Trading vs. Investing.

[coingecko]

Trading: short term, emotional based
Investing: long term, fundamental based

[Ziskinberg]

Trading: short term, emotional based

It's definitely short term, fluctuations is our friend here but why emotion based? is it based on your emotion or the other traders emotion, and you'll bet against their emotion? can you expound a bit here?

Investing: long term, fundamental based

I completely agree with this one, but above? NOh...

[iv4n]

Trading: short term, emotional based
Investing: long term, fundamental based

So you say both are trading, only difference is in time, first one is short other is long term?! In my opinion trading is gambling, you gamble on the outcome, you buy or sell because you believe the price will rise or drop, you are trying to predict what will happen and you make your bets. In my opinion, based on years of doing both, both are like games, they have some similarities, but also they have differences, like different games, you can't put Counter Strike, League of Legends and Puzzles in the same basket, each has its own rules and regulations, you can play all of them with the same strategy.
Investing is everything you do with your money, you invest in what you believe is best for your skills (at least it should be like that, but some people are just lucky guessing and hope for the best). You can invest in trading, or gambling, or anything else, and when you invest you hope that it will bring some profit, depending on the game and strategy you will know results after few seconds or few months!

[culuuton]

There are also many threads that discuss both trading and investing methods in this forum.  I think the most important is the sensitivity of each person to the market, they will decide to choose the appropriate method for each period of volatility.

[AniviaBtc]

Trading is a very risky part while investing is you're always is a safe zone. Why? Because you can hold it depend on how long the time frame you want and the profit you have been targeted on it.

Not necessarily. You being in the sort of "safe zone" completely depends on what you're actually investing in. I mean, you could hold certain penny stocks for god knows how long and you could still end up in a huge loss.

Both are risky, and it doesn't mean that you're not an active trader and just holding a certain portfolio can give you a guarantee to make profit. If you are just investing and holding, you still need to actively watch the market so you can know if your money is still growing or no more chance to go up because it is being de-listed or a certain exchange. There's a big different on a risk level of this two, you just need to classify your risk appetite and invest properly.

If you are really willing to spend your money just to gain profit, then the two options are the same and effective. If you invest your money, you just need patience and proper manipulation. Compared to trading, it does require a more strategic planning so that you will not lose your money. Trading really depends on how you perform your trade in the market or in your customer. It is not easy to consider when you will trade, in investment, you just need good maintenance about the business you're handling. Also, when you're wise enough to run a business with yourself and your company, then learn the advantages and disadvantages of investment so that you'll not be glad about the results or the possible events that may occur.

[krayzie32]

Both are just the same where in you will risk a certain amount of money or investment and will look for a chance of gaining a decent profit.

I think I would prefer trading rather than investing since in trading you yourself is the one who will in charge whether you will earn or not wherein cases that you would decide whether to sell, buy or hold but in investing you will invest into something that you don't know whether it will be worth it or not and you have to do is to wait rather than in trading you're the one who should decide.

The most important thing for those who participate in this market is profit and in one way or another you need to have a reasonable strategy because this is not a normal place. In fact, day trading is more profitable but the risk is great because the volatility of the market can make you lose at any time.

However, if you choose to invest long-term in some coins, then you just need to wait and be patient until the coin price increases or will lose everything if that coin cannot rise.

[Shasha80]

In my opinion trading and investing is the best way to make money in the cryptocurrency world. For investment it is suitable for newbie,
because the risk faced will be smaller than trading. Because investments we only need to choose coins popular and has high volumes such
as bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin. After that it is held until the price is higher than the price when we buy it. Different from trading must
have the ability and knowledge in the crypto world in order to read the market.So you can determine the exact purchase price and also can
determine the right sell target. Usually trading is carried out in the run relatively short.

[Synaesthesia]

There are also many threads that discuss both trading and investing methods in this forum.  I think the most important is the sensitivity of each person to the market, they will decide to choose the appropriate method for each period of volatility.

I agree with you. They are not always ready to trade because the market is very volatile and even a few small news will make you change your emotions immediately. Crypto market is still the harshest place when choosing to invest and you will certainly face great risks if you do not have enough confidence.

In the past, I made a lot of mistakes and that made me feel more tired but now things have changed a lot because I have accumulated a lot of new knowledge.

[coin_1122]

Both trading and investing are the same way and destination to get much profit but have different system how to get much money with bitcoin and altcoin, with trading we can earn much money every day and investing could earn but need waiting for long term.

Both will be considered as an investment, but the thing will be based on our assumptions. Each person will have a different view about the trading and investment because some people will always for the long term investment, so people who wait for the long term will always get the benefit through their investment.

[semobo]

Trading: short term, emotional based
Investing: long term, fundamental based

So you say both are trading, only difference is in time, first one is short other is long term?! In my opinion trading is gambling, you gamble on the outcome, you buy or sell because you believe the price will rise or drop, you are trying to predict what will happen and you make your bets. In my opinion, based on years of doing both, both are like games, they have some similarities, but also they have differences, like different games, you can't put Counter Strike, League of Legends and Puzzles in the same basket, each has its own rules and regulations, you can play all of them with the same strategy.
Investing is everything you do with your money, you invest in what you believe is best for your skills (at least it should be like that, but some people are just lucky guessing and hope for the best). You can invest in trading, or gambling, or anything else, and when you invest you hope that it will bring some profit, depending on the game and strategy you will know results after few seconds or few months!

Investing or trading both have similarities with gambling but not complete at all,you can make profits from making right analysis but in gambling its impossible to analyse things except sport prediction games.And you can apply same strategies for both but if you are interested in making more money then you have to separate things.

For trading you have to be more concentrating on technical analysis and needs to be more active.

[Janation]

Both trading and investing are the same way and destination to get much profit but have different system how to get much money with bitcoin and altcoin, with trading we can earn much money every day and investing could earn but need waiting for long term.

Both will be considered as an investment, but the thing will be based on our assumptions. Each person will have a different view about the trading and investment because some people will always for the long term investment, so people who wait for the long term will always get the benefit through their investment.

These two is interconnected with each other.

When we invest, we also do trading. For example, we want to buy a cryptocurrency, let's say Bitcoin. What we will be doing is to buy it through exchanges or maybe convert our fiats to it, we are exactly doing trading and the fact that we are doing it is because we are investing in it. If we will be talking about the long term, that means they are investing and will be trading in the end.

[havoc928]

Trading: short term, emotional based
Investing: long term, fundamental based

So you say both are trading, only difference is in time, first one is short other is long term?! In my opinion trading is gambling, you gamble on the outcome, you buy or sell because you believe the price will rise or drop, you are trying to predict what will happen and you make your bets. In my opinion, based on years of doing both, both are like games, they have some similarities, but also they have differences, like different games, you can't put Counter Strike, League of Legends and Puzzles in the same basket, each has its own rules and regulations, you can play all of them with the same strategy.
Investing is everything you do with your money, you invest in what you believe is best for your skills (at least it should be like that, but some people are just lucky guessing and hope for the best). You can invest in trading, or gambling, or anything else, and when you invest you hope that it will bring some profit, depending on the game and strategy you will know results after few seconds or few months!

Investing or trading both have similarities with gambling but not complete at all,you can make profits from making right analysis but in gambling its impossible to analyse things except sport prediction games.And you can apply same strategies for both but if you are interested in making more money then you have to separate things.

For trading you have to be more concentrating on technical analysis and needs to be more active.

In fact, both are the same, but trading is probably more people choose because this is a very easy way to make money if you have a reasonable strategy. However, this market is very volatile and does not always increase prices steadily, so there will be days when you feel very depressed. I always spend a lot of time trading because this is considered my main job and always confident when making decisions.

[semobo]

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In fact, both are the same, but trading is probably more people choose because this is a very easy way to make money if you have a reasonable strategy. However, this market is very volatile and does not always increase prices steadily, so there will be days when you feel very depressed. I always spend a lot of time trading because this is considered my main job and always confident when making decisions.

You can't find anything easier than investing in long term because we no need to do anything just the capital will generate profits and profits still people chooses trading because they want money instantly so they are going hard at it and most of them gets failed.

[ultrloa]

Trading and investing are quite different from each other   because in trading it's possible to get your profits within a short period of time unlike investing where you get to wait for a long time for the market to reach it's peak level before you can get  your profits but mind you investing yields more profits than trading itself all the same both features needs patience to succeed

Actually it's the same but it matters on what platform and what type of investment are we going but if you compare the risk between those 2 I will go on trading since we can recover and earn while in investing on hyip platforms we cannot get what the scammer owner owed to us.

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In fact, both are the same, but trading is probably more people choose because this is a very easy way to make money if you have a reasonable strategy. However, this market is very volatile and does not always increase prices steadily, so there will be days when you feel very depressed. I always spend a lot of time trading because this is considered my main job and always confident when making decisions.

You can't find anything easier than investing in long term because we no need to do anything just the capital will generate profits and profits still people chooses trading because they want money instantly so they are going hard at it and most of them gets failed.

Yeah because all offering a profit without doing nothing is totally scam.

[Kelvinid]

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In fact, both are the same, but trading is probably more people choose because this is a very easy way to make money if you have a reasonable strategy. However, this market is very volatile and does not always increase prices steadily, so there will be days when you feel very depressed. I always spend a lot of time trading because this is considered my main job and always confident when making decisions.

You can't find anything easier than investing in long term because we no need to do anything just the capital will generate profits and profits still people chooses trading because they want money instantly so they are going hard at it and most of them gets failed.

Investing won't help for inpatient/weak hands person. May trading could help them but think about how the market moves slowly...it eventually causes them to be troubled. Both trading and investing will work only if we understand the market situation and really want to take the risk no matter how long we wait for its return.

For this crypto investment and trading is different from the other form of investment which somehow they failed to look before taking the risk and then complain it later.

[Wintersoldier]

Trading and Investing are both methods for you to gain money in this virtual world. Both investors and traders earn money through the help of the market. They are good ways to make a profit.

Investors gain money when they but cryptocurrency and holds it for a long time, until bitcoin inflation happens, they will but cryptocurrency when the market is already down then if the market goes high that is the time that they will gain money by withdrawing it. While traders use the inflation and deflation of bitcoin to earn money, it involves buying and selling of currency in the virtual world.

So if you want to earn more money, you can do both things, the more, the merrier, if you are a beginner, then don't invest and trade significant amount of money because you may fail from it, you should do research first before doing that because it is not a simple thing, you should have an excellent knowledge and skill to be successful in both methods.

Trading and investing is the most common ways to earn money in cryptocurrency, that is why most crypto users knows how to trade and invest in crypto if they are really into crypto and blockchain technology. But there are still people who stick in one thing in earn crypto that they only focus on trading or investing, and i think it is not a problem because there are crypto users who don't have a huge funds to do both, that is why it is okay if you are only doing trading or investing.

[bitgolden]

Both will be considered as an investment, but the thing will be based on our assumptions. Each person will have a different view about the trading and investment because some people will always for the long term investment, so people who wait for the long term will always get the benefit through their investment.

Usually, there are fixed profits for long term investment if you have made investments in a potential coin. Short term profits might vary depending on the market conditions. Mostly, newbies can start with investments for long term as it would also force them to speculate the graphs and eventually they could even start with trading if they feel they have gained some knowledge about the charts and patterns.

Trading might give us good profits but the risk would remain high in trading as compared to investments. I am not saying that investments have no risk but the risk can be adjusted depending on the coin you invest and at which price you entered. Investing in newly launched projects can be fetal so yes, there are a lot of hidden risks associated with investing as well.

[coinfinger]

Trading: short term, emotional based
Investing: long term, fundamental based

Both of them are fundamentally based and trading MUST never be done based on emotions or personal feelings, trading while it seem simple requires a lot of analysis and ability to read charts so can't be said trading is accomplished emotionally. Investing though is long term and fundamental I agree because you must have the vision to foresee that the value will increase over longer period of time.

For me investing is much easier than trading because trading requires sharp judgement of when to buy and sell a particular asset while investing you just have to HODL and wait till the price reaches your desired value.

[Eugenar]

i will be for trading ,i know how hard and risky trading is so better be on right side and besides i am not on a hurry to profit because i also know that waiting is one safe strategy in this market.
but of course i am not closing my door to Trading because if time come that i have leaved my work or retire?i am sure this is one that i will love to do.

Trading is a job that not everyone is patient enough to wait for and of course the constant volatility of the market can put you at a great risk. For me, I only trade when the market starts to trend up because it is a very easy time to make a profit. However, the decision is yours and needs to have an effective strategy and certainly not always make good money here.

Well said mate, that is the good time for trading different currencies, there are so many people who failed from trading because of lack of research and preparation, if you are not prepared and don't have any skills about trading then for sure you may lost your money, this is not a simple thing that you should try because you want to earn money, trading is not a sure win situation for you because there are times that you will lost if you are lack of knowledge about is as well as in terms of investing.

But I recommend that you must prefer trying the investing compared to trading because you cannot lose in investing because you can still hold your money if the marker is still down, then withdraw it when the market goes high.

[TheUltraElite]

You can't find anything easier than investing in long term because we no need to do anything just the capital will generate profits and profits still people chooses trading because they want money instantly so they are going hard at it and most of them gets failed.

One may consider investing for long term and trading is short term but these are interchangeable terms actually. So if you are able to generate profits everyday then dont be disheartened. While losses  are common it is useless to brood over that whether it was supposed to be a investment or trade.

Try going with both and see which ones works for a certain user. The important thing is to do research and perform dummy trades befor starting and not going in for the shitcoins.