Loss in trading

[yanto@1977]

I am a newbie, I just want to ask how exactly are you losing your money in trading? Can anybody explain how you lose your money in trading? Correct me if I'm wrong I just think that when you buy high but you sell it in low price I think you lose, right? What if you you buy it at a higher price then the price falls on the next days or week will you loss something? What if you'll just hold for it and wait for the price to bounce back? Thanks for your opinions! ☺️

I think you already know what loss is? but I can say loss it doesn't mean only about money, but also time and mind. About hold, this decision is the main step to get profit, the question is, do you have enough patience?. People have different strategy, depend their experience, fund balance and mindset and they have full control to run it without someone can't stop it. Loss is part of success but always learn and never do the same mistake is part of glory.

[richardsNY]

Before going to join bitcoin you must study about it because there are a lot of things which are very important to know

The majority of the baboons here don't know what doing research before investing means. This market is literally infested with get rich quick noobs, where according to their limited logic the market can only go up, which in reality doesn't work like that. That's why quite often after the price having gone down you see people open threads asking what's going on with the market. Another thing these people still don't understand is the difference between actual losses and losses on paper. If you sell at a price lower than what you bought your coins at, it is considered to be an actual loss. If you buy and the price goes down afterwards, and keep holding, it's just a loss on paper. That's a very important difference.

[bitcointarget]

The loss is expected in trading. Successful Traders always experience loss, but they always manage how to get things right by not panicking and staying calm in every situation.

Yes patience is the very first key in trading.We should not always think of making profit in the shortest time.Monitor first the price movement before jumping into conclusion.It's never an easy thing to trade just because you have lot of coins onhand,learn to weigh things closely,and when you already see the price has gone so far from the day you bought it,then for sure it's the right time to sell.Trading really needs most of your time than any other activity here.

Really no need for certain shapes to define loss in altcoin trade. Loss is any action results in failure and money reducing. This is something we need to know about if we deal with trade.

[carlfebz2]

Before going to join bitcoin you must study about it because there are a lot of things which are very important to know

The majority of the baboons here don't know what doing research before investing means. This market is literally infested with get rich quick noobs, where according to their limited logic the market can only go up, which in reality doesn't work like that. That's why quite often after the price having gone down you see people open threads asking what's going on with the market. Another thing these people still don't understand is the difference between actual losses and losses on paper. If you sell at a price lower than what you bought your coins at, it is considered to be an actual loss. If you buy and the price goes down afterwards, and keep holding, it's just a loss on paper. That's a very important difference.

I wont really argue on this thing which is actually true which most noobs do really believe on whats on their mind.When they saw up someone made some profits on trading specially on bigger amounts they do easily believe that they can able to do such thing too which they do think up that market goes up and up without even thinking whats the possible risk behind or involved on it and once they do suffer loss then they do whine up on public and questioning why market is down which the same thing you do said which is actually been always the reality.

[Hazaki]

I don't know anyone who hasn't suffer losses from time to time so this is inevitable.
The question is how much you lose and how you handle it. The key is experience and finding the way to cover losses with back up strategy.
It's not important if you fall as long as you know how to stand up again.

Having a strategy is a must for any trader whether he's an experienced or a newbie one , it's actually one of the most crucial steps for becoming one . Covering losses is the key to preserving a positive bankroll and having more money than you started with or you'll just be at a loos situation .

As for the op's question , one way for loosing in trading is not knowing in what project , business or deal you're getting yourself in or haven't got yourself informed enough about the coin you put you money in . Getting documentation and studying about any coin is required and obligatory or else you'll just be throwing your hard earned money at shitty coins or projects and asking later why you've lost your budget ..
Knowing in what you're getting yourself in and not believing people's FUD or hyping about coins is very important for a trader , take your own decisions and study the projects yourself .

[rodalutor]

Before going to join bitcoin you must study about it because there are a lot of things which are very important to know

The majority of the baboons here don't know what doing research before investing means. This market is literally infested with get rich quick noobs, where according to their limited logic the market can only go up, which in reality doesn't work like that. That's why quite often after the price having gone down you see people open threads asking what's going on with the market. Another thing these people still don't understand is the difference between actual losses and losses on paper. If you sell at a price lower than what you bought your coins at, it is considered to be an actual loss. If you buy and the price goes down afterwards, and keep holding, it's just a loss on paper. That's a very important difference.

These are still technically losses in my mind, you could've taken that higher price and so it's still a loss. It's just important to realise you can't always pick the top and sell at the right time and then to put things in context in the way you described by realising that it's important to look at things in a long term view instead of short term.

[nitrousteam]

Almost every trader that is trading with the crypto coins has experienced some kind of loss. Some people are learning from their mistakes and others are just committing same patterns over and over and eventually, they are bankrupt.

 Every loss that the trader has must be memorized but in the same time forgotten because the instability of your past loses that can haunt you in your future trades can cause your possible trade to end in demise because of the bad reaction in the particular moment.

There are more options in the trading system and I would personally recommend the long-term investment into some specific coin of your choice that you are believing will make a big breakthrough.
With the limited bankroll into the newly created coins that have the great possibilities to advance the possible losses can be overcome in the end.

[km4700ruda]

Yes, you can easily lose money if you suddenly buy a coin and it starts to go down, it is not something very difficult to happen.
If you do not take care of that, you can easily lose a lot of money, that is why i prefer holding.

[kolega]

When you start to trade you must first have a plan that will spell out the point of entry and exit from trading positions. You also need to use stop losses. This will reduce the risks of losses

[Blackfurysm]

Right now, the majority of Crypto trading is speculative, and while use cases for the technology are on the increase, it is still speculative. What this means is, while investing in Crypto can present investors with a great opportunity to make money, not everyone will.
By trading Crypto, there is no guarantee you will make money. This is a highly volatile market, which, while sharing the characteristics of the stock market, is decentralised, unregulated, subject to manipulation and highly unstable. Crypto is not a get rich quick scheme. If too many people think it is, the prices will go up too quick and the bubble will eventually burst.

As such, if you get involved, the golden rule is not to invest any more than you can afford to lose. If you have followed this rule then all your investments should be considered long-term, and by long-term, I mean 3–5 years minimum. Why? Simply because the longest bear run we have experienced is two years. Those who invested in Bitcoin in December ’13 and didn’t panic sell during the crash had to wait until early ’17 to be back in profit. Over three years. A bear market can hit us at any point and if it does then the longest we have experienced is two years and this is our benchmark.

[hritevanz]

Part of trading is losing your money because even the successful trader already experienced it. Trading is a game and anytime you might get win or lose. I think it is better for you to read on how to be a good trader in the future or read some article about the strategies in order to avoid losing of huge amount of money. However, the positive thing about trading is that it is more profitable and you can earn a big amount of money in just a day.

[UnusualMouse]

I don't think you will ever see a trader that has not encountered a loss during their trading career. So its natural, that is how trading works when you lose someone will surely win and vice versa.

[Night4G]

I don't think you will ever see a trader that has not encountered a loss during their trading career. So its natural, that is how trading works when you lose someone will surely win and vice versa.

as usual, you have to encounter many sacrifices to get the benefits or profit that you want. I did not see any trader who did not suffered from loss they are one of the witnesses that you cannot avoid to loss but you can recover it again by waiting for the right moment

[googs84]

Loss in trade is inevitable which should be taken calmly. Simply do not need to opt for one coin and trade several. This will make it possible to reduce the risk of large losses.

Yes this way is really good. This is called making portfolio of altcoins and I like tha way too. It’s always good to see the market going up and down and so far I have seen that if you portfolio then we could be lucky enough to see one of the coin going upwards and returning us all the money that we invested. This makes other coins as equivalent as to break even point. Thus fro there onwards we can hold these coins as long as we can wait and only sell when they are high enough.

[posi]

I am a newbie, I just want to ask how exactly are you losing your money in trading? Can anybody explain how you lose your money in trading? Correct me if I'm wrong I just think that when you buy high but you sell it in low price I think you lose, right? What if you you buy it at a higher price then the price falls on the next days or week will you loss something? What if you'll just hold for it and wait for the price to bounce back? Thanks for your opinions! ☺️

You're 100% correct mate. Buying at high price, selling at low price or if the coin crash after buying is loosing but the crypto currency trading lost can be amend if the coin didn't crash which why it good to buy coin which is available on varieties of exchange with good historical data.

[hatomir]

I don't think you will ever see a trader that has not encountered a loss during their trading career. So its natural, that is how trading works when you lose someone will surely win and vice versa.

Yeah. it's an experience that every trader have to deal with loss in trading. The important thing is how you bounce back from that loss.

[TorbiK]

There's nothing cunning in this. Lose when you sell cheaper than bought. Or when you trade with margin. There you can lose even without making a reverse transaction. Plus the fees on the commission.

[Pixyoxx]

This is something that troubles allot of newbies as to what makes people lose when the selling is always un their own hands and they can always sell when the price is higher than what they bought for. Here comes the concept of speculation. Speculation is in simple terms the buying or selling of holdings simply based on what one preducst by themselves seeing current market rise and dip.

When a holder sees theirs a sudden drop in price, and if he ends up speculating it as a potential warning that big dip is on its way, or further dips might occur and finally in panic he sells of his holdings even when the price is below his buying price thinking that less loss is better than more.
This way he made a loss which is less for the holder but at the end of the day it is loss only. Such speculations lead to panic selling and buying creating further ups and lows in pricing.

[homhay]

I think thw definition of lossing in trading is what your talking about, well we buy with hight and sell when it down. But, if you cchoose to hold for a while and wait for price up again, for me you have loss to. In this condition, you certainly not loss your token, but you lossing some time to wait the prise will up. Be patient.

[CryptoBaxing]

I am a newbie, I just want to ask how exactly are you losing your money in trading? Can anybody explain how you lose your money in trading? Correct me if I'm wrong I just think that when you buy high but you sell it in low price I think you lose, right? What if you you buy it at a higher price then the price falls on the next days or week will you loss something? What if you'll just hold for it and wait for the price to bounce back? Thanks for your opinions! ☺️

At first I was very confused about your post, but after looking at your nick everything became clear  
Short answer: you lose money in trading when after 2 trades (1st - buy , 2nd - sell) you have less money than before.
By less I mean if you had 4$ before trading and after 2 trades you have 3$ it means 4-3=1. So you have lost 1$, now you only have 3$ which is < (smaller) than 4$ you had before. This is what usually is called a loss.

P.S. You not in loss until you sell, so holding for price to go up it's the right decision.