What is the minimum amount to start as a trader?

[outatime1]

Some of the exchanges have a minimum amount to trade but it is very low.  You can make vary small trades with fees that are a percentage of the principal.

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[JeffBrad12]

Being successful in trading doesn't depends either small or big amount that you will invest. As long as you know how to make a successful trade then it will be fine. Trading is risky but you can minimize it if you let your self study and learn the process.

Yes, that is the reason there is no common thumb rule on minimum capital amount requirement for a successful trading. A skilled trader will manage into maximum profits from small initial capital itself. But, we are here discussing about new traders, for them some less than $50 would be enough capital for both bitcoin trading and altcoin trading.

I am glad I had started my trading even less then $50. I just invested 0.1 BTC when bitcoin prices was trading around $240. It means I managed to be successful with my trading with less then $25 as trading capital.

I am still sticking with only altcoin trading and I do not prefer to go for bitcoin/usd trading as it might require more capital amounts. I'm just making my own technical analysis, that might be the prime reason I have survived with my minimum capital amount.

as i am too good in gambling therefore i will like to invest my bitcoin in gambling, although people are thinking that gambling is one of the most diffcult way of making money but still i have fully confidence on myself that i can make money in gambling, as i have some good skill of gambling and the important factor is that i am a lucky person ans have already made good profit.

That depends on what you mean by investing in gambling, if you mean investing in a casino bankroll then make sure you spread your investment among several casinos so if one of those casino disappears then you don't lose all your money, on the other hand if what you mean is that you want to gamble then that is very difficult and most likely you are going to lose all your money.

Bankroll was meaning you agree for join in the bet area.
Which means, totally isn't different like gamble your money in the casino.
Bet/gamble = Casino
Bankroll = Casino

What's the different?
The both is visible similarly for me.

[serjent05]

Being successful in trading doesn't depends either small or big amount that you will invest. As long as you know how to make a successful trade then it will be fine. Trading is risky but you can minimize it if you let your self study and learn the process.

Yes, that is the reason there is no common thumb rule on minimum capital amount requirement for a successful trading. A skilled trader will manage into maximum profits from small initial capital itself. But, we are here discussing about new traders, for them some less than $50 would be enough capital for both bitcoin trading and altcoin trading.

I am glad I had started my trading even less then $50. I just invested 0.1 BTC when bitcoin prices was trading around $240. It means I managed to be successful with my trading with less then $25 as trading capital.

I am still sticking with only altcoin trading and I do not prefer to go for bitcoin/usd trading as it might require more capital amounts. I'm just making my own technical analysis, that might be the prime reason I have survived with my minimum capital amount.

as i am too good in gambling therefore i will like to invest my bitcoin in gambling, although people are thinking that gambling is one of the most diffcult way of making money but still i have fully confidence on myself that i can make money in gambling, as i have some good skill of gambling and the important factor is that i am a lucky person ans have already made good profit.

That depends on what you mean by investing in gambling, if you mean investing in a casino bankroll then make sure you spread your investment among several casinos so if one of those casino disappears then you don't lose all your money, on the other hand if what you mean is that you want to gamble then that is very difficult and most likely you are going to lose all your money.

I agree, different casino have different performance.  As the saying said, never put your egg in one basket, putting your investment in different casino will more like give you a better and secure investment because when one casino does not perform well you have other investment in other casino back you up.

[Dudeperfect]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

[Oilacris]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

Starting on small amounts would be the ideal move when you do tend to engage trading for the first time because if you decided to put up directly huge amounts,for sure that money will be gone in an gradual way.Knowledge and experience would be the key to be successful on trading and we all know that its not an easy thing because doing trading is not just buying low selling high thing.It requires analysis and experience which you could able to gain when you are trading up for a matter of time.

[Positid]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

Starting on small amounts would be the ideal move when you do tend to engage trading for the first time because if you decided to put up directly huge amounts,for sure that money will be gone in an gradual way.Knowledge and experience would be the key to be successful on trading and we all know that its not an easy thing because doing trading is not just buying low selling high thing.It requires analysis and experience which you could able to gain when you are trading up for a matter of time.

Every trader must start from small amount to ensure the lessen or loses, you will be gambling if you start with a bigger amount as you do not have the right experience and knowledge that will give you more chance of success in the future.

[carlfebz2]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

Starting on small amounts would be the ideal move when you do tend to engage trading for the first time because if you decided to put up directly huge amounts,for sure that money will be gone in an gradual way.Knowledge and experience would be the key to be successful on trading and we all know that its not an easy thing because doing trading is not just buying low selling high thing.It requires analysis and experience which you could able to gain when you are trading up for a matter of time.

Every trader must start from small amount to ensure the lessen or loses, you will be gambling if you start with a bigger amount as you do not have the right experience and knowledge that will give you more chance of success in the future.

Indeed, placing small amounts on every trade would be ideal step since you are just starting and learning on trading because if you put huge amounts the risk of losing it all is high since you don't have enough knowledge into it that's why better not to rush into trading it would really takes time to learn it and if you already got the ways and techniques and you see you are already profitable with it then that's the time you will put big amounts.

[X-ray]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

Starting on small amounts would be the ideal move when you do tend to engage trading for the first time because if you decided to put up directly huge amounts,for sure that money will be gone in an gradual way.Knowledge and experience would be the key to be successful on trading and we all know that its not an easy thing because doing trading is not just buying low selling high thing.It requires analysis and experience which you could able to gain when you are trading up for a matter of time.

Every trader must start from small amount to ensure the lessen or loses, you will be gambling if you start with a bigger amount as you do not have the right experience and knowledge that will give you more chance of success in the future.

trading with such a big amount of money at the first time is not wrong either because they have the right and if they've been learning from few books and course there will not going to be a problem. you will bear the different circumstance if you're trading with big amount rather then low amount and you may get different experience

[Dudeperfect]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

Starting on small amounts would be the ideal move when you do tend to engage trading for the first time because if you decided to put up directly huge amounts,for sure that money will be gone in an gradual way.Knowledge and experience would be the key to be successful on trading and we all know that its not an easy thing because doing trading is not just buying low selling high thing.It requires analysis and experience which you could able to gain when you are trading up for a matter of time.

Every trader must start from small amount to ensure the lessen or loses, you will be gambling if you start with a bigger amount as you do not have the right experience and knowledge that will give you more chance of success in the future.

trading with such a big amount of money at the first time is not wrong either because they have the right and if they've been learning from few books and course there will not going to be a problem. you will bear the different circumstance if you're trading with big amount rather then low amount and you may get different experience

Yes absolutely, everyone has a right to choose any amount to start the trade with but since it is very first time, the chances of losing initial capital are more and thus it is necessary to defend capital at initial stage. One can learn a lesson by losing 10K but it is not necessary to lose 10K to learn that lesson, one can learn it by losing 1K too and even earning profits in some cases.

[Blackdeath]

What is the minimum amount to start as a trader?

In my trading site, the minimum is 10k sats.
Yet, it depends on you how much you want to deposit.
Bigger deposit bigger chance of profit but bigger chance of risk.

[Xenophoto]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

1,000 satoshi? You must be kidding. That's even less than the minimum amount per transaction in trading sites. Remember that trading is an investment too and I don't think 1,000 satoshi is a reasonable amount of capital in investment. You can't even get $1 out of your pocket? 1,000 satoshi is just one claim away from faucet sites. 1,000 satoshi wouldn't get you somewhere even if the price of the altcoin you bought goes 100x (which is very unlikely).

[Kotone]

What is the minimum amount to start as a trader?

I start trading at the amount of 0.03 because of coins are expensive but if you can manage your coins but spliting them up you can make a good comeback of your bitcoins because no one teach me on how to trade i find a ways on how i can really manage trading by my own strategies.

[Dudeperfect]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

1,000 satoshi? You must be kidding. That's even less than the minimum amount per transaction in trading sites. Remember that trading is an investment too and I don't think 1,000 satoshi is a reasonable amount of capital in investment. You can't even get $1 out of your pocket? 1,000 satoshi is just one claim away from faucet sites. 1,000 satoshi wouldn't get you somewhere even if the price of the altcoin you bought goes 100x (which is very unlikely).

No, I am not. One can start trading with 1000 satoshi but you are forgetting one most important thing and that is platform. Trading not always means buying and selling bitcoins on a particular website (that’s the traditional method). Trading has very large scope and that includes trading on open platforms where there are no third party fees, buying with one payment and selling with many platforms. One must be innovative, prompt and capable of taking risks, that’s what trading is all about in my opinion.

[richardsNY]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

1,000 satoshi? You must be kidding. That's even less than the minimum amount per transaction in trading sites. Remember that trading is an investment too and I don't think 1,000 satoshi is a reasonable amount of capital in investment. You can't even get $1 out of your pocket? 1,000 satoshi is just one claim away from faucet sites. 1,000 satoshi wouldn't get you somewhere even if the price of the altcoin you bought goes 100x (which is very unlikely).

No, I am not. One can start trading with 1000 satoshi but you are forgetting one most important thing and that is platform. Trading not always means buying and selling bitcoins on a particular website (that’s the traditional method). Trading has very large scope and that includes trading on open platforms where there are no third party fees, buying with one payment and selling with many platforms. One must be innovative, prompt and capable of taking risks, that’s what trading is all about in my opinion.

I honestly haven't heard of a platform (aside from altcoins) where you are allowed to trade with amounts as low as 1000 satoshi's. Can you name up a platform where you're allowed to trade with amounts that low? Not that I am going to use it, but just to see what their terms are when it comes to executing orders that small.

[Dudeperfect]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

1,000 satoshi? You must be kidding. That's even less than the minimum amount per transaction in trading sites. Remember that trading is an investment too and I don't think 1,000 satoshi is a reasonable amount of capital in investment. You can't even get $1 out of your pocket? 1,000 satoshi is just one claim away from faucet sites. 1,000 satoshi wouldn't get you somewhere even if the price of the altcoin you bought goes 100x (which is very unlikely).

No, I am not. One can start trading with 1000 satoshi but you are forgetting one most important thing and that is platform. Trading not always means buying and selling bitcoins on a particular website (that’s the traditional method). Trading has very large scope and that includes trading on open platforms where there are no third party fees, buying with one payment and selling with many platforms. One must be innovative, prompt and capable of taking risks, that’s what trading is all about in my opinion.

I honestly haven't heard of a platform (aside from altcoins) where you are allowed to trade with amounts as low as 1000 satoshi's. Can you name up a platform where you're allowed to trade with amounts that low? Not that I am going to use it, but just to see what their terms are when it comes to executing orders that small.

When I said platform, it means an opportunity and not any particular website or exchange. For an example if someone wants bitcoin in exchange of some other stuff (altcoin or usd in sites like paypal or payoneer) then we can take 10% to 50% extra margin for rendering service (let’s assume both of them are Bitcointalk members) and thus there will be no third party fees so in this case platform is an opportunity not traditional exchange websites.

[ipanks]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

Starting on small amounts would be the ideal move when you do tend to engage trading for the first time because if you decided to put up directly huge amounts,for sure that money will be gone in an gradual way.Knowledge and experience would be the key to be successful on trading and we all know that its not an easy thing because doing trading is not just buying low selling high thing.It requires analysis and experience which you could able to gain when you are trading up for a matter of time.

Every trader must start from small amount to ensure the lessen or loses, you will be gambling if you start with a bigger amount as you do not have the right experience and knowledge that will give you more chance of success in the future.

i agree with and this is what i do in my first time trading and i remember that i only use 0.003 btc to buy xem and waiting for a daily before i decide to sell it and get my first profit. its a good experience for me and i think almost trader will have this experience.

[Dudeperfect]

1,000 satoshis are enough for some traders to make profits and some people lose their money even in the scale of 1 to 10 bitcoins, yes don’t get surprised. A trader is a person who analyzes the market condition and trade according to it. You should invest your time first in order to start the trade instead of putting money first. Gain experience with small amount trades and then eventually increase your capital. You can start trade with any amount you wish, good luck.

Starting on small amounts would be the ideal move when you do tend to engage trading for the first time because if you decided to put up directly huge amounts,for sure that money will be gone in an gradual way.Knowledge and experience would be the key to be successful on trading and we all know that its not an easy thing because doing trading is not just buying low selling high thing.It requires analysis and experience which you could able to gain when you are trading up for a matter of time.

Every trader must start from small amount to ensure the lessen or loses, you will be gambling if you start with a bigger amount as you do not have the right experience and knowledge that will give you more chance of success in the future.

i agree with and this is what i do in my first time trading and i remember that i only use 0.003 btc to buy xem and waiting for a daily before i decide to sell it and get my first profit. its a good experience for me and i think almost trader will have this experience.

It’s always great to learn a process step by step because we get to explore things in layers and that helps us to understand things and how it works. I always focus on gaining practical knowledge and when I started trading or peer to peer lending, I started with the lowest required amount and then eventually increased the amounts over the period of time. Such practice helps me to learn the things in deep and this is my personal approach and anyone can have totally different opinion and I respect that too.

[hurain]

Being successful in trading doesn't depends either small or big amount that you will invest. As long as you know how to make a successful trade then it will be fine. Trading is risky but you can minimize it if you let your self study and learn the process.

Yes, that is the reason there is no common thumb rule on minimum capital amount requirement for a successful trading. A skilled trader will manage into maximum profits from small initial capital itself. But, we are here discussing about new traders, for them some less than $50 would be enough capital for both bitcoin trading and altcoin trading.

I am glad I had started my trading even less then $50. I just invested 0.1 BTC when bitcoin prices was trading around $240. It means I managed to be successful with my trading with less then $25 as trading capital.

I am still sticking with only altcoin trading and I do not prefer to go for bitcoin/usd trading as it might require more capital amounts. I'm just making my own technical analysis, that might be the prime reason I have survived with my minimum capital amount.

and specially if you  are a newbie in trading then you must start trading with a very very little amount of bitcoin as you first need to get some experience about trading and then you can go for good trading.

[starmman]

Best to start small and trade with a couple of million satoshis to get used to the markets and minimise risk, when you get comfortable then you can always scale up - I've taken that approach and am doing pretty well so far.

[traderethereum]

Best to start small and trade with a couple of million satoshis to get used to the markets and minimise risk, when you get comfortable then you can always scale up - I've taken that approach and am doing pretty well so far.

i think we can start with 0.001 btc for minimum amount for first time and after we can make profit, then we can increase our trading amount and start again until we have make profit. we do this over and over until we have a big profit in one time trading but its need a time to get big profit and its need many experience for this. better to get stable profit with the small until medium amount to make the profit.