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Hi there!

I’m quite new into trading of any sort. I started by shorting BTC when price was trending down. I made some profits and then I lost it all... several times.

Besides potential gains, I love all the knowledge on markets and economics I’m getting by experimenting.

I’m not looking to be a full time trader. I just want to do one or two trades per week focusing on modest gains but low risk.

For example: I though that trading on the first minutes of an IEO was a safe option. But after reviewing how previous Launchpad projects went on the firsts minutes I does not looks like a low risk strategy at all.

So my question is: Is there such thing like low risks strategies? If yes, what could be an example of that?

Thank you!

I think there is one and that is hodling your bitcoin for long term and continuously buying bitcoin and accumulating more. I think that is a safe strategy in my opinion.

less precise if you are trading bitcoin on a short term, because you better hold it until later. that's what you need to think about. no matter the ups and downs of bitcoin prices, because what matters is that you currently hold bitcoin for the future.

Then for the ICO program there are a lot of mistakes following the first minute and you see the profit not being taken, that's carelessness. because who joined Launchpad is DYOR, the risk is if you neglect it will be a big loss. all you have to do is take the price and release it on the first high spike. as long as you have made a profit and that too has become a success. repeating the second and third is quite an unexpected risk. Launchpad is a game of grab and throw. not to hold back.

If you mean by a safe strategy where you have guaranteed profit there is no trading plan that is 100% guaranteed that you will make a profit but if you mean by a safe strategy where you will be minimizing your risk there are dozens of ways you can do it with your trading plan. You can simply set up entry and exit points as well as cut loss points where you can exit a trade when it all goes wrong. This are just some of the steps you can do for you to protect your capital while you are trading.

Yes, there is. It's like buying bitcoin today and wait until it pumps a little for the next few days and then sells it when it's fine. Safe in the matter that you've bought a coin that will never be the same as the pump and dump coins that happen in a short span of time. In bitcoin, you'll just have to be patient and wait until it hits your target selling price. It's not only for holding but also good for trading if that's what you want.

For me the safest strategy is to use btc like real money. The main idea here is not to be instrument for investment but world wide spread currency. There is no difference between black/red on roulette and ETFs... Of course you can do it with free money.

Good strategy is to create conservative business and to provide payments with bitcoins and regular money. Try to safe your profit in crypto and in a few years you will be very happy :)

But that's the use of bitcoin and what OP asks is about the strategy in trading and to make more from it. Yes, you can apply that with businesses if you ever have it and accept payments through it.
However, the deal isn't about it but the strategy how to make the most with trading and there's no risk with usage and application of it as a payment method.

The best strategy that you can establish according to your time is to think about investing, because that way you would only have to monitor your investment from time to time, review some news and wait as long as necessary until obtaining profits, that is much better and more sure to speculate in the market because you would have to make the correct prediction in the direction the market is heading, sometimes it is very frustrating and can cause stress unless you are a long-term trader.

At low risk it is difficult, because it depends on the money you want to invest, but for now the safe thing is Bitcoin, if you invest in Bitcoin it is very likely that you will obtain benefits in the short, medium and long term by the time the market is developing. If you want to establish strategies, there are many, as I said, you have to think carefully about your approach, whether it is investment or market speculation.

Amazing feedback. Thank you very much guys!

In my opinion, the way to minimize the risk of loss is how we trade or manage these assets, even though there are many ways or strategies to trade with low risk. However, it all depends on the abilities we have as well. If we are not able to use this strategy, it is the same that will be a risk factor for loss as well. Because we don't know how to use it. Better, be sure in your own way, I think if you use stop loss for safety, it will reduce the impact of the losses that will occur. Bitcoin itself is actually more suitable if used for the long term, it will promise you more to get more profit and of course it's easier than trading it once or twice a week. Bitcoin is more suitable to be used as an investment of your assets, but there is nothing wrong with you trading it in the short term, it both gives you an advantage if done right. My advice, don't use all your funds or assets for short-term Bitcoin trading, use about 2 or 5% only to get a small profit from the trade. Slowly but surely.

It's not how much you trade but how much you can manage it. Sometimes, to get quick profits, they deposit their assets in large amounts, if for long-term investments I don't think it is a problem. But to trade it will be very risky, even if you have experience in doing it. If it's for short term trading I don't think so

I would agree with you but the problem with hodling is you don't get a value out of it because it just stays as it is and I don't think that it is a good thing that there are ways that you can invest your bitcoin while hodling it and at the same time earning something out of it and it also can help your money grow.

Trading itself is a risk, and there's technically no safe strategy but to HODL. If you are not going to trade daily or become a full-time trader, it's best to get a bot like Gunbot. You could customize many strategies with different buy methods and sell methods so you could make most of anything. It could handle risk management etc. That's just my suggestion if you are looking to trade and don't have the time to monitor it the whole day.

you have point there mate. The question now is if OP can handle such way? .. Because seems he still lack of knowledge. Probably for now the best thing to suggest first in my own opinion, is by reading some books about trading,  wherein in order for him obtain specific information and strategies .. Btw here's the thread OP if you're interested (Trading book I have read so far (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5329698.0)) this was posted by death69 with Free links of the some trading books.  So don't hesitate to read if you have free time because it can really help you.

I would back that suggestion, even though I do not trade yet because I believe that with bots that you can tweak to your specifications, you can actually do more things and you can make daytrading a passive income. Hodling is good but there is a limit because you might be able to make some more bitcoin if you try to move it.

OP wants to atleast trade for twice a week so hodling it for long term is not counted though it is considered a safe strategy. For me there is really no safe strategy when it comes to trading, you don't really know what can happen on the crypto market. A coin that is good to buy at its current price doesn't guarantee you that it would pump or give you profit it in a week. Sometimes they consolidate for many days that if you lose patience you will sell it at loss. I suggest that dividing your capital into multiple cryptocurrencies, so the chance for you to gain profit in a week will be high.

You better not do that again, definitely, isn't working right.
I'm not also a full-time trader, I also did a trade during my free time but I choose those coins that are already been in the market for quite long, not those coins that are new. Coz base on my observations, more often new projects will surely dump once it is open for trading, maybe we can manage to hold it maybe this could save us but normally, it takes a long time to recover which actually a loss of our time waiting.

But there is one way to avoid that scenario, to spread your money, not only to focus on one coin but rather to have 2-3 different coins.

The first question should be what do you consider a safe strategy? If by safe strategy, you mean a strategy that gives 100 percent profit and doesn't lose any trade, then there is no such thing as a safe strategy in trading.
No professional trader would tell you that there is a strategy that guarantees profits 100 percent of the time because there's no strategy that would do that.
The only safe strategy is not in trading but in buying and buying bitcoin and holding for a long time in order to have some significant profits.

There is no such thing as a safe strategy as everything is under your control. I suggest you close the trading when you make a profit to not think about losing the profit in the next minutes. That is the best and safe strategy for every trader. If you still chase the profit while you do not know when the rate will go, it will be too risky because the price can go anywhere.

Not necessarily.  Without the risks or challenges, you cannot gain advantage and make a profit.  Business or commerce has no clear concept of safety or risk.  It is only properly perceived in the transformation into opportunity.  There has been a saying "the most risky place is the safest place"!  and now bitcoin has gone through the bubble and made believers rich.

Well, it would depend on the trader too and as long as you learn and understand the ropes with your chosen tool, you can get the best opportunities out of it. For example, new licenses in Gunbot now have access to Gunbot School and there you would learn basics on it, to basically utilize it completely. Hodling is a different kind of scenario because it requires tremendous emotional strength to not sell. Lol.

I just wonder why people like OP are not at all listening to this community but still looking for safest strategy for their trading purposes. When you are coming into trading, there cannot be anything safer; you must need to risk all your capital, time and efforts still there cannot be any assured results. But, holding bitcoin is something a stop for such people. The safer heaven for easy money.

There are hundreds of thousand available but I bet none of them is safe for our capital. Holding is also a kind of strategy but it requires less technical part hence people never accept it as a strategy and never think about to make use of it for multiplying their capital.

Yes and no.  Yes, there are strategies with very low risk – e. g. options premium strategies (Bull call spreads, …).  But: low risk strategies come with lowered profit targets while mid or high risk strategies give a better profit target on higher risk.

But none of these work on the long run without proper money and risk management.  If you've previously lost all, you money- and risk management was lacking.  Take your time to learn how to set entry and exits before you enter the market and learn how to calculate your risk-to-reward before entering the market.  You should never be in a position where a few number of trades can blow your trading account.

There's no such thing as "safe strategy".There are low risk/low profit strategies and high risk/high profit strategies.I wouldn't even call them strategies,because a strategy is more like a plan.
This is just trader tactics.Some traders love taking risks,while others want stability and predictability,combined with low profit margins.
I consider crypto day trading to be riskier than buying Bitcoin/altcoins and HODLing them in the long run.
Buying tokens,issued by new crypto projects is extremely risky.I do not recommend it to newbies traders.

Yes there is, as long you believe on it and you know what you're doing, then it can lower the risk.

Safe strategy is to play long term with the good projects for example on Binance, you'll buy at the bottom price and you wait for its to recover this may not be the safest strategy, but as long as your money is on a good project there's still an assurance that you can make profit.

There is really no such thing as low risk, it all comes down to how you play your game, like one of the things you have to do to reduce your risk is to be trading with small amount that won’t affect your pocket in case things should go wrong, and then you have to be making use of stop loss, although sometimes it can cause you to miss out when the market suddenly goes up again after a dip, that’s why you have to be focused on your trade.

Then you can try Hodl, but you have to be careful of which coins you’re Hodl’ing, and you also have to understand that the market does not go up all the time and also it can take years for another bull run to happen, just like the current bull run, we had to wait for years and some people even gave up. So if you choose to just Hodl, buy at the right time and be ready to hold for a long time.

The safest way is to invest Bitcoin at a lower price, not during Bullrun. Just hold and never trade.

We never think that everything will find just like today and it will continue to rise by tomorrow or in the next few days because that is not the truth. If you come into trading with less knowledge about this place, you often lose no matter how hard you try, and even you choose the best trading platform. We have to know that trading is risky, it is really easy to keep calm and never be emotional but you can't decline such feeling when you are in the real scenario.

A lot of people go long investment on some new project. Mostly those projects don't end up well. Investing in some of top 10 coins will probably make you have good profit. Maybe it wont be x100 but still it's safer investment.

There is nothing that could be called safe strategy. The safest thing you could ever imagine would be DCA purchasing of bitcoin and even that is not guaranteed income. What you should do is divide your money into 20 and then buy it once a day that takes 20 days, you could even do once a week and that takes 20 weeks, and that means you are buying at all prices, downs and ups, and that way you will not be buying at the top but not at the bottom and somewhere around the between levels most of the time.

Choosing bitcoin would be acceptable as well because it is the biggest coin and even though its volatile, it is not as volatile as other coins which could move 50% a day very easily because they have less liquidity. That is why I think it is quite obvious that this is the most "safest" strategy but even doing this you could do it now and then in 5-6 months later it could crash to under 20k and you would lose money.

Every trading involve risk but trading on the first minutes of IEO is more risky because the project team usually manipulate the price and trading on a new exchange listed IEO project when launch trading competition is also risky but the best thing to do is to invest and make some gain and leave early before the big accumulator dump their holding.


Yes, there's low risk strategy and the strategy is to invest more in Bitcoin when there is panic in the market.

If me maybe my safe or in other word how to minimize my losses, is back to spot. Because in spot trading, i still can back up to bought lower if coin that i bought dropped. And then it not really extreme as we trade in future trading. In spot, if we still hold means we not lose yet and i can hold my coins whenever i want.

As long as you are keeping the same amount of those coin, you can recover if the project are really moving project, not just a pump and dump but a usable asset.

Spot trade gives you the freedom to choose either to go long or to cut your losses and try to recover as quick as you can.

At the end of the day, it's all about your understanding nad knowledge, there's no such word safe but you can always
lessen the risk. Your money, your call when it comes to trading.

Perhaps you do refrain from your old strategies, usually the first weeks of newly IEO listing is more unstable and risky than the old ones. The team of it can still control the price by pumping or dumping it.
 
 The market is unpredictable but the safest low risk strategies is trading in a long term with those potential and established coins. With of course good trading plan and setting up your "goal profit" and setting up your "stop loss".

When you are trading the highly potential and established coins then you never need to worry about stop-loss and you can book profits wherever you are comfortable to end your positions. Only very few coins are available with such characteristics and bitcoin must be first one on that list. Obviously when we are trading bitcoin for long-term goals with low leverage or on spot market then that would be coming up with absolutely zero risk like OP asked.

Moreover people like OP are always looking for highly profitable day-trading strategy with low or zero risk. When it comes to frequent-trading then there cannot be any strategy with the low or zero risk. Only time factor will decide your level of risk and when you are ready to hold for long time then the risk slowly is submerging.

Hodling Bitcoin is your safe strategy, because you mentioned as well that you do not want to full-time trade.
Don't do day trading as well. I had risked mine before and it was rough and stressful time management to do.

If you are looking for the safest strategy to earn profit then just hold besides, you have mentioned that you don't want to be a full-time trader so perhaps holding would perfectly fit for you. Or you could have just done the spot trading, buying at a cheap price wait till it goes up and makes a profit then sell. You can hold your coins with no pressure in spot trading so it is less risky than any other type of trading. Investing on top listed coin also reduce the risk of losing your money so you were probably want to stay out from newly created coin as they were riskier.

That is right. But you should have a target price to sell because holding without having a plan when you can sell your bitcoin will not good. You will not take profit if only holding even if you see your bitcoin's value increase from time to time.

Day trading is only for people who have skills and know when they can enter the market with their analysis. But holding will be the best strategy for people who doubt the time to trade because they do not want to lose their money.

None. After entering the crypto currency industry, you are already at risk.
That's how I view it and maybe most of us should. There is no safe place here even with just keeping Bitcoin or Ethereum.
It's all a risk. You just minimize it by keeping everything secure.

How much more when you trade it? You put a risky coin on a risky industry. I guess you know the answer already.

Just focus more on buying the dips...
In my opinion, one of the easiest and safest strategies, would be to focus on buying  significant  dips with small amounts money  (esp money that would've  been spent on things you don't really need ) and sell whenever you need some money for other important things.
This is more profitable from my experience, especially if you focus more on main cryptocurrencies  like Bitcoin

With trading we have no such a thing as safe why because there are several factors that can affect your trade, things like spread affect your trade which from personal experience if you use pending orders they are never activated despite correctly analysing the markets.

Playing it safe is also not good because you would want to wait for trades to start heading your direction which means entering trades late which is as good as using indicators and long term you might have more losers than winners because your risk to reward will be low all because you want to play it safe.

The possibilities of pump and dump is always present in any project, it's the investors who needs to seek for deeper information before investing

to any project, much safer in terms of avoiding being victimized by scam projects if you take time doing your own DYOR.




It's stressful and more on regretful once you've been left behind, you'll keep losing your money once you start chasing the bull and

sell  out during the bear, common mistake of every traders.

The new project only offers immediate benefits based on the trend the market is offering but depth in the future is nonexistent when the ability to compete with old projects is relatively weak, mainly because the economic resources of large projects are not strong enough and will gradually decrease in popularity. Crypto cornerstone projects from the very beginning will have a larger number of customers, and their value and updates are maintained, capital recovery and profit will be very slow because many sources of dumping can affect the project

Yeah instead of looking for a safe strategy, it would be much better to develop our own strategy to minimize risks. If there would be any safe strategy available for trading cryptocurrencies then everyone will be using it which will again lead to no such strategy to be existing. Finding a strategy which will be eliminating/minimizing the risks in crypto trading would be the better strategy to safeguard the capital.

A well-known low risk strategy could be holding for longer duration. Many people are becoming rich just because of holding but for years. You may look at them and you may copy them.

For people who are not very knowledgeable about trading and want to make good profits, holding is the safest strategy. But Hold also requires a high level of patience. The most important thing is to enter at the right time when the price is deep and the amount invested is also quite a lot.

Hold for years will pay off a good profit. Just imagine if you bought bitcoin in 2011 and then held it until now. millions of dollars will be in your hands.

The thing about pump and dump is the fact that anyone can do that, to any coin at all, and that's scary. Even bitcoin could be pumped and dumped by big enough players, if a huge company gets in with 20 billion dollars by buying 100 million dollars worth slowly to not bother the market and moon it, then end up selling all 20 billion in one day, that will be a dump, or they could just buy 20 billion worth, make it go super high, everyone else will see that and join, and they could just sell it all and crash it while making profit from others hype about that.

So basically any coin, at any time, could be pumped and dumped by anyone and that's risky. However we take that risk when we are investing, sure if you pick very high level ones at top 5-10 that would be good for you, but that doesn't mean that you are guaranteed to not get dumped on neither.

I agree that there isn't such thing as safe strategy but you can work towards a strategy to minimise risk. In fact, this is all we can do, reduce the risk never eliminate it entirely.

Holding can be a low risk strategy but I feel that there are so many more people doing the same that the strategy is running out of steam. A prime example of this is Bitcoin, where now many people are holding not selling. For a good market you need a dynamic market and lately too many people are just holding...

Low risk? I would say that buy bitcoin and accumulate while you still can.You had mentioned about 2 or 3 trades per week which does indicate on being a swing trader.I dont see those investment

or trades on IEO's which mostly those project value do drop once gets listed or been started to be traded on a particular exchange.This isnt low risk but rather high.

Even simply holding bitcoin does have big risk because we dont know on whats ahead but basing off into its potential then we are somewhat that  confident unto its capacities.

if you are into crypto trading, treat it as a high risk strategy to earn profits. right now, one that you can consider low risk is just to hold your bitcoin and wait for it to increase its value in the market. however, you can't remove the risk even it is in btc. just be cautious with the market.
with regards to IEO investments, this is a very risky one. as you have no idea how the trading market will react on the project, you are just basing on what is currently happening on its market, and you react from your own instincts as to what may happen next. you should be familiar about the capability of the project. and so i can say, theres no safe strategy when it comes to IEO investments.

Sorry to disappoint you, but there is no such thing as safe strategy. All "strategy" that you will be taking has at least some sort of risk associated with it. If you choose a less risky strategy, you will make small profits, but very slowly. On other hand, if you take high risks, you will may make huge profits in very short amount of time, but you should keep this in mind that you may lose everything within short period of time.
If anyone says that he has a "safe strategy" or "risk free strategy" in trading or any sort of investment, then highly likely he is lying or trying to scam you.

Safe strategy doesnt really exist because if we do make use of safe then its typically talking about 100% no loss.Instead of using the word safe then it would be better if we do talk about less risk.
Risk can be lessen out as you do gain experience and knowledge in the market.Dont rush up on handling out things as you planned because the market doesnt really work that way.
When you are eyeing on exchange listing then pumps what comes next then usually they do drop because people would be buying out on older exchange and when it does
have plans on listing on popular ones then its expecting that it would create some hype and in result they would be selling out once it is available to trade on.

We can't guarantee safety in trading but we can do something to minimize the risk and that by choosing a coin to trade and managing emotions. These are the big factor that could affect our trades and even we have a good and effective strategy but if we are driven by worries that are likely will go nowhere.
Make your trades wise, keep learning, and never get affected by your emotions and in this way, you can make good decisions that could help you to achieve your goal.

There's no such thing as a safe strategy. Having a good strategy, techniques, behaviors, knowledge, and other things related will not guarantee you that you won't lose. Having those factors just makes your winning rate higher and your losing rate less because you are being confident with the decision that you are making. Safe strategy for me is just a sketchy phrase if you use it on trading or any other way of gaining profits like gambling. Everything has a risk!

You can learn how swing trading work, there are so many source for you to learn like in some artickle or even you can buy some book who taking up about swing trading.

Getting money from trading is not an easy way, you can't get money through trading without you don't do anything. You have to learn, the market is so complex you can guess by your logic without an analysis.

Don't be tempted to the profit instant, it will deceive you at first which will eventually lead you to a huge loss. I got an experience like that, getting a profit from trading by my instant analysis, but in the end it made me get a very big loss, especially in futures trading.

Yes, being patience would be safest strategy to overcome all risks in bitcoin markets.
Only people who are in hurry to make themselves rich are going for day trading and burn their fingers.

Safe strategy for low risk in crypto space is available just due to the design aspects of bitcoin whereas in no other markets, such is not available as all other investments opportunists are always subject to market risks but bitcoin is having limited supply and halving to boost its market on every four year.

Simply being patience enough and making use of every dips to buy more are the few things we must need to follow to maximize the opportunity, we are having in bitcoin markets. When focus on maximizing at safer say the risks are getting eliminated in auto mode.

Yes there is. Trade only when there is a bull market and try trading by accumulating more coins instead of trading get more USD. Its less risky depending on the kind of trend. When there is a bear market, I guess this is where you experiment with your futures trading skills by just betting that the price will take a downturn.
Some Bitcoiners are just holding. While its not really trading, its still profitable in the long run.

You seem to have got a first hand experience in IEO and what a scam it is. I hope you spread the word and make others aware as well about the initial coin offering scams that changed names a lot of time. Being a long time user, one can observe the changes with time. ;)

So them offerings are scams, so moving on, Margin trading should not be attempted by newbies - something that I preach anytime one asks me about trading.  How to short and long is something for the ones experienced in it. Newbies will get totally washed or liquidated by it. Dont use the excuse that market is stagnant for two days so I move to margin - No, you are making a mistake there.

Overall safe method if you ask me, long term holding after buying at low. You see the currency price of bitcoin above 62k USD? Think about it, if you bought at 10k USD which was possible towards the end of last year. You would be already at 6x profits. You could sell and book a profit now and it was a safe one.

Think if you would have bought bitcoin back in 2015 when bitcoin was 700$ - today you are at 100x gains.

So dont waste money on ICO/IEO/STO/ITO/Initital Blah blah bullshit. Go for spot trading because margin should only be attempted by those who know about it.

Trading shitcoins, especially new coins hold high risk of losing its value in a day or two after it was launched so it is not the perfect coin for you to because you want to do short term trading. My opinion will be choose bitcoin and other top coins with a stable coin pair so that you can buy low and sell high, you can even opt for price alerts from the coin tracking sites so it will be easier for you to execute trades at perfect time.

There are no safe or  almost risk-free/low-risk trading strategies. You won't find such strategies as they don't exist. Trading comes with a substantial amount of risks. So if you want to get better at trading, you should accept that these could get bigger and no longer safe and that you won't always get those modest gains with no losses. These things are there too. If there are any foolproof low-risk strategies which everyone can adopt, I don't think no one would lose in trading as they will keep winning and making gains but that's not how it works at least not in the market that is constantly evolving.

Yes, there is but not totally safe. Minimizing your amount on stake. In an event of loss, those losses can't hurt your wallet. But on the other hand, in an event of winning, except that it's slow progress even the coin you choose is mooning.

But the question, is that a good strategy? For me, yes if you are in the testing phase. Then soon challenge yourself to manage well a decent amount in trading.

After that loss, stress, exhaustion, etc you will eventually know what's the best strategy to do.

theres no safe strategy but there is low risk strategy .
what you did of trading twice per week is an example of low risk strategy .
 chosing an ieo is supposed to be low risk but have you tried other ieo's and your getting the same negative result ? or dont trade in the first minutes but observed it first to have a better understanding if how the ieo will go ,
 when you do low risk you can expect that the profits you can get is also small and not modest

Of course, there are strategies that are low risk but with low returns as well. Suppose

• Spanning trades to several altcoins that have signs of increase.
• Buy gradually in each support area to prevent big losses when a correction occurs.
• Or change the trading term from scalping or daily to a longer term trade with a more predictable profit target.

Scalping on support area is the best strategy for people who wants to have a low risk strategy. You can still limit the risk by just buying on strong support only but it will surely takes a long time hit strong support but the gain and risk is always worth the wait.

From the little experience am having with trading I don't think there is anything like safe trading when it comes to trading definitely you have to lose money but the amount you have to be losing must be minimal that's why you have to learn about risk management you have to make your lose you have to look for a way to reduce your risk but I don't think there is anything like safe trading. And again if you are trading you have to learn and know how to hold a coin that's the only way which you can reduce your lose and make alort of money but if you can't hold a coin definitely you will always lose money in Cryptocurrency. For example you can buy and hold bitcoin currently because the price is still very low so you can buy and hold and you will never regret.

While you were explaining, you made mention of new ieo project, this new listed project often got spike in the first place after listing, if you haven't gone professional in trading you can loose all your money within some weeks, a simple corrections should happen on the trades before making an entry, avoiding entry at the time of listing is a low risk strategy

Furthermore, trading ones or two is not certain that your trades would be low risk one, the simple strategy that would works better is holding for a long term, that's the lowest risk strategy you can ever made at this period. Try it and have good trading experience.

I would call a safe strategy buying some bitcoin, every time its price makes a thousand usd drop. It is obvious that the price will return to where it was, it is just a matter of time. (Or whales made us used to it).
Why exactly 1000? Because Bitcoin is very volatile and its price goes up and down for hundred bucks every 15min. And drop in price for 1000 and future recovery will make every any investment in Bitcoin be tangible.

Risk only 1% of your capital! That's the lowest and safest strategy you can apply especially on trading in markets such as Margin and Futures. You can use Cross mode with your 1% and even make the leverage to the highest point possible. BUT, always set your own Take Profit price as well as a certain Stop Loss for a price that you can afford to lose. If you would spot trade or swing trade, you can use up to 50% of your capital yet set stop losses near your entry point.

the only way to reduce risks in trading is to sync with a large participant. enter very close to his positions so that volatility does not take your stops

Large participant? do you mean to look out for those traders that have been trading big? it's hard to know and determine if that's the strategy you're saying.
Orders on exchanges are changing from time to time and even if there will huge volumes that you'll see on the buying orders side, you'll never know if that guy is just playing around not unless you've got a lot of time to check it and wait until it fills. But, correct me if I'm wrong with my understanding on what you've explained.

no, I do not mean large orders in the order book. although they can be used for entry accuracy. I mean tools like volume profile and statistics

There are many experts in this forum are always suggesting about buying at dips; and in my opinion also that must be the very safest strategy when we are looking for less risk and maximum profits.

I am sure already many people are following that safe strategy and enjoying big profits. I believe into this community and their suggestions and due to this reason I am profitable today with my initial capital which was small when I was starting here.

Well safe strategy is a sound of a name. But the real word is expertism or experience. Because of his expertism user can generate profit by easily because he know when we should do something? How we should? Because he understand the candle and this is his expertism which he gain from his experienced. Though he can generate profit easily and the other users call it safe strategy because other user saw that he makes profit very easy then users follow his strategy and call this safe strategy. But i don't think there is truely have. Its my opinion others could be different.

There is nothing that can ever be guaranteed in crypto trading. If you look at trends then the safest strategy would be to buy bitcoin or some top altcoins and wait for the price to go up. Buying when the price of a coin is at an all time high is not the wises move because we could have a market crash and you will have to wait a few years to make a profit. It's better to do dollar cost averaging than buying all at once and hoping that the price remains bullish.

Thanks, I thought of your description of participant in that way.

Buying the dip is the strategy that we're always saying but not all of the people that have read it follow. And sometimes we're blamed for that because when someone buys the dip, it keeps dipping.
But for those who have followed it, knows the market and very well understands it. Just like in Doge, I thought that $0.05 was already the peak of it and it will go into a dip first before moving up but no way, it's already $0.18 now.

Trading has a huge difference when we are just holding. However, both of them are at risk but trading is riskier. That is why this is not for everyone because not all of us can afford to do it. And aside from that, trading is not just all about buying now and sell later because technically it requires a deep understanding of the market situation more than that of what we know about holding.

Always the safe strategy could be buying at low and then selling at high; but many people are simply ignoring this because this sounds like very basic and normal as per our regular life incident. But, it is all about holding because buying at cheaper be possible when you will be ready for continuous watching to spot out the possible low price level and this will be true for catching possible ATH as well. So, then we are sticking with basics of trading then that will definitely lead to safe trading.

No need to become too much technical.

Just continue doing trading to become familiar and be used to it. Strategies will be created along the way depends on the situation you are in. You can't just follow other strategies as we have different ways of executing them.

Building experience is the key.

Safety is the most concern to everyone but unfortunately, trading won't guarantee you that. Coz if think about trading, you are also aware of the what we possibly face later or sooner. Risk is a part of this and no matter how careful we are, we can't escape from losses but somehow, there is a way to minimize it depending on our strategy and risk management control.
if we have knowledge in trading, that is a big help but there is no way we to say about "safety assurance".

Safety does mean that you wont be experiencing any losing trades which we know that it is impossible for that to happen. It doesn't exist for sure because dealing with market volatility is already the
factor that would surely mess up your analysis no matter how good it is.

Even professionals or veterans into this market is really still having some hardship on making out profits.

Risk is there but you can really less out the risk if you do know on what you are doing.It is just needing some experience and proper analysis and good emotion handling
for you to sustain this market.

Be a responsible trader where you do your own analysis even if you don’t trade everyday, this can lessen the risk and your strategies might give your more reward this is mu safe strategy, I only buy if its cheap and sold if its expensive already. Work with the good project as well, to ensure good profit and returns.

To be sincere, there's no safe strategy anywhere because every investment strategy in cryptocurrency have its own risk involving this is the reason why new investors are advised to learn more about but it good to have the required knowledge and awareness in making a profitable investment decision that can be used to prevent lost.

Best strategy ever, yeah. Now, being able to determine what's "low" and what's "high" is entirely different story LOL

I hope it was clear enough for OP and for the newcomers who seek safety assurance here as they can't find it. Even expert traders had no escape from this how much more for the beginners.
For you OP, if you can't handle the stress and wanted safety assurance in trading, you'll better not try this thing because you only just be disappointed and that might curse you. Don't bother yourself trying if you were afraid to lose as this is a possible and normal scenario.

If we don't trade, there will be no risk that is what we think but the truth is that, as we are in trading no matter we just trade once a week, we are still in the high-risk.

Traders are risk-takers so better live that way if you want to succeed. Safety strategy? We can never find it here. Choosing a good project could give you a chance to make profit but we can't eliminate the risk. If we wanted not to experience losses, then we have to stop dreaming for becoming a trader.

All I can say is everything in cryptocurrency trading there is always risk involved. But to say say if it is low or high that could be depend on your review I think. So, in my own opinion and views, if you want to trade with a safe strategy choose the coin that has a fast moving price in the chart graph you could surely get a profit by it but of course be careful still in doing it. Good luck :)

I think that there are no safe trading strategies; there is at least a minimal risk in every strategy. If there was a "safe" strategy, then no one would make money on each other by speculation and so on. This is the basis of the trade, the greater the risk, the greater the profit and vice versa.

If not trading is counted then probably it is the safest strategy because sometimes not playing is the safest action, if I were to choose, I would probably hodl my bitcoin instead of risking it in trade where there is an uncertainties and risk involved.

When it comes to "safe" I guess it's "buying & holding" the coins/tokens you believe in the long term! Everything that includes "fast profit" is risky, so risky that you can lose your entire bankroll!

"Safe" also comes with practice! When you practice something long enough, you have more confidence, you know what things to watch for, you are well aware of risks and how to avoid them, so it's safer for you to do "risky" things!

What you call a safe strategy doesn't really provide a 100% guarantee. Once you have bought a cryptocurrency, you are already on the path of risk and may lose your deposit due to circumstances that do not depend on you. And the strategies you've listed can only reduce these risks.

They might be lucky to have that chance but we all know that these people are in trouble during their early days in trading. They might be now in a good situation with the help of their experience. However, they can't deny also that not all the time their trades went successful but I was sure that they also suffer losses.

Buy and Hold are a genuine practice that everyone was doing, but this couldn't give us the guaranteed safe that we are looking for. Many holders did also lose due to the wrong choice of coin.

Honestly people keep talking about how it could be safe, or how it can't be safe but isn't that a bit more about what you understand about safe? I understand that most people talk about "very little risk to lose all your money, even if it means not making a lot of profit" but that is not it for many people who are crazier when they are trading.

I have a friend who throws 50k into any defi he finds these days, he wasn't a rich person about a year ago, he bought about 20k dollars worth of bitcoin when it was around 5-6k and it helped him get richer eventually, but the real thing came when he started to throw money into defi projects, made 2x here and 3x there and 5x something else and suddenly his 20k was over a million dollars, now that dude throws 50k into every defi thinking he could still 2x that, and if he loses to him that is safe because it is "only 50k", that is not the case for most of us.

Seriously? ;D Trading into the first minutes of an IEO looks to you as a safe option? They Generally open at 5-10 times higher price than their issue price, how can you expect it to be a low-risk trade? All the monsters who would have subscribed to the issue run to sell everything they were holding. I don't think there is any low-risk trading strategy until you are willing to deep dive into space. Normally every strategy would have a Risk-Reward ratio of 1:1. To create a low-risk strategy in every trade try to take this ratio to 1:2. 1 times risk for two times the reward. Other than that one good strategy that doesn't always work is buying 24h lows. You just pick the 24h lows from Binance see if the low is backed by a big red candle on the chart and wait for a retracement in an upward direction.

I support what you said because cryptocurrency investment is for those who can take the risk and make use of it to profit themselves but I study the OP question and I think he asks the question out of curiosity so he can know if there's a strategy that would minimize the chance of making losses.

Yes, it’s not advisable to buy when they are just getting into the market, because you’re sure heading for a loss. It’ has become a normal thing for people who are holding tokens to sell them immediately the token lands the market, and that would usually affect the price in that first time it is starting, they all end up crashing to a lower price than what they got into the market with, and if the project is strong they are still going to recover after the drop, but that’s not usually the case for all of them.

I like the strategy you have here, it’s a good strategy and is definitely going to work if one follows it right.

I am not so skilled to suggest you but in my little experience, I can say that there is no safe strategy to trade. If you want to trade safely then you have to aware of the market and get the points of sure risks and never hurry to trade. Don't run to catch high profitable investments if you not properly skilled. All over there are no safe strategy but you have to try to balance the market if you want to minimize risk.

If you want to be safe, then do not entrust your investment to any person or group of people unless you know them well and you know how the strategy is working. I believe in the long run of us having getting more and more experience and knowledge, that's when we start knowing which trading strategy is safer compared to other. DYOR, invest time.

It depends on the person who are into trading on what he personally consider as a "safe strategy" to be so called because we differ on how we strategize our trading to make risk management and make things work out in our favor. But since you are into cryptocurrency trading, expect that there will be no standard strategy to be considered as safe all due to the reason that we are working in a volatile market so decision and strategies may vary depending upon the situation. Also, keep in mind that upon deciding to enter this industry, you must already know that you will be facing risks associated with trading and investment and if you cannot handle such failures and risks, then it must be not meant for you to work on.

Even if you know them well, do not trust anyone with your money because even if they mean well, they could still end up losing money so why should you do something like that.

This is why I think it is going to be obvious that anyone can lose money and if they are your friends, or people you trust, you might give them the money but believe me it is not going to be easy to hear that they lost your money, it happens to best of us, we all lose money, and when you lose your own money that is your own fault and you can be angry at yourself and that is no one's business, but another person losing your money is not easy, that is going to end up being a bit more trouble for you, this is why you should be careful about it.

I am not saying you will get mad at them or do something, but it is still going to hurt more than you would otherwise make a loss yourself.

there are surely safe strategies, as regards bitcoin trading i would suggest you to be a holder than trade per time. per time trading will make you miss alot of opportunity. to me i think trading is more of a full time thing while holding can work for per time. IEO trading on launch day is very risky. its better to allow the dust to settle before you buy, alot of people bought cheap and want to take profit this process will fight to take the price down which is why you shouldnt rush to sell.

Well, I totally agree with you --long-term holding if you will compare in day trading or a full-time trader is very far different. Holding is the most secure way to gain profit while investing and of course, never take an action such as selling if your profit was not there. But the problem is there is no specific date of time when you will sell your asset. But for me, every coin in crypto even altcoins has its own new ATH, so in other words, there are possibilities that gaining profit on holding assets is a very effective way and perhaps for me, that is the safe strategy ever.

Correct, this is a risk based speculation market. You bear the risk and reap a reward in case you make the right move. Risk can reduced by doing research and timing your buy/sell but it cannot be made zero.

Profitable investments dont come just like that. Rather they grow with time and most people fail realize it before it goes out of hand. Just like Bitcoin when it was three digits and today it is five digits in price.

Awareness in the market is good, but knowing when to buy and sell are important too. Someone going in at long term need to target a very low price comparing with the last few years charts to determine support/resistance levels. This basic homework is essential for a trader or investor.

Even with altcoins, the awareness in the market and day trading aspects are very much real. They are more risky then bitcoin, profitable of course but chances of one getting washed out is way more.

safe strategy you can apply classic strategies that exist today. choose a low-risk coin such as bitcoin buy at the lowest price and hold it until the price has increased, then sell at the high price. it is the most effective strategy today and the safest ever

There is still a safe strategy but not a huge income, you just need to buy and sell, the example you buy some amount of bitcoin at $55k then sell it when the price goes up to $55k above but make sure that it also covers the transaction fees so you wouldn't waste the profit in paying the transaction fee, that is not too profitable but that is really safe.

So easy to say but hard to do since there are so many people doing it but unfortunately they get burn when market collapsed and sudden market phase change. Maybe the best strategy for now is not to become greedy and be settle to your low gains since if you do thia and stick to your plan you might get a lot of profits from trading.

Well, definetely there is no 100% riskless strategy. What matters I think  is to minimize your risk as much as possible while taking the return you aim into account. Golden advices are: Excellent risk&money management, making your plan real good before trade every details and possible scenarios, entering/exiting plan and stick to your plan at the very end of the trade. Sounds easy but it is quite hard and what is called as trading discipline and it requires time, experience and patience to master it.

Simple and very effective strategy but many don't want to listen and follow that strategy because they think that it's a wrong strategy. It's very common to see people buying bitcoin and holding it until the price goes up.
Like its price today that it's down below $50k, this is a good price for somebody to buy bitcoin and wait until its price goes above the buying price and you decide to sell or keep holding.

I think the most safest strategy is  begin holding with topn5 crypto currencies in coinmarketcap,in that way it is secure that your investment would be stable and it will be slightly pump or dump but the important thing is you dont lose lot of money. Stability of coin like eth or btc something like that.

Long holding is best strategy. Holding a coin for couple of years is safest investment. And if you pick some of top10 coins then it's safest possible option.

It couldn't have been better said, when someone puts their investment in Bitcoin all they have to do is follow the price, and have the peace of mind and patience so as not to panic, because when Bitcoin has very strong corrections or falls, the news is very strong, almost that they say that it will reach zero (0), in these cases we must remember that bitcoin, unlike the Stock Market, usually takes about 3 years to be in trend, of course it is not a metric to follow but if consider, since in the first cycle of Bitcoin the accumulation stage lasted around 2014 to 2017 ...

There is still a great opportunity to enter the market and win by buying, because according to PlanB, this is not the end of the bullish trend, there is still a long way to go and the goal is to reach $ 288k. A nice read here: https://cryptopotato.com/this-was-not-the-top-of-bitcoins-2021-bull-run-according-to-planb/ (https://cryptopotato.com/this-was-not-the-top-of-bitcoins-2021-bull-run-according-to-planb/)

For me, the safest strategy is to buy and hold. However, if you are looking for a safe strategy in cryptocurrency trading, sad to say that there's none. There are risks involved, in which you need to acknowledge it. Risk management is necessary, and we have to acknowledge it fully. Only invest and trade what we can afford to lose, because in reality, there is no perfect strategy in cryptocurrency trading. Even the pros are not perfect, as they are making mistakes in their decisions from time to time as well.

True, when bitcoin falls, news is coming with negative articles and headlines which creates fear and panic mostly for the newbies. They just go with the flow and anyone who reads that news will be in that situation to think that he should go in a panic.
I hope that $288k is really going to be the peak for this bull run.

That strategy doesn't make you rich beyond your wildest dreams, however 150x leveraging on buy for BTT coin will make you super rich!!! Or maybe it will make you lose all your money. I have seen the news of a guy who sold his house and put it on bitcoin at 100x leverage recently, dude killed himself, that is the market we are in right now, people are not after healthy and safe investment strategies, they are after finding that ONE thing where they do it and for the rest of their lives they are so rich that they could live without ever caring about money.

That is not possible unfortunately, sure some people may get lucky and do it but most people can't do it, and that is why most people end up losing more money than they could ever afford. It is not about not knowing what's safe, it is about not wanting to be safe and wanting to take huge risks and end up poor.

Why would I buy a coin that I don't like and put myself into leverage if I'm not really good at it. I don't intend to be rich with that strategy and if I'll be wanting it, I'll go with the slow process but with more assurance throughout the strategy that I've come up with.
If it's just about a safe strategy, holding is the best option.

With this bull season some people think that leveraged trading can make them rich quickly. Most of them just dive into it without knowing the proper strategies to do it so they just lose in the end when correction happens. This is the reason why some people got liquidated when flash crash happened few days ago. They didn't set their stop-losses and risk more than 10% of their capital. Leveraged trading is not a quick-rich scheme so if you are a newbie I suggest only trade on spot first. Learn the fundamentals of trading, apply it on spot and once you get the proper strategy then you can start applying it on leverage trading.

Holding can't be considered a strategy for me. If you are only holding then you are not a trader but instead, you are an investor.

Price correction in this market and a move into consolidation are very common things. we have to play safe in order to survive longer as well as making portfolio bigger. To figure out how to successful trade and become an effective crypto trader then we need to connect with a specialist trader. Yet, risk management is important and invest that much you can afford to lose. Since none one is perfect.

There are, of course, strategies with a low level of risk, but many novice traders will most likely not like it. After all, a low level of risk implies a low profit. In addition, trading with a low market is boring to many. It's more like investing. And investing correctly is a very boring business. Boring, monotonous occupation. And newcomers do not come to the market for this. Often, beginners need not so much profit as emotions, exciting sensations, adrenaline. Therefore, they tend to use margin trading. And margin trading sooner or later leads 99% of traders to drain the depot on a long-term basis.

- Prediction is a subject of randomness and probability, this subject means that all problems can happen and cannot include absolute in it, so no matter what strategy we use, the rope associated with risk can never be cut, when we have entered this course, investors and traders can only accept this special feature and minimize risks by empirical and analytical methods. I do not focus on a certain strategy, flexibility is almost the criterion for me to receive a lot of security and avoid threats from the market.

It's a misunderstanding if that's what they think about this bull run. It looks like it's pumping everything but looks can be deceiving if that's the strategy that they're looking at.
Those investors that are diving without doing research are the ones that are crying at the end after learning that they've wrongly invested to a coin that they've rode through hype.

You mean that we need to get recommendations and tips from professional traders so that we can sustain as a successful trader? I don't think that is necessary; when we are good at technical analysis then we can generate our own signal which will be more than enough for being successful in crypto trading.

Just being long-term holder definitely get you big profits and I believe in that case also you do not need any technical skill still you can be a profitable trader in long run and without any help from professional traders as well. The only safe trading in crypto space I know must be long term holding of bitcoin.

There is no safest strategy for trading, you can only optimize losses and minimize risks for a particular strategy. One piece of advice, it is better for all beginners not to meddle in futures at first, because of inexperience I flew there and started spending my hard-earned money that I earned on the spot.

@cryptodude what's with a reserve message? this thread isn't a bounty where we mostly see reserve posts.

That's a mistake if a newbie gets on it too early. They're being attracted to the profit of experts on it but in reality, it's a hard trade to commence.

safe strategy? what do you mean avoid loss?
there is no safe strategy in trading. even though in the IEO / ICO you still have the risk of loss. the most important thing is how we manage our assets properly, think about something positive about our investment, if the investment we make will have a large profit. This is a logical strategy that usually works because it encourages us to be more confident in managing our assets

if you really want to know save strategy You should read about risk management. It will help you a lot.
For example if you starting from 100$ and lose 30% you get 70$. Then you win 35% and you get 94.5$. Just try to use not real money and after takin positive experience and profit, change them to real.

Futures/margin trading is highly dangerous even for experienced traders. Because, even all well tested strategies will get failed there more frequently as high leverage will nullify your plans against any of unpredictable sudden market fluctuations. So, looking for safe strategy for margin trading definitely ending up in vain; do not waste your time for innovating a safe strategy for margin trading.

Yeah most newbie traders are getting failed when they are trying to copy what professional traders are doing after years of experiences. We must try only for what is capable based on our capital and experience and trying for anything beyond that might lead to losing capital.

Spot should be good enough both for newbies and experienced traders. Because of greed and the goal to take a shortcut path and earn some more, many newbies are losing themselves and their money as well because they're not well prepared and lack of experience through futures which is very risky at all.

To some degree, yes
But eventually, you have to do your own research and make the decision

Its not strategy that you are using as a trading. We can say it as investment on btc. It is always a good idea to invest on bitcoin we can hope always thay we will get a huge return on future for sure yes it could be safe strategy.

I think OP needs a lot of knowledge and experience in order the reduce the risk to determine the safe strategies that applicable to the graph. Applying risk management, 1% of the total capital is the right choice especially for the beginners. Being patience and not allowing emotion ruled your trading can also affect our decision, so we also need to develop it for safe trading. Choosing the low-risk token such as BTC, ETH and other tokens that are present in the market not tokens that not yet even listed have high risk.

There is no strategy like 100% safe. Everywhere has some risk sometime it's lower, and sometime it's high risky. But some of you habit/experience can reduce the risk to lower. For example

1. If you are a panic trader then you have a high risk in your trading life. So change it to be patience always in trading.
2. Greediness- This is very important in trading. The more you greedy the more you have risk.
3. Don't try something you don't know more about that
4. Always take care of you money.

High risk investment like this mostly caught those newbies, thinking that they can easily gain from this business.

Without proper practice and trainings  chances of losing your first investment is very high, there are lots of combinations that you can use while dealing with this business, as long as you are willing to take charge and you are aware with the possibilities no safer than knowing your place and all the factors that affects your activities.

Safe strategy in trading? I think "Buy low Sell high" then have more patience if the market doesn't work according to your buy and sell order to avoid loses.   But if you trade a token without value or don't have a future then even you have patience, you will surely get lose. But honestly, there is no such word "Safe Strategy" in trading because it was risky specially if you don't have enough knowledge and experience in doing trade.

The futures is a high risk thing for everybody not only to the newbies. The mindset that crypto has brought to everyone is to think that it's a place to make easy money.
There are more opportunities that have been thought through it because they've seen others became successful on it.

There is no universal safe strategy. It all depends on the state of the market.
For example, in a bear market, it is much more profitable to sell all coins immediately after receiving, but in a bull market this strategy does not work because many coins rise in price at an amazing rate. Personally, out of habit, I sold coins right away and lost a lot of profit.

In a way, yes there can be a 'safe strategy' but it depends on many things such as the stage at which you invest, the terms of that investment (these are typical for private investing), the market you invest, the team and community building that market etc. So from an investing point of view there can be something similar to this, though not completely 100% safe.

In trading, this is a different matter and would only work in very specific circumstances like for instance when you have some early insider info on a market. But from a sole trader point of view, it is indeed difficult (though not entirely impossible) to have such thing. It all depends on where you're coming from and when you're coming in.

But I guess that we have a safe trading method for bitcoin trading; that is long term holding. You may assume it is universally accepted as I do see almost all crypto people have accepted it as an efficient way of making easy profits in crypto space.

Long term holding way of trading will nullify all state of the markets as we are not having any stop-loss or any limit for getting liquidated. So, simply we can continue holding as long as we have satisfied profits. This is corely based on bitcoin's deflation nature hence over the time, we will get auto-pilot profits.