Speculating the market?

[Meowth05]

Trading and investing in financial markets seem so easy. The market can only do one of two things. It can go up, or it can go down. So why do so many people lose?

https://www.altcoinsidekick.com/blog/machine-gun-preacher

Yes it is truly easy to make trading and investing but the reason why they only lose is just because they don't make any plan and sometimes they do some reckless some action. In making action we should consider first our action depending the sitaution we have. Don't have enough knowledge could also lead to loss. Market is volatile so you should pay more attention to it.

[wxa7115]

The market can only do one of two things. It can go up, or it can go down.

In literally speaking you have a point, but logically the problem with this investment strategy is time pressures. The speculation and panic by waiting with many news going around like crazy is killing them inside.

No one must be a loser if they only have the patience or the willingness to believe in to its future, but humans have the tendency to think negatively in a span of an hour.

Time and money with greediness is disastrous.

True, that is why trading can be so difficult, it is very easy to see a chart of the market and think about where you should have sold your coins and where you should have bought coins but all that calm and calculated nature goes out of the window when people are in the middle of the situation and they need to decide, do they buy coins now or do they wait for the price to get better? Do they sell now or do they wait for the price to go up even more?

Those are the questions that are going to cross your mind when you are trading and inevitably you are going to make some mistakes because we are not perfect and are precisely those mistakes what it is going to eat you from the inside and you are going to try to make up for them the next time you make a trade only to find out that that doesn't work and that you have made a small mistake even bigger.

[rickadone]

I think forex and crypto are waay too different from each other to make that a possibility. First of all there are regular people doing forex and almost always they lose money there, not initially maybe (some lose right away, some lose later) but in the end if you are not a professional trader there than you will lose your money.

One of my friend's uncle was interested in forex and made a ton of money for a long long time, like couple years at least and than one day lost all he had in his savings account, it can take a long time before you run out of luck but it will happen. The reason why banks and professional forex traders do not lose like that is because they have a lot more capital than you, if you lose 100 thousand dollars in forex you run out of money probably, they can reinvest 500 thousand to get that back. That is why they succeed.

Crypto is not like that, most of the population here is not professional traders, its people. Professionals are not here yet.

The main reason seasonal traders do not end up losing a lot is because asides from having a lot of money, they actually know how to manage risks as well and they are not gambling their positions in the market. Talking about your uncle, the only thing I can point here is that he approached trading as a gamble with no strategy, got lucky at first and then reality kicked in and he ran out of luck.

What makes a professional trader one is their ability to be able to take advantage of the market, but even if you want to do that, you only need to have a good strategy and know how to execute it perfectly well without emotions and if you have none, you will definitely be screwed.

[ThankThake]

Trading and investing in financial markets seem so easy. The market can only do one of two things. It can go up, or it can go down. So why do so many people lose?

https://www.altcoinsidekick.com/blog/machine-gun-preacher

I think forex and crypto are waay too different from each other to make that a possibility. First of all there are regular people doing forex and almost always they lose money there, not initially maybe (some lose right away, some lose later) but in the end if you are not a professional trader there than you will lose your money.

One of my friend's uncle was interested in forex and made a ton of money for a long long time, like couple years at least and than one day lost all he had in his savings account, it can take a long time before you run out of luck but it will happen. The reason why banks and professional forex traders do not lose like that is because they have a lot more capital than you, if you lose 100 thousand dollars in forex you run out of money probably, they can reinvest 500 thousand to get that back. That is why they succeed.

Crypto is not like that, most of the population here is not professional traders, its people. Professionals are not here yet.

Every exchange has its own goods and bad. You can only decide on basis of your assumptions and information you see. Forex has some good reviews as well. It always the game of mindset matching.

[Ansdaoust6]

The market gives two choices up and down, and because people lose because they don't have the patience to hold on when the market falls.

Sometimes holding is also hurting more more than panic selling just imagine about people sold their coins at January 2018 because of panic selling are more profitable than who is holding now so speculation is about buying and selling at the right time sometimes it is just based on luck too.

One thing everyone cannot do is to sell, that is one basic thing with the market, as some people are selling, some people are coming newly into the market, and thinking of holding, and that is basically how it will keep going until we get to hit the level of mainstream adoption.

I know it can be a bit difficult to see what you are holding tank down seriously and then you are assuming if the market will even have any chance in the nearest future or the possibility of even growing in the long run, but you should remember always that at least, if you cannot trade, you should be looking at holding and focusing your attention on the future.

[iv4n]

The market gives two choices up and down, and because people lose because they don't have the patience to hold on when the market falls.

Sometimes holding is also hurting more more than panic selling just imagine about people sold their coins at January 2018 because of panic selling are more profitable than who is holding now so speculation is about buying and selling at the right time sometimes it is just based on luck too.

One thing everyone cannot do is to sell, that is one basic thing with the market, as some people are selling, some people are coming newly into the market, and thinking of holding, and that is basically how it will keep going until we get to hit the level of mainstream adoption.

I know it can be a bit difficult to see what you are holding tank down seriously and then you are assuming if the market will even have any chance in the nearest future or the possibility of even growing in the long run, but you should remember always that at least, if you cannot trade, you should be looking at holding and focusing your attention on the future.

First mistake that people make is buying when price is rising, and they are selling when prices are dropping. Second mistake is making those trades with all amount, top or bottom should be chased, when prices are rising you are selling just some from your stash, it's how you touching the top, price rising you sell some, price rise a bit more you sell again, when price is going down you buy some, price drop more you buy some more, its how you touching the bottom. To trade successfully you need to have back up plan all the time, to be sure in that you need to have good control of your bankroll. If you buy on top and sell on bottom you will lose all your money, you lose if you don't have patience to wait market to move and make conditions for your trades to be successful.

[CoinFoxs]

Trading is not that much easy and simple as you said, though there is only up and down in the market sometimes market falls and take 9-10 months or 1 year to be stable again. During this time 70-80% investors sell their coins on a loss because most people invest from their savings or from salary and expecting to get profit earlier.

[Hasbro27]

there are many factors that make a lot of people experience defeat because this decline is very fast, I also experienced defeat in 2018, what I can do now is letting out the mistakes that I made so that later mistakes do not repeat, hopefully this situation will end soon and change happiness

[jamids]

there are many factors that make a lot of people experience defeat because this decline is very fast, I also experienced defeat in 2018, what I can do now is letting out the mistakes that I made so that later mistakes do not repeat, hopefully this situation will end soon and change happiness

Many people lose because they let their emotions do the trading instead of having a rational mind when doing it. Starting is the most difficult part for me because you would be excited and then disappointed afterwards because you are greedy so you don't want to sell even if you already have a big profit and then see it slowly go down until such time you are already at a loss and again hope for it to go up only to be disappointed when it continues to go down and being a newbie, you would be thinking if trading is really for you.

Those who learned from their mistakes come back up with a strategy but still a number of people who attempt to be trader just sold their position and then left the crypto world and I would assume that many are doing it now seeing the price continuously go down.

[South Park]

Trading and investing in financial markets seem so easy. The market can only do one of two things. It can go up, or it can go down. So why do so many people lose?

https://www.altcoinsidekick.com/blog/machine-gun-preacher

The answer lies in your own statements, trading and investing seems easy but that is not the case, you must remember that you are trying to get profits but everyone else is trying to do the same because no one gets into a market thinking they are going to lose, they want to win, which means that everyone is doing their best effort to try to take money away from you and if you are a lazy investor you are the one that lose.