trading vs holding

[kuronokishi10]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

[enawati]

This is depend on the skill, time and emotion that you have, now price of Bitcoin bullish trend so will be more risky if to do trading. But if you really want to trade for the better do short trading by taking profit 10%-20% especially altcoin that paired with BTC so will be more safe than longterm trading because price of Bitcoin up trend. And use maksimum 20% of total Bitcoin , this is will be less risk.

[13abyknight]

When it comes to Bitcoin, holding is obviously the better choice as it is looking unstoppable as it almost near the five figure mark. The future looks promising with the holders being rewarded massively for their perseverance and determination.

With altcoins, it is a complete different scenario. The current day is run by a lot of pump and dump groups which are big threats to the actual development of the project. Holding could be considered decent if the project has potential, otherwise the best bet would be to trade.

[Parodium]

The simplest solution is to do both, set aside a small fraction for trading, around 20% of your total investment and use that for trading, and hold the rest.

[dg2010]

In my opinion, with Bitcoin, you should not prepare anystrategy. Just buying it and holding in the long time. You will get huge profit

[phreakk]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

Hodl'ing if you:
-Like being lazy
-Don't want to spend a lot of time researching and trading
-Just want some easy profits
-Are unskilled in trading
-Have a small budget

Trading if you:
-Like being active in the cryptoworld
-Don't mind spending a lot of time researching and trading
-Like working for your money
-Are skilled in trading
-Have a large budget

Note that a large budget is preferred for hodl'ing as well, but if you trade with a very low budget, you're probably not gonna make a lot of money. Whilst you have made a lot of money if you just HODL'd Bitcoin from the start with just $10, you probably wouldn't be a millionaire now if you traded that $10.

[undeadbitcoiner]

Holding: If you want to be on safe side and don't want to play any risk game,
Trading: If you want to do some research and have some skill, Trading is always a risk part you have to be prepared to loose or gain

Suggestion: If you have 2BTC than my suggestion is hold 1 Bitcoin and Trade 1 Bitcoin with good research you might gain 1 to 10 Btc with trading while you are holding 1 btc you can just expect Bitcoin price to go up and up but while you are making extra Bitcoin from your trading than you can expect price going up and also your Bitcoin going up from your trading. Plan and to Trading always do some research while buying alt-coins there are few alt-coins with very good development and potential so if you invest on those coin you can assure either price drops for those coins because of bitcoin price skyrocketing still good coins will gain there value in long term so choose coins with best research so you will never loose your BTC.

[LEINADbtc]

I would hold currencies like btc eth waves and stuff like that.
And just trade smaller coins.

[jvdp]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

Bitcoin holding is the best option in current situation. Trading is not a good deal for competitors. So many of the competitors are like to hold the Bitcoin. But trading is a huge profit at end of the sale else it will huge loss in the market. Current ratio is favour to holding the Bitcoin. Because daily it will raise in market value.

[jhongzjhong]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

Hold coins such as have a good potential like bitcoin and ethereum you may hold this for a long term for better earning and for those altcoins you trade this for short term just like 30% of your fund. Now bitcoin almost overcome the rate of $10k sooner or later it will be reach that amount.

[Frank0209]

For people who have little knowledge and skill in trading, holding is the best option for them, they still can get profit without doing anything ). Feel like it's a kind off passive income. LOL. But if you're a good trader of course you'll prefer trading to holding cause it's the faster way to earn money, you can earn everyday not like holding, you only can get more profit when Bitcoin price increase. But don't hope that you'll always win in trading ). There are a lot of trap in here so you should be careful when join trading )

[Dart18]

I dont do it with bitcoins. It is crazy there.   Just holding it for a long time is my choice now.

I would prefer doing the trading method with altcoins only which only have a little value and I can buy lots of it. The more the merrier it will be when suddenly its value grow even just for 5% of its current value.

[Ahiaba]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

All depends on what you meant by trading and holding, in my opinion buying Bitcoin and hold in your wallet or in your exchange account for a period pending when its value appreciate to your and later sell at profit is nothing but trading. And trading crypto currency on the exchange market is also the same thing as buying low then hold for a period of time and sell at profit is also called trading.

[okala]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

Trading is far better than investments if you followed how bitcoin price has been working and you are a trader you will agree with me that even this month bitcoin went to $8,856 and for trader he would take profit there and when price went down to below $6,000 around 11-11-2017 he will buy again and sell now that the price is around $9,976.

[solarion]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

Short term earning is trading. If the bitcoin reaches the bump on that day you will find the profit else it goes reciprocally you will never find the profit on that day but bitcoin you saved in your wallet will give a pump on some day and until that your fund you have in your wallet will be goes to big amount with in some days when the time you find the bitcoin bump largely. I feel bitcoin holding is better than trading and all other investment option. Mining is exceptional in this.

[olubams]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

The income from trading cannot be compared to holding no matter what because the income is possible to increase the 0.01btc to maybe 0.05btc but as much as there is the possibility of making money, so also the possibility of losing it if not done right or made the wrong decision as that is what is common most times and why some people shy away from any form of trading. But if you are not ready for the risk, don't go near it.

[Bagaji]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

Assuming you bought Bitcoin in January when its market value was $1000 and you kept on holding it till end of November when its value appreciate significantly to $10,000 you would have made a of $9,000. But if a good trader put in the same $1000 since that same January till today though there will be some losses in between the period before now, but by now he/she would have made a profit up to  $15,000 only if he is a good trader. And is what made some people like me prefer trading over holding.

[terrific]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?

When bitcoin is getting down it's the preferred thing to do by majority, to trade their fiat to bitcoin or sell their alt coins and just keep on holding their bitcoins.

Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

It's shocking that we didn't expect that bitcoin will be reaching it but now it's visible and clear to our eyes that bitcoin is serious.

[MOBSSTER]

There are people that holding it, and there are people that spending it =) Like people on wall street
 

[aardvark15]

Under what circumstances is trading preferred over holding?
Btc reaching 10k$ way before new year is a big shock,your opinions would be very helpful.

If you feel confident that you can time the peaks and valleys of Bitcoin’s price fluctuation well enough to make money, then it’s probably worth it to trade. Otherwise just hold. I have done both and there is no right or wrong answer because it depends on whether you are willing to do the work to research the charts and take the time to make trades. Plus you need to have the discipline to wait for your target prices for selling and buying.