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I was reading some article and came across some common reasons why people lose money in the crypto market. I felt Newbies will be helpful from this. Some of the reasons are:

Trying to get rich faster: For example, if the price of a coin is increasing and it has reached a peak, one will try to invest on that without thinking about the future rate down fall. Due to FOMO, the people will rush to invest on it without thinking much.

Taking profits early: If the price is surging drastically, one will be eager to invest on that coin without waiting for it to increase more. Will be in a loss, if we try to invest early.

Following the Crowd: By seeing some trading sites or trading groups investing on a particular coin, following them blindly without checking the actual price chart of the coin and investing on it, will lead to a loss. My advice to newbies, please do not follow the crowd blindly without proper investigation before trading.

Lack of Knowledge: Last but not the least, all these reasons why people lose money is because of lack of knowledge.


>> What are the other reasons why people will lose money in the market? Please share your thoughts on this.


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About taking profits Early.

One should never regret taking profits.
You can have a strategy, like 10% profit every 50% gains, or 100% gains, whatever.

I only took profits from altcoins, to buy bitcoins with them
But you can take some profits on Bitcoin, and if the price goes down you can buy back more, or just keep your cash. You will feel better in bear market times.

Practice and Knowledge are the factors that can give the balance in the R:R ratio.

One great point that you noted that I agree upon is that blindly following the crowd is never advisable. People should always follow there strategy and whatever there study say.

Basically the major reason people loose money in the crypto market is because they don't know/have enough knowledge about what they're about to do before investing in it. Someone who has enough knowledge won't fall under the other categories you mentioned.

They lose money because of greed and impatience.

These two reasons make them invest near ATH and sell later at a lose, especially because they've invested money they actually need (and don't afford to lose).
These two reasons make them invest without a basic research, paying high fees (or use scam sites), investing late (ATH), investing in scam ICOs.

It's so common problem of newbies on cryptocurrency market. That's why it's really much better if every new people entering in crypto will take note this, and I think it is not only on crypto applicable, even in non-crypto; you are investing in something you don't know? Then it is really a waste of time and money.
Just like what Warren Buffet said, "Never invest in a business you can't understand."

I would say education is the main reason why people lose so money here. Just look at how many newbies bitching around saying that they have lost so much money. It's because they don't know what they've been doing. They just shell out money and 'hope' that it will give them good profits in short amount of time.

Trying to get rich fast or faster is the same as being greedy where it won't do good at all.

People should be opposite with this one. It should be investing to a coin that can survive in the long run and avoid such loss or missing the chance to take profit when price of the coin goes up.

Do you mean "please do not follow the crowd blindly without proper investigating before trading.

As this saying goes "There Is No Knowledge That is Not POWER". Having knowledge about it would also help you with your investigation or research about the coin you wanted to invest in and that is why it's important to have knowledge at what you are trying to do.

Other reasons why people will lose money in the market are:
1.) Doesn't having a clear strategy or trading plan.
2.) Completely forgetting about risk management.
3.) Did not learn or don't have any idea about "TA" (Technical Analysis).
4.) Do not break your portfolio.
5.) Leverage.
6.) Not understanding the calculations.
7.) Following the "Social Media Tips.
and more reason.

Yes, I meant - "do not follow the crowd without proper investigation before trading". It was a typo error, I have corrected it. Thank you!


Yes, I agree that these are the other reasons why people will lose money in the market. People should make note of all these points before investing.

Crypto is something new so people can't come into conclusion about which one need to do while holding the coins so either they cash out too early or just holding the dying coin.Just like OP said lack of crypto knowledge made them to be in losses most of the time.

these 3 are the same exact thing and you are wrong about the reason of losing money.
all of these are explaining the everyday situation of the altcoin market. people see the hype ("follow the crowd") and buy in a shitcoin because they want to make a large amount of profit quickly ("get rich faster"). the reason for losing money is not this purchase. instead the reason is not selling or selling too late. you see when you buy a shitcoin that is getting pumped because of some hype you should expect its dump too. so you should plan on cashing out, if you don't sell then the dump will come and you will end up losing money but if you sell, then you take out your profit and stay clear of the dumping part preventing any losses.

The most popular one is getting rich quick,many came into crypto world with the mindset of getting rich quick and they ignore every important steps like learning how crypto works which leads them to losing huge money

That is what I wrote in another thread, but key ideas are suitable for the thread.
Moreover, if people have pressure to get earnings on daily basis, they will most likely fall into wrong decisions. Basically, people are more easily to lose control on their emotions, decisions when they have to deal with pressure. Pressure results in wrong decisions, wrong decisions in turn will cause losses at the ends.

A lack of discipline and an inability to control emotion are the main ones, plus not having any type of plan is deeply unhelpful too.

Another problem is marriage. People get married to a price they're convinced will arrive and never does, or get married to an alt despite it showing zero signs of life or certain signs of doom.

Most people are deeply unwilling to acknowledge when their moves and beliefs are wrong even when the evidence is shouting in their face. Instead of flipping they grimly hang on until they're absolutely fucked.

Successful traders are willing to instantly discard whatever their previous plan was when it's obvious it's not the zeitgeist any more. 

Time in the market beats timing the market  ::)

This does not make sense. Why would we be in a loss if we take profits early? You don't call it profits if you are at a loss.
Did you copy this from somewhere else and removed some of the text?

Well people are always saying that you should store it offline, but if you do not store your private key safu it does not matter.

I can't understand why 'taking profits early' is a reason why people lose money.

You are taking profit so why lose money? it should be greediness. We are bound to think of higher profit and those people who are taking profit earlier are even wiser than those who greedy people and want more increase.

They can ride the swings and use the profit they had as their purchasing power for lower price.

+ Agree. However it came to me after multiple HODL-disasters  ;D

People lose money due to panic selling. And also FOMO scares people to buy when they are not even ready to invest. Then unexpectedly, the price just drops. People also lose money due to lack of information on a particular coin.

This line just took me off. You are highly right discipline and control are emotion are key things. And these two can only be gained by practice.

I like buying coins that others seem to think they know so much about and refer to as shitcoin. Some of these shitcoins can make small amounts of profit which others look down on because they want to get ric hover night but if you add it all together from various coins you can pocket some nice profit which you can use to increase the stock of your prime currencies such as eth or bitcoin.

What ebook are you referring to? The article you reference in your posts points is written by somebody in the team of a given trading platform, but there seems to be no ebook reference in either site.

It's part of hodlers life, we came through many hold-disasters and the ones that endured are now enjoying and can start selling if they want to.

They don't buy in the dips or invest too quickly in a project without doing much research. I think people who choose to day trade back and forth also lose more money than people who don't hold their coins

Some people don't cut their losses early enough and get caught holding positions or coins underwater as well. Ideally, you cut losing trades out early and let your winning trades run. Pretty important concept to understand, especially if you're trading on leverage and you have a liquidation price. It's not always a good idea (almost never) to ride a trade down to liquidation, and you should have determined your stoploss and exit before you enter a trade. If you don't have that planned out yet, don't enter a trade yet.

Alternatively, you can just dollar cost average into a coin and hold it for the long term. Pretty low risk if done correctly, easy, and people usually earn more from doing this than trading.

Now days if you are trading in crypto industry so that you can make money from that.Here are few tips I will share-

• Always try to do your own research if you are investing on any coin and don't believe on all social media news because it is not true everytime.
• Try to trade with some good strategies.
• Hold and buy the coins when its value is low so that you can get more profit in future when the market is increase.
• Also you can search about all coins volume, supply and  price of the coins in every seconds on coinmarketcap.com so that it would be useful for everyone to invest.
• Try to read the whitepaper of the coin so that you can decide wheather that coin is worth investing or not.

A very unique question topic. Do you think there is charity in the cryptocurrency market? No, there is a lot of risk here, with every trade, every order, it contains a little or a lot of risk depending on your experience and options. Besides scams also cost us money. Be alert

One of the main reason is that lots of new comers try to look at crypto as a get rich quick scheme,  looking at crypto which such perspective is totally wrong,  the aspect of taking profits early I don't think it really one of the factors why people loose money in crypto

There are lots of people who took early profit from bitcoin and other solid project when it was trading low and they are regretting it,  buying of shitcoins and holding for long term is another causes of reasons why people loose money

Due to lack of knowledge people blindly believe Television, Newspaper broadcasting messages and just on sudden decisions and SELL what they HODL and even for a price drop they do SELL. We need to have more patience when we have a goal to achieve our targets.

Some are being greedy, others doesnt even know what project they have invested as long as they saw these lines, invest and see your money grow without doing anything, they will grab the project immediately without researching.

Actually Couple of reason works behind losing money in the crypto market. Specially beginners act so fast to make money from crypto investment. This quick activity put them behind from having proper knowledge about real time market condition. Without having deep knowledge you can't expect best return from any kinda investment and same apply for the crypto too.

In my opinion for successful crypto investment its highly necessary to have proper knowledge about the exact time of investment. If anyone can build this quality first then other things get much easier for him.    

Of course its the lack of knowledge on cryptocurrency is the most possible reason why people lose money. If you only just get excited that someone you knew earn as much as money here that’s why you joined then you need to think twice since this is an investment that we need to take/think seriously and put much effort to earn. 

I'm surprised that this is now the second page of the thread amd still no one has answered anything about people losong money because of their emptions and how their patience can make or break a trade. I know a lot of people lose money because they lack even the basic knowledge of trading but both newbies and seasoned pros alike are losing money because of the panic and hype happening in the market, it's one of the reasons why they don't get to stick to their trading plan and mess up their strategy. Controlling your emotions as well as not believing everything you see will help you prevent losing money more.

this are mistakes not only in crypto market in general every trader makes this mistakes and not only this many more mistakes are done and this some of this mistakes are even done by professional traders also