest you to play with small amount
I started trading with only 0.02, its a good practice to start trading with small amount to learn how to read chart and understand when to buy and to sell the coin

You can trade with min $5, but you should know that trading have high risk. and you should learn money management if you want to trade.

Spend big earn huge,this is what trading is,if you are going to spend 0.5 I doubt if the profit is big enough for you to make a living out of it,if you want a profitable profit it should be at 1 bitcoin scattered on many coins,make a diligent search on coins that you are going to invest/trade,there should be long and short profit..

I think there's no minimum amount of money to start trading, only good amount. More capital means more coins you can invest in. You could start small but even when you profit, the profit would be small as well. Be careful though, more capital doesn't always mean more profit. More capital could lead to more loss too.

you can make profit in trading even with 0,01 i think, but profit will be very small so probably you won't even feel that,  so i think you should start with 0.1 atleast

that's true about using localbitcoins because it works a little differently but on regular exchange sites and especially when trading altcoins you can actually start with a small amount and make profit enough to keep you going especially if you get lucky and can catch some of those altcoins at the very bottom before their pump.

That is very hard to catch really since i know coins that lift up so much is those dying coins and thats very risky to do trades on that coins and really big capital is very best and advisable by many traders to start trading its because (this is basic) the bigger we put the bigger we gain and that is really good since you can trust trading site if you want to put your big money and do trades.

I would advice to have at least .015 BTC ready for investing. With 10 bucks you can prety much invest in risk or low risk assets.
Worst case scenario, you would only lose 10 bucks. If you make an good investment, it can be quite a decent amount.

I think its better to start in 0.02BTC because in that amount i started in trading but is only small amount you have get profit in that capital but its okat as long as you get profit earn it to increase your invest
 So its better to have small amount than to big. Bcoz if you have big capital and you dont know how to control it may you lost your money.

Each trading and exchange website have its own minimum amount to make your trading ad active. In the trading website I use minimum of 0.4btc is required to make trading with the help of escrow system.

Thats good start for tradings actually people have choices on how much capital they want in tradings and it really depends on them on how they make it grow and what strategy they would use in tradings but if they have patience,skills and proper monitoring well they can earn huge bounty for trading eventhough they put small capital.

it's the first time for me to hear about there are trading or exchange site is needed a minimum amount for doing the trading in there. I'm suspicious about the site! I've never heard before because I think a lot of people is said there is no trading site is applied a minimum amount to trading in them.

nothing minimum amount you want trading
your capital money one hundred doge you can ready trading
but profit is very low, is profit equal with your capital money in can use trading

yes there is not a minimum amount to start doing trading but how much profit you want to make depends on the amount you starting to trade with !
like you can't make 10$ from 1$, you can make but it need a really high fortune in the stock you are buying so you need to manipulate your amount relative to the profit you want to make !
$100 will be very good to start with trading but altcoin trading. you can start with even only $10 doesn't matter !

according to OP he has 0.5 bitcoins for starting his trade, which is much better amount to take a strong start, if he know about altcoins then he can invest in different altcoins which he find doubling up within days.

I started with only low investment . And moved it to grow . Running a large investment then you will lose it. So little better because in case of loss less painful . Small investment in the right timing will grow . So  do choose the good coins you buy to have a good income. So start a small capital its better than a big one.

for me, 0.5 bitcoin is enough to start, you can trying to start trading BTC-USD, BTC-altcoin and i am sure you can get profit with that amount and you can make it bigger. use the strategy hit and run bro, i wish you can get profit as much you can.

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there is no minimum number of trading. you can start trading with whatever capital you have. you will collect little by little benefit. I suggest to trade altcoin. because trading altcoin started with very little capital.

0.5 btc is a decent amount as JJ said--I would definitely not risk that much trading shitcoins or even speculating on the price of bitcoin.  I'd buy and hold, but there are many different birds in the forest.  One of the great things about these exchanges, like Yobit and Poloniex is that you can start really, really small.  Like a few cents is all you need.  Try doing that in the stock market with $10 or more commissions for each buy or sell order.  Forget it. 

So anyway, good luck.  But as others have said, trading anything crypto is super risky.  Be careful.

You must share more informations about  your friend who has be successful trade on localbitcoin with capital less than 0.1 BTC, are like payment method who be used, management of fees, how much rolling money every days or weeks with capital 0.1 BTC only, it will become more helping for the OP and another else too.

best advice for stay in market and make profit in long time, is to use maximum 2% per trade (open position) of total trade amount . And is possible to trade stocks, indices, gold, oil, without commision. you can use link in my signature.
( beginers trade with extreme cautions with leverage )
at first place, Patience
second place, Patience and learning and research
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99 place is Patience and learning and research
for trading is essential to understand MA, MACD, trend, reading charts, volume, etc...

Yep another good thing you can have profit in just a minute in any exchanges if you know how to use carefully the short term strategy. If you can find better coin you can hold it for long term and earn for it morethan double but make sure that's the coin have a potential before hold it for long term.

I am a newbie and i want to trade. I also want to know if how much amount should i trade as a newbie. right now i have .001 is this enough or not for a beginner in this business and what coin should i buy thanks.

The best minimum amount to start with ,is whatever you have . no amount is too little though a large amount means big profits ( if u win the trade). Its also good to start somewhere. i started with 0.1 BTC, i'm well over 2 BTC in just a month. Also it depends which coins u trading  and your strategy

I would like to say it too small to trade
You need minimum like 0.5 BTC to make profit more high, but you can try it with 0.001 if you want try the system

I think the minimum amount to start trade is 0.0001, as I am doing trade on yobit and there I can use a minimum of 0.0001 for buying and selling any of the available coins. but the bot can trade with a more lower price, I don't know that these are from users or from the site itself.

More realistically... the starting sum depends entirely on what you are trading. Not sure if you can spreadbet in your country, but you can start spreadbetting with an equivalent of  $200r. You can also trade FX with these kind of amounts. You won't get the kind of money you are after from this though! Not for a long time, and that's assuming you are good! In your first year you should be aiming to just not lose too much. At the beginning, survival is the key. In order to survive you need to be able to withstand a string of losses. Hence, although you can start with $200, i'd recommend at least $1500. And take that as a training fee- don't expect to make money.

0.5 is enough to start trading with

I think 0.001 is enough to start trading. The Poloniex has a limit of 0.0001. So you can start trading in the Poloniex.

0,5 bitcoin is enough capital money use your trade
if you want much profit you can try trade altcoin

To that amount I will not call it as a minimum amount for the trade but it is a bigger amount for starting trade you can invest them in some good assets and can earn some good amount, but take care while investing as there are a lot of scam coins also on exchanges.

I think that it is the amount of 0.5 BTC very much for a beginner. I think, if you really want to play trading, you can start with $ 1 or BTC is equivalent to that amount, and then you just need to work hard to figure out all of the system

I think 0.5 is a decent begin and i think you can make an expansive benefit with that sum .. neighborhood bitcoins is one of the business sector that you can offer your bitcoins individual to individual..

You can likewise utilize it for altcoin to exchange. to make more benefit

Your amount is enough just remember that with small amount you will earn small profit

It will not work at all bro. How you start a trade limit with 1$ please could you explain me that. I think you need check the bitcoin trading sites localbitcoins, kraken and many more to know trading limit and values.

Ok sir thank you for your advice i will try this as soon as receive my payments. Can you also suggest which altcoin is good for now in trading bitcoin is ethereum is considerable? or dogecoin what do you think?

Don't worry 0.5BTC is enough to start trading bitcoin to fiat or also altcoins to bitcoins.

I consider more stable trading fiat to bitcoin and vise versa because the price is more stable comparing with the altcoins which the price or will go much higher or much lower.

By the time you will understand the concept of trading and tips and tricks, and gradually increase the amount of bitcoin and you will get good profit.

It is more than enough to start trading.  but make sure that you know the basic of tradings, the do's and don'ts of it.  Trading isn't as easy as saying buy low sell high, there are lots of factor to consider especially when reading the troll box.  Lots of information there are misleading and they are doing it for their own benefit.

it depends if you want to get big profits in a short time, trade altcoin very good, but it is high risk. but if you want a safer, bitcoin trading is safe, the price is very stable and profits are also not much(depends on capital)

0,5 bitcoin is ok to start trading but be careful you can loose it all in a second

You definitely can start trading with 0.5BTC and make profit. You could handle many casual transactions with that. People prefer to return to the same provider on LocalBitcoins if they are satisfied with him. Just do not expect too much profit at once! However, you could increase the amount you can offer by time and you too will become more experienced and obtain higher profit per transaction.

yes there is no doubt about this that 0.5 is a good amount for trading, but to if you are going to invest a good amount its mean that you are minimizing the price risk of losing your money, therefore more investment mean less risk of loosing money.

You won't lose 0.5btc in a second if you take the time to study the price fluctuations of the coin for some days prior to investment. Even if a fluke occurs and the price starts to plummet, you can quickly sell the ones you have and make little profit.

If you don't want to risk it too much you can trade with any stable coins like doge,ltc,xmr that very stable and less risk but it's still much better trading with altcoins we can cut lose anytime if you feel the coins will be down. But who knows, the point is all still risk like bitcoin it was down 20% when bfx hacked.

If you are only starting to trade, you can try to trade a small amount, 0.01 or less than that,  just for the sake of practice.  You can try the litoshi market to even lessen the lost while you are learning.  Some of this coin are mooncoin, and othe billion to trillion coins.  Then you can increase your fund if you are getting the hang of it.

Instead I would just suggest try it on a platform which lets you do it for free. There are many practice platforms in the market which let you trade on free credits on  a live market so you still can practice well.

Both of them contain lots of risk because both of their prices are very unstable.

We know that altcoins price/exchange rate is pretty much depended from bitcoin price but including the pumps and dumps from the devs makes them unstable.

Better is to have a stable income rather than a huge profit and huge loss.

Can you state that site that have free credits to practice trading?  Maybe you should paste it here so OP aswell as newbies knows that there are site like that where they can practice,  and in the other facts for starters better trade with little amount that you can afford to lose and focus on some little coins that you like and if you already know the market flow well you can move on and upgrade to select new trades.

You can do trading the bitcoin in some Chinese exchanges with 0% fees. The volume there is also very big.

People ask all the time "is it enough". Well there isn`t minimum amount for starting, there is just simple calculation, how much money you invest that much profit you can make. That isn`t something that needs to hold you, starting from small is just make your way to get rich a bit longer.
Good things is that you choose trading btc with fiat, then with crypto currencies. That is very hard to predict, market is full with coins and its not easy to find right coin for investing. Don`t do it if you don`t have good source of information.

I agree 0.5 is a decent amount to start with trading.  But trading bitcoin to fiat money is retty slow.  If you have time try to study altcoin trading because it is where the crazy trading be found.  A single 0.5 BTC can earn you 5 BTC in a shor period of time if  you are lucky enough to invest in an altcoin that have a lot of potential and very popular at its early stage.

I think it is a normal amount, now you should start with it, actually in the start it is better to use the small amount, when you gain good experience than invest it more, because most of the hidden things are here in trading, when you invest in it than you know how you should take transaction on the time, if you miss the right time, it mean you have lost.

no miniumum amount you start trading
but if you can trading bitcoin pair fiat money you can must much capital money if you want much profit
but in trading bitcoin pair altcoin you can star trading with small and few capital money
you can start 0,01 bitcoin or under 0,01

Yeah, which amount you have it is better to do trading, not less and also not enough, you know trading is risky like gambling so better is that you should start with a small amount and when you feel you can manege more amount in trading and than should do it, it is good for you.

i think that 0.5 amount is very enough for trading , if you should start trading from 0.5 i am sure you will get a good profit because trading have too much low risk so you can start trading easily with that amount.

to start trading, it is not about the profit in the beginning but instead it is more about keeping the risks as small as possible while learning how to trade. and that takes time and some wasted money to make the mistakes and lose some money first because of making a bad trade, or trusting a scam ponzi scheme altcoin. but after that you become more confident and you can invest more and think about profit then.

No that's by far not enough and you should aim for 0.5 for good trading capital, next step is to gain more knowledge before you trade or youll lose it all. No one can tell you what to buy etc there's no step by step guide to trading.

Maybe will more concise if all of that is mix into 1 sentences for getting and learning about your past experience but all of your said is correct, because in fact all of you said is happened in my life and good motivator sentences.

Its depend on how much you want your profit, if you want small profit like 0.01 then its enough but if you are aiming for big amount then its not enough, you need to play big to earn big, and remember there risk in every trade

there is no limit to commence trading. we can work with very little capital. such as when making an investment in altcoin.
we are looking for a coin with a very cheap price and then sell them at a fairly high price at the right time.

0,5 bitcoin is more then okay it's a really nice amount to start trading with. you should look up some guides cause like this guy said you can lose it all in a second but only if you use all your money at once though and i dont think you would do that anyways goodluck trading!

Trading not means only profit. You could be lose also, so I think for the start, you should try with little amount like 0.2 btc. All I want to say, don't start with big amount for making big profit. Only start with that amount which you can afford to lose.

Yeah you can start trading to the lowest possible amount of btc where you can buy altcoin, or start trading with enormous fund of 1000 BTC  :D,  anyway, it is not the amount that counts in trading, it is whether you can get profit or no in your trade.  Even with the minimal amount if you are able to multiply it 100x because of your excellent trading then you can have a bigger capital.

to stary trading / learning trading / getting some experiancw on rrading you should first pvserve the market for some timw likw 1'2month so you will get a good overview of the market so how and which coin price is increasing and decreasing and also yoi should keep on rhw pump and dumps too to get instant lucky for small time

if you are going to start with 0.5 BTC then it is a very good amount to take the start but keep in mind do not invest all in as you are newbie to trade and currently you need to do trial and have to invest minute amounts in different coins and in different places.

What can you exchange trading that grow because no matter what little capital you have to know how to make money trading and you have a good strategy you can increase it . You need patience to wait before you see the lifting of your capital. So trading must be smart you do not buy coins that you know not lifting it yet because you just lose your bitcoin if you buy a wrong coins.

Minimum Amount To Start Trading in yobit 0.0001 = 10000 satoshi in trex 0.0005=50k satoshi good luck man ;)

no minimum amount
your start trading wit 0,01 bitcoin its ok and you can run

True,  most traders do  experience such thing that we bought at high price and suddenly  the price drop and we should wait  for the price to go up again. This thing is just  normal since we are in trading industry, right?  You have a point we never should  trade on borrowed money since it would be  a risky thing.

We can start with even 0.001 if you are in tight budget, in yobit you can practice trading with a small amount because they have a variety of coins to trade. I did my practice in yobit and until now I am still trading in that site, no problem so far because the withdrawal is fast.

Surprisingly we will be able to start trading with yobit for zero investments. Yes, they are giving free many crypto currencies including bitcoin on daily basis. Using yobit as they are practice account must be a great idea for an aspiring trader. Collect free coins daily from them and get real time practice.

Yes, this must be a wonderful opportunity to start trading with zero investments. Even we are getting free alt coins, I do not recommend to go for real time trading from the beginning itself. We must do mock trading initially before going for live. That was a lesson from my own experience.

Yeah 0.5btc is enough amount for trading and you can get a good profit after trading through 0.5btc there is a lot people are earning a good profit from trading and i thin that trading is very good way to earn fast money because trading have too much lower risk .

you can make profit from trading any amount. it only depends on will you find a good deal for your btc or not. and of course the more btc you trade, the more profit you will get.

I think 1 BTC is a good start for trading because you can each 1 BTC to another sites exchanges Yeah lets say 2 diffrent sites exchanges 0.5 per exchanges.But i talking about you trading on altcoin..which you can see there what altcoin got dump and that is a good mement for buy ;)

0.5 BTC is sufficient to start trading, the real question is if you are ready if you have the knowledge to get advantage of the opportunities that will arise, and the real question is if you are ready to take the inevitable that at some point will come your way.

For a lot people here 1 BTC is too much when you consider that the majority of the people here don't even have 1 BTC in general. People should use the amount they feel comfortable with for trading purposes. For one person it may be 0.1 BTC that they can use for trading purposes, while the other starts with 3 BTC for example.

The minimum amount for you to start trading would be the same amount as either the minimum deposit amount or the minimum altcoin buy amount, depending which one is lower. That's how low the minimum amount to start trading but you surely have more than that. The more capital you put in trading, the more profit you'll get if the coin pumps. You decide how much you want to risk, there's no base amount to start trading.

Really, ? Aren't  the transactions costs relatively really high when trading with low amounts of bitcoin? Or am i wrong here? Just curious, to me it seems that trading with really low amounts is useless, because of the transactions slurping all the profit you make..?

Yeah and this is true not only for bitcoin but anything really forex stocks, etc. also when you take this into consideration this is one of the reasons brokers are always pushing their clients to make transactions they earn a commission for transaction.

Well they would like to have many traders since they make profits on every trades of each of their clients that's why they make and help them to be profitable as good as they can because we are talking big business here which involves huge amounts. Forex trading is somewhat difficult compared to Bitcoin trading.

Many traders is good. It adds to the players and its fun , the more the merrier they say. The minimal amount to start trading in crytocurrency is 20,000 sats. Its a small amount, just start to learn and when you master trading, you start in bigger amount. Education is important.

That is the right way to do it, do not be aggressive in the start as with lack of knowledge in trading it can be consider as a way of gambling, you will not earn in the long run with lack of knowledge so do the research before you trade.

I agree that to start trading you don't need that big amount, though with that amount we might not get serious on it becausse it doesnt affect us thaat much so we disregard education about trading.  But with bigger money comes bigger risk of losing if you  are not well versed with trading cryptocurrency or other stuff.

You should trade with a small amount because if you go in advance and invest a large amount you will lose easy a large amount.. better to experience to trade and dont regret to lose because its a part of your study. .
If you master trading you will earn a good amount in trading.

i think its amount is good for if you want to start trading and you can start trading with lowest and any amount and and yeah this way is good for make a good profit there is a lot of people are earning money in big amount through trading.

Well as the op asked the min. amount I would guess is around 0.01 BTC (6 dollars) because with that you are able to buy a small amount of coins and start growing them. It's hard to say or predict how you will earn but it is a good start.

I think we should start a decent amount so you will be serious with your trading journey, if you will start 0.01 you will just take it for granted and would not treat trading seriously, when bigger amount is involved you will be force to take the price actions to protect and grow your investment.

i think it depends from how many that you want to earn in trading , because chance to get big profit is only small percentage , so better trade with small profit but with big capital

i have started with a much smaller amount, it was lowe than 100,000 satoshi and i never took it for granted because i have had clear plans for my future and i wanted to become better at it.

so i kept trying and even though my volume was low but i tried so hard to treat it the same way as if i had 100 bitcoins instead.

since 0.5 btc is not much less amount to start trading at LBC but here i will suggest you to trade with the people individually and increase this amount of btc to 1 btc and then you trading at LBC also .

no miniumum capital money to start trading
you can star trading with 1000 dogecoin or 100k satoshi this run
but small capital money trading small too get profit and return

In most cases , low capital means low return to get . But it's still possible for double even 10x from your capital if you choose new-rising coins or invest in reputable and trust ICO . Indeed , you must maintain your losses and your coin's price for minimize the risk.

No there's a minimum about 0.0001 satoshi but that amount is so little but it is good at that low amount to try on trade ,to learn ,to earn and have applied skills as you go on step by step adding big amounts .
Small amount to trade becomes bigger when compiled of continous rolling of amount.
Don't be excited to go for big trades ,skill is needed for that , learn and experience first to have a good trade then.

Yeah bitcoin or any other alts It's just need some good amount of fund in be an buyer or seller. Then he need to have certain amount in his bank account as well.
Please have patient and aware of scammers too.

There is no minimum amount to start trading as long as that is what you can only afford to invest and also risk. If you have patience your small amount can get big in a year. And with a small amount it won't be disappointkng if you lose from it because of you are new in trading you will experience many mistakes.

I don't wanna say exact amount too start but I will suggest to start with small amount because trading is also risky and first time you haven't any experience so you should start with small that you can afford to lose.

I recommend .25-.5 BTC starting out but trends don't last forever so is fine going in with higher amounts also.

0.5 BTC is enough to start trading, but if you olny have 0.5 btc prefer not to spend all your btc to start trading you can start with 0.1 btc cause trading is not easy to predict you can get profit or lose, so rest of your btc can you make to start trading again if you get lose with first trading

That is already a big amount of money if you are just newbie in trading, you can always start even at 0.01 BTC because you are not good yet and you are on your way to learn the lessons base on your experience, at least when you lose as expected you can easily recover.

You need at least 3-5 dollars to try and make any sort of money trading. Otherwise your profits will be lost in withdrawal fees from your exchange. There is no point celebrating a profit of a few cents, although if you want cheap experience you can try depositing a small amount and making trades just to see how many you can make profit on.

That's right it is so frustrating if you lose that big amount i was frustrated when i lose about 0.1 so i rest from trading  . That 0.5 is to much especially for the beginners ,most people have no 0.5 in starting to trade at all 0.0001 to 0.01 is my recommended starting to my friends or who's any one who will ask me .because even buying and selling at first time others are complicating about what they will do .how to find that coin .wallet depesit address and many more . They will need to understand first what move how to set buy and set sell  and the basics of trading .

Maybe I’m a little too old fashioned but if you are going to invest so little wouldn’t be better to just write down in a notebook the moves that you would do and then write down your hypothetical earnings/loses.

I would get atleast half a bitcoin to start trading right now because if you have half a bitcoin and you trade with very small amounts then you have alot of room for error which is good.
If you start with less then you can lose everything very quickly leaving you no time to practice.

starting from a very small amount is good for those that like everything to be perfect and as safe as possible before getting their feet wet.
i am one of these people ;)
i started watching the market first without doing any actual trade then ran some numbers inside of an excel sheet.
then i invested a very small amount and started trading with that and at first i only used the profit as my total bankroll and then after some time passed i invested real money but still small and grew it over time.

0.5 is enough for trading. Basicly 0.1 more than enough to start trading with short or long term strategy. But if you want to get huge profit with a litte stake, i feel you must increase your btc.

Yes we could start with .5 but still I will just use .1 from it. Just for safety firat, I would like to see what could happen with it. Search the unknown or invest in really new altcoins. Sure they have a lot of risk but what if it made succeess then we risked something that made us a lot of income also.

Even a small amount is like 0.05 is enough to trade if you know how to trade im sure making a profit with a small amount is easy to make it 1 btc. depends how you analyse altcoin..
trading has high risk but if you learn first and study it first you can be have a strategy to make a profit..

You can start with 0.01, that is a good amount to start trading so you will not be able to lose big in case you are not successful at first try, but of course you need to be aware that knowledge is important to succeed.

it is not a less amount of btc to start trading . it is enough to start . when i had started the trading then i holded only 0.19btc but i doubled my btc in one month with my hard work . if you will hard work then surely you will make a more profit with 0.5 btc . best of luck .

if you have a lots of time that amount yes can be use for starting trading but expect that it would take more time to grow as trading is a time consuming business.

It will take time if you select those shitty coins to buy but actually you can make some profits with it even though you start at small capital, and try to look up for xaur that coin is very movy at this moment and we really earn by the pump and dump scheme.of this coin since the dev are really pumping this coin so it well be more appealing to traders, and so better try to track that coin to earn eventhough your budget is small.

I would say that 0.5 is really good to start trading and it's also more than what you need for learning. You can start learning of trading with only 0.01. With this amount of money, you will make your skills better and you'll earn and analyze trading and time when to buy and when to sell. We can say that trading is almost based on lucky and that's true because we can't control currency and we depend on time to buy it and sell with profit for us. When you aknowledge that you know something and you can trade, than start with 0.5 and if time gives you a chance, than grow bet money and profit. The more you invest, the more your profit will be but remeber that there are always risks.

I agree with you xaur is  a good altcoin since its price does move  always  and which traders would  love to trade this kind of  coin. You are right there are some coins which are actually a waste of time some may  pump once and  dump forever. You could actually start into alt trading with a small amounts as long   you sustain and  maintain to get profit even on small amounts atleast in constant way.

i think you should always start trading from a low amount, as you will have no experience in trading therefore if you will invest a small amount,you will not e so much worry about your investment and the second is that you will get some experience.

i think it depend on the place where you want to invest for trading, if you are trading a very very cheap coin then you do not need a big amount to invest, you can trade a good amount of that currency with a very little investment.

Because xaur is manipulated thats why the price is really healthy moving and that is good for trade since many people can earn money for this thing, but we should find some good alternatives like xhi and some alts who's good for its flactuation so we can earn more money if we can have more choices upon those alts we want to buy and for that we can start even small and its up to us on what we would like to buy and whay altcoins we want to trade.

True and dont put everything in just one crypto. Although we know we will gain a lot more if we stay and put a huge amount in just one investment the risk also there is a lot higher. So I would prefer scattering my bitcoin to different ones.

Yep, that's the point there .you got it right ,you will need first the learnings from your mistakes so that minimal amount is not frustrating at all if you lose ,the point is you use that amount to start to earn and to learn .there's a quotations 'learn before you earn '.
Trading isn't about how big you will spend its all experiences you've taken and the skills you will applied.

If you can join a signature campaign the better, there is less or no risk at all because you do not get a money from your pocket instead you earn it by working and that amount is already a good start for trading and who knows if you can grow that amount and make fortune on it, everything is possible.

I joined the signature campaign now but the payment is one time and I need to way for 9 weeks before I can claim the reward, I ma planning to use the reward to start trading and hoping I can grow it.

Well its a good  idea to start  into trading and could possibly make  profits in the future. 9 weeks  would  be too long  for sure  but  it would  worth for all of your efforts. Actually  you could able  to start trading  on small amount even  if you dont have to wait  on the payment of your campaigns.

Yes, you can do trading with your small amount 0.5, it is enough to start trading, but have you experience of trading?
If not than you should do trading, with this amount, because if you can't make profit, than less than you never worried about your amount. Actually we feel our loss for a big amount.

if we only have small amount to start trading and finally we can get much money in 9 weeks, i think its really worth to try because no one knows how long that we can reach big profit in trading. all we can do is still continue trading and make a good profit even for the smallest profit, and i am sure that profit from time to time will be grow more bigger than we all know.

I also like to enter a signature campaign first and with the first month income of signature campaign I can start trading.Trading is the best way of growing bitcoin, with the proper knowledge and skill anyone can be succeeded.

That's good to try and make your first income to go on a trade but do not put all your income make a try first learn from it.
Also knowledge and skills is not enough it needs a big and more patient , add attitude and stratedgy .

beside that, don't afraid if you make mistake, just still learn that from mistake, you can make a good profit too. usually if people make a mistake and that person get loss in bitcoin, then that person don't want to trading again and said trading is scam. but if that person would learn from the mistake, then i think the can get a good profit in future.

Yes,  lossing trades are  just  normal even  on those experienced  trades does  also experience lose trades, we should treat it as a learning thing for us because if we give up easily then we are missing the opportunity of   earning bitcoin in the long  run when we are  doing trading.

That's alot to start trading theoretically you could start trading with 0.1 bitcoin already and it's better to do that cause trading with small amounts of money is the best way to learn the ways of the market.

Yes, half of the bitcoin must be a very big amount even in practical too. People are getting freebie altcoins for getting start with their trading. Yes, to start a career with trading we must go with altcoins primarily as it is comes with less costs compared to bitcoin trading against fiats.

For traden the minimum amount is quite low but to be able to do anything at all I'd get atleast 0.5 bitcoin first before I'd start.
Ofcourse 0.1 is enough aswell but it will be alot more slow and difficult to learn like that.

if you trading with pair bitcoin altcoin
and you choose is altcoin low price capital money 0.5 bitcoin is enough is high capital bitcoin
but is trading bitcoin pair fiat money is not competitif return

Yo can start trading with as big amount of Bitcoins that you are feeling comfortable to lose. And that amount is different for everyone of us. It's always beter to start with smaller ami and then enlarge it with time.

I started trading with just BTC0.01, challenged myself that I will make it to BTC0.1 and did it and withdrew...
So, it ain't necessary what should be the minimum amount, but the goal that how much you are willing to make with it...

I have start too at around BTC0.5 as my capital to start doing trades. This is bitcoin trading. We all know that we must have a decent capital to start when people wants to start bitcoin trading so that the profit is really noticeable whenever there is a price increase that is happening.

But in altcoin trades, even a BTC0.1 is considered as decent amount to be capital.

you can start trading with any amount and .5 bitcoin good amount if you want to earn good profit through trading and its depend on you that how much amount you can afford for trading and if you invest huge amount in trading you should earn big profit .

For some of the exchanges, you can trade with as little as 0.001 bitcoins. You won't make much profit with small amounts, but there is potential to make a little money.

investing in adverts are not what i call trading anyway if you are talking about bitcoin or altcoin trading then i will say 0.05btc is enough or if needed you can lower it more upto 0.02btc but if you are talking about sites like localbitcoin then i will say minimum of 200$ is needed

True, there are actually lots  of  altcoin to choose from and   you could somehow   able to pick them easily especially to those  altcoins  listed  on  hot pairs  which we could   really consider it as  a good altcoin but  it doesnt guarantee us anytime to make  profits , it really depends on the  volatility of each altcoin we chose to buy.

I never knew this question had already being posted. My question was not answered perfectly in previous answer because I needed a figure to work with. What I also noticed was that there is even greater value for the 0.5 btc now than when the thread was started. This shows is better to start early and not delay at all
 

My friend also gave me an advice that I saw in this last post. To follow a mentor who trades, Invest in what they invest on. They understand the market more because of their longer time in the trade, they do more research and can minimize your risk of losing.

0.5 BTC is a huge amount to begin trading. You can benefit a lot from that amount. But if you are just starting trade better think about it the risk of the trade. If I may make a suggestion, it is better to trade early to deposit a minimum amount of BTC to trade. Because if in early trade fails you do not lose much. Trading is very risky but if you can learn well it would be a great advantage. So understand beforehand that trade can benefit.

yeah there are so many people that are starting with 1/100 and even less of that amount to start trading with. but there are some people who think they should go in big or don't even start it because it is not worth their time. to this people i say good luck! because they start something new with big amount and soon they will end up losing all their money big time too.

For a starting trader you could do that. But somehow you should change that after getting more experience in trading. Make your own decisions, predict it at your own risk, that way you wont be blaming others and if you did the right thing or choose the right coin to invest you will feel like a winner.

that's right if with small money will only make small profit even though it will be cut off with the fees and if you do withdrawal the exchangers will took about 0.0001 - 0.0002 as a fee and for your transaction's miner fee so that's actually not worth it trading with only 0.001

Agree if you always relays on others its a big lost if you invest to that coin on what he she said to invest to and you start blaming him though you can try to ask some tips to them when or what coins you should invest. Agree when you start deciding on your own if you earn it is good in feeling :D

Indeed it is true, because it is something that is very good for them. Exchanger is something extraordinary things to those who can use it, those who can trade properly, it will be able to get an advantage to them. a professional traders do not know the amount of money they wear, worn by a professional trader is an opportunity and also a strategy. So the slightest of funds they use will surely provide a huge advantage for them

I just refer to Hot coins when ever i cant decide but before i buy i just watch the chart if it is capable of dumping or pumping because what if it dumps forever then i loose my money. So agree be careful of choosing a right coin to buy we cant really predict what is going to happen

Charts are traitor sometimes and so for that its really advisable for us when trading is to listen to our instinct and know the pulse of traders for that coin and so by that we might got some hint if that coin will going to be dump nor it will pump harder, and if we are doubting to trade for those thrend coin well maybe we could start for a little capital so if we lose for our trade we cannot be hitted hard for such lose and do better more in the next trade.

Sometimes its not reliable when its artificially intended when the game is Pump and Dump. Thats why, its better to trade only common stable coins or when you decide to trade a new coin, its like an adventure. For me, just read the ANN here on btctalk, read updates and observe. Reasearch can help on the coins you want to trade.

If your trade a coin that is just doing a pump and dump game, you will only be happy if you are lucky but you will not learn any lesson in doing it because time will come you will still lose. What you should value is the time you spent and make sure you will be able to learn new techniques and you can get that by trading legitimate coins.

Yeah you are right that .05btc is enough for bitcoin or Alt coin trade and i also start my first trade from .05 btc after get some profit now i invest my money in big amount in trade of bitcoin and alt coin and i earning a big profit on weekly base so you they can also try from it value of amount .

You are yet at higher and even that amount in altcoin is also a risk, if a person will take his first start then he need to put a minute amount of bitcoins in trade like the minimum required for the trade to start and so then he need to invest some high amount.

Yes therefore to trade should be very careful and to be with the right thinking. A little amount for the initial trade was very helpful too us at a disadvantage, because trading takes time to be able to understand it. But your if one is to take the risk to start with a large amount of it is also not a problem but the risk is very large as well. But it's better if we can minimize the risks.

Any amount you have , you can try trading even you only have 0.001 BTC you can start trading .
Go to Yobit and see the pumping event in this site , and throw your money to the beginning of this pumping event and sell it after you reach the profit.

i think it depend on the investment that where you want to invest, if you are going to invest in alt coin then its ok you can do trading with a very very little amount of bitcoin. but if you want to invest in gabling then you have to invest a good amount of bitcoin.

Gambling is not an investment, as it is almost certain you will lose all your initial input, the only difference is the period.

to me if you are new in trading then you should not invest such a large amount in trading, because having no experience you can even lose your own money, but if you have some experience in trading they you can make a good profit from invest a good amount in trading.

If you want to trade altcoins then 0.5BTC is good enough to start getting your feet wet, just remember if possible do some very small trades at the beginning so you familiarize yourself with whatever platform that you wish to use.

if you want trading altcoin no minimum amount
this low capital money is work
0.5 bitcoin trading altcoin is enough to get much profit

You don't need 0.5 bitcoins to start trading ,maybe you can afford 0.5 and it is low amount for you but for others it is very hard to have and to earn . 0.01 and up is good amounts also any amounts that you have .just learn to trade and to experience what trading is .its not all about how much will you spend .its best if you know where to spend it.

Still there a people call the gambling is an investment... maybe he needs for learning again about the differences of betting and investing. but it's not about for put a little or bigger for starting the trading, this is about the decreasing a risky for a new trader.

I guess maybe to a minimum no. but we altcoin new trading using the price range of tens until hundreds sathosi. because I never, trading with BTC but little benefit for me three times. but if we are trading using the new altcoin we have to be careful too because the risk is quite high. if you have the capital mending trading coins that are familiar and reasonably good graphics

Newbie usually ask this question because they want to start trading using the minimum amount just to try it, of course if you are not good in trading and you luck the experience you would not put a big amount of money, you will lose for sure as you are like gambling base on your luck and gut feel.

0.5 btc to start trading is too much dan trade altcoin no need to have a lot of money, 0.01 or 0.1 is enough
its not about how much you have money, but its all about knowlegde and experience

if your want to trade btc, i think 0.5 btc is enough for get return from trading about 1-10$/day. increase your capital for get more return if you trade btc. but if you trade altcoin 0.5 is more than enough. i feel altcoin can make you get a lot of income more than btc. but of course it's high risk too so be carefully.

I want to open this question  as there are a couple of traditional traders that have no idea about  how bitcoin works.
They use Metatrader 4 and  trading gold, USD, EUR, JPY, CNY, CAD, AUD, CHF, etc.
They have no idea that they can earn more with altcoins.

What would you do? Teach them about bitcoin  and crypto in general or design a coin especially for them to play around?

What is the need to have a separate coin for their trading.
If they want to make use of the potential and advantages of bitcoin and alt coin trading, it is their responsibility to learn new things and get into this market. I believe once more people are coming into bitcoin trading from other types of trading, we are going to see very tough competition with significant raise in trading volume.

thats what we will going thru as many traders are already engaging with btc to alt trade much more to come competition and knowledge is what we need so either ways we cant stop this things to happen let them in and we should prepared.

You can start trading with any amount really but if you want to learn trading in a steady pace then a capital of 0.5 will be beneficial.
Trading with lower amounts seem counterproductive and just waste alot of chances that you could otherwise take.

The Amount With Which You are Trading Is Enough For Trading But As You Explain the Method Above Is Profitable But I Am Not Sure That You Make Profit Definitely Because It Depends Upon On Which Rate You Bought Btc And On Which Rate You are Selling It......

In my own opinion there are no minimum amount of trading you can start tradings if you already had ico's from signature campaigns and use that to start tradings. You don't need also to had big capital for trading you can buy cheap coins and wait till the price goes up it always really does be patient.

yes that is a fact that its up to you that you can start trading with any amount, but still in my opinion you should start trading with some good amount of bitcoin so that you can get chance if you lost money in trading to recover your lost.

Why we will need to design a coin specifically for these traders? Especially when the hypothetical persons that you are describing have not shown an interest in understanding something that is already in front of them.

Well, for a beginner is 0.5 BTC guess it was too much. perhaps for a beginner can start trading from 0.1 BTC, you can learn from it, and when you've mastered how to play the correct trading, you can raise capital bitcoin will you use to play trading. Well, I guess it's better than playing with bitcoin trading lot for starters

I think that is too much fot the begginer coz when i start trading i start a very small amount for me to learn how trade and my first capital is 0.03 i start to buy a coins but my btc is getting smaller so i ask someone why my capital get difisit he said i do a wrong move then he teach how to trade after that i recover my lose then i'm gaining a profit.

Yes, it is going to be very tough competition for the existing bitcoin and altcoin traders when other type of traders are coming in. But, with the respect to all kind of trading, having more volume is always good as market will have more fluctuations to make use of it. Being a trader I am also love to have high volumes so that I believe I can reach my target so quickly.

As quoted by the above mate trading is possible without any sort of minimum value. Such a trading is possible only through forums and other discussions. These days lots of trading as well exchange websites have existed, which had made trading easier. Each website have their own trading minimal amount by which one can start trading and gradually increase the capital upon learning more about trading and different techniques involved.

I do think you have enough amount to start trading in localbitcoins,0.5 bitcoins for the start is more that enough amount to start.Then if you are getting some profit and experience then surely you can increase the amount for trading.

Yeah its enough but you can be still start in small amount if you are just newbie and trading you should trade in small amount.. to learn and experience of losing or making a profit until you successfully know some strategy before you can increase your investment in trading.

If you are beginner trading with small amounts is the way to go, there is no need to risk all your capital when you are a newbie trading altcoins, when you are ready you can trade with bigger amounts.

Starting small amount of bitcoin is a good choice to start learning before you can sacrifice and increase your investment in  trading so that you can make
more profit ..

There is no real minimum. Just the fee for a transaction and some extra (your trading amount). But to really benefit from a coin increase i guess .1 BTC could be defined as the bare minimum to start trading. Anything above that is better.

BTC0.5 is way too much for someone who needs to start trading with next to no knowledge, so it would be better that they should create some demo account at some sites and try doing something with the play money, and the best thing they can do is, limit the play money to what they are willing to invest and see if it would really be profitable trading such assets???

I suggest you start trading with small amount, like 0.01 BTC or so, just to learn more about trading and getting good experience and knowledge. Then you can invest big amounts in trading without any issue

If you have already experience about trading you can start with as much as you afford to lose with trading. But if you re just starter its better to begin with small amount.

Maybe try a derivatives exchange instead. I know bitmex offers a 100x leverage which can be extremely profitable, a 1% rise will mean doubling your initial investment.

if you trading derivates is high risk
if newbie in trading not recomended, because you can lost all money

but i want ask bitmex recomended or not, can open service feature same poloniex and bitfinex or not, lending investment

yeah the more capital you have to trade the bigger profit you will get
as a notice for a newcomer , learn the non technical of trading first and then try a demo
after you passed it all , do deposit and trade as low as possible amount you can afford to lose as tester
once you done it all , you will understand everything.

An amount as small as 100 euros is small enough to start trading with. For beginning traders I recommend even starting with a small amount. It takes time to get the basics of trading. From my point of view:

1 Dont put your stakes to high

2 sell your coins at the appropriate time, but beware to take profits once you can gain some 'free coins'
 

That is a good advise but if you are just starting a little amount of capital, I think it is just right not to withdraw when you have a small profit, beside you would not expect to earn big profit with small capital, maybe just roll the amount with your profit so you can grow your coins.

I don't think that any fix minimum amount is here to start trading, but trading is full of skills work, if you think that you can do it than should try it and better is that start the trading with minimum amount because if you get lose, than you can handle it.

I think the minimum to deposit is more than 10k satoshi.. but you can do only is to buy and you need to pay for a fee.. for every buy altcoin.

But its not enough to start if you are newbie you need to deposit even start in 0.005 just like me before i am started with this amount of btc and make it double until i make it 0.01 with my best way in trading.

Yeah you are right that .5btc is enough for trading so we can get a high profit by 0.5 Bitcoin easily if we invest it amount in stronger and secure currency then i am sure we can get a good profit easily through trading.

0.5 bitcoins is not bad amount to do for trading, but matter is that if we have a skills of trading, than we can earn profit from our 0.5 amount, And you are right, if we buy stronger currency than definitely it give us profit, but one thing on us, that we never lose the right moment.

As you say that always buy stronger and secure currency, you know recently i bought very strong currency and i was 100% certain, that this currency definitely give me profit, but you know i got lose, the currency down and down, but i hold it because may be after some days ago i will get profit from it. 

0.5 bit it is not enough but it is normal amount, so should try it and guess you can continue trading or not, but the result will tell you, if you can handle trading and make profit than no problem in it, But main problem is that trading is not easy as we think that, when we start it than we know trading is really difficult to make profit from it.

"Real" traders usually start with accounts in the 5-6 digits. So I highly doubt that a lower 3 digit account will get you anywhere close to success. With such little money, you can trade for the sake of the experience itself. Learn strategies, get to know the markets, spot opportunities so you're armed in case you once have enough money to start a trading account.

Especially if you're planning to start trading shitcoins, your average losses are likely way higher than your gains, because you're depending on the goodwill of usually only one single pumper. If he decides to make money, you get an opportunity, but even there, the chances of missing out on this are extremely high.

To make any substantial gains using Bitcoin only, you need some breath. Bitcoin is not as volatile as earlier, anymore, and the timeframes between the buy- and sellpoints grow larger and larger.

Trade at your own risk. If you are asking this then I guess you already know the basics of it. Have some more experience in it to gain more knowledge even with just a small amount of money.

for me, 0.5 bitcoin is enough to start trading because i start trading in only 0.02 bitcoin and so far i make good profit even if i am not yet reach 1 bitcoin at all. but i am sure i can reach it with smart way. for 0.5 bitcoin, i will separate it to buy bitcoin pair altcoin, and bitcoin pair usd.

What if you just got lucky?
Problem is that it's really hard to accumulate BTC/money, but it's super easy to lose. Meaning that usually, you won't have lots of huge gains in a row, but if you're not careful, you can easily make one gigantic loss after another.
So, if you don't follow some basic rules in trading, you can wipe your account in a matter of minutes, no problem at all. And all the work from the previous days / weeks / months is gone.

in bitcoin you can start a business from any amount of bitcoin, because if you are going to invest your bitcoin in alts coin so there you do not need a lot of money, but you can even do trad with a little amount of money.

for me its 0,5 bitcoin is big
because iam trading altcoin in low price
so 0,5 bitcoin can much take profit

For a beginner 0.5 is a lot you can buy various of alt coin to trade, if you dont like to trade alt coin, you can trade bitcoin-usd, because with that amount you can earn some profit from the small movemnt of bitcoin, but remember you need to be smart when trading you can easily earn or lose your money, be careful when you want to trade alt coins

Im starting trading with amount arround 0.3btc then i trade it everyday and take profit as much as possible, after 2month now i have 1bitcoin.
i think the mininum capital to start trading is 0.1

Wow, that was impressive, you could have make more income if you start with a bigger amount. I do not know that it is that profitable in just short span of time, maybe if you care to share your method here, we love to hear.

Thats good for you .well i have 0.4 invested on different altcoins still waiting about 1 month .i hoping after two months to reach my first 1BTC cause the coins i inbestednis more on long term .
0.1 is good as long as you have a money but it is good to start low first especially if they are a beginner.

Well, if I were you that you can make money in investing I think there is no limit for our capital, the more the better as we have more chance to make profit once it succeeds, newbie could start any amount he desire as long as he can afford to lose it.

As a newbie  or a starter you should  invest  only  on trading  on small  amounts   so that  you would  do it  on trial basis which you could able  to teach yourself   when you are  in the middle of trading and if you already  got the  fundamentals and  basics then try to enhance it , the  more experience  you have the better  chance  of  having  succesful trades  and when you observe that you are already doing a good job then  its the right time to extent your capital for more  profits.

Trading has a nature of gambling cause it's need a bit of luck. Though skills are very important but luck is also need.So, none can assure you that you will win only.Soo it's better to start trading with small amount which you can afford to lose. I started trading with 0.1btc & now I Invest Minimum 1btc in altcoin investment.

Yes, predicting the market will not be definite accurate all the time, so we also need luck to make profits from trading. But, what I believe with my trading is, if we have a right skills to predict the market, then luck will automatically will join us. Yes, skill will bring the possibilities of having more lucky moments.

I will agree that trading not like gambling. But still scammers around us will definitely cheat you guys when it comes to trading. So be careful on that while you are doing trade with anyone.

Yes trading has a nature of gambling  because we need luck to get high profit. So i agree with you its better to start a small amount that we can afford to lose. So when i start trading i start 0.03 bitcoin i roll it like gambling for me to earn a big amount now the 0.03 btc is .6 btc now so i got lucky then because i choose a good coin where i can roll my money.

Not really luck but more like a pump. It doesnt rely on luck. It rely on people that will buy it or make use of it. That is how you will profit from that. It is way too different than gambling

Well, 0.5 is a small amount and i think you can not do anything with it. Try multiply it 10 times, 5 is more acceptable and you can also avoid many risk when you start with this amount. This is my opinion, you may not like

Wow ,your such a good trader chief ,i don't earn it yet on trading even 1 btc is too hard for me .i have many experience as well as skills i learned from my mistakes. but now as i change my stratedgy ,i am hoping in long trades as many traders i know got a big profit there .

1btc is very risky and a big amount to invest in trading and i guess your rich enough on trading so you only see 1btc as minimum investment. As the average investors like me about 0.5 is enough to start.

investing in adverts are not what i call trading anyway if you are talking about bitcoin or altcoin trading then i will say 0.05btc is enough or if needed you can lower it more upto 0.02btc but if you are talking about sites like localbitcoin then i will say minimum of 200$ is needed

he already knew what his doing thats why he invested 1btc since he have idea what he can achieved in profits, start small learn the and take the risk after when you already knew how it played and earn much bigger.

you can start trading even with 0.01 but your profits would be too small, so a .5 is a nice amount, just dont put all your eggs in the same basket.., and have patience

If you know what you are doing you can earn huge profit with a high amount capital, trading the best place to earn if you already learn it. 1btc is still not small but it's enough if you know how to play it safe.

as it is his new start in the trade so now he do not need to think about the profit but he have to start the trade and have to train and check himself and when he is confirmed that he can do trade and can earn then he have to invest more money in trade.

Everyone should start a small amount of money when new in trading and that should be strictly followed by everyone, in trading what makes us successful is our knowledge, skills and experience so as newbie we do not have that all factors to work together yet so start small.

how about luckyness without this,many factors above that you just mentioned would be useless since in my opinion 40% chance of succesfull caused by skill above and the 60% is by your luckyness

No way you will be successful with that kind of mentality, the thing is you can measure your skills because you owned it but you cannot measure your luck as you do not owned it, so the 60% and 40% you are talking does not make sense, I hope you analyze that.

The problem that a lot people have when trading with low amounts, is that they take extra risks in order to get a higher profit.

And if they made a decent profit once, they try to do the same with a much higher amount, and exactly that's the moment where they go wrong.

yes that is right that if you are new and having no experience then you should invest a little amount of bitcoin in trading and when get some experience then try trading with some more bitcoins.

Thats what I did, I have no knowledge in cryptocurrency trading. I only read here on btctalk forum then i try on Yobit. Since the lowest amount to trade is 10,000 satoshi,its  not a big deal whether I lose. I do trading and learned the basics until I know the systems. Just try trading,gain knowledge and develop your confidence in trading.

well as i read this i remember those days when we only have .004 btc to start doing buy low and sell high and we keep sending private message from yobit asking which coin would be the next to play, oh well its been 3 months now we can both say that we are earning little by little and we keep on learning new things and apply it as our strategy.

The population of the trolling person in the troll box is more enough for me feeling hate with them....  That's right, the golden keys in trading are for buying at low price and always watching the site for waiting about the pumping from a lot of whales.

I agree with buying on a low price and wait and watch for some gain. Don't be too greedy! For a starter I would maybe recommend: buy in on an altcoin low --> Sell the equivalent btc of your buy for a higher price --> Keep the altcoins leftover in your wallet. If you're choosing the right altcoins in regard of popularity, I think there is a strong chance that you'll a medium profit in the long run.

Now if you're able to keep your initial investment of ?btc for a longer period of time, you can start growing your portfolio. It is import to keep records though

I do not favor that luck will work that much which knowledge skill and experience do, luck only work on some occasions by chance and on all other bad conditions the newbie continue to lose.

The role is already to break a half for the skill contribution and the another fur your luckiest. if you do not get luckiest a lot of your skill are will not useful because you're always lost the best moment for using your skill and gaining a profit.

There is no limit on trading you can start trading any time with very tiny amount of money. You just need skill and strategy to earn from trading however more amount of money will get yoi bigger profits.

there's indeed no limit for trading or any requirement but if the amount were too tiny then the trading will become useless,the money will be cutoff by the fee and endup not gaining profit but lose even you just make money out of selling altcoin with higher price,such a waste of time to be honest

yes i am also agree with you that there is no limit in trading, you can do trading with any amount, as in alt coin section you can do trading in such coins whose value is very low, you can buy a good amount of coins with a little amount.

You should only buy the good altcoin with real potential. Most of the altcoins are just the scam coins.

Starting with small amount of investment , it is safe to trade but the drawback is that you wont be able to get a lot of profit with small investments.
If you are not a Newbie in trading, go with the maximum amount you can afford to trade.

Yeah you are right that anyone can not get a big profit in trade form low investment if you invest in high amount then i also sure you get a big profit in trading and there is a lot of people are investing in huge amount and they get a huge amount profit with easily.

A newbie should just learn first the basics in trading and start with a little amount to learn, in addition you can trade in different trading sites here and that would help you in determining which sites you are comfortable trading.

i agree with you if you invest your money in big amount in trading then surely you will be get a big profit from trading and if you invest your money in low amount then you will be get a low price .

Trading in altcoins can be started even at 0.001btc but that kind of trading doesnt worth any think,the minimum amount i say should be 0.25btc reserved for that.Its not neccessary to use them all at once,must that much must be in reserve.

even with 0.001 bitcoin you can make a good profit out of it if you can manage to always get profit,it's indeed will be cut off by the fees but only small percents so it's not going to be a problem,it's worth trying to be honest

Certain exchanges indeed allow you to buy and sell with amounts as low as 0.001BTC, but this is an amount only used by people that are either new to trading, or people that put it into what seems to be a dead altcoin in the hope that it explodes in value.

You can have some decent luck a few times, but you can't constantly depend on luck when you try to multiply such a low amount. It's a waste of time and effort.

For a starter its better to start for that amount so they can experience the real tradings on there barehands and so if they lose they will not get hurt so badly since the amount they are risking for their practice mode is little enough that they might not notice,

But i'd really agree for your thoughs about having an high capital is a must since we totally earn huge profits for having a high capital in tradings.

I like to ask how much you can make of 0.3bitcoin after a year if u work hard in trading? I understand how it could take some times for a good turn over in an investment. But for a trade with flipping and ICO investment

ICO investments is good because you will surely have that altcoin in a cheap amounts and who doesn't even k ow how much will it be when release on the market it is really a big advantage .
For 0.3 for a year ,it will surely more than 2btc a year especially if you know to have some good trades as well as both short term and long trading.

Thank you. If you can make 2 btc out of 0.3 in a year. It will help me in making projections.

Yup, the High investment will give big profit, but it involves significant risk also. So before doing high amount trading, you should check twice. And I think altcoin trading is easy and it will give more profit.

knowing what would be the risk needs to be review since alt coin trading really gives big chances of earning good profits but the fluctuation itself really needed to be studied as we are using our money we needed to make sure that it was invested in a good project so whether using big or small investment we still needed to know the fundamentals of trading.

It is normal because profit will be proportional to amount invested or being used for trading.
You do not expected  Mr A to invest 10BTC and Mr B 5BTC and they all make the same profit, that is verry unusual because profit is always going to be proportional to amount invested and also in other wards risked.

Big books recommend to put no more than 3-5% to risk in one trade.

I think even 0.1 btc would be sufficient.In fact there is no minimum amount needed for trading but if you want to make big,invest big but you should be able to afford the risk also

0.25  is actually just  too much for a newcomers to trading job,0.001 is quite effective if you can manage to always making profit and the fees doesn't matter at this time,otherwise still better to save money and gain more to start with higher balance but there's nothing wrong to start with 0.001

how can 0.25 too much to start trading? i guess it is a reasonable amount ,
you can not expect anything if you start trading with 0.001 lol ,
even 0.25 for most trader are still very little capital ,
you need to take a risk even you are a newcomer it is the important thing in trading.

i am start trading with 0.001 and i only buy altcoin with small price in under 50 satoshi and suddenly i have my luck that altcoin is getting jump for the price until reach about 200-300 satoshi and i can make much of bitcoin for that. so don't under estimated if 0.001 can make much of bitcoin  ;D

i do that too, start trading at 0.001 (small investment especially on ICO at yobit or if I happen to see a pump on a coin happening)  then mostly i buy those at 1 sat LOL.  It is a gamble in my part because of the very big chance of that coin becoming worthless.  Well at least with that amount im not bagholding huge number of coins.  Then if 50% profit is seen i sold all of it then buy at the same price with the profit and keeping my initial investment safe.

Do it just for fun or your way to learn how to trade, with 0.001 that will not affect your so much financially when you fail but the learning you get is very valuable, time will come you will learn and improve your knowledge and that is the time to put bigger money to trade.

If I were you and willing to do some trading on Bitcoin's price, I'd better head to some automated platform that allows me to open and close an order in a few seconds.

Well yeah but depends on the ICO that you are going to join because there are some ICO's that are not serious about their projects and they just want to get some profit out of their investors and later on they won't develop the coin that they have offered. This is just easy, learn to study first before joining and start trading.

Well the question is how much you are going to start trading with those automated platforms. I think 0.01 BTC i already enough to start minimum trading. And that is going to depend on how you are going to make your capital grow with the potential alt coins that you are going to buy, just make sure you know how to trade.

That's enough and that is already a decent amount of money to start for you journey in trading, and that is just advisable for every trader who are starting up because when you are new you cannot guarantee to make profit all the time, you are bound to lose at first but with small amount you can bear the loses.

With 0.01 bitcoin, you can buy 0.5 Ethereum and 5 ETC. That is good amount to play with initially.

ICO investments are good but the most riskiest investments as well, as sometimes they could harm your portfolio at its highest if either devs scam their users by dumping the premined coins or if the coin doesn't get a successful start and remains below the ICO price... A lot of research and knowledge is needed before getting into any ICO, so it's better to just trade the altcoins where you know that where the price might go...

It's just fair as the higher the risk the better the reward, I have participated in many ICO in the past few months and honestly in overall I got profit. I made a decent income with my investment in LISK project and that is something I can prove that if you will just make the right research you have a good chance to make money.

should seek for cheaper alts whilst with ethereum and etc when the price is just increasing you will only possibly get low amounts of profit when with another alts you can get bunch of coin with 0.01 and such a good profit when price just rising

There is nothing preventing you from making a decent profit from even 10 thousand satoshis on an exchange like yobit where coins can swing up to 10,000% a day. So yeah, minimum amount is pretty much the minimum trade.

The figures you are talking as our chances seems so unrealistic,no one can win that because we are even having a hard time to double our money even we trade for the whole day, I guess you only have that if you are really but that is not consistent..

yes that is a fact that there is no limit for trading in alt coin, you can invest any amount in trading, you just need to select a cheap currency with a good potential in future,

Yeah even doubling your bitcoins in trading is not easy, you need to have a great level of patience to make profits in trading and if you don't have patience then there is a full possibility that you will get panic and sell your coins at the wrong time which will surely make you to go through huge losses.

yes there is no limit to start trading, i think the most important thing is to decide where invest the  payment so as to get more and more profit, for example if you have very little amount of money then you should invest your money in alt coin and should buy a cheap currency but having a good potential for increasing the price.

yes you can surely start trading from 0.5 Bitcoin and i do not think that 0.5 bitcoin is less amount for to start trading and i am sure you can get a maximum profit through trading by 0.5 Bitcoin .

The majority of the people here don't have 0.5BTC for whatever purpose. If you talk about people using low amounts for their trading sessions, then it's even less than 0.05BTC in some cases. That's why they mostly jump into altcoins as they are subject to regular pumps and dumps where some coins gain like 100% in a matter of days. I personally find that it is more gambling than actual trading, but it's their choice to do whatever they want with their coins. High risks means higher possible profits, but it also means that the losses can turn out to be way more severe.

actually there is no minimum limit in trading. bitcoin slightest that we have that can be utilized. large and small want that influence is a result that we can. trading does not burden us all.

For me, I think it is wiser for a newbie to trading to start slowly with 0.01BTC and learn from his mistakes and understand the market, both the fundamental and technical analysis and also the most important thing human psychology to rise and fall in price. The more you are willing to risk will determine the profit you are likely to gain

If it's possible to lower that amount then it's the best way to do it, you trade to learn when you are a newbie so it's just right to put up a minimum amount that you can use to practice your way in trading as well. In time, you can add that gradually because along the way you can learn and finding a new method will always happen and you can be very eager to try it. Everything must be a learning experience and make yourself grow in trading.

i think 0.5 btc is enough amount for trading and you can earning profit in good amount through trading because trading is very much profitable safe investment than other investment.

No matter if they trade BTC/fiat or BTC/alt … In my opinion, this is the best about trading on Bitcoin exchanges, that you have the possibility to trade with very low amounts of money on good fees (0.15-0.25%).  In real markets you'll never get that chance.  You can even start leverage trading with 100 US$.  Try this on any CFD market with lots of 100 BTC or 10000 US$ per lot and minimum size of 0.01 lots.  Impossible for people with very low amount of trade money to start trading there.

//alex

Beside trading with very low amounts of 0.01 BTC to gain experience it's also important -- in my opinion -- to have a good understanding of exchange markets.  Read books about trading, get a basic understanding of stock markets and how they are working.  It's also not wrong to get a good knowledge of chart analysis/market analysis -- even if you're not going to trade on chart analysis it's always good to know where other traders might open or close their positions.  Where positions might be stopped or turned around.  Just where the market is going to move.

It never has been easier than nowadays to get this knowledge.  Just check some YouTube videos on chart analysis tutorials.

//alex

because most of the exchanges that you can do trading cost a fixed percentage fee instead of a flat rate, anyone with limited income can begin trading. this is in contrast to most stocks, bonds, etfs, etc. since a flat rate fee quickly eats into profits if you have little initial capital.

Yep. That is pretty big to start trading but just put in to your mind that you can loss in trading luck and skill can make you a large profit. I will suggest that you can deposit 0.001 first to know the system of trading and how it will work. Just for one week know all about trading and then deposit the 0.5 bitcoin to formally start your trading. I hope you will make q large profit from it :) happy trading!

To start Trading with the amount of 0.5BTC is a big amount actually, and I know the members here also will say the same thing what I said. But usually, they trade their BTC most often in the exchange on which coins are hot all the time in the exchange sites.

Starting from small amount while you are still learning will be good. Actually there is no mandatory minimum amount, whatever you have you can use, but properly. BTC 0.50 is quite enough if you have that much only, and personally its a large amount for me.

… just be sure you can afford the 0.5 BTC.  If things go terribly wrong and you lose all that money it should not bring you in trouble with your normal life!  That's very important. Many beginners try to beat the market with way too much money and hope they'll get millionaires within days by just doing the right trades.  And in the end:  the market won.  Never risk more money you can lose.  And read about money management.

//alex

To start trading that means you are just a beginner, I believe half of a bitcoin is already a huge amount to start. I say this because we do not have th experience yet, and IMO it's advisable to start at a very least minimum and later when you learn and you feel you can already predict the market correctly, then that's the time to start with a decent amount of money and treat it as your job.

Yes, there is no minimum limit in trading. You can place any amount you love as long as you can, I mean as long as you can manage your emotion on handling it because in trading you lose and win too, sometimes you get no profit.

-as much as possible, because maybe have risks, we must be ready to deal with emergencies. 5-10 bitcoin is best
-you need to calculate reason, should not be too greedy

There is no age to start trading and no minimum amount but I would suggest anyone to start trading with 0.5 bitcoins at least so you don't panic easily and can easily overcome initial loss given.

i realize lately that if you want to trade and earn quick as fast as 24 hours, you'd need a much as 2 to 3 btc to move from coins with as least have a value of $8 and up so that with a little inflation as 0.5% can get you to earn few bucks.

Alternatively one can also go with the leverage option to multiply gains (and losses too) so with that one can create 10X position with the funds he have to trade. Yes if things went wrong then one can also lose his entire capital but that’s good rather than losing actual large capital. One has to pay some extra fees while trading with leverage.

Actually 0.5BTC is a big starting point on trading. In fact, there is a big chances that you can earn 0.01BTC and up daily if you good in pulsing on which coin you are going to invest in.

But I believe 2 or 3 bitcoins are only good for professional traders and these are not the right amount to getting start with trading. In the beginning days of trading we should not aim for profit making because only learning the basics will be possible for that we just need the minimum investments like 0.05 bitcoins.

There's no amount too small if you're learning. Just don't risk more than you're willing to lose.

With around 50 dollar you can already make some good profits these days, its just how you look at it.. and in what you trade in.

You have a good point and if you are newbie you should be start in small amount to learn how to trade.. also i am using bitcoinwisdom for analyze the movement of the price   they are giving some good tools there that can help you to analyze the movement of the price of bitcoin..
If you learn how to trade and you can scale up your small amount and increase the amount i think in order to earn more profit invest more when you know that you are good in trading.

you are right there is no age to start trading so you can trade with crypto currency in any age and if you invest your money in huge amount then you can get a big profit from trading and if you invest your money in low amount then you can get low amount bitcoin.

Almost all answer here are the same but if you are starter i think investing 0.5 btc in my opinion is not a good idea because you can also lose a lot.. better to invest small amount i think for starter try to scaleup 0.01-0.02 btc and your goal is to scaleup until 0.1 if you are doing a great history you can start of investing more to trade. there is some strategy that actually making you good profit if you can stay and do multiple times..
Setting a margin setting a percentage of bitcoin how much you buy or sell.
And the common is buy low and sell high that almost all strategy need this method..

Continued learning is not enough, the best way is direct to try trading. For minimum amount depends on your own, there are people who 1 BTC, 10 BTC or another. For me with 0.5 btc can I use for trading Altcoin. If you have more funds is certainly better.

The way I see it, is an amount of 0.05 is the minimum amount one starts to trade and I speak to trade in online exchange markets with alt coins. If anyone wants to trade only btc to fiat and vice versa using the well known localbitcoins then a much bigger amount must can afford about it. Even more, must have time to build a positive feedback. That means first times must trade with minimum exchange ratio so as customers prefer him than others and leave their positive feedback on dashboard. Imho trading with altcoins is the most interested one even is the most risky.

i think there is no limit for investing in bitcoin, it depend on your assets. if you have a good amount you can invest that amount without any doubt and if you a little amount even less than 0.1 bitcoin still you can trade alt coins. therefore there is no limit for buying bitcoins.

No limit but if you are starter i will recommend to start with small amount of bitcoin since the value of bitcoin is not the same before and the price fo bitcoin right now is too expensive i just suggest that it is better to start with small amount so that you learn first.
After you are earning with your small amount you can start invest more bitcoin just to increase your revenue..

0.5 btc is enough funds for you to start to trade actually for me it's huge amount just remember trading is also a risk you will need a knowledge and strategy also in trading you can lose all your funds so I'm wishing you goodluck.

i think there is no limit for buying bitcoin. you can buy any amount of bitcoin, but still i will recommend you start will a small amount of bitcoin because in start you need to get some experience and after that you can invest a good amount.

Trading with0.5 BTC is the high amount for beginners. If you want to learn trading yes you can start with a small amount. Don't expect more profit in the beginning only. First, learn all the methods and strategies of trading. Once you become a pro in trading slowly increase your trading amount, then you will make a good profit. Trading also risky but if you trade with right person 100%, you will get good returns.

If you are newbie to trading first of all learn about trading and get familer will all the markets ups and downs, because trading is always risk involved in it those whose face challenge and risks will see successful returns on their investments. In bitcointalk you will find many sucessful stories from all traders who made profits with bitcoin. After gaining knowledge better with lowest amount like 0.01 btc think that this money does not belongs to you.

This is really a good move and also a wise one because if you are just a begginer on trading then the risk of losing money is almost 100% since you dont have really any idea on doing trading then starting on small amount would be the best thing because if you lost that amounts it wont hurt you much.

0.5 btc is too much enough to start trading . yes trading is also risky but less only .  if you are trader you need knowledge and strategies to grow your bitcoin because if you do not have that your bitcoin lose . As a trader you to be focus of what you doing and trader also is good researcher .making a research about a coin you want to buy. Like me before I don't know how to start trading but look at me now I'm earning profit because of trading so be dont afraid if you are beginner you will learn all you need is confidence to start it.

Yes trading will need good strategies for you to earn some profit but I think if a trader is just a beginner 0.5 btc is a huge amount so if a trader don't know when to buy or sell he will lose all of his funds. He is just wasting his money if he start with 0.5 btc

Self confidence is more important for our success always especially in trading we need it more importantly just to to withstand many losses and patient testing moments.

I come across many people who are learning trading on their own interest after that becoming professional trader. We can certainly say that they must have started with the possible minimum amount to get into trading. Because a big initial capital might lead to losses and eventually will lead to quitting trading completely in beginning days itself.

It is really a huge amount to start trade. When I was a newbie in trade and I was to have to start the trade for the first time then I separated some amount in an exchange and bought a pumping currency with only 0.0001 BTC and start to go with that and so on.

It is not important the amount that you should really start.
I started also in small amount of bitcoin with only .001btc, I believe you start to risk the amount that you can lose so you won't be disappointed if you did not gain for the first time until you familiarize with the market flow.

Small is not actually important but starting with 0.5btc in trading is not recommended especially when you have no good strategies or just starting learn trading because you will lose all your capital.

if you really don't want to risk money when you are in learning phase then go for demo account , you can place buy / sell as you wish and train yourself without have to risk a cents , but the atmosphere will be different.

0.5 bitcoin capital fair enough to start i guess, you will not lost it all in one night however not just like when you gambling.

its better if we have more than 0.05 in our wallet to start trading, we can use that amount trading altcoin with btc or btc with fiat. but its should up to you, how much you want to spend your bitcoin to go with market exchanges and before you do trade, you need to think twice about the risk that you can get while you are doing trading.

yes 0.5 is a good amount of money to invest in bitcoin. and there is not limit of investment to start a business with. but if you a good trader and you have good experience in trading the you can really invest some good money so as to make good money in short period of time.

The other benefit of starting with smallest amount is that we can continue to try again and again without feeling any lose if we lose and in that all tries we once learn that where we have to invest and how we have to invest and on which coins we have to trust for shorter or longer investment.

By doing  trade in different exchange platform it depends on the traders which is newbie on how He/She going to start. Just start on the things what you can afford only. You don't  need to rush it to begin with big amount at once. Its not helpful if you do it,

0.5 BTC is huge if you start trading, if you are a beginner or first trading better make use of 0.05 BTC to gain experience in the world of trading, experiences help you learn a thing. trading is not as easy as discussed (buy low sell high)

I agree, if you start with a big amount in trading you will feel very disappointed if you lose that money. And being a newbie in trading that will start with a big amount is a very risky way. It is better to start an amount that you can afford to lose while you are starting trading. Once you know may strategies to it you can increase your capital and start earning some real profit.

But I always prefer to stick with small possible capital amount in order to avoid any unexpected big losses.

I learned this from my experience. Because facing losses in trading is most common and we cannot be assured it will not happen when we are having experience. It is always good to trade with small capital like we must do in gambling.

You can start trading with as low as 0.001 btc but you can't make big profit with small amount.Recently I sent 0.0045btc on Poloniex and with trading I now have 0.005btc.
Small investment also means less risk

Sometimes is not about the risked amount but about the strategy we use when we make the buy/sell move, because if we are successful on small amounts this means that we have a good potential to succeed and with larger amount too (even though there is a higher risk).

Profits should not be counted as small or high, according to the investment the profit ratio is counted, like you said you invested 0.0045btc and now having 0.005btc so it means you had 10% profit which is very good, if you take on long term ROI then you will see that some days after you are holding 0.05btc also. So dont think of becoming one day millionaire but think like job or business and 10% is high profit.

yes that is the beauty of bitcoin that you can start trading here for any amount. in fact there is  no limit for trading alt coin you must be careful and always invest such amount of bitcoin that you can bear to lose. because trading is also so much risky, and specially if you do not have any trading experience.

It wouldn't mean less risk of losing money; just less risk of losing MORE money since you are playing around with less capital.

The minimum amount to start trading is low actually, if you want to start trading a you have to do is look up some guides to get you started off and start trading with a small amount, don’t worry if you lose at first losing is a vital part of learning so get experience and then you can increase the amount that you trade with.

there is limit for starting a business. you can start trading from any amount. but if you are new in trading then you should start trading with a little amount and when you get some good experience in trading then you can invest a good amount. and can get a good profit.

You shouldn't trade with low amount capital it won't give you anything
If you really want to train yourself in trading , then train yourself to handle the bigger risk
Get used to it and you gonna be a good trader later if you can master it
A trader will not wasting time like that .

Yes, I agreed and very profitable to all traders actually. Risky will only be apply if we will become neglectful by doing trade in the exchange platform.  And in any exchange platform the minimum was 0.001BTC i think is enough for you to start trading.

No, the minimum capital for trading should not be decided based on exchange minimum but should be set based on your trading capability. If you are good in trading strategies and in money management, you can start even with 0.01 bitcoins. But for altcoin trading half of this would be more than sufficient amount.

yeah its good idea that anyone can start trading with any amount like as .001 btc but if you are expert and genius in trading then you can invest your bitcoin in huge amount in bitcoin if you invest your money in high amount then you will earn your profit in good amount .

At the beginning days no one will be expert and genius in trading so it would be always advisable to start trading with the possible least amount. I like the idea of starting trading with 1 mBTC. All the above, I guess we can start trading less then this amount also in some specific exchanges.

A good amount to start trading would be 0.1 BTC. Possible to lose sometimes, but the important is to have much ammo to spend on the process. For a newbie it can be started using low amounts of money per trade, but the bankroll can be 0.1 BTC too.
Possible to apply martingale on losses, here I'm sure it will work if you are skilled enough.

0.5 btc is really nice amount i prefer you trading bitcoin/paypal or bitcoin/skrill or bitcoin/payeer or some other payment wallet and you can earn nice amounts when you are trading like a exchanager but you need to proof that you are trusted guy.

Yes 0.01 is already a good amount to start trading. Even you are going to start with 0.001 BTC for sure you can't progress with that amount.

It's better to start with 0.01 BTC for you can afford this to lose and it's a good amount for learning stage.

So if you are going to start with smaller amount the profit you can get is also low.

no minimum amount to start trading although its only 1 dollar but bigger amount you will get big profits but its also can make you lose big amount too so big amount is needed but trading skill more needed to get big profits so if you begginer at trading world better you start it with small amount like 0.001 to 0.01 btc to prevent big losses :)

It will be safer if you have a bigger amount of money because you can easily spend your Bitcoin in various type of altcoin. However, if you are a newbies, I suggest you should spend about 0.01 to 0.1 Bitcoin in order to learn and obtain some experience from trading. If you are good enough, I bet that you can have profit from trading even when you only have $1 to start your career

With smaller amount you will make small amount of profits, even i tried with 0.01 btc after 1 month i made around 0.03 btc. But after i realized that if we start with some decent money than we will make some huge profits in trading.

When i was new in trading, i started in small amount only because i want to try first if i can do it right and i can say that experience is really a good thing before you start to risk bigger amount, so i think 0.5btc is really enough to start.

I don’t know about you but trading with a small capital was never profitable since you have to cut the exchange fees from the money you make.

Starting with a small capital does not leave a chance of failure say for example if you make a mistake of selling when the price got higher you are left with nothing so you have to have a reasonable amount that you can divide between holding and trading with, but that does not mean that you should never try trading.

in very begining it  will be a good decision to invest a small amount of bitcoin in trading. because it is important to have good experience in trading if you want to become a successful trader. without experience one cannot become a good and successful trader, and you can also minimize the risk of losing money in trading if you have good experience and skill in trading ad only then you can become a good trader. therefore if you are newbie in trading then you need to invest a small amount of ibitcoins.

1.3.2017 I will start to trade with serious bankroll because I want make more profit and in that date I get my payment from real life and then I can become a professional trader :D

To became a professional trader you must have experience in trading and have a skill on it.It is not on how your bankroll big to invest in trading.They are some successful trader here does not need a big bankroll.

I don't think so any minimum amount will be here in trading, and as you said 0.5 amount you have, i think it is enough to buy any coins. But trading is not depend in amount, it depend on your skills and information, So better is that only concentrate your trading skills and than start it.   

If you want to start with good amount than it is a wise decision for you, because many people fail to make more money because they will start with lower amount and always looking for higher profits. Better plan with some good amount so that your returns will also be high. But don't invest which you cannot afford.

Well, when you have accurate information, and great skill, then the amount is no longer an obstacle. possible to start it you must begin with the 0.1, or 0.2 BTC according to your abilities. but if you do not have it, maybe 0:05 BTC can give you for quite a lot. but, I suggest to use as much as possible, because the more you use, the more profit you gonna get.

Probably not a good suggestion in my view. You are just considering only the positive side, but for the dangerous side always going with possible lower capital must be a wise decision. I agree more the capital will get use more the profits but certainly it will not be the case of beginners and only experienced traders will make more profits from big amounts of capital.

Just use small amounts so that you got the feel of it and play around the system. In this way, you will not lose a lot of money. So once you gain confidence in trading, use small increments. Your skills + experience gain overtime will help you on your decision on how to do trading in the future.

There is no such amount like minimum amount.
Like the least transaction I have seen is 0.00001 bitcoin.
This was given to me by my friend , at that time it was equal to 0.01 USD.
He just gave it to me for fun.
Now , no-one will sell anything for that amount.
But I just wanted to tell that that is probably the minimum amount that you can send or receive.
As the tax is more compared to the amount your are paying is such case

That's right, for the beginner in the world of trading, we recommend using the
minimal capital such as 0.001 Satoshi (this is just for practice). If every month we calculate,
we get the profit then we will increase our capital. step by step. This is my experience.

it is one way that simple. we gather capital from altcoin trading results at this time. then the next day we are trading with higher numbers. it will collect a lot of capital to generate more money.

Yeah 0.001 Bitcoin is good amount for practice, if you have experience with your lessons better to increase your capital. Don't just use 0.001 Bitcoin for your trading, how much profit you got is depend in how much capital you use. You need to know trading is not only about profit but about losing too, so you need to realize about that.

Agree on what you have said about trading since it's not really always making money and we win on constant ways in fact losses are still there even on the most professional traders do still lose because moving prices is unpredictable which means we do really need to have good knowledge and experience to sustain good profitable trades.

Trying to perform some trades with this amount can help gain more experience, however it is necessary to understand that when trading with larger amounts of money, it becomes more difficult to make profits, especially with altcoins. The problem is that some markets do not have enough liquidity to fill buy orders or sell orders.

But in the start, we should use only limited amount. Because in trading, we couldn't guess, we mustily need skills and correct information than we gain profit. So i suggest in the start better is that use less amount, because if we couldn't make profit than less than we could afford lose in trading.   

0.5BTC is a big capital to start trading actually. it is trading really so far i know that can be profitable to you to make it grow fast
by simply buy other coins that are cheap but potentially can be increase in a matter of short time only.

its rally enough and good amount 0.5BTC for trading and i hope you will get a good profit from it and when you invest your amount in huge value in trading so you will get a big profit and if you invest your amount in low value then you will get low profit but experience and skill is very important thing for a successful trader.

If you want to earn much more in trading, you need to have the minimum amount of $100 dollars. Because in trading you need to consume  time before you earn much on it because your earning is depend on the swing of altcoins. To prevent loss, you need to wait until the price of altcoin is up.

This is a very tricky question, personally I have seen high losses due to putting too much in a coin that people go panic on lol but I have also noticed in this game the more volume you have in a coin the faster the returns, just like with any investment.

Then you could have luck like I had today, buy in very low like i did with YoBit on some new coin called SMF and turn $8 into $70 only because the slight rise on a cheaper coin you have loads of instant volume can also push you up fast, this is tricky though, you have to just happen to spot a chart that looks like a potential and know when to get out in time to not see the fast rise put you back in the hole again.

The standard I would say like most...only invest what you can afford to lose or like me be a risk taker and not sweat the losses you may incur, long as you know you will always have another day to fight the good fight to win again.

I do not think $100 as an appropriate initial capital for beginners of trading. They should not risk big when are are not ready completely for market fluctuations.

Moreover I have seen some experienced traders are always do trading with less than $50 worth of altcoins, they justify it as a risk minimizing method. When you are targeting some consistent profits rather than greedy big shots, I guess sticking with minimum all the times may ensure your success due to proper risk management.