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Trading and Investing are both methods for you to gain money in this virtual world. Both investors and traders earn money through the help of the market. They are good ways to make a profit.

Investors gain money when they but cryptocurrency and holds it for a long time, until bitcoin inflation happens, they will but cryptocurrency when the market is already down then if the market goes high that is the time that they will gain money by withdrawing it. While traders use the inflation and deflation of bitcoin to earn money, it involves buying and selling of currency in the virtual world.

So if you want to earn more money, you can do both things, the more, the merrier, if you are a beginner, then don't invest and trade significant amount of money because you may fail from it, you should do research first before doing that because it is not a simple thing, you should have an excellent knowledge and skill to be successful in both methods.

Both trading and Investing are good ways to earn money. Both methods are not a 100%  sure win situation for you, because you may lose or win on these two, the higher you invest then, the higher the amount that you can have, then the lower you invest then, the lower the reward, as well as with trading, both things have similar way for you to earn, both methods use the inflation and deflation of the bitcoin.

To become successful in both methods, you should have an excellent knowledge. It is not a simple thing as what the OP has said. You should increase your skills and knowledge about that before trying to invest and trade, because it is like a risk-taking situation, you will rely on your predictions if you are going to earn from it. The thing in investing and trading is, it is so impossible for you to lose from it if you know the situation of the current market.

Why do you need to create this new topic when already many discussions exists on this topic.

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 Trading vs. Buy and Hold (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4306791.0)

Both trading and investing are one of the top ways to make money. There are plenty of opportunities to invest in the crypto space. So many projects to invest it, same way we have many pairs to pick and trade from. I feel that both fields are inter-related. If most people that invested during ICOs bubble and 2017 bull run invested and had trading skills, they would've placed stop limit orders and not just join other noobs to chant "HODL". Most investors that had 500-1000% in profit equally went down 80% loss. But if they had some trading instincts, they would have prepare to react to market movements rather than hodl and predict where the market is going. The market doesn't obey anyone.

Traders too ought to have some experience investing as it will greatly enhance trades. How else would you find good pairs that have the potential to trend? That's my point. Since I joined the quest for decentralization, I've been an investor. I made gains and I lost them. The losses would've been minimized if I knew how to set stop loss orders or thought like a trader.


Overall, there are diverse opportunities in both, how you approach them determines whether or not you'll be at the losing or winning end.

It is true that it generated a lot of profit from the investors and the traders but I don't agree with this line.

The market has nothing to help these investors and traders. They are the reason they generated this money or profit they have. With the knowledge they had, they received that well-deserved profit. As you said, there are a lot of ways to earn money and the market is not the one making these opportunities but the investors and traders themselves.

Yes, they are good at making money but they are totally different when it comes to action on how to make money. Trading is a very risky part while investing is you're always is a safe zone. Why? Because you can hold it depend on how long the time frame you want and the profit you have been targeted on it.

I may advise if you have a capital for that, just split your money into two. Half for the trading and another half for investing. Probably in that way, you can cover your failure if there is.

Not necessarily. You being in the sort of "safe zone" completely depends on what you're actually investing in. I mean, you could hold certain penny stocks for god knows how long and you could still end up in a huge loss.

I disagree with you that the market has noting to help investors and traders - I think they do it just depends on how you want to use it to your own benefit, thats the hard part but once you crack it both can help you generate profit.

It's all a matter of knowing what to take and when to take it!

Tend to agree and my mistake is I didn't clarify what kind of investment that near in the safe zone. :D
What I mean is to stick with Bitcoin when you have a plan for investing and hold it for the long run.

You will end up huge losses if you were invested in ICO's project the usually end up almost nothing. So, all of these were depends on your own research on which potential coin good to hold or to trade.

Both ttading and investing are good to combine because you can get more money on this and one is better than two.
I do trading and investing because I believe if I do that I can become a millionaire. But if Im going to choose only one I pick the trading because base on my calculation I earn more money than Investing on the investment.

Buying and holding cryptos and then selling at a later date for profit is also part of trading. So i don't know why people think Holding cryptos is investing while day trading cryptos is well, just trading.
It's all the same, the only difference is the time factor,

A More befitting comparison would be Long term HODL vs Day Trading. I think people are misusing the word investing and trading a lot.

Exactly, that is what I've been thinking. There is no much difference between trading and investment, they only vary on the time frame. Investing is much like trading where you buy and sell, also it can be nearly comparable on long-term trading. Hence there's no need to compare how big or how much these two can give.

Investment is nothing but very long term trading so the basics to make money from trading and investing is the same,sell for profits.But if you are going to trade more often then you have to spend time for making analysis then only you can trade for profits.But crypto trading is not predictable as other traditional stocks so you are always in the risk of losing capital sooner than being a investor.

I prefer both.Because I already invested my money in some top rated crypto and holding now, if those coins reach my target I will sell that.
Now I am trying to trade, not daily but weekly,I think smart people will choose both path.Because invested money have target and in trading if I can make profit i will sell that instantly,So i can count my profit, and invested money will give me good return with big amount.So I prefer both Trading and investing.

Good advice for the newbies. Trading and investing both are almost the same. Trading needs passion, patience, the time where investing is easier. Because in crypto, we know Bitcoin and Ethereum are the best investment, so, if you invest in those two coins, your profit is confirmed after a certain time. But in trade, it's not an easy job! You have to be super active, updated, patience, research and spend so much time on it. Overall, investing is easy and anyone can go through it, where only expert and hard-working people can make money in trading, not everyone.

What you do, not necessarily other people can do it, profit/lots of money, not only in trading and investing in crypto, lots of money can also be found outside/with real business.

Indeed investment and trading in crypto must have the skills and knowledge, but that cannot be just talking, must really understand it all because investing and trading in crypto has a high risk.

Study, graph, analyze, understand, thorough, patient, and get to know the game system of the market in trading and investing is the capital for success.

For me both are good to get earn and both have risk to take particularly in an investing. Also before do trading or investing we must have knowledge how it works and a little background to our coin holding. Do trading we need to know if the market id pumping before do trading while investing we need to take a risk by putting our money in an investment to grow, but its better to put a small amount to invest then little risk to take.

Well said mate, if you are a risk-taker, then you should try investing and trading because it is a way of earning money where you will not be sure if you are going to win the game. You will only need to rely on the market. If it will go high or goes down, you don't have to do anything on that besides waiting and observing the situation of the market

Im sorry, that is not what I meant, the market will help users to determine if the bitcoin is increasing or decreasing, so by that, they will know if they are going to win the trading or the investing, well said, on the part that the reason behind the changes in the market are the investors and the traders, if there will be a prominent trader or investors then for sure it will affect the situation of the market.

yeah you have just not Mentioned the word 'Bitcoin' in your first post because that is our Safe Zone here and also why majority of investors here Holds Bitcoin(with Big percent compared to their altcoins)
with a little percentage of Legit ICO in our time now?you are absolutely right on that part,better choose top 50 cryptocurrency even with slow movement Growth than being scammed by this ICO.

Both are risky, and it doesn't mean that you're not an active trader and just holding a certain portfolio can give you a guarantee to make profit. If you are just investing and holding, you still need to actively watch the market so you can know if your money is still growing or no more chance to go up because it is being de-listed or a certain exchange. There's a big different on a risk level of this two, you just need to classify your risk appetite and invest properly.

Trading and investing are different, but both have the same risk. Trading can give you profit if you can choose the right coins to trade, and sometimes, you can make a big profit in one-time trade. In investing, you don't have to do anything, and you can wait until the time to sell your investment comes. We can manage the risk in trading and investing if we know how to prevent the big loss. In trading, you can cut-loss if you see the price is down deep than the price before, so you only get small risk. While in investing, you can get the same loss in trading if you don't check the price every day.

But I prefer trading because we can try to make a profit every day, as long as we know how to analyze the coins that can increase. It is enough if we can take the profit and stop trading for a while if it's necessary to prevent the unpredictable moving from the coins.

I prefer trading over investment but I guess it would be different for everyone.
I prefer trading because I have time to study and watch the market and I could do it freely,
But for those who doesn't have enough time of course they would go to investment since it would be hard for them to watch the market from time to time.

Investment and trading are the same thing and the little different is the level of risk involved. Many people that involved in cryptocurrencies are both investing and trading at the same time. Some of us that has little knowledge on technical and fundamental analysis always thought that we are not trading by buying bitcoin and holding but holders are traders as far as profit is involved.

When you have a good foundation in trading, you can actually gain profits. I mean, trading isnt that easy and not that just simply, "buying low and selling high" like others are always saying because we should know when to spot a good entry and exit point. We need to know some useful tools as technical analysis, etc for us to be able to say that it is actually a good way to earn.

While investing for me is more safe than trading. We tend to hold and wait for that coin to finally pump. Less panic issues because investing means patiently waiting to hit our target profit even it takes long. Both trading and investing isn't easy. We need determination and goal for us to say that it is really a "profitable" way of earning.

We have different process of earning today with the use of crypto currency most of the people today make a lot of profit on this. But before they make an action to make investment we need to have a lot of information so we need to make some research also it is better if we are going to find some constraints about the transaction we need to do it is better at the early time we avoid on it. Today we have trading and investment those methods we can earn a lot of income. First in trading it is just prediction of the market price it is looks like easy because you need to identify if the market will go up or down but still it is risky the only chance of winning is just a half on it still it depends on the knowledge of the person how they will handle it. Next is the investment it just only putting your money and wait for a long or short term investment. Also it is better if you make some research which coin is suitable for your needs.

Yes, i also think so that both trading and investing need more knowledge to be successful. I personally saw many investors that invested without knowing vast and fall in deep problem and same as traders. Market is not much volatile to everybody must have to be careful so that they can not feel upset in future.

Anything does really require analyze and proper planning if you do like to succeed on both fields.Its true that not all people which are capable on doing both things.,

Trading is somewhat considered investing yet you are particularly buying something for gains it do only vary on how you do deal with the process.They do differ

either on passive or active and we know trading do need effort and time but overall it do takes effort and experience for you to succeed.

I think the more correct way of telling this is that trading and investing is a part and parcel of the same thing. This is different from the stock market though. Here you will mostly be investing in altcoins, although they are other methods to invest too which are sadly much less in number few of which being casino bankroll investments. Here one will also trade those invested coins. So it is one after the other and not two separate things.

Of course market volatility is the reason why people trade. There are no reasons to trade a stagnant coin which shows no signs of life. We all know what to buy in and not what not to.

Of course, knowledge is needed in everyway to earn money, thus it is depending on the way you are earning. Investing is more easy more likely a passive income depending on the qualification of an investment. Trading has more work and it needs more knowledge to win trade wars.

Well I have my own definition of those I think Trading is exchanging coin to another to gain profit and investing is buying a portion of the stocks or coins of the project (its much like supporting them) and earn after a while.

Yes I think you have a point that both can be a source of income but both are very risky as well so we should know the risk and invest only what we can afford to lose.

I think this had been told here for so many times.
It is just like another explanation of what trading or investing it. More like a definition.
Not new anymore.

Both are still risky, we should not forget about that.
There is no such thing as 0 risk investment now. If there is, then it is a scam.

Both are profitable ways to gain profit, but the question is what is more safer. Well this depends on every person and their strategy because both has risk that if you didnt execute your strategy well you might lose your money.

Investing for me is less risky compared to trading, less pressure and headaches. You're the one who will set on when to sell or how long you want to hold your assets. What important is you wont end up holding a shitcoins and you can prevent this to happen by conducting an extensive research for each coin that you want to invest in.

Investing in cryptocurrency is basically a long term trading. Both have different level of risk, depends on experience, skills, and risk tolerance.
In Bitcoin's case, It would be a lesser risk if you're hodling Bitcoin for long term. Knowing that this technology has unlimited price range and the future of Bitcoin seems bright. Short trading and day trading could be profitable too, but with higher risks than hodling long term.

Yes you're right. We have different perspective between trading or investing. For now, I prefer investing since I have no time yet in deep learning about trading. It takes a lot of time to learn it and also money to gain profit in it. I have no time in checking from time to time about its current price and analyze whether it will go up or down.
Unlike investing, you will hold and choose valuable coins. I'm just be careful in some coins that I know that no value at all.

Most trading decisions will fall unto sudden actions which we won't expect to happen, because when we need funds for personal expenses you don't care for any reasons. Being decisive on certain circumstances, will overcome some fears and worries. Though some may think it's wrong, but I do believe as long as we're having comfort on that money; everything will be all worth it.

If you are a newbie the best option is probably "investing" because then you could wait longer when you end up in negative. When you buy bitcoin at $10k but it goes down you could wait for it to go back up over $10k once again, it may take a year for you to make a profit again but at least you could make a profit from it. That's how the starting should be but I would suggest the more you invest the closer you get to trading because you will have more and more investments that you may want to move around time to time and that will lead to trading as well.

So, when you are a newbie you start with investing but in few years time you turn into a trader because of how much you invested.

Investing and trading are totally different things when you look into financial world. Of course they are not farming versus software development type of difference however when we talk about finances they are totally different. Investment is something you do for long term, you buy it and your kids sell it, that is the type of investment I am talking about or you could sell it yourself as well but you have to keep it for a long period.

However, trading is when you buy stuff and sell it for other stuff and keep doing that until you have more of the original stuff you had. That type of difference is HUGE when you consider it is just crypto finance world and there is already very few limited options available.

Trading and investing are two different ways to make money, though only if the person operating it knows what they're doing. They are both risky and requires regular update of the industry and market in general, and they both take time to master.

However, I see trading more as a short-term risk and immediate return while investing is more long-term, so they both have pros and cons. I personally prefer investing over trading because it suits me better but there're also people who prefer the opposite.

Finding which one of these 2 suit you best is something, I think, is worth finding out. Like I said, they can be both as risky as it is rewarding.

As you said investing ang trading are both the same methods but I think trading is you can trade your altcoins or your holding anytime that you can get profit. In investing are you invest your money without knowing if you get profit or you gonna lose. Because some investment not so sure if you gonna be gain or not. But in trading if you are smart you can gain money even small profit.

Both are good way to earn money, but doing bot will be a question if you can do it or do you have the time to do it. Trading consumes time, even though you are a great trader you need to look at the charts all day to analyze it. If you are a day trader that will require a lot of time also so, trading is just for individual that have a lot of time. The investing is for people that have a lot of money, like it or hate it, if you have a small funds and you are going to invest it you will not feel the profit. It's just for whales or people that have a lot of money.

Bot have a risk but, I highly suggest that if you have a lof of money just focus the majority of your funds into investing and trade some of it. In that way you can maximize your money and will only acquire small risk for it.

Trading will take a lot of time to focus and not every day you can earn good profits because the market is very volatile and very difficult to predict. In my opinion, if you want to become a good trader, you need to have a reasonable investment strategy and always read the hourly chart to make the most accurate decisions. I used to lose a lot of money from this market but then I gained more experience and had more success choosing day trading.

Doing both will be an advantage especially if we both want to earn better. However, we need to learn things well about trading and investing first. Both still need a complex knowledge and understanding and it's not a one day process of learning. You still need a lot of research when it comes to the right coin the you will be investing and trading with. You also have to deal with every market situation while controlling your emotions to make right decisions.

Before we invest the money into any coins, it is better to analyze which coins that will have a chance to increase, and if we take a look at the market, bitcoin will be the best investment for a long time. We can use bitcoin too for trading because bitcoin can give us more chances to increase the money that we use in trading. Both trading and investing will produce more money for us if we can get the right coins, and so far, I used bitcoin for a long term investment while I also use bitcoin and altcoin to trade for a short and middle term trading.

There is begginer and help section and I often to see some threads who discuss about how to get cryptocurrency. Indeed, trading and investing are the best part to earn cryptocurrency especially when you have known and have a lot of knowledge about them. You can spend money even I will be aware when I have knowledge and I will spend my all saving money to invest in cryptocurrency and trading for short term pariode. Becausw I just thinking I will be useless if I store my money on bank account the money be add until whenever. But if you ask me which part that I will choosw between trading and investing, I will anwer that I will choosw investing, seem like that is the safest way rather than trading.

I really want but I [/can't] :(. Honestly, I badly want to try bitcoin trading since I was in college but how unfortunate I am that I can't still pursue it even that I'm already a licensed engineer (Thanks be to God :)!). I don't know what the problem is. Hmm, I have no problem with capital coz I got savings, I know it is not very big but I think it's already enough to start and gain experience; I also don't have any problems for acquiring knowledge since some of my friends are traders too, I can approach them if I need help and besides Internet is always there. I guess what I'm lack of is TIME, now I more realized the saying "Time is gold" — it is nore precious than any stone. *sigh

Trading and investing should be decided based on age and money we want to risk , for example if age is 35 50 % of the capital should be invested for long term and other 50% for trading and short term , like wise when age is 60 -70years  cant risk our money because we are not earning any more if we lose in investing or trading its very much difficult to live 

your saying that its all about confidence ? well that is one of the key to earn big but you cant forget other key factors too   .  confidence will be nothing if your not intelegent enough on your decisions or on your investments  . i dont also think that its based on the age but i believe any age can do both as long as they understand how it works   .  older age people are known to have thier pension funds , they can earn money with it and they can still use it for both activies    . i see many older people do both though

I don't think that will matters in trading, in fact, oldies people have a lot of market experience in which they could apply it in trading which is far from the newcomers. If you are still in focus of what you are doing and comfortable doing it, no matter how old you are...you can still make good and effective decisions.

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Trading could be of high risk and many were suffering losses from there. May investing will also cause losses only if we are in the wrong choice of coins to invest with. And I know, some investors will do trading as well to make more profitable but probably they already have knowledge before they make it.

In short, investing is much longer and less risky?
So what we call to those people who trade but they decided to hodl it for such time, like they become busy after they toke the trade.
So we can call them now a investor or their trade becomes investment?
Well, for me. It will always on the person, like for example they will decide that their open trade already in loss and decided that it will become investment.

I still insist that trading should not be really the main purpose of using bitcoin but unfortunately I am talking against a multi-million dollar sector that is run by billion dollar valuation companies so there is really no way I will ever be heard. When you buy and sell bitcoin all that quickly you are using it the wrong way and you are actually hurting yourself as well.

Bitcoin should have been earned/spent instead of bought/sold and that would even increase the price of bitcoin as well and make the traders money but unfortunately it became something for financial corporations to make more profits from the smaller investors and result with poor/middle class people to lose even more money to them. Really a big shame considering it was created just for the opposite reasons.

If you will be able to have a chance on how to learn on trading and investing then grab this opportunity because if you know how to do this both trading and investing you will be able to earn as much as you can especially if you know the different fields on trading industry but always remember that this trading is very complicated and it is not by only a one day process of learning it is a continuous way of learning and researching on how you will be able to earn much profit than the usual any profit of the traders with investing you must have a long patience in order for you to earn big just wait for your turn and doesn't afraid on what the current market is having into.

I belive that all depends on what you want to Invest or what cryptos you want to trade. When you invest you have to hold tokens long time and wait  for something to happend, but If you trade and make a basic market analysis you could buy/sell no  matter what, just  move with the market and of course you don't "tradae" on an exchange that is not trading, you find a broker that has crypto and you really trade there.

I appreciate your points still there are many differences in this crypto space compared to any other markets; those new people who are able to find the difference, they could get easy chances to make big profits in short period of time itself unlike any other markets.

Unlike any other market you may start investing into bitcoins from your day-one itself and you will never get disappointments as per what people are doing for last 10 years. At the same time trading bitcoin is NOT recommended from day-one. Yes, only investing is easier for good profits in this crypto space. People who are spotting this difference, might get big chances of their lifetime.

In fact, people usually only care about profit when trading and no one ventures to invest in the long run because this market is very volatile. In addition, this year the market is likely to become harsher because we cannot predict anything. However, if you have an effective trading strategy and spend a lot of time analyzing the charts, you will find a reasonable price to buy.

I agree, most people want to get profit so they choose to trade than invest, also most of people want to earn easily than waiting to get profit. For me I choose trading because there's a small risk to take as long as have enough knowledge and have strategy.

i will be for trading ,i know how hard and risky trading is so better be on right side and besides i am not on a hurry to profit because i also know that waiting is one safe strategy in this market.
but of course i am not closing my door to Trading because if time come that i have leaved my work or retire?i am sure this is one that i will love to do.

Both are popular method and need market to grow up, your trading and investment activity will help market find the best place in financial world. Which one is the best depend your experience and profit you get. I agree analyze first before replace money but the important part is both strategy need learn, practice and fails to become success. Both need time and patient that not all people have, realize that.

Yes, investments are test for your patience whereas trading may get you instant results but may not produce your expected results. I'm not suggesting anyone to go with only one when there are a lot of possibilities for them to do both trading and investing. I mean my recommendation on this is, allocate 70% to 90% of capital for investments and risk only 10% of your capital with trading.

Both are be the best options for making our capital to grow as per my own things. With respect to bitcoin investments you never need big experiences but for bitcoin trading you definitely need decent experience so that you can make your capital growing.

that is called risk both have different risks, so far as I know investing has a small risk because you can apply to save your assets in the long run, whereas when you trade you will have difficulty if you cannot control your emotions to not affected by various kinds of bad news because you will sell your assets when prices fall and it will make you lose.

so in my opinion investment is a very good choice to be able to make a profit.

Trading is a job that not everyone is patient enough to wait for and of course the constant volatility of the market can put you at a great risk. For me, I only trade when the market starts to trend up because it is a very easy time to make a profit. However, the decision is yours and needs to have an effective strategy and certainly not always make good money here.

Investing actually means to buy a coin and hold for long time which is a bit opposite in trading. In trading we have to buy and sell coins constantly without really exiting the markets so this can serve us with a stable source of income but majority of times you might also need to face a loss by trading with the most volatile markets. Investing would be a head start for newbies who want to trigger their career into the blockchain space as it would also give a lot of knowledge about trading also.

Investing might be considered as a first step towards trading. Trading is nothing different. Even if you are investing into a coin at a dip and the price reaches the peak as soon as you buy than it would be appropriate to sell your coins at that point and this would be related to trading.

that is what i believe from the start,because Trading needs more time,effort and knowledge and also instinct with all this combined traders become successful so there are too many wannabe trader that fails since then.
also i have some groups joined before that victimized those frustrated traders by asking some amount to give them signal but all are lies and only collected their money.

expectations from trading seem to be better than online investment. however, in trading, it all depends on the strategy we have, while for investment, when it becomes a scam, we cannot do anything. but different for offline investment, I think that trading is a place to collect capital after that investment becomes the next destination.

You can excel in both trading and investing if you know what you are doing. The only difference in them is that in trading, particularly day trading, you can earn profits consistently if you know how to handle the flaws in the market and needs more knowledge and skills. Investing on the other hand can give us profits but in a long term duration like when you buy low and sell high when the coins you have been holding are already surging their prices.

Some people may trust their trading talents a lot more and some people just want to out pace the inflation I suppose, this is not one or the other option you could potentially do both of them as well. Like let's say you have 10k dollars in your portfolio, you can invest 5k of it long term and do not touch it but you can also trade with the other 5k to see if you could make more profit or not.

This would also allow you to see if you are a better investor or a better trader as well since you would share your capital equally between them and you will see how much each grew in certain period of time and compare how much you made with each method and see how much has more money in the end.

People can do both as you said but i wont people that dont have enough to trade crypto currency becausd when calculating exchange fee and bot fee which was the major way people make successful trade these days trading is no go area for small fund traders. With that been said, with the halving occasion coming up i think investment is the right strategy to be use.

Doing both trading as well as investing was always the same thing for me, because as you started to do the investment you need to have trading in order to earn profit. Buying a trusted crypto on an exchange site, trading is always having an involvement as part of investing. They only differs on exact terms but their ways is always having relation with respect in making money.

This is the key for success, don't greedy about profit. I stay in investment world, already leave trading because my daily strategy only have 10% possibility to win, I must stop. From investment I learn time ( moment ) is important part, find it and replace money with limit. Use indicator you know to make good prediction, share your strategy to get respond ( evaluation ) from other member. Stay with your plan because no plan no profit.

Your subject might get a bit tricky for a lot of users here. Trading and Investing might be compared but we should never forget that they both are different entities. Trading has major risk of losing what we have but investing might minimize the risk of losing our coins as mostly long term investing would probably give you profits 90% times.

The most important factor here would be your experience. If you have good knowledge than you can trade with cryptos and make higher yield in smaller time intervals but if you lack in experience than I would personally prefer you to invest into some top coins and wait for them to reach the peak so that you can exit the markets.

Well said mate, both methods are excellent thing for earning money, but it requires skills and techniques for you to succeed on that because it is not a sure win situation, you cannot make on both methods 100% especially if you are the only beginner on that, so for you to be successful in trading and investing, you should do some research on that, it is not a simple thing, so if you are only a beginner you should not invest or trade a massive amount of money. If you know that you are already right on two methods, you may now invest or trade huge money as you want. You should have an excellent skills first before entering that thing or else you will be wasting your money. The good thing about the investing and trading is it will teach you on how to value your money and make analyzation which is good for everyone. We should keep on learning things because knowledge is essential, it will help us to become successful in the future.

Yes, before going to trading must requires a strategy and the capability you have to maximise your earnings. It's takes a lot of time before you can get a profit to trading with just a small amout of time. Trading will be better if you have a lot of experience from it while in investment you need to learn how to know if it's a good coin or not. I think for beginners investment would be a good option first before trading.

Both are just the same where in you will risk a certain amount of money or investment and will look for a chance of gaining a decent profit.

I think I would prefer trading rather than investing since in trading you yourself is the one who will in charge whether you will earn or not wherein cases that you would decide whether to sell, buy or hold but in investing you will invest into something that you don't know whether it will be worth it or not and you have to do is to wait rather than in trading you're the one who should decide.

At the moment, as the market is, it is necessary to see that the best option is investment, is the Fundamental of Coronavirus, at any time there will be a recovery of the market, not only in crypto, also in the stock market, forex, gold, S & P500, because according to analysts as this epidemic continues, it will seek to take refuge in money, bitcoin is a quick option and will become safe, even if it is safe.

I don't think there is a difference in investment as you say, we are still proactive and accountable for every decision, if you say that you don't know your investment, don't know its information and potential, you are just throwing money without thinking. Investments also need analysis as trading, what I feel is quite different is that the investment period will be longer than trading, and for someone who wants to make money and limit risk, the combination of investment and trading is the best way

I don't think both are alternative income because trading and investment both same if we invest long term it is a investment and if we invest short term some peoples are think trading. I think number of groups available in the market but profit is depends on our active. The current market is growing rapidly because of three countries accepting the Bitcoin so this is the best time to trade, normally all the traders are join some trading groups, But predict our own analysis then only it satisfy the further investment.

Trading and investing are quite different from each other   because in trading it's possible to get your profits within a short period of time unlike investing where you get to wait for a long time for the market to reach it's peak level before you can get  your profits but mind you investing yields more profits than trading itself all the same both features needs patience to succeed

Trading is also investing but this time around you need to be very skillful and learn how to trade effectively. It is a very tedious exercise and it requires a lot of patience because you can as well lose your investment if you do not know how to read cryptograph and also know when to stop and wait for recess especially during the bear market. Buying bitcoin and keeping for a long period is the easiest thing to do and it does not require any special skills other than buying crypto and keep it save in your wallet for a long time and take profit when the price has increased

Most people want to be a good trader in this market but very few people can do this because this is a very vulnerable placeand the continuous volatility is the reason so many investors give up. In fact, people will choose to invest more and wait patiently until they make good profits here.

I think that if you choose day trading, there will be times when you will feel very mentally heavy and it is difficult to keep calm when the market collapses.

Both trading and investing are the same way and destination to get much profit but have different system how to get much money with bitcoin and altcoin, with trading we can earn much money every day and investing could earn but need waiting for long term.

Yes, I would say that it’s best for everyone to do what they are good at so they don’t end up losing their money (well, people will always lose for others to win). Trading is cool and that’d due to several reasons – of you’re trader and you’re really good at it to the extent you now became a full-time trader you will be having lots of free time to spend your family and friends.

Another thing is that trading isn’t something that requires readings too much books. It’s not like investing where investors will have to be reading and books and a lot of them to keep up with what’s happening, and also you’re making your money daily and not going to wait for months or years to get your money back.

Trading: short term, emotional based
Investing: long term, fundamental based

It's definitely short term, fluctuations is our friend here but why emotion based? is it based on your emotion or the other traders emotion, and you'll bet against their emotion? can you expound a bit here?



I completely agree with this one, but above? NOh...

So you say both are trading, only difference is in time, first one is short other is long term?! In my opinion trading is gambling, you gamble on the outcome, you buy or sell because you believe the price will rise or drop, you are trying to predict what will happen and you make your bets. In my opinion, based on years of doing both, both are like games, they have some similarities, but also they have differences, like different games, you can't put Counter Strike, League of Legends and Puzzles in the same basket, each has its own rules and regulations, you can play all of them with the same strategy.
Investing is everything you do with your money, you invest in what you believe is best for your skills (at least it should be like that, but some people are just lucky guessing and hope for the best). You can invest in trading, or gambling, or anything else, and when you invest you hope that it will bring some profit, depending on the game and strategy you will know results after few seconds or few months!

There are also many threads that discuss both trading and investing methods in this forum.  I think the most important is the sensitivity of each person to the market, they will decide to choose the appropriate method for each period of volatility.

If you are really willing to spend your money just to gain profit, then the two options are the same and effective. If you invest your money, you just need patience and proper manipulation. Compared to trading, it does require a more strategic planning so that you will not lose your money. Trading really depends on how you perform your trade in the market or in your customer. It is not easy to consider when you will trade, in investment, you just need good maintenance about the business you're handling. Also, when you're wise enough to run a business with yourself and your company, then learn the advantages and disadvantages of investment so that you'll not be glad about the results or the possible events that may occur.

The most important thing for those who participate in this market is profit and in one way or another you need to have a reasonable strategy because this is not a normal place. In fact, day trading is more profitable but the risk is great because the volatility of the market can make you lose at any time.

However, if you choose to invest long-term in some coins, then you just need to wait and be patient until the coin price increases or will lose everything if that coin cannot rise.

In my opinion trading and investing is the best way to make money in the cryptocurrency world. For investment it is suitable for newbie,
because the risk faced will be smaller than trading. Because investments we only need to choose coins popular and has high volumes such
as bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin. After that it is held until the price is higher than the price when we buy it. Different from trading must
have the ability and knowledge in the crypto world in order to read the market.So you can determine the exact purchase price and also can
determine the right sell target. Usually trading is carried out in the run relatively short.

I agree with you. They are not always ready to trade because the market is very volatile and even a few small news will make you change your emotions immediately. Crypto market is still the harshest place when choosing to invest and you will certainly face great risks if you do not have enough confidence.

In the past, I made a lot of mistakes and that made me feel more tired but now things have changed a lot because I have accumulated a lot of new knowledge.

Both will be considered as an investment, but the thing will be based on our assumptions. Each person will have a different view about the trading and investment because some people will always for the long term investment, so people who wait for the long term will always get the benefit through their investment.

Investing or trading both have similarities with gambling but not complete at all,you can make profits from making right analysis but in gambling its impossible to analyse things except sport prediction games.And you can apply same strategies for both but if you are interested in making more money then you have to separate things.

For trading you have to be more concentrating on technical analysis and needs to be more active.

These two is interconnected with each other.

When we invest, we also do trading. For example, we want to buy a cryptocurrency, let's say Bitcoin. What we will be doing is to buy it through exchanges or maybe convert our fiats to it, we are exactly doing trading and the fact that we are doing it is because we are investing in it. If we will be talking about the long term, that means they are investing and will be trading in the end.

In fact, both are the same, but trading is probably more people choose because this is a very easy way to make money if you have a reasonable strategy. However, this market is very volatile and does not always increase prices steadily, so there will be days when you feel very depressed. I always spend a lot of time trading because this is considered my main job and always confident when making decisions.

You can't find anything easier than investing in long term because we no need to do anything just the capital will generate profits and profits still people chooses trading because they want money instantly so they are going hard at it and most of them gets failed.

Actually it's the same but it matters on what platform and what type of investment are we going but if you compare the risk between those 2 I will go on trading since we can recover and earn while in investing on hyip platforms we cannot get what the scammer owner owed to us.



Yeah because all offering a profit without doing nothing is totally scam.

Investing won't help for inpatient/weak hands person. May trading could help them but think about how the market moves slowly...it eventually causes them to be troubled. Both trading and investing will work only if we understand the market situation and really want to take the risk no matter how long we wait for its return.

For this crypto investment and trading is different from the other form of investment which somehow they failed to look before taking the risk and then complain it later.

Trading and investing is the most common ways to earn money in cryptocurrency, that is why most crypto users knows how to trade and invest in crypto if they are really into crypto and blockchain technology. But there are still people who stick in one thing in earn crypto that they only focus on trading or investing, and i think it is not a problem because there are crypto users who don't have a huge funds to do both, that is why it is okay if you are only doing trading or investing.

Usually, there are fixed profits for long term investment if you have made investments in a potential coin. Short term profits might vary depending on the market conditions. Mostly, newbies can start with investments for long term as it would also force them to speculate the graphs and eventually they could even start with trading if they feel they have gained some knowledge about the charts and patterns.

Trading might give us good profits but the risk would remain high in trading as compared to investments. I am not saying that investments have no risk but the risk can be adjusted depending on the coin you invest and at which price you entered. Investing in newly launched projects can be fetal so yes, there are a lot of hidden risks associated with investing as well.

Both of them are fundamentally based and trading MUST never be done based on emotions or personal feelings, trading while it seem simple requires a lot of analysis and ability to read charts so can't be said trading is accomplished emotionally. Investing though is long term and fundamental I agree because you must have the vision to foresee that the value will increase over longer period of time.

For me investing is much easier than trading because trading requires sharp judgement of when to buy and sell a particular asset while investing you just have to HODL and wait till the price reaches your desired value.

Well said mate, that is the good time for trading different currencies, there are so many people who failed from trading because of lack of research and preparation, if you are not prepared and don't have any skills about trading then for sure you may lost your money, this is not a simple thing that you should try because you want to earn money, trading is not a sure win situation for you because there are times that you will lost if you are lack of knowledge about is as well as in terms of investing.

But I recommend that you must prefer trying the investing compared to trading because you cannot lose in investing because you can still hold your money if the marker is still down, then withdraw it when the market goes high.

One may consider investing for long term and trading is short term but these are interchangeable terms actually. So if you are able to generate profits everyday then dont be disheartened. While losses  are common it is useless to brood over that whether it was supposed to be a investment or trade.

Try going with both and see which ones works for a certain user. The important thing is to do research and perform dummy trades befor starting and not going in for the shitcoins.

you cannot loose in investing ? that is impossible . when you hold and when the value of the coin you hold drops you already loose even if you say that you didnt sell yet and how sure you are that the value can recover ? take example you buy btc last 2017 on its peak and you hodl after that  ,  2 years later the value of btc is still dump and you still didnt recover your capital  .

this isnt just applicable to btc but other cryptos too and other cryptos are more riskier because their faith are more unknown  but investing is still easier compare to trading  .

Indeed, as a crypto users both Trading and investing methods are really helpful for us to earned more money. But the both methods are some thing risky because it is not 100% sure that you gain your money everyday because in some instances that you lose a big of your profit, because in trading and investing you just put your money in risky and its a 50:50 if you win or lose in once trade or investment. So that when playing in both methods you need a deep knowledge on how trading and investing works and also you need a lucky charm for you to win everyday so that if you find a lucky charm don't even take for granted because it's very rare to have a lucky charm in playing both methods.
 

Investing should be done right because it benefits us only then. I feel super cool via FreshForex, who is one of the companies out there and have so many benefits to help with. As with good support, it will take us to the worthy results.

Investing would give you a one time profit but trading would keep on giving you profits. If you invest in any coin, you would wait for long term for the price to hit the peak so that you can sell that coin. This would only give you profit after the coin makes a pump but in trading, you can actually serve yourself with profits by even with minor price changes.

Constant buy and sell would help you gain way major profits than just investing into one coin. Usually investments would be for lazy people who have money but have no guts to take efforts with trading whereas, only active people would make profits from trading. Trading and investments both at a constant time can make us earn huge profits but you would need huge funds on hand before you can even think about them.

Right now investing is not worth because bitcoin and altcoin dump extremely then better keep trading your assets and don't for cut lost when get bad situation right now, with bitcoin and altcoin keep stable with lower price you need waiting for when bitcoin will grow up to higher price.

How about the halving? Don't you think this is a good timing and opportunity for people to invest in bitcoin and altcoin? If they invest and the halving takes effect to bitcoin's price then i think it will be a good profit for people who invested in bitcoin but in my opinion trading will give you more money than investing, trading also profits faster than investment. Its about utilizing both strategy, you need to know when to use one or both.

I do investing then holding. Trading isnt that good that much specially now the market falls down.

Definitely the right approach, whatever works for one person may not work for the other person and that is the real problem as well. It answers one question but opens up many more questions, like how do you know if you are a trader material person or an investor?

I personally had to learn it by doing it, I loved the feeling of trading but I was never good at it so I stopped trading and now I am an investor, not like I have too much money but I like to earn money and if I can afford it, invest a bit of it to somewhere when I can. How would you know if you are like me or a good trader that can make more money in shorter terms by trading? Nobody can really know without actually doing it yourself and test it, that way you can at least make sure which one is better for you.

like me, I also like trading, but I'm not very good at doing it. so, at the moment I am focusing on investment. but, even though I am not very good at trading, I sometimes still do it. Until now I feel that trading and investment go together in the internet world, especially crypto, so I can't avoid both.

Trading vs investing great aspects of market.it it very difficult what to to do. From My point of view every person should target both aspects of market because trading can be get loss some day but investment after some years get huge amounts.
So I think trading and investing both are necessary who like to be in the market.

Actually, you can have them both of you want it or if you certainly make it work at the same time but it was difficult when you are just a starter. Because without such deep knowledge and market understanding, it surely makes it hard for you to make it at a high-level performance and might worse if you lose your funds. As a newcomer is in crypto, I could suggest that much better to focus only on one of them and so there is a time to study more about the market.

The time factor is the determinant here, if the investor hold any trade position for a long time it will be an investment. Investing is a bit more complex due to the required fundamental analysis and the patience. The patient investors always win because the market always touches the main points during both uptrend and downtrend.

Investment will take a lot of time to wait but it is also very risky if you choose to hold too long. Currently, day trading seems safer and risk will also decrease if you set a stop loss after buying.

Anyway, I still prefer investing because any investment will take time and if carefully researched, you will still make good profits.

To get returns on the investment will always take time, but whether we are choosing them wisely we have to find out because long term will have a higher chance to make a decent profit, day trading is easier to make a profit but in the same way, there is a huge risk involved in it due to huge market fluctuations.

I would rather trade than invest, trade faster but need enough time to check the market. While investment is more suitable for those who have large funds.

Trading is not only time. Investing is much safer than trading, at least in the cryptocurrency market, which is practically unpredictable.
In other words, during trading you will almost always bet at random, how can such an environment prevent mistakes?

Yeah. With the current situation of most cryptocurrency prices one can definitely imply it's not optimal to buy assets and hodl them, despite news of the upcoming halving. What works best as of the moment is trading bonds to gain the margin between stocks or in this case cryptocurrency, thoughI believe it's much harder to trade with cryptocurrencies compared to normal bonds. That being said, trading poses a much higher risk than investing your money but it definitely drags with it the biggest of rewards. And it is also highly important that you know how to tell whether it's best to trade or to invest.

When trading, you have to stay on the ball and watch everything, which is associated with a lot of headache and nerves. You bought once when investing and you can forget everything for a certain time. And the statistics say that trading is not much more productive than investing

At least now it's easier if you just choose bitcoin or other top-ranking crypto, it's an easier choice if you have to do in-depth research on a token or any new project there, while at the same time you still don't have the skills to do that and of course the risk for this will be greater. Things like this are indeed an option and depend on how much budget or capital we have to be able to do both methods or one of them, because when we don't have a large budget then of course it will require us to be more skilled and more selective before doing so.

Exactly, it completely depends upon the coin we choose for long term holding because there are some staking coins which we might build more coins. That's why we should research before investing in any coin, of course, there are some other potential coins which they might trap the investors so we should be very careful with those companies.

Well said mate, it is more complicated when doing trading because you have to observe everything, you need to have more knowledge if you are doing trading because you may lose your money if you do trading without proper knowledge, it is not really simple compared to investing, where you are only need to hold your money for a long time or even in the shorter time, you only have to wait for the bitcoin to goes high so you may earn money, but both methods need proper knowledge to make money.

I trade first and then I try to invest How do I hold if I do not have enough capital This is why it will be most effective to invest and hold on after making a profit before trading. So if the price goes up we can make a lot of money.

Investing relies on the market situation, there are times you will invest and that year might not be a good year for cryptocurrency and you will not make profit. I am not trying to say that investing is not good, it’s really good but the profit doesn’t come at all times.

Then as for trading, it all depends on whether you understand how it really works, if you know how to trade it won’t be a big problem for you as you will be able to make profit most of the times and by the end of the year you would have made lots of profit. But if you don’t know how to trade, then that’s your bad luck.

- I feel both are a relatively similar chain of knowledge, we can clearly see that analytical knowledge is no different from basic to advanced depending on our professionalism, the difference is just the time we spend on both, the investment may be longer when it's a long-term perspective while trading is a short-term calculation. However, sometimes both options can still replace each other and that requires the flexibility of traders or investors, understands the situation and knows what is most beneficial in that situation.

Yes apparently trading is hard job (a lot possibility to earn x2-x4 in shortly) from investing money. For trading i think it’s not a start anyone suddenly. Nope, if we will comparing about risk then definitely i think both of similar risk zone. But i agree these are really good suggestion to use your money in the both purposes likes trading and investment.             

It is really impossible for those newbies to not have emotions or feelings when trading. There is a trading psychology and we should aware of it. Trading requires good mindset, intrapersonal skills, having good risk and management and also good trading psychology. Traders are ususally people who often buy and sell cryptocurrencies and other financial instruments while investors are passive because it requires patience in order to hold a coin in a long period of time. 

There are different types of trader, there are traders who are passive that are close to being investors where they accumulate positions and hold it for a long time and there are also type of trader who are active where he/she often exchanging cryptocurrency to fiat or vice versa. Both of it are effective on making money but the thing is we should know if our skills are suitable on becoming a trader or a investor.

These days it is really not all that interesting to do both of them, they are both hurting as it is unless you are a shorts futures type of guy.

Right now, we are talking about a situation where traders who buy daily are hurting because it is dropping daily, so the day traders or short term traders are hurting right now and not making any profits. The long term ones that are investors are hurting as well, if they needed the money now due to all the crisis going on, they would have to sell on a hurting price as well, if they didn't need it at all they would still keep it but their portfolio is down nevertheless. So basically everyone is losing today, not a great time for bitcoin or any other coin and not a good time for any type of bitcoin related profiting since there is none.

Those who are dealing around working with binary types of trading will see the outcome right away and if experienced gives them the advantage they can consider any movements as opportunities to their trading activities. Those short term calls if basing with experienced and instinct that the situations will favors their current position.
Binary is same alike with gambling with luck and fate but any market types can be perform.

Before investing or trading, you have a good knowledge about crypto-currencies. We all know that without much knowledge or skill, no body make good development for any work. So, before investing or trading we have a deep knowledge and research the crypto-currencies.         

Well, we have seen the difference between trading and investing on this very bear run that we just had, literally in a week we have seen the difference.

If you are a trader you might as well lost money this week because bitcoin went from 7.5k to 3.6k to 6.8k and now on 5.8k or so. That means there was a lot of chances to both lose money and make money as well, it was volatile and confusing. However if you are an investor you probably didn't get affected all that much, many investors bought lower than this, the ones who bought over this are already waiting so they will be basically waiting for higher than lower increase and that is about it. So all in all investors are unscathered by this while traders are losing/winning money from this moment.

For newcomer or investor it is better to first invest in good coins and make some money which could be capitalized to do trading. It is risky for nay one to trade and in crypto due to high volatility people can lose out their money quickly so unless one is sure or have that skill set to trade better to invest and make money and once people think they have gained some experience or have knowledge then can start trading as well.

On the contrary I feel like investing is just a part of trading because you buy a certain asset/coin when it's price is low and you will sell it once the price goes up, this what we do in investing and trading both so I don't know how investing can be seen as not a part of trading because Trading requires 2 basic skills:

1- Investing: Having the ability to buy a coin when you know the price will rise eventually be it short term or long term.

2- Divesting: You must be able to sell your coins at the peak time.

So for me, investing is part of the trading system and every investment is made to be divested later.

Yes investing and trading only have a thin line to differentiate because in trading we make buy and sell orders on a regular basis while investing we only make a buy and then let the value accumulate more and more before we sell it, I personally consider investing as a slow approach of trading because they both are similar only the fact that we hold longer in investing.

Actually investing is beneficial when you are looking for long term profits like investing in bitcoins while trading is when you know the value will rise and fall very soon for example most of the altcoins in the market.

Trading and investing are two different strategy to make your money grow. For trading, it involves short term strategy and have a chance on making higher profits but risky. While investing on the other hand, is long term strategy that works on buy and hold approach less risky than trading. Both trading and investing have different pros and cons but have the same goal which is to gain or make more money. The market is involve in the growth for every traders and investors,the market serves as the bridge where interactions and opportunities takes place. And I highly advice that either you choose trading or investing make sure to research and understand well the methods before engaging to it for less risks and problems.

Often buying and selling on regular basis are most likely the definition of the trading while investing is more about long term investment. Those two strategies are differently to each other and that is why we should know if we will do trading or investing. Both have different level of risks, we should just choose on the strategies that we should use in order to cover our risks appetite.

Trade wisely

If you are interested in trading, here are some tips for minimizing risk:

Create a plan that dictates when you will buy and sell. For example, you can decide to sell if the stock is rising or falling by a certain percentage.

Stick to your plan. Even experienced traders let their arguments in favor of the retention of certain shares to change. “This is the hardest part of being a trader, sticking to your rules, " says Matt Saneholz, a former professional trader and now co-owner of Tobias Financial Advisors in plantation, Florida.

Find out how much money you can afford to lose, and don't trade more than that. Larren Odom, founder of Chastain Wealth Management in Atlanta, suggests trading no more than 5% of your investment assets.
Investing wisely

Investing is a way to create long-term wealth. Just ask anyone who bought stocks in March 2009-the Standard & Poor's 500 index has grown by about 250% since then. A recent nerdwallet study shows that investing in the stock market can generate millions more retirement dollars than placing money in a traditional savings account or storing it in cash.

Here are tips for getting it right:

Create an investment plan to buy, sell, and rebalance your assets. For example, some people sell some holdings and buy others to get the portfolio back in line with its original goals after market movements have unsettled it.

If someone asked me about the best way to make money in the stock market, is it investment or trading, then it is not an easy question. Both of them contain the pros and cons. Personally, I do not consider myself an investor or a trader. My own way of growing my file depends on short-term investment alongside some long-term and even smaller trading volumes.

Everyone in this space is a trader at a point. So called investors gets into trade at a point most especially in the bull market and some trade immediately after the private purchase that gives x2 or more profit. The rich ones in this space cant go into short term trade as some do, they prefer projects on big exchange and project that provide OTC trade, such selloff can dump the market massively so they get high volume exchange for trade or OTC selloff that is staggered.

No one can make a profit in this market without the knowledge, because any investment requires research and if you do not spend time doing this, you will definitely fail. I used to lose a lot of money when I joined this market, but instead of being disappointed, I considered it a valuable lesson to gain more experience when choosing to invest in the market.

Experience is also necessity in order to take advantage on this market because knowledge without application is useless. Thus, losing at first is normal. Every successful investors or traders have been through that and they resist to give up that'e why they are where they are now. Additionally, contnuous learning vital too because the technology is evolving quickly thus we need to adopt for us to go along with the trend and what's appropriate.

There is nothing like best, what works for you might not work for others. I invested in Bitcoin around 2015 and in 2017 ending I made lots of profits after the bull run, does that mean that Hodl/Investment is the way to go? No. There are also people who have made lots of money from trading , it just has to do with what you’re good at doing.

If trading is what you do best then you should just go for that. And if you can predict the price of Bitcoin on a long term and you’re sure that Hodl is the way to go for you, then you should focus on that. Just like when it comes to choosing a career – it’s not everyone that chooses to be an accountant, it’s all about what you think works best for you.

Investing and trading are two best way on how you can earn money.But on my opinion,it both risky too.
And you'll be needing a lot of patience on both.

it is enough to help friends, basically we have to understand first what we will do because trading or investing will include the assets we have. Do not take too much risk when we are still in doubt. Maybe seeking more knowledge and learning from our experiences during trade and investment will be very helpful for profit.

Trading is very versatile that comprises of various trading styles, methods to achieve success and earn profits, while investing is buying and holding basically a chunk of different asset classes and earn profits in long run which could take days and weeks, even months. It really depends on your personal choice what you opt for. Trading if done with discipline and few rules like risk management, using different strategies to trade in different market conditions can be profitable, however if trading is taken with emotions, most of the people loss money. Investment is less risky, however i think there are few risks in investment as well like if invested amount is of no value anymore because the project was a scam or it didn't succeed. So to invest in any project, some research should be done so that the risk of losing funds is minimised. Only chose projects which have good fundamentals.

Definitely it's risky because you are going to risk your money to make money, in fact this is called high risk because in crypto, the reward is also high, provided you are successful with Trading or Investing or could be both.

Trading is a risk. It's always stated only risk what you can afford to lose  ;D else you could put money in mutual funds. But even mutual funds are risky. So why not take some more risk and earn more profits which in trading could be earned if good techniques are used.

Correct, trading is just like gambling. It is very risky but if you know how to manage your risk it is also profitable tough.
For now, while the crypto market suffers the sudden dump, I much prefer to HODL my bitcoin for the long term investment. It is the best time to invest and accumulate more than you can afford. Because you can't earn investing in Bitcoin in a short period of time. It needs to have patiently wait.

I agree. You could hold some and may be invest some into algo trading  ;D

You just contradicted your first statement. If trading was similar to gambling then there would be no method to make it into a profitable earning method. But it can be done so. Gambling is always going to be a loss for the player because they are fighting against the odds. Trading if done on the right assets and at proper times can end up being profitable.

You can earn on a bear market too. It is called shorting but it needs practice. Check it out if you havent already. You could also bet on the prices and make money from that if you know where to find such bets.

In my wallets there are quite a lot of different cryptocurrencies in perspectives, which I doubt a little, because today they do not have very good performance in the cryptocurrency market, but nevertheless, I try to allocate more often my personal funds to buy those coins that me  are most interested.  I believe that it is a long-term investment in Bitcoin Ethereum, as well as pundi X, that will bring me very good profit.  Of course, I believe that daily trading can bring good income, but only to a professional trader who has experience in this field of activity.  I will try to try trading a little, but it doesn’t always work out for me, because it takes a lot of time to trade.

mutual funds are less riskier then trading , either mutual funds or trading controlling risks is up to trader , investing or anything will have risk we should decide which suits us and our risks to handle and go on , the safe way we search to safe risk the less reward we get

I think its quite normal today that cryptocurrency doesn't perform well considering our world situation that made a big dump these past few weeks and it affect most of the cryptocurrency tokens.

Using personal funds to be used as trading capital is a bad move if you ask me, Remember your personal funds is allocated for your personal usage, You can't predict what may happen to you and the things you don't expect you need that your personal funds are dedicated for that. The drawback here is when you need funds, You will be forced to withdraw your trading tokens and panic sell your tokens at a certain price that you are not contented.

Many investors looking for faster way how to get much profit in bitcoin and altcoin investment so they would like to choose trading as solution how to earn much money with cryptocurrency world, when some one know how easy and faster to get much profit with trading maybe leave with investing and hold long time to earn profit.

You already said it yourself.

It is all a matter of knowing what to take and when to take it. The market has no will or brain to think for itself. These traders and investors are the ones doing it, analyzing the market and basing their strategies on the indicators the market is showing. Profits will not just go in without them doing something to their investments isn't it?

Totally agree with mutual funds being less risky but still the word RISK is there. So people with lesser risk appetite invest in mutual funds imo. And all depends on the risk one is willing to take. I personally have never invested in mutual funds. I am into crypto trading, not manual but algo trading and if done correctly could be a lot more profitable. We, at coindexlabs.com (http://coindexlabs.com) are trying to build something which gives us consistent passive revenue stream, and till now we are doing good.

On that note if one cannot keep a watch on market regularly or daily. Investment option can be further explored through Mutual Funds (https://www.nirmalbang.com/knowledge-center/saving-vs-investments.html)

Trading is good but it’s all about knowing how to trade. It’s not easy, and a few times that I have tried short term trading it usually gets things messed up and I lose money. I have also tried to follow some of these trade signals and it turned out that they are mainly scammers, they don’t give you the accurate signal, so what’s the need for it? Even the ones I see on Twitter are fake , and there is a recent news of one of them Photo-shopping his trades lol, so that he can get followers.

When it comes to trading, it’s best to do your best and learn everything, so that you wouldn’t be needing the help of anyone in doing it, seriously if you keep relying on all these people or trade bots, you will achieve nothing, unless you’re just lucky.

Trading is kind of gambling. Some win, but majority of trader lose. It's impossible that everyone would make profit. So you should only trade if you think you can beat the rest of traders. With gambling you try to beat the house (roulette, dice...) or other players (at poker for example). At trading you try to beat other traders. If most of them are better than you, you will lose in the long term.
So trading signals are not bad in my opinion because they are created by people who are experienced and probably better at trading than you are. But don't trust just a random guy at TradingView or Twitter. There's only a few groups worth following, but usually they are not free.

But, I see investment as a normal thing that anyone that joins this community is going to start with; when you join the cryptocurrency community the first thing you do is to invest and after that you start trading with your money and you don't even trade with all the money as some of them lies as an investment in your wallet till the time you want to withdraw them to fiat. And talking about trading , it's not so easy, especially if you're the type that will be relying on bots or some influencers and technical analysts.

Anyone that wants to be a trader should first learn how to do technical analysis and other important skills that are need for trading before they start trading. If it's not going to be that way you're just going to keep on losing your money.

You are really right and I really understand all the risks you are talking about.  I can not afford to throw on the cryptocurrency market too large amounts of cash, which are very much needed today, when not only the economic crisis is coming, but also real problems with finances and nutrition, and therefore I give only a small part that I can afford to risk  .  One way or another, My main capital was created due to participation in the Bounty company and due to cryptocurrency trading.  In addition, the cryptocurrency market can offer a certain income for many people who today need money.  And this will bring new users and investors to the cryptocurrency market.

In the past I used to lose more than half of my assets in just one week because of my lack of understanding of the market and after that time I stopped to learn the basics of trading.

One way or another, you must have a specific plan before investing because the crypto market is very volatile and there will always be a risk every time you buy. Of course, I have become better now but sometimes I still lose money when the market suddenly collapses.

Your definition of trading of most likely the same, As you said in investing you are going to hold for a long time and most likely trading a short time? For me, both are the same and called "trading" it just categorized on Long term and short term trading. And Investing for me sounds like investing in ICO/IEO or any platform that you can gain profits but not doing anything just invest.

Sorry, but I didn’t understand what you advise investors. Hold or still trading? By the way, all investors rely on profits or dividends, this is the essence of investing.
Trading is speculation on buying and selling, and involves very high risks. If you know what investment is, you must understand how risks can and should work ...

Trading is more like day trading where you are playing with the price volatility, while investing could be short term or long term holding of coins while waiting for the right opportunity to sell.

That's investing in crowdsale, while investing in bitcoin is still part of investing.. like people say, invest on bitcoin's future as it has a great potential.

Trading is really amazing and it can really give us a huge amount of profit depending on how we decide or handle things on trading feild. While on investing we can also gain a profit on it but maybe in a very long way because investing really needs time it always depend upon the price because we need to wait for the price to rise before selling.

Investing is about buying stocks for long-term gains. Trading and investing both involve seeking profit in the stock market, but they pursue that goal in different ways.

There are only two possibilities, whether we will be profitable or we will lose as not all traders are profitable.
Depending how we use our skills and we need to ensure we have that skills that would give us a higher chance of become profitable in trading.

That's right, if we like to invest and solely focus on it, then we have no choice but to wait, but for trading we can be profitable regularly if we are good.
Actually we can both invest and trade at the same time, that if we can focus on both.

I think there's no got to follow a goal here but investing in trading is that the best future investment A long-term investment is more profitable But here's await. Trading losses are both profitable but long-term investments need to be kept for a particular period of your time it's possible to form tons of profit albeit it takes an extended time.

Both are profitable indeed, but its not easy as it seems. I tried to be a day trader and it didnt suits me because I dont have plenty of time to monitor the market as I also have a real job. I decided to invest in popular coins and hold it for long period, in this strategy I earned a decent amount. So I can say investing and trading are both profitable, you're right it depends on how we handle it.

both of them have huge risk.. make analisis and preparations before you choose to play it... dont forget to learn from many experience....

whats the risk in Holding?if you are investing for longer term specially if Buying Bitcoin i guess it is more different from trading.
many fails in trading because of the early entering without deep knowledge in crypto market.
Not like in Investing if you set to even wait at least 5-6 months minimum there might be a chance to go up in that margin of time.

Risk of Holding is that you never know if a coin could actually exceed the price you bought it. Let's say BTC in an imaginary scenario. You bought it at $6k, but at that point on, it's price never exceeded as such. It only ranged from below $5.5k, wouldn't you call that a risk? This is just an imaginary scenario btw, since HODLing BTC is quite good imo. It always exceeds prices you never expect it to most of the time after all. As for trading, well, you just got to watch the price changes as well as possible news that could influence it. It may seem easy, but it's rather hard since it's basically a speculation most of the time. There ain't many people out there that could put a percentage beside speculated events and base their decisions from that after all.

   Risk in holding is happening right in the beginning, when you plan to invest and you decided to invest in
risky project! It's not same to hold Bitcoin and to hold Tron, I think it's more riskier to hold tron than Bitcoin,
and you have riskier projects than Tron is.
   Bitcoin and Ethereum has the lowest risk, but as you go down trough the top 100 coins risk is getting bigger.
And we must be aware of that, nothing is risk free, but there are risk levels.

In order to get a profit from investing, it is required that the coin increases in price over a certain period of time. The difference between trading and investing is that you can get profit not only from the growth of the coin, but also when its price falls. Therefore, everyone chooses a strategy for themselves, depending on how busy they are.

Sounds right but all of these are need patient, especially if you are holding for long term. Waiting to the market price when the Bitcoin will strive and climbing up and that is the right time to cut your profit and decide to re-invest of cash it out. I always prefer holding because I am always busy at work. And that is right, everyone can choose to depend on their daily routine and can't expend more time in trading.

Investing is profitable during the bull market only but trading is profitable everytime even during the bear market because a good trader can short to gain profits. Most of traders are bad because they can't predict bull-bear reversal and get rekt or transform to investors.

Trading is good, but I have not really understood how it works. Sometimes I will try make predictions, but at the end things will go another direction and not what I really tried to predict. I think nobody can really predict where the price is really heading to, or maybe it can be done, but just that it’s a very difficult thing for anyone to achieve.

Maybe I really need to study the market really hard and get perfect in technical analysis. Most other people I have also seen are not making accurate predictions, even the so called influencers. Investment is the thing I go with for now, since all I can do is to invest and have patience for sometime till prices go up.

Trading is not all about prediction or having TA's. Not really it works with that but of course, it helps a lot. It is known that trading needs deep market knowledge and skills, and you can acquire these things is a certain period of time. May you say to yourself that you are not good it TA at this time but it can be improved in the future.

That is supposedly you must have to do if you want to learn and become a successful trader. The experience will help and give you more understanding of how trading will work and how you approach the sudden market change. Take time to do it and you'll see a positive result.

It is not all about predictions but it is all about the possibilities. There is no holy grail in trading where a trading strategy can be considered as 100% profitable because it doesn't exist in trading. What do I mean by it is just a game of possibilities? There are many studies and indicators that you can use and they can give you an idea where the price will go. It is not predictions because TA is all about understanding the price action.

Skills in technical analysis is not easy to acquired, do not think that you can develop your skills by just spending a night and studying it. It takes time to understand the pattern,  the trend and also the price action. Trading is not simply especially for those who are self taught because it is a set of trial and error to be consistent in the market.

can anyone guide me i want to invest in crypto and start trading.?

both have the risk. You can get an investment profit when the price is pumping, but if it decreases, you will get a loss. as well as trading. it's just the difference is the time. Personally, I chose investment, because I feel that trading is too risky for now.

I'm 💯 into investing on top coins only and as for trading I only jump in when I feel like it's the beginning of a bullrun, trading is more risky than investing on top coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum

Yes, but are having risks but choosing the one which is having comparatively less level of risk must be a wise decision, a crypto enthusiast can do in his lifetime. I agree time is the difference between trading and investing but with respect to crypto investments/trading we will be having another big differences. I mean investing is just another kind of trading but it will be having less risk and more profits and trading will be having more risk and (compared to what investors do get) less profits.

This is because cryptos are good in long-term holding which makes investors to get more profits with the less risk and traders may suffer with unexpected fluctuations. So, it is always good to invest with crypto is rather than risking in trading crytpos.

We the community are here to guide you according to your questions and doubts. You do not need 1 to 1 guidelines because you can find lots of useful discussions across this forum with respect to crypto investments. If you're new to trading my first humble suggestions would be, "please avoid crypto trading" but start investing in bitcoins with long term goals.

Yes both have risks, but both also have opportunities for anyone who is able to take advantage of every moment to turn it into the benefits that will be obtained. So I don't think it is wrong between the two because even if you can do both then of course it will be better because you will still benefit from trading when the market is bearish and when the market is bullish then trading and also investment will reap greater profits.

That must be a good point to notice but if you not want to face bearish market conditions with your investments then you must follow strict stop-loss practices so that you will exit all your investments when market enters into bearish conditions. This is possible if you are able to predict market trends more accurately or with the help of "trailing stop-loss" kind of strategies.

But, this way investing also becoming similar to trading but if you look for long term goals then you can ignore small fluctuations of market conditions and exit only for major bearish market conditions.

trading and investing are the same way and destination to get as much profit but have different system how to get much money with bitcoin and altcoins, with trading we can make alot money every day and investing could earn but need to wait for long term

 Investment and trading belong to a very macro field and it requires a lot of learning and acumen. This is not a job that everyone can be good at, it depends on the personality of each person. For example, if I am someone who cannot sit still for too long while waiting for my order to reach the target, then I will not be able to match the trader. I can only analyze and invest short term in good alts and I think I will belong to the type of investor.
It is true that the more we do it, the more we learn, the better. But first, determine what your strengths or weaknesses are, then decide on a job. ;)

And how many tens of thousands of people thought that they had it all figured out before they got into trading, right?

Not a crypto trader beyond necessary means but I will admit I fooled.myself in many of the same ways 15 years ago. My poison was forex. Spent months charting, learning, discussing. Almost a year of test trading, solid baby pip results and an impressive track record. Then I go in, real cash account. Thinking, I know the rules, I know the strategy, I know my weaknesses.

I knew nothing haha. Real market conditions catch all of us. Real emotions because of real money. Ah the folly of youth.

That's right trading and investing are the best way to produce cryptocurrency. And both have a very high risk, then it is recommended
to use money that we can afford to lose. Especially for beginners to start trading and investing, they need knowledge, so you should
first learn about the world of trading and investing. After that, multiply the practice to improve abilities read and analyze the market,
making a profit will be easy to get.

The difference between trading and investing lies inside us. It is a matter of character.
Trading brings the bacon at home after a day by day struggle, but investing, is another kind of operation which, upon thorough analysis promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative. Trading is speculative.
Investing consists equally of three elements:
1. You must thoroughly analyze a company, and the soundness of its underlying businesses, before you buy its stock;
2. You must deliberately protect yourself against serious losses;
3. You must aspire to “adequate,” not extraordinary, performance.

Like casino gambling or betting on the horses, trading in the market can be exciting or even rewarding (if you happen to get lucky). But it’s the worst imaginable way to build your wealth. That’s because Wall Street, like Las Vegas or the racetrack, has calibrated the odds so that the house always prevails, in the end, against everyone who tries to beat the house at its own speculative game.
On the other hand, investing is a unique kind of casino, one where you cannot lose in the end, so long as you play only by the rules that put the odds squarely in your favor. People who invest make money for themselves, people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

Indeed look at some popular Fiat currencies and stocks like the dow jones and USD they're all in risk for a default due to an incoming economic default from the cause of financial crisis. Even with stable assets like this can turn into zeroes, how much more investing with something is unpopular. The reality is that there are no safe havens and only invest or trade what you can afford to lose.

It is all about which one you would like to become actually, there is a personal thing behind it that nobody else can answer for you because they both have different feelings and those feelings that these things create are totally different for every individual and that is why nobody else can tell you anything.

For example, one person could love trading and buy sell constantly everyday and make money or even lose money but love doing it so they would suggest doing that, while some other person hates trading because of some reason and they might prefer investing for the long term (like retirement fund for example) and they might suggest that. What you have to do is try both of them, trading is easier to try because you could do it right away first, and if you do not like it then you can try investing for a longer term and see how that feels.

Both are good way to make much money but both are not same. You need much experience for each one of them specially trading. If we are talking about crypto currency investment then i will say it's much easier than trading. In crypto investment you just need a proper research, if you got positive side you'll invest your money and wait for proper time but in crypto trading you need to focus on multiple sides. Both can make you profit if you learn everyday about them but both are also make you count loss if you take a single wrong step. So before you choose them think twice how much experience you've got.

Both trade and investment are good but to trade we'd like to possess knowledge about trade and exerting we will make some money by trading short term a day but before that the market must be analyzed. the simplest thanks to trade is to research the trading charts well A long-term investment is sweet for investment Long-term investment can make us extra money if prices rise.

Most people that "invest" which is pretty much most people who got some type of retirement fund, never actually do the trading on their own. They basically get some financial company to do it for them. They don't even care which sector they invest in. For most they won't see the money for decades so they don't really care what they are buying as long as it makes them a profit in the end.

Traders are different. They take their own trades and do their own analysis. However most of the time they are new and have no idea what they are doing. And they usually want to make money quick and fast and they jump back and forth in and out of the market which is a receipe for disaster. Hence why they lose money. Long term investing just takes too long and they rather day trade but most people can't handle trading on such small timeframes.

but not all traders are successful. The majority of more than 90% of traders in this financial market fail and lose a lot of money before realizing this job is not easy. I have invested in learning trading knowledge in this market for 6 months and after applying it I still suffer a loss. I suddenly realized that in order to trade successfully, we need a group of people who prefer trading and teamwork is better. We will have people who have many different perspectives and together fix each other's mistakes and succeed together. So, find yourself a professional trading group. Remember, wolves never hunt alone.

When I started out, it used to be trading for me until my schedule got so tight that it took me out of crypto for a while. When I got back, a lot of conception changed for me such that I can't keep up anymore with watching trades. So I resorted to Investment. Short or long term depending on project scope and roadmap

Of the two methods basically nothing will really generate a quick profit, because even so far those who know their virtual trading assume that trading is the way for them to get a quick profit, but in reality it is not like that. Awareness in this case will be something that needs to be considered for every trader and investor, because with you having awareness then at least you will do research first to use the money for trading and also investing.

I think that trading can be faster, it's just that it can be done when you really understand the patterns that emerge. however, both of these things do take time and have the same risk. it's just that, I might prefer investing in something that is certain. It is better.

There are a lot of people having contradicting which one are the best to make more earnings if this is trading or investment. But the right one are depends on the player what kind of game does he takes because some of them are good in trading and some of them are investors. In investment all you need is just wait for the right time of the coin to meet the lowest market price after that you just wait for the market price to goes up and withdraw your market income. If you are a trader all you need is really high skills and knowledge because most of the traders makes a fail for having a bad market prediction on the coin trading requires more knowledge about the market movement and market graph it depends on you how you handle the situation to make earnings but if you want to make more money you can do this method of earning more faster and efficient to make profits.

You are right, we both trade and trade Skills are needed in both jobs It is not possible to move forward without one's own skills That is why every trader has to analyze the market well. We can make a profit from both trading and investing We can make money every day from trading and we have to wait a long time for investment However it is possible to get equal profit from both It all depends on the market.

Spot trading is not similar to gambling.

You are getting the point wrong. Betting on price is what Futures and Options trading is and not Spot trading. But it is the majority of the volume in markets nowadays so it has its own place among the risk taker crew.

Investing is a term more applicable to long term stores of money, like gold, real estate and in this forum, bitcoin; still bitcoin is a good investment than altcoins.

But I think there needs to be a balance into what you are investing and what you are trading. Maybe not day trading but mid/long term gains.

They are both risky and you need a lot of crypto knowledge when choosing a coin for either of them,  if you choose the wrong token in investing in you are tend to loose your funds likewise if you are trading without the basic knowledge you tend to loose also,  I think you just have to stick to what works for you,  if they both work for you,  you are good to go,  as for me I prefer investing more,  but I do both trading and investing

Trading and investing both need strategies to succeed and you should think carefully when choosing. Of course I like day trading because it makes it easy for me to make a profit but it quickly makes me lose money if the market starts to have a big collapse. I have stayed in this market for a long time but only made a small profit and I am really disappointed about what is happening.

It all depends on what the person wants to achieve, if he wants to follow the steps of the day-to-day market or if he wants to wait as long as it takes with his money in the market until he makes a profit. It is always essential to have the vision of being a market speculator or investor, it can even be both, having the necessary conviction of the appropriate financial culture to know how to wait for market reactions. A market speculator follows the line of least resistance, just like Jesse Livermore did, and wins either up or down the market, instead the investor is like Warren Buffet's vision, waiting as long as it takes to make a profit.

Beginners should take good time to watch and study every aspects of this cryptocurrency to avoid regrets. Even experts here are not finding easy at this time,projects now adays dump any how and many are frustrated seeing their coin almost valueless, but they are hopeful... Investing is very profitable buy requires a thick heart because of the risks. Most bounty Hunters simply earn and sell at reduced risk.

There's no safe zone when it comes to money, because in investment, there are still problems or issue that you will encounter as you manipulate your investment. Trading is more risky, but there's still risk in investment there are some problems in the market that you need to take over to prevent losses and the movement of money in investment is slower compared to trading. In trading, money is quick and the transaction are faster than you imagine, the only good in trading is that you can predict the movement in the market so that you can apply and think of an effective strategy to minimize the risk of losing in it. The only thing that will help you grow in investment is if you manage it properly and you don't let any problems affect you.

Everyone wants to earn cash and I can go out and say that every one wants to have a financially stable life, I can't disagree with that. But one thing I advice for people who wants to trade and invest, and it is to try other forms of investing such as mutual funds or stock market, they are safe investments although there is a taxation involved but it can still help in making a diversified sources of income, investing solely in cryptocurrency isn't bad but you can't dividends when you invest in them unlike stocks or mutual fund that gives dividends which is different from your main investment, it is your profit for owning a part of that company. I am saying this to not put on a hate in cryptocurrency, I am merely reminding people that there are options that is equally worth it.

if you are worried about a bounty hunter, then choose a potential project that does not have a bounty. I think it can make 1 worry disappear. however, in this case, trading and investment have their disadvantages with their own advantages. so far, I favor investment more than trading, because I feel that trading is quite risky. besides, trading can be worth the investment if you do it in the long run.

Day trading does not always mean buying high selling low. One needs to observe indicators for doing it properly, even then 50% of the time you might see a loss. One way to deal with market collapse is to short sell - sell at the market and buy back at lower price. Essentially you sold at a higher point than what you bought at. Try it out using dummy trading capital and see how it works.

You might be making mistakes in choosing which coin to buy or not checking your entry and exit point. Dont see the market drop in price to be a bad thing. Rather it is an opportunity to make money if you know when you can buy at low. But dont put too much money in altcoins, focus more on bitcoin.

Of course trading and investing are good ways to earn or make profit from the market but the level of profit to be made depends on the person in question. A good trader will also make money same is with a good investor and of course the higher their knowledge in their respective fields the higher their profits. However, there are still people who do both and as expected must be good in them else there will be chances of double losses. Finally, trading and investing or doing both will always amount to something no matter how small so far the knowledge has been acquired, thus anybody wishing to do either must be really equipped with the right knowledge.

Trading and investing are the same way to earn much profit with bitcoin and altcoin but have little way how to get profit, with trading we can get profit with short term and become most interested way by many trader, but with investing only become alternative for investor to be rich.

Yes its a reliable way to earn online but when we talk about the best to gain more I think it depends on every person. Some of us are earning huge as a trader because they have the knowledge and capability to be able to earn and can manage their time well. On the other side investing needs patience because it takes time before you can see the progress of your investment. When you hold for long period there's no specific time frame on when you can earn thats why if you cant bear waiting longer then you cant be a long term holder.

I am a very bad person with chart analysis. So I choose to invest in projects that work well and reasonably. That made me believe in the long-term development of the project rather than the chart. So I will choose investment instead of trade

to invest long-term, of course someone needs extra patience and for example there will be a movement of a very terrible market price decline certainly avoid panic and stay calm so as not to lose, but it is different with us doing day trading, which of course every time we have to do research about price movements in the market, because we need to determine when we buy and will sell when we have made a profit.

I think that the main diffrence between trading and investing is a time what you spent. When you trade, you work almost 24/7 to get a profit. But when you invest, you learn a lot about the asset, you do a research and then you don´t care about the investment, you should forget it, not sell in the lose and come back in 10 years and take profit.

For daily income trading is recommended but only thing is that one should have an art to pick the directional and buy and sell call needs to be done n a timely manner. It is not every one's touch who can make profits form the market and many end up losing lot of money in trading so one should also be careful about it. For them investing is the right option as over the period of time they will make money if they hold good coins and bought at lower levels.

You have said it all, both way are good to make profit, both can end up resulting to a huge profit and both also can bring in huge loss. The best is to know how to invest right and study the market well before trading, trade only the coins you trust and know much about.

I think the best one of of the two is investing, speaking from my own personal experience, less than 40 days ago Tomobull was less than $5, today its trading above $22+, I was trading it almost every day , had it been I just buy and hold I would have made more profit than trading, in trading you cannot always catch either the dip or the top, lots of coin also which has done good by just holding it as an investment. Investment is more better than tra