Trading vs. Buy and Hold

[posi]

I believed buy and hold of crypto currency which some called investing is the old fashion way of making profit through cryptocurrency while trading require some strategy and chart reading. However, I don't believe in the XSPEC and NXT posted by the OP.

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[proearner12]

Trading is knife with two edges. As long as you know what are you are doing, it could be a very good strategy to multiply BTC. However, you need to investigate carefully the alt in which you are entering. Timing is essential - buy at the dip not at the peak is a must. Last but not least you need to convert your profit, not to wait too much because you could get greedy and the coin may return to the original state and never come back. The truth is you need experience which will you have with time.

[juragane]

I prefer to always trade than I just keep the coins I have if you just keep or hold the coin it will be difficult to make a profit. better daily trading although the benefits you get little by little can be a lot.

[taiwww]

I would say . .

Trading of sleeted coins is best when it comes to the short trades. For example, I have made nice profits from teh coins like XRP, TRX, ADA etc as they are cheap one and I can buy as much as I want them. This gives me more profits when they move upwards and definitely these coins have huge swings along the way to profit you nicely.

HODL on the other hand is best fit for those who are here since very long time now, for example, NEO, BTC, ETH, LTC. They are bold and they just need time to get more valuation per coin.

[htconem7]

Trading or HODL

The goal of most investors generally is to buy low and sell high. This can result in two quite different approaches to equity investing.

One approach is described as "trading." Trading involves following the short-term price fluctuations of different stocks closely and then trying to buy low and sell high. Traders usually decide ahead of time the percentage increase they're looking for before you sell (or decrease before they buy).

While trading has tremendous potential for immediate rewards, it also involves a fair share of risk because a stock may not recover from a downswing within the time frame you'd like—and may in fact drop further in price. In addition, frequent trading can be expensive, since every time you buy and sell, you may pay broker's fees for the transaction.

Be aware that trading should not be confused with "day trading," which is the rapid buying and selling of stock to capitalize on small price changes. Day trading can be extremely risky, especially if you attempt to day trade using borrowed money. Individual investors frequently lose money by trying to use this approach.

A very different investing strategy—called buy-and-hold—involves keeping an investment over an extended period, anticipating that the price will rise over time. While buy-and-hold reduces the money you pay in transaction fees and short-term capital gains taxes, it requires patience and careful decision-making. As a buy-and-hold investor, you generally choose tokens based on a company's long-term business prospects. Increases in the coin price over years tend to be based less on the volatile nature of the market's changing demands and more on what's known as the company's fundamentals, such as its earnings and sales, the expertise and vision of its management.

Such a strategy can be super profitable. Here are some examples:
  Spectrecoin  +48228%
  Neo  +90450%
  Ethereum  +95390%
  IOTA  +105505%
  NXT  +391776%
(data for the end of 2017)

And how do you think, share your views on the pros and cons of trading and long-term hold in the comments.

With a market that is turning east and hard to rock as you are now, you can see that bitcoins are constantly decreasing in recent days. Because I think this moment is not appropriate to hold, but this time you should trade short, surfing short. The market is constantly changing trade needs to be very careful and always observe the fluctuations of bitcoin.

[Leonard2016]

Take a look at to the coins since 2016 till now , most of them has been multipled , the thing is in that time it was just beginning , like DOT com companies , Many of these altcoins would vanish in future , Holding could be a good idea if you are holding good coins or tokens ,I don't expect that sharp percentages like 2016 _ 2017 , But still there is potential in many of them .

[TrollinU]

I think, that holding is good, but it takes a lot of time. Also you need to find really good project, which is really perspective. It`s hard but if you found one - profits are provided. For example - TraceTo. It`s a decentralized KYC network, which uses technologies such as SmartContract and AI to verify. I suppose, that it really good chance to earn money, cause systems like this are in deficit, so TraceTo will be in demand.

[sedahan13]

This is depend on the your duration to make profit, if you want to make montly profit so then you have to do short or swing trading, but if you want to make speculation and want to make profit yearly so hold will be the best choice because not need consuming much times for that, just buy and forget it in a years.

[Alexvid]

If you don't have the knowledge or time for trading, you're better of with hodling.
Trading isn't for everyone. You really need to know the market and anticipate what's going to happen.
If you invest in top10 coins and wait you have a very big chance of making money after some time.

[justin86]

Today, you think it is easy to believe in ethereum or neo and buy and hodl them but when they are just existed, it is not that easy to believe in those projects and so hodl for years.

[lordmick]

Personally I just HODL all my assets. Sell them now is not smart decision. Because according to TA (and I believe it) in this year we will see only flat of whole market. But absolutely sure that the market will reach new records next year. That's why we must be patient and don't sell now in red market.

[1Referee]

Holding could be a good idea if you are holding good coins or tokens

Easier said than done. Eventually the far majority of the coins, and especially tokens, will become obsolete and redundant. ICO tokens are purely hype driven at the moment, and for that reason it's a horrible long term investment. If you also take into consideration that governments are somewhat trying to crack down on the free market aspect of them, then it's even less of an interesting investment.

Ethereum is what people consider to be a good coin (one of the best available, people say), but this 'good' coin needs to find another use and purpose aside from ICO's. If ICO's remain Ethereum's main value and use generator, I honestly don't see it end that well in the forthcoming years.

My personal favorite coin aside from Bitcoin is Monero due to its privacy features, but I am realistic enough to know that while it fundamentally is a groundbreaking coin, it isn't a good long term investment due to regulators likely going to hit all privacy focused coins real hard.

Bitcoin is the only coin that offers stability. Altcoins can't offer that, regardless of their technical engineering.

[Virtual miner]

Holding could be a good idea if you are holding good coins or tokens

Easier said than done. Eventually the far majority of the coins, and especially tokens, will become obsolete and redundant. ICO tokens are purely hype driven at the moment, and for that reason it's a horrible long term investment. If you also take into consideration that governments are somewhat trying to crack down on the free market aspect of them, then it's even less of an interesting investment.

Ethereum is what people consider to be a good coin (one of the best available, people say), but this 'good' coin needs to find another use and purpose aside from ICO's. If ICO's remain Ethereum's main value and use generator, I honestly don't see it end that well in the forthcoming years.

My personal favorite coin aside from Bitcoin is Monero due to its privacy features, but I am realistic enough to know that while it fundamentally is a groundbreaking coin, it isn't a good long term investment due to regulators likely going to hit all privacy focused coins real hard.

Bitcoin is the only coin that offers stability. Altcoins can't offer that, regardless of their technical engineering.

This entirely depends on the person. If you don’t have funds to invest for long term and are interested in short term gains ten you can opt for trading. But a person needs to have a full knowledge about the market trends and an ability to carefully analyze the technical graphs and charts. I think holding is a better option as you just have to buy some coins, keep them for some months or until they rise in value.

[Indrawan77]

Buy and hold for long term is for the people that want to invest but don't know how to trade, or for the people that don't have time to keep on watching the chart, trading can be very profitable but it consume a lot of time to do the analysis and collecting the information, and also the market is very unpredictable, so trading is only for people that already gor basic and want to dedicate the time to make money from trading

[Panunggalan]

if I choose to trade, karen if trading we can know a day can get any profit as long as we want to trade with really and also if we have a busy trading for day to day.

[systematicdeception]

Every person decided for himself whether he or she needs to buy or to hold. I think that it is better to hold than to trade regularly, however, everyone should set his or her own goals and decide whether he has enough skills and time for daily trading

[Wonder_woman]

Trading vs Buy and Hold depends on the crypto. For me I split my investment to trading when it is good for day trade and Buy and Hold if the crypto is potential for long term.

[TheDarkRide]

How to become long-term trader? I can't hold the coin when its price plunge

Just hold it and leave it. Put a time period as your target. For example 1 year. Try not to look up the price for such period of time.

[sanjeevgogi]

Tricky question...some times holding will be good option.especially top 20 coins

[Grillo]

Trading is good enough for me, but i prefer to hold because it is much more profitable in a mid - long term, if you know what i mean.. Holding can give you much more profits than just trying to make a few percent of profit per pair.