How to offload an Altcoin

[Jessica Ruder]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

[ralle14]

Sell them in smaller portions or take the hit if you don't have time to do it in several trades. The price will always go down unless there's a trader actively looking for these coins and does the same thing so the price won't go up. Looking for more exchanges could also be an option since not all exchanges are listed in sites like coinmarketcap.

[Kupid002]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

Just sell around $1000 daily so it will not affect the market too much for selling that large amount. if you see high buy orders then dump only all those coins to that orders until all of them filled with your sell orders.

Its really difficult to sell it all at once since there are chances that you can sell it only at lower price so you need to be carefull before deciding to sell it.

[Little Mouse]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

That's not looking good. If you are going to sell the most, price will be affected significantly. This is a very low volume I can see and with a $50k sell order, market will be sunk. You can rather try to sell at other marketplace, like OTC with a discounted price. That will get you the best benefit.

[pakhitheboss]

Sell them in smaller portions or take the hit if you don't have time to do it in several trades. The price will always go down unless there's a trader actively looking for these coins and does the same thing so the price won't go up. Looking for more exchanges could also be an option since not all exchanges are listed in sites like coinmarketcap.

It is not easy to sell them when you have such a low volume. It will be very hard to find buyers. If you sell them in small portion the price will take a major hit. I am sure you will not find buyers if the price goes down to a certain point. The only option is to wait and watch.

[ethereumhunter]

I will wait until the price can increase higher at least more than the price I bought that coin so I can make a profit. The coin with a medium amount of trading volume is enough for me to trade, and as long as I can make a profit, that will be okay for me. I feel better trade more than one time for the coin with the good movements from the coin than to wait for a long time to take the profit. Maybe you can try to sell some amount first when the price increase so you can get your initial money, and you can wait for another time to sell that coin again.

[Lantind]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

Very simple, if someone has Altcoin worth $ 400,000, then he will not release it in one day, because the volume is clearly not enough, and that person only takes one week to release all Altcoos that he has, because the daily trade of $ 100,000 it was enough for him to release all Altcoin he had in one week's duration.

[Shallow]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

It is clear the volume is too poor therefore it will not be possible to do such. Also, if you try sending everything at once or even half of it, or even setting a certain amount you will only end up generating panic and holders might dump so as to exit the market before it crashes. So the idea is, selling very small amount at a time; taking into account the daily trading volume stated by you, something like $10k per week won't be bad, or even less, although it will take time but it will worth it and also the market won't crash unexpectedly.

[TanakabZX]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

You can sell daily since the limited volume is just 24hours, the next day there will be another buy orders on the exchange, some takes more than a day though, people need to stay away from coins that have no demand, they aren't good enough is why they have low volume

[bgaf]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

Thats too big holding. You cant simply touch the ground with that, unless you wanna eat it all with different price that is lower than the current buying price. You can sell it each time there is a buy order or set many sell orders with different price but near its value. By the way only one exchange for this? What altcoin do you have?

I will wait until the price can increase higher at least more than the price I bought that coin so I can make a profit.

If its an altcoin the result will only lead to liquidation. Most altcoin tend to bounce back but its a one in a million ways. Or sometime doesnt happen at all.

[Kvalentine]

Just sell what you can now and wait for another day maybe there will be demand available on the exchange, honestly projects that have little volume aren't good enough

[Jessica Ruder]

Okay thanks for all the replies. Now lets take a coin like Bitcoin Gold. Which has a daily trade volume of ~28 Mil. What's the most someone could sell at a time without causing panic? Because even on the exchanges that do millions in trades a day, there doesn't seem to be any sell orders for more that $1000.

[Lexurdania]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

Choosing altcoin that wants to be an investment does need caution. Not all altcoins have a large daily transaction volume, in fact there are many altcoins whose daily transaction volume is under $ 1000. Market cap value and also daily transactions need to be considered when we want to decide to invest in altcoin and in my opinion, coins in the top 50 coin marketcap deserve to be long-term investments

[TheClownSong]

Okay thanks for all the replies. Now lets take a coin like Bitcoin Gold. Which has a daily trade volume of ~28 Mil. What's the most someone could sell at a time without causing panic? Because even on the exchanges that do millions in trades a day, there doesn't seem to be any sell orders for more that $1000.

I think with a daily transaction value that reaches $ 28 million per day, it will not cause panic when there are investors or people who sell coins with a value of less than $ 1 million. In my opinion, the price will decline sharply if the buy order on the market turns out not to be as big as the value of the coins in the sell order

[Kupid002]

Okay thanks for all the replies. Now lets take a coin like Bitcoin Gold. Which has a daily trade volume of ~28 Mil. What's the most someone could sell at a time without causing panic? Because even on the exchanges that do millions in trades a day, there doesn't seem to be any sell orders for more that $1000.

You can actually sell that directly to buyers if you want to set a sell order's. Just dont use all of the amount you want to sell if you dont want trader's to panic on the coins you are selling.

There will always be a buy orders that will be created every time you sold your coins. Just always look at it so you will not create a panic.

[minairia3]

Now lets take a coin like Bitcoin Gold. Which has a daily trade volume of ~28 Mil. What's the most someone could sell at a time without causing panic? Because even on the exchanges that do millions in trades a day, there doesn't seem to be any sell orders for more that $1000.

Not sure if the price or volume could be retain anytime since it will depends on the demand. How come a 28mil volume a day hasnt have much supply that cant sustain a $1k per trade? What you must do is just set an order closer or put some gap between the prices you set like 100, wow do you have some that big coins to dump with? Surely it will cause panic if your volume sell is quite huge.

[Jannyh]

That's a whole lot compared to the trading volume, I think the best way to sell it so as not to cause a total dump is to sell daily some amount since 24hr trading volume is $1000, you could share it into 7 days ,now with that the price won't dump drastically unlike when you set all for sell in an exchange in a day,that could cause panic and make holders to dump.

[mirakal]

That is not a problem actually, you are holding a big amount of money but you can still sell that into pieces.

Try to sell first the coins that are listed in big exchange or those coins with great trading volume, I believe every exchange have different limit but as long as your coins is trading in an exchange, you'll be able to sell them all for sure.

[michellee]

I think that will depend on your strategy to sell the altcoin. But I am sure that many traders will agree that they will sell their altcoin when the price increase higher. That will be the same thing as what I did with my altcoin because if I see the price can increase especially increase more than the price that I buy before, I will directly sell some portion of the altcoin. I will wait for another moment to sell the other amount so I can hope to make a double profit from the same altcoin.

[Goldada]

If the coin is traded in several exchanges other than just one exchange with same daily trading volume, you can sell the coins part by part in those exchanges. If not, it's either selling to the orders there which will really affect the price or just be patient, set your order and wait for buyers.

[thesmallgod]

If I understand you clearly, you are trying to dump a token that is trading at a volume below what you have in total. If that be the case, you may not be able to sell all at the same time and also at a specific price. You will need to be selling in a smaller quantity until you have sold all of the tokens. All you may wait until the token is listed on another exchange with huge traders. Probably people buy the token in order for your own token sell order to be completely filled.

[coinfinger]

Well, I have done something quite similar before so I can definitely respond to this. I didn't do 400k of course, I was never that lucky so I can't really say for that much amount but if you just over scale the discussion you can find something from what I have done to be useful. I didn't sold from the market price, I didn't even made any rush neither, I just took my time and did it in 10 days and I got out.

I was dealing with a coin that had around 3-4k tokens (not dollars, that token) traded everyday, and I had 20k of that token (again 20k tokens, not 20k dollars) so what I did was, whenever someone put a sell order at 1 satoshi lower price, lets say spread was 3456 to 4567, so I put my order at 4566, someone put it on 4565 and I changed mine to 4564, that way I was always the next one to sell while also not selling on market price of 3456 neither, I also put whatever that person was putting as the volume too, so if he was selling 700 tokens I was selling 700 tokens as well.

Basically after a while if you are careful enough you were the only person who sold that token for 10 days and you would make a great return as well because you can literally buy more of that token back from highest buy order at 3457 instead.

[ReliabilityAlert222]

Undoubtedly, it is a bad thing for a businessman to take on more  volume of the loss, If that happens day after day then it is much worse. Here is what happened, so as a business representative, I would say that the coins are not small enough to leave the coins unattended, but find the buyer.

[cytpoway121]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

For you have 400,000 $ worth of an altcoin; then its either you are a team member, or private investors who get portion of supply for investing.
And mind you, you will have no reason to offloan 400,000$ worth at once, instead you will prefer to invest more to make project better.

With a daily volume of 100,000, and token of 400,000$ to sell, you are basically going to ruin the token and its trade totallly

[OasisDre]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

The daily trading volume is 100,000$, I suggest you sell bit by bit, like 50,000$ today and repeat the process in other days, remember that this will have bad impact on the project, price will go down, so don't dump once

[Crypto_lion]

Okay 400000 sounds a lot for a retail investor to invest in a altcoin. Anyway if you do have that and volume is low be careful not to crash the price by putting huge sell orders. Do it step by step

[CrownMade423]

I have to say, now is a time where the situation of the mutual interest is showing, I do not think that the stability of the coin market will last long. The behavior of this market has not been desirable in any way since the 2017. To this day, this submerged market has not been able to wander. As a result, we are calculating the loss of mid-sized traders. Have you ever wondered in the light of your topic, how can the interest of investing go down at this point if it is to suffer losses? The answer may be, "yes", because you have come to realize it.

[xSkylarx]

With a small volume, you can try to sell your altcoin in a small portion, however, this might take some time and might require patience. Just hope there will be demand on the coin you are holding because as you sell them in portion the price will go lower eventually.

[blockman]

How could you get that amount for an altcoin with a very small volume? that sure is a problem if you needed money and that's all that you got but you have problems selling them in the market for having that volume which can't even satisfy you.
There's no other way to sell that whole amount until you do it for each day and wait for those buy orders at any price range that they want and it is up to your decision if you are willing to sell it at any price then, you have no choice but to take those orders.

[btc_angela]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

The only option is to off load them slowly and in small portions. And because it has small liquidity, doing it in one dump might cause a negative impact on the price itself so it might affect your investments very badly. You might sell like $100-$1000 and then wait for a few days and continue the cycle. Make your self unpredictable so hide your intentions of dumping your stash.

[FrozenBit]

To avoid collapsing prices, you need to sell them in small portions and last for days. This will help you not to lose too much and also help prevent project tokens from collapsing

[key4co.in]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

If you rush to place a large sell order, you will automatically create panic since traders will think its team selling off. As already suggested, sell in parts and not on the same day. Don't bother setting sell order in my opinion, or if u must do, not on same day. Just take best buy orders across some days.

[Botnake]

If the volume is just stable, you can still sell it but it will really take time.

Carefully analyze the movement of the coin because the moment you sell a big portion, the price might dump and it might affect the future price,
Selling slowly requires patience and that's the only method you will have to do in order to get the best value.

[rexxarofmoknathal]

That is not a problem actually, you are holding a big amount of money but you can still sell that into pieces.

Try to sell first the coins that are listed in big exchange or those coins with great trading volume, I believe every exchange have different limit but as long as your coins is trading in an exchange, you'll be able to sell them all for sure.

I agree with @mirakal here. It's a bummer that you can't place an order and get rid of all of it in that way but it doesn't mean that you can't sell it if you wanted to. Different exchanges have different trading volumes and even if you were to do it in batches you should still be able to sell all the alt. Better option would be to explore the trading volume of different exchanges and start from there 

[Vishnu.Reang]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

Daily trade volume in most cases is inflated. So you can't go by the numbers based on the exchange data. If the exchanges are not inflating it, then there is a good chance that the bots are responsible for most of the volume. Anyway, I have never dealt with such huge volumes before. However, my suggestion would be to go for peer to peer deals outside the exchange. But then, you need to offer steep discounts (40% or 50%), and I would recommend it only in case you are facing extreme cash crunch.

[jacafbiz]

You can not sell that huge tokens buy yourself unless you want to crash the price which is not good for you, if you are not a patient trader, that is why most of these exchanges now have OTC trade, just contact them and tell them the average price you want to sell the tokens, but their fee is relatively high as compared to if you want to sell it directly on exchange yourseelf

[Chuky92]

If you have $400,000 worth of an Altcoin, that has a daily trading volume of $100,000, how do you offload it? Because it seems like a coin with a medium amount of trading volume only has maybe $500 trades at the most. So I don't get how someone could offload a large amount?

I think the first thing to do is to check if it is listed on another better change, if it is not then selling in smaller amount will be the best way for you and for everyone. Selling at once will crash the market and will likely drive away buyers, and of course will affect you too. So you will be patient while you sell gradually, it will take time but it looks like the best option and I don't see any other way.

[@baoli]

Selling all out once will wipe out the price. The only way you can sell an altcoin that way is to stage sell it. You sell it portion by portion, so that the price can still stay up.

[LostConfidence243]

Bad news!  I never want to receive such sad news. When I saw some scammers in the beginning hacking or scamming them in another way, I didn't mind. But now that the market is starting to decline, by investing $10000 coins you have to lose $6000 coins. I do not understand how an investor will suffer the destruction of his hard earned wealth there.