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Hi all,

We are the owners of https://coinmarketexpert.com/ and we are brand new to BitcoinTalk.org.
 
Our first impression of BitcoinTalk.org is very positive since there appears to be many knowledgeable and helpful contributors, and this is based on the smart responses we see - so we thought about giving BitcoinTalk a try to  see whether there's the possibility of contributing mutual value.

Coinmarketexpert produces technical analysis flash alerts and fundamental research posts on Bitcoin as well as educational guides.

And we are curious to know whether you HODL or trade Bitcoin? Or perhaps do both?

We are experienced financial market strategists with decades long experience trading securities and forex for the largest derivatives trading broker. And we simply fell in love with Bitcoin as an alternative asset. And we also believe BTC paves way to the future of finance and digital currencies. 

However, BTC is not flawless. We all know that. The majority of utility at this juncture mostly resides in what BTC represents (for the future) whilst the volatility of BTC makes it an attractive tradeable asset.

So we just wanted to know your thoughts since many social media sites tend to have biased commentators,  which means it is very easy for someone to fall into the confirmation bias trap. We just want to say things as they are....

So please let us know your thoughts.

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your article about analysis and fundamentals is very good, almost all of the time frame you pay attention to the articles that you make,
I'm not a professional trader, but I know a little about analytical techniques, and it's very good what you make.
of course I will hold bitcoin if I have, now the asset is still falling because it's stuck on shitcoin.

I agree with what you have said that bitcointalk can contribute significantly to the field of financial matters.
And in my review of coinmarektexpert I like its interface and well-updated news updates about what happens
in crypto space or bitcoin, it would be a great benefit to my fellow crypto enthusiasts.

Since entering the market, I have determined that I will be a professional trader because this market is very potential and I believe that good trading will bring tremendous profits.
Although Bitcoin is one of the most valuable assets at the moment, I don't hold it for a long time. because the market is always manipulated and holding won't bring too much effect. For me, holdings only cost a speculator's time and money.

Well first, your blog is quite interesting to me and it might be useful for newbies here. You give a variety of fundamental opinions on crypto state and it is very good for others to think about  crypto perspective.

For your main question, I myself do both. I have a number of funds and I divide them into two parts to trade and hold. Because I believe this crypto market is not always in its bad times so I choose to hold on and I also want to enjoy every reflection of this market so I choose to trade too.

HOLD HOLD HOLD!
A potential market is like a gold mine to me. The growth of the crypto market is now the same as the growth of the internet before. Everything has its beginnings and everyone who catches the trend will have big profits in the future.
I still believe that one day, Ethereum and other technology businesses will have trillions of dollars worth of capitalization.

I am doing both hold and trade at the same time. I trade with some bitcoin to make a profit and keep some of the profit in bitcoin. I know that it will be difficult for me to trade in these situations, but I feel that I can try to get a low price and sell a high price. No matter if the bitcoin price is volatile, I can stay at the market and try to make a profit. While I still learn more about trading, I see the chance for me to analyze the market in this bear market, but I admitted that I am not a professional trader as the others.

I see your blog was attractive and I enjoy my time to read some info on your website, and I hope that the others will get the same things as me. Good luck with your site and I hope you can get success.

BTC is never been flawless but a revolutionary one.As i read up you are group of strategist a long time ago with traditional markets like forex.
I would say that technical analysis wont really work out precisely or time to time here on this market yet its always been unpredictable but it isnt really
bad to have technicals when you do trade rather than on having nothing at all.

Sites comments? You should at least put up some glancing Website title on headers and minimize on using Capitalize letters on those tabs.
Chart sizes? It would be better if it wont scope almost on the face of web face and minimizing it a little will be pleasant in the eyes and so as with its
corresponding words of analysis.

Good thing about this is that you give a wide point of view for the beginners here. It gives them a lot of idea that are useful to gain profit by this trend.

For me, both are essential to use. I always make my wise decision just to trade and hold because there's a season where crypto market rises and that's the time I trade and there's also a season where the crypto market is bad and I only hold it on.

By this, a wise decision will always bring you to the top. This trend will lead you to a huge amount of profit in the future.

not only a professional can do a trade, but also a beginner can gain a lot of idea to start and become more knowledgable when it comes to trading. Trade if it's necessary for you just to gain profit.

I HODL the largest part of my portfolio. I have also tried to trade myself, but this is really exhausting. I have invested some funds into bot trading, cause I feel that my crypto portfolio should also bring some profit. Money should make more money :) Check out my performance so far: https://tradingbot.info/results/launching-my-first-bitsgap-trading-bot-0-4-btc-invested/

I hold far more than I trade. Most of my success with crypto comes from just slowly accumulating and holding my coins, and there's a ton of risk involved with trading (especially leveraged trading) that makes it pretty difficult to profit from at times. Holding's also extremely easy to do (for most people) and all you really is just patience at the end of the day. It's also typically a successful strategy for most people, whereas the majority of traders won't ever make any meaningful amount of profit overall.

The best thing to do is to maximize the full profit and opportunities in cryptocurrency and one of the ways to maximize the profit is just to get engaged in both of them, you hold while at the same time you trade for daily profit.

Holding will be like your retirement money that you can rely on for future and the future of your children, while trading daily profit will be for meeting up with daily income, you trade and then you use the profit that you get from it to cater for yourself, though for anyone that needs to trade has to be very smart in doing this, you have to learn to know how to trade first and then also develop some strategies that will help for that. For me, since I know how to trade, I am involved in both holding and trading of cryptocurrencies that are reliable.

You are on the world's most crypto user base forum where you can explore more about the cryptocurrencies and sharing the information at the same time.
We love to invest on the bitcointalk to spread your project here. I believe you didn't planned for it but you may create the new campaign for some bucks as the payment. It will be helpful to reach all place. I hope I have shared the needful information to you.

I am both a HODLER and a TRADER. Specifically a margin trader. Half of my portfolio was being kept especially the market was dump right now. But it can also become profitable by means of being a margin trader. I can do some short trades in this markert's situation. We have different fields that we like the most, as for me, I love trading and I love holding some major coins, too.

Fluctuations and volatility has an advntage to give us time to reinvest more coins and to sell our hold crypto coins when we think that this is the right time to sell those.

I guess the majority of us here are both HODLer and trader. If I am not mistaken, only a very small portion of us here are active pure traders. I suppose trading here refers to day trading. Trading once in a blue moon or when the price is breaking the strongest support or resistance is not a trader in the strictest sense of the term. A once a blue moon trader is a HODLer when the price is normally treading its path rise and fall path. But when sudden surges or dip happen, that's the time their being a trader activates. 

Welcome here, in one of the best forum about Bitcoin.
HODL and TRADING are really much different, that's why there are a lot of people are confused here, just what I experienced last week;
There's a friend of mine asked me what is Bitcoin and how you will earn money with Bitcoin. Then I explained to her the basic of Bitcoin, then I differentiate it to her the HODLING and TRADING. So, that's all.

About your question, mine is also both. I do trading sometimes but most of the time I'm HODLING, since my portfolio is more about like 50% Bitcoins and 50% fiat. I know, both of these methods are also risky.

Your website reminds me of the style of many news sites on cryptocurrency, but it's elegant and pleasing to the eye.

1) I don't know why your project doesn't have a favicon.

https://i.imgur.com/2bSpUEx.png

Not having a favicon it's not a matter of life or death but it has an impact on the trust of the users.

2) I saw many publications about TA, that's amazing but also as a user I would like to see more articles about fundamental analysis.

3) You're putting a lot of effort and value into your guides a but it's hard to navigate through the MENU, so finding it isn't easy

Besides the constructive comments, you're doing a great job overall.

Bonus: Your SSL certificate it's about to expire.  (https://fotos.subefotos.com/f20f879f877367cdb81f7ff4b2010637o.png)

Before I was both a trader and a hodler but after failing many times on my trading activities I stopped it. I can't control my emotion well in trading, sometimes I buy at fomo and sell at FUDs. I don't want to lose more money from trading so I'm just a hodler now. My crypto holdings are now only for long term investment.

Now, I choose to be a holder, but I tried to trade in one or two days a week if I see the price is good to buy and sell. I tried trading in one or two months ago because before that, and I cannot see a good time to enter the market. So I choose to wait for a while and watch closer the market if somehow I can enter the market. But in these 2 months, I see that my chance becomes bigger because the market can back to the higher price, and I see that many altcoins can have good movements. So that will be a good chance for another trader and me to buy and sell any coins we want, but we should analyze before we decide to trade.

I used to trade a few years ago but lost a lot. May be trading is not meant for me or may be I was not doing it right.
Since them I am just holding steady to my coins and have been really patient with it.
I might give trading a try again in the future but currently don't find the time to do so  :-\

The market is down and I become a long term hodler because some of my coins are down and I don't have enough time to trade and chase the trend of the market. TA and FA are really helpful for you to distinguish whether its ok to trade, hold or not. Though being expert in this market is not an assurance that you will not lose money because of higher volatility you must weight in if you're going to hold or not.

I've known cryptocurrency for about 3-4 years already and I spend most of the time holding different long term coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. If I remember correctly, I spent almost 1 year trading and as a result just like other newbies and greedy shits I also lost all of my capital that is why I stopped trading right now and focused on holding.

I trade then I hodl the coins that I bought. The first thing that I am doing is researching for the latest trend about that coin then I will look to the number or traders together with the volume. I became a long term hodler because of the unstable market now. It is risky, but its okay the fruit of this patience is success.

You sure simply correct about that, patience is the main thing that we must have here or else, we will just be frustrated for nothing because of the market situation, it is a worst situation to trade right now and I am presently just doing more of accumulation of solid coins this period pending when the coins decides to give way fully for the bulls.

I know that bullish trend will come again, I don’t know how or when and it is because of these uncertainties that we should invest in the coins that we can trust right now. No matter how bad the market may be, it will never take more than two years before the altcoins season comes and before bitcoin bull run start, so our joy should come in within the next 2 years more and I think that is not too long for us to be patient with.

Personally, I do both trade and hold. For bitcoin I will hold up to $ 12,000. After I sell the bitcon that I have
at $ 12000, I will enjoy a decent profit. For altcoins I choose trade because for altcoin I play daily trading.
For altcoin, I play BNB, ETH, PHB , BSV, BCD, LTC, and LINK. That's all I used to play trading daily, taking profits
around 2%. Especially for DOGE I hold it, because the Doge coin has slow movements so it's hard to play day trading.
By the way i have seen your site at  https://coinmarketexpert.com/. That's awesome and good, i like your technical analysis
and educational guides in your site. Thanks for sharing.

I do Hodl but do trade depending on situation and circumstances. I find it hard to day trade due tight schedule and needs a lot of time and skills which I don’t have 😂. But when I Hodl I don’t feel affected by the daily price movements considering it safe.

Everyone wants to virtually come into the cryptocurrency space to just make money because they hear that it is a place where we share national cake and no one really wants to care about the main reason why cryptocurrency was created, and this has really been the reason why we are not growing.

Because, the majority of people that we see in the crypto space today are just more of how much they can earn from the amount they put in the market, so they just invite people also to put money into the market and wait, meanwhile, holding does not do the market much good the way using it as payment tools and trading with it will also do, if not for trading that we have many people also use it for, I think the market may have collapse by now based on just holding.

Yeah, day trade involves a lot of time and devotion so for me, HODLing is the most preferred. Holding doesn't consume as much time on the daily basis and has nothing to do with the day to day fluctuations yet for that all you require is patience. But also at times, I do some trading when I'm in the need of some instant money and that also proves successful to me...

I just prefer to hold then I do trading thus far, I still confused when I do trading and I just got a little money on it although I have ever thinking that to do trading I should have a more patient and also I should make more entry but I don't like it since I'm not a daily trader.

So, most of my money I just keep for long term holding although it depend on the market itself. I'll sell if the target price that I wanted has been achieved and I'll make strategy when bitcoin price goes down again. Just it, I feel comfortable to pass this strategy and I have much time to read an useful information about cryptocurrency and sometimes I choose some start-up based on blockchain technology for investing.

I do both depending on my alts performance or alts that I have. I usually hold my BTC and just do trading in alts, depending on their performance, though not regularly, I guess only those who have free time or not committed in office jobs will be able to do trade with a bigger profit. My typical crypto setup is I hold first then wait for some news that will only trigger in price increase in that moment. It will all depends on the project or alts we must have time to read updates of what we hold if we are unable to do regular trading.

I hodl most on my bitcoin, some i got in 5x long on the bitmex, some i use for swing trading altcoins just to gain more bitcoin. I haven't shorted bitcoin so i can't say i am even trading it. Just against alts or buying it.

depending on the situation and market conditions, when price movements in the market are very fast like 2 years ago then I will trade short-term with a very fast time as long as I can get the debt, but when conditions like now then I will only hold and wait until the price becomes expensive because trading in conditions that are not good like this will have a very high risk.

HODL is the best strategy but that doesn’t mean you should never take profit.

I would suggest a strategy based on the market cycle between BTC and Alcoins. If your willing to put in the work it’s fairly easy to increase your BTC position by speculating on Altcoins. Learn the market cycle and try not to over trade or be greedy. Only risk 10 percent of your BTC at a time and aim for 3-5 percent gains, and use stop losses. then try to sell the top. it's not easy at all, but i would advise you to look at the monthly RSI on btc/usd, so far it called the top and bottom of the last market cycle.

Most people lose money because the way the markets move always makes your emotions try to get you to make the wrong move. this is why the patient win. In other words, your highest chance of success is just to HODL or sell at targets. Hence save and HODL most of your disposable income, and play with a small amount.

Ut means to get more bitcoin you act like a whale in market I think instead of being a whale you should hold your own coins and trust your trading skills. I like to hold and I never think about selling as selling even to shake the market it’s risky one should have guts to keep holding your coin until you believe that your trading is now good.

I do trade and hold.  Due to my tight and busy schedule i find it difficult to do day by day type of trade. I just make use of Blockfolio app where i set my target for sell and buy and get notification when it hits ny target.  In essences i swing trade even while holding i do this to increase my amount of token am holding and make more profit even as i hold

right now I'm more focused on "HODL" and not trade too often anymore,
not because I feel the market is not profitable again, but right now I'm focused on taking care of my child,
she was suffering from an illness, so my time was taken for her,
if she has recovered, I will trade again.

I try to do both. No sense in having your coins just sit in a wallet doing nothing. I prefer to try and increase my holding position by trading while holding the coins long term. If you can predict a price downtrend coming, it's not a bad idea to sell out what you got and buy back in whenever the price drops. You essentially end up getting free Bitcoin that way. Since there's no staking or anything, it's really the best way to build up a position.

This is wonderful that you are doing both, as trading is superbly profitable if done on a right time. If we have money we should hold our coins and as per recent condition I like only holding as price is low and it is rising gradually. That’s why right now only holding is good for us. just have patience and hold, after few month it will be trading time when price is at peak.

Honestly I do it both. Hold and trade. To be pratical while the price of bitcoin is still down. I try to trade even in a small income to survive while waiting to the coin rise. And I am holding some coin to be safe even I got loss in trading I have a chance to recover when the price will rise again.

That is what I do too because I think that if we can search for the profitable coin at this moment, we will have a good opportunity to get the profit.
I still hold some coin like other people because I think we will see the bull market come in a short time so if we can keep for more, then the profit will come to us.
I know that it will need a big effort to hold the coin, especially if we bought the coin at a higher price.
But that will be worth for us if we can hold it until the price can increase higher and pass the price we bought.
Holding and trading will be a right solution this time because bitcoin and altcoin giving progress to increase and even the price cannot increase so high, it will rise to the higher price soon.

Yes, we have to plan it wisely otherwise we might end up in huge loss. Not only trading we should always choose some assets for holding and it might easily help us to hold them in the long term. Sometimes it is impossible for us, to keep on making a profit and our holding will surely help to average previous losses.

Who guys are gain experienced in trading from many years, they are really capable to profit from trading in any market condition. But in the market situation is really matter in trade. Because you will be get how much profit or loss it’s depend on the market behaviour. Most of the times i am do crypto trading for the short term. But you don't think hodl is very safe when market will bubble then highly affected your investment.               

I am more inclined to hodl in bitcoin than to trade it, bitcoin has a high value and the fluctuations that occur are always low, so for me the profit or loss will be small if not using large capital. I trade on altcoin, the value is not so high and fast fluctuations are suitable for trading especially in daily trade, even though altcoin does not dominate the market but enthusiasts and the community can be calculated enough.
 

Trading is not always about using coins that are dominating the market, you're not a trader if you can't make any profits in any coins we have, even the smallest altcoin here could gives you profit like you've never imagine, like XRP, way back 2017 I thought XRP would not be a good coin to be traded or hodl, but I'm fortunate to bought that and hodl, it's all about making profits out of anything, that's how a real trader trades.

You're talking about the trust you will give to a certain altcoin. If you find an altcoin that is promising why not trust it If it earned your trust to invest in it or buy some.
I've trusted some promising coin before (around 2017) and it brings me a good fortune on investing/buying it and XRP is one of them. hodling such small coins can bring you a loss or a great profit, a great upset can happen anytime so accept the risk.