Altcoin investing vs Altcoin trading

[TheAwkwardBrit]

I personally prefer to hodl coins that I believe will have a great future and have a great community built up around them. I especially like those that already have real world use cases.

Sometimes I do short term trades too if all the signs are pointing to a coin being pumped, but I try not to do this very often as it is more stressful than buying and hodling. When I buy and hodl I feel confident because I have done a lot of research into that coin/token before I decided to invest in it.

[Yuhee]

I more prefer to trade and holding altcoins to make some profit everyday. Investing money on ICO or etc have big chance to get a loss.

no one can predict both about trading or investment. you have to take the risky and i will suggest you to invest in altcoin, but need to do study first where you are going to invest you money, because there are so many coin which are dead and investing their mean just wasting money and time.

Agreed and i think observance and keen reading  about altcoins is better. Even if it  a risk better be smart about it. A lot of projects are also appearing and we should pay attention to them. This is not the olden times where there are a lot of try and errors for investors and traders. It is not a waste of time and money if it is in the right place ar the right time.

[ranman09]

I more prefer to trade and holding altcoins to make some profit everyday. Investing money on ICO or etc have big chance to get a loss.

no one can predict both about trading or investment. you have to take the risky and i will suggest you to invest in altcoin, but need to do study first where you are going to invest you money, because there are so many coin which are dead and investing their mean just wasting money and time.

Agreed and i think observance and keen reading  about altcoins is better. Even if it  a risk better be smart about it. A lot of projects are also appearing and we should pay attention to them. This is not the olden times where there are a lot of try and errors for investors and traders. It is not a waste of time and money if it is in the right place ar the right time.

Hi may I just ask.. what do we exactly do in investing altcoins? We buy and then what? Store it somewhere?

[ranreichman]

imo trading is much riskier than simply investing. Trading stocks profitably is very hard and crypto isn't different. On the other hand, holding forever is pretty strong if crypto will become much bigger. Hence, hodl.

[Prodigan786]

I am doing both trading as well as holding for long time . Based on my opinion if it is not your main source of income then invest and hold for long or short time till you get your target profit . Before you invest fix the target profit once you get greedy there is chances of loosing money also.

[CoinCollector006]

I have read lots and lots of stories here on bitcointalk about traders that regret selling BTC or NEM or STRATIS after or some other token after a 20% to 40% gain and missed the opportunity for a 10x or 100x gain. So now I am much more careful about selling out completely out of a name even if I feel the coin is fully valued.

Recently I sold 80% of my Antshares (ANS) recently for a 20x gain and kept the remaining 20% in case it continues to appreciate. I mentioned in a previous post an investor that sold 6,000 shares of Ether at 12 and missed the run all the way to 400.

I just saw a question by ranman09 what do you do with the coins?

Well, it depends on the coin

1. BTC - use some of it to buy junior low market cap coins
2. STEEM - use some of it in my steem blog to increase the value of my uproots
3. DOGE - use it to test out new exchanges, send funds back and forth, make sure i can pull the money back out

[ryanben]

if you're a trader you should know that trading is profitable fast but there very high risk. When long-term investment it will reduce the level of risk if you do not have the skills

[Coffee2015]

I bought some coins for long, real HODLR.
This coins are within big 5.

I trade some other coins to push it.

I do really hope that we would have other backbones,
3-5 more coins?

It is not good if we only have BTC.

Is there a way for other coin,
Lets pump it!

We need another backbone

[HardFireMiner]

Trade altcoins ONLY with stop loss. ANY altcoin, can go to 0$ in 1 day! Exceptions may be LTC, XMR, Sia.

[FractalUniverse]

Trade altcoins ONLY with stop loss. ANY altcoin, can go to 0$ in 1 day! Exceptions may be LTC, XMR, Sia.

..and the exact reason why it can go to zero (clear whole order book) is that people are using stop losses  

[sujonali1819]

I has been tradding since 5-6 month.when i was a newbie in tradding i try to panic sell when dumping price.but now i accuired little experience about tradding and try to research before buy.if price dump hold them tightly. i think holding is more profitable than day tradding.

[Taskford]

Just simple trades with altcoin not holding. I don't really trust altcoins for long term investment. Holding them would not be ethical as they have tendancy to dump themselves at any time in the period. What if you have held some altcoins and they start dumping immediately, that would be your complete loss. Most of the dumped altcoins don't gain the value as devs won't go for future development sometimes. It's just possibly the case.

Yes to altcoin trading.
Holding in long term of altcoin is somehow risky like you never know when its downfall.
Just trading every now and then is much accepted like HODL. You can see if you're earning or not. Then you can do something about it.

[Rhosadah]

When you want to make a profit in no time. Buy when on the cheap and sell at a profit gain above 5% and if you want to generate big profits above 15% will take longer. Start investing with lots of short-term coins at a slight risk of loss.

[danipay]

Both are almost as risky.
But if we invest in altcoin the risk of losing everything is very high.
Not same in altcoin trading, the worst risk is only lose half the capital we have.
what do you wanna go choose?

[nasipadang]

Do you trade altcoins regularly or buy and hold them? Which is more profitable?

I think altcoin trade is more profitable because the rapidly changing price,to hold altcoin for long-term is very risky because altcoin is not like bitcoin, and very difficult to survive because there is many of altcoin can more potential

[Ahimoth]

Do you trade altcoins regularly or buy and hold them? Which is more profitable?

I think altcoin trade is more profitable because the rapidly changing price,to hold altcoin for long-term is very risky because altcoin is not like bitcoin, and very difficult to survive because there is many of altcoin can more potential

Altcoin investing and trading is sometimes tricky. We never know when its pump and dump so I also think trading some part of your altcoin is safer than hodl. Just be careful what altcoin you gonna choose, do some readings. Use altcoin that have potential in short term trading.

[Humanxlemming]

There were a lot of people I knew investing on different Alternative Currencies that exists in this kind of community. And some of them succeed by following the charts on when that particular alt will go down. Because they have a rule to buy low and sell it high. Some people are investing on xem for long term. Well me I'm just a newbie and I'm only starting to learn this things little by little.

[Asimmo]

If you believe in currency`s huge potential in any time soon, better not to trade it..
But it`s general approach..

[cryptomartin]

I think there should be balance between trading and investing. You can divide your portfolio in 70/30. 70% you use for investing and long term holding and 30% you use for trading and make daily income for a living. That is my vision.

[Kema]

investing is letting the money work for you. Trading is you working for the money.