Trading is better than Holding

[Pamadar]

Trading is good for make some money day by day. But it is risky way cause any time coin price can be decrease. If you hold good alt coin for long time you can make huge profit. Trading make short time profit so i tell trading is better then holding.

That's always depends, and you are right with short term benefits trading can bring decent money if you choose the right coin.

People who are involve to this business keeps on trying which strategy will give them better profits, some may choose to hold long term to maximized the profits while others choose to play day trade to keep taking profits.
The only thing here is the level of risk, day trade due to volatilities have a much higher chances of losing your investment, unlike long term holding where if you done with your research and you really pay attentions with the progress of your chosen investment the chance of losing is much lesser while the chance of being compensated is far better.

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I prefer trading vs. holding since I feel more control of my assets but I like trading the main cryptos like btc, eth, xrp than some altcoins. I get more profit with trading.
 Holding is more for institutional investors or people who don't know how to trade.

If one is able to make profits from trading, then better as you can make daily earning and those who do not now art of trading or generally ends up losing money so for them investing is only preferred. Also, for traders, some capital should be allocated for long term investing in some top coins just to leverage the quick rise in bitcoin which we see it to make maximum profits.

[santiPOGI]

Literally yes, trading is better than Holding. Because for me holding is only good if you buy a huge amount of coin especially if it is one of the potential top altcoins in the market. While in trading or day trading it is really good to make profit compared to holding in a short period of time of course, but this is only my own opinion based on my experienced here in crypto space.

[Dorodha]

Both trading and holding are good but it will depend on efficiency the more knowledge and experience it has the more profitable it is. it is better to hold it in a noteworthy way if you hold on trading if the price goes up later you can double the profit and it becomes easier to trade. In this case it is easy to determine the price of the currencies and the trading strategies are known. The risk is much lower if you hold on but you have to wait until the price goes up.

[Mpamaegbu]

Trading it right now is better than holding it when you don't know if the market will be more better than this.

You never can say of a certitude that your position is the ultimate thinking because a lot of people will disagree with you on this. In holding you don't lose anything. The tokens remain the same quantity they were even though value may change; either higher or lower. But in trading, one stands in a position to lose one's coins/tokens if one's trading call turns sour. For me, I believe Hodling is playing it safer than Trading.

Most professional trader just believe holding your coins is a sign of failure.

Anyone who thinks this way is merely assuming. And that isn't right. It's fallacious because assumption is the highest level of not knowing. I see Hodling like keeping one's account in a bank in a fixed deposit. Is that a sign of failure too? I don't think so.

[DeadCoin]

Actually, if your money is enough for you and there's no need to make it faster to the maximum just select holding for safety in your own ability suchlike your insurance is still waiting for the level up but in everyday life usually, you couldn't really sleep well because the stable coin is unpredictable from where can move up and down.so, because of this matter .for me right now trading is better than holding.

[ReLieD]

I took a long break from this forum and good to see that people actually type Hold instead of Hodl. Jokes aside.... Having more than 3 years experience i can agree to the fact that trading is much better as u know the price will keep fluctuating and u can use that to the very advantage for trading.
For eg. Say the price of 1 BTC is 10k and u carry out a deal where u get 2BTC for ur thing. Now if u see the prices falling then its better to actually trade your btc for something and u might also get a good deal if u bargain well because the falling prices will be a benefit for u. This way u get more amount of BTC which in turn will give u more Currency.

[Lycan70]

Trading is good actually if you want to grow your holdings. I mean holding .5 or 1 btc for me is not fruitful. Unless you hold a bunch of bitcoins, holding is the answer. And not many holders have thousands or even hundreds of bitcoin.

[bitzizzix]

It depends on personal situations and activities, and I prefer to hold back because there are other activities I have to do so I don't have time to trade which have to control the market all the time and have to be good at trading.
and besides that I have a steady income from a real job that can meet my needs so I choose to hold indefinitely and just wait for the price to go up high to sell it back and besides that to avoid worries when the price drops, and trade for those who need profit or income fast in the short term to meet a need or other reason.

[~Money~]

I prefer trading vs. holding since I feel more control of my assets but I like trading the main cryptos like btc, eth, xrp than some altcoins. I get more profit with trading.
 Holding is more for institutional investors or people who don't know how to trade.

Institution investor believes in Holding when they see potential in that asset or Company(project) in long run. Otherwise, Institution investors are the main operators in the trading world. Institution investors can take the price of an asset to the moon and can also throw it on the floor by dumping them from top.  
For a retail trader like us, we should always follow the trend and stay with it. As soon as the trend shows sigh of reversal, we should exit immediately. Always play with stop-loss and favourable risk-reward ratio to remain in the trading market for the long term. Holding, on the other hand, requires a lot of research-based knowledge to understand the working of a company and its impact on their profit and brand value in long term. Still, I feel, HOLDING also require a full proof exit strategy to take profit at right time otherwise there is no sense in holding.

[hridoyb]

Trading or holding its totally depends on your mind.If you are afraid to risk and long time holder and increase your asset, I think holding is the best for you. If you control emotion and want to make a profit so fast and have an idea about the trade you start to trade now. You get profit sure from invest money but not an emergency you need to hold a long time or trade is the only way to make a profit every day.

[Boov]

~snip~ It's not a problem on what you will choose between the two the problem is what coin your trade and to hold and how long you keep it and if crypto coins have chances to up the value.

Coin selection is the main fact here. As OP said he have invested on those coin which were not in the top 100 list at marketcap, and finally those coin price haven't went up as he expected.

Without knowing the crypto market well, no one should invest in new coin for long term hold. Better to invest in top coins of marketcap. Bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin is a good option for this. And if you want to be a good trader then do proper analysis of crypto market. And learn from your mistakes.

Indeed a big fact that we should always keep in mind if we where going to be torn between trading and holding just take a look and think for a minute of what kind of crypto does i have now. Bitcoin and Ethereum were probably the two favourite coin here. This is what a kind of cryptocurrency that was worth it to keep and good for long term investment. This is what you can trust on that even you kept it has a huge possibility that you will harvest a good grain here.

[bounceback]

Trading or holding its totally depends on your mind.If you are afraid to risk and long time holder and increase your asset, I think holding is the best for you. If you control emotion and want to make a profit so fast and have an idea about the trade you start to trade now. You get profit sure from invest money but not an emergency you need to hold a long time or trade is the only way to make a profit every day.

Many potential coin have higher price after holding several months later and many investor get much profit from holding coin, but not all investor could control their emotion when seeing coin have raise higher price and try to sell soon. Just few investor looking ahead how potential coin holding and give more profitable later if hold, we can see at many coin after hold several months later give more than 500% profit depend with first coin price do you buy. How ever have coin drop lower price with long time holding and decision how do you buy and choose good coin for long term investment. If you have much money you hold coin for long term as your future investment but we are small trader have looking for profit every day with trading than holding.

[Gibreil]

I agree with you.
Trading it right now is better than holding it when you don't know if the market will be more better than this. Most professional trader just believe holding your coins is a sign of failure. Facing the challenge of the market right now is better than avoiding the market which you don't know when the market will suit to your taste. Many people miss their opportunity because they were still holding their coin for a long time hope the market will change for their good.

Yes, if we just see and experience the current market condition. I swear, you will just pick to trade than to hold. Unless you have bunch of pennies and you are preparing to buy at this moment. Altcoin is being murdered in market. Most of them declined almost 80 percent since August. I have invested in bitcoin and altcoins but my portfolio is still in negative because my altcoins are in blood bath.

[livingfree]

Trading or holding its totally depends on your mind.If you are afraid to risk and long time holder and increase your asset, I think holding is the best for you. If you control emotion and want to make a profit so fast and have an idea about the trade you start to trade now. You get profit sure from invest money but not an emergency you need to hold a long time or trade is the only way to make a profit every day.

It is proven that the quicker the person wants to make money, he is closer to lose money.

Both are ways of making money.

Your choice depends to your strategy. IMO, holding has lower risk for good coins.

[proTECH77]

I prefer holding coin to watch if the market is okay for me to supply to make a good income. Holding make you to understand the market place whic many people don't understand before trading their coins in the market. Trading will not make you do some research concerning the particular coins you are trading in the market.
When you hold it, give you chance to view or monitor the price of the market very well. Since I came to understand how to hold coin and make a good profit from the coin make me a good trader. Many still think trading on the time make someone to make a good income. It is good to learn how to hold for some time before release them to market to confirm the reward.

[ttcsalam]

I think holding means stupidity.I recently held a coin.And ‍A few days later I saw that the price became $ 4.I was holding on without selling.After 3 months I see that coin only .32 dollars means full capital loss.For that I think holding is nothing but stupidity.So buying and selling is good.

[pilosopotasyo]

Most professional trader just believe holding your coins is a sign of failure.

Anyone who thinks this way is merely assuming. And that isn't right. It's fallacious because assumption is the highest level of not knowing. I see Hodling like keeping one's account in a bank in a fixed deposit. Is that a sign of failure too? I don't think so.

I made profit from hodling and so are the thousands of those who made a lot from hodling their coins, in fact this is most safer than trading because here is a risk in trading, in hodling you just research for the coin with good potential in the market and have the patient not to trade until you made a profit, let the developer make a move to create the platform and complete the roadmap, and let things takes its course.

[XCANA]

Trading is good actually if you want to grow your holdings. I mean holding .5 or 1 btc for me is not fruitful. Unless you hold a bunch of bitcoins, holding is the answer. And not many holders have thousands or even hundreds of bitcoin.

You are right on this, holding much of stash in Bitcoin will be more profitable than just holding some petty stash in Bitcoin. Although 1Bitcoin = 1Bitcoin but without a good stash of this coin your holding is mere like a waste compare to when you're able to trade some few stash to make few stash addition to the holding. Sometimes, those without the knowledge of trade shouldn't get into it becasue it can ruin their holdings, despite their minimal stash hold your coins and don't get into trade to incur loss.

[Mpamaegbu]

I made profit from hodling and so are the thousands of those who made a lot from hodling their coins, in fact this is most safer than trading because here is a risk in trading, in hodling you just research for the coin with good potential in the market and have the patient not to trade until you made a profit, let the developer make a move to create the platform and complete the roadmap, and let things takes its course.

Don't get me wrong. I ain't saying that one can't make money hodling. What I said was that those who hodl only play safe and don't make as much profit or loss as those who trade. Let me give you an instance. I held 1,000 unit of a certain token for two years but didn't trade it for once. Then, in May of this year that token rose from $0.02 to $2.4. No doubt that one stood the chance of making profit. But it's very clear that the profit one would make was subject to the 1,000 units if one sold at ATH. Now, the story would've been different if I had traded that same 1,000 within the two - year period. I could've traded it to 5,000 units or more; or even lost below my initial stock. Surely, profit from 5,000 units is better than that from 1,000. But there isn't any risk keeping the 1,000 intact unlike making 5,000. That's just my point.