Is Buy and Hold Really the Best Strategy in Crypto?

[Ryker1]

We can't say that every traders loses money. There are still a lot of traders who are generating good money daily. If you are unaware of trading, don't involve in it. First, you should learn about trading very well then you can start it otherwise Buy and hold strategy is good for you.

Well, you are right. Because they are perhaps willing to risk their money. I can say trading is a need for skills and of course strategy just to work out and gain profit. Even how expert you are, there is a big chance that you will lose in the race of trading because I consider this trading is a competition. When there is a winner, there should be a loser. I would say, holding is the best way and the less risk upon crypto investment, --if you dont have the ability to trade, this is the best and suitable for you. Indeed, this will matter upon your passion for crypto, we can't generalize all crypto enthusiasts.

[goinmerry]

I would only prefer to do day trading if a certain trader have now experiences and also have a lot of strategies that they can use in order to make gains in the market.

Then how these people will experience doing day trades if they only do hold. They should get out of that room and start building experience.

The better advice should be, while holding, slowly involved, and practice doing trades to build experience. Their experience will teach them to build numerous strategies that will help them to make good decisions amid several difficulties they will face in the process.

Either holding or actively doing trading, the effectiveness of our strategy depends on how we handle and managed it.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Buying and holding bitcoin is the best strategy IMO, but I don't think the same is true for the vast majority of altcoins.  Therefore for crypto trading in general, buy-and-hold might not work out for you if you're holding some awful shitcoins or tokens that have been overhyped.  With those cryptos, I think short-term trading might give you the best chance of making a profit--but it's still risky as hell, particularly if what you're trading has low market liquidity and/or extreme volatility. 

Bitcoin is still the most popular cryptocurrency out there by far, and if you think it's going to have any utility as a currency then it has to significantly grow in price if it's going to be used by a lot of people.  And if you're bullish on bitcoin, I think you'd probably end up losing money if you're just trading in and out for cash.  Lots of people get lucky and time the market correctly....but most don't.

“95% of traders lose money”

That's probably true, and I wouldn't ignore those words altogether.  The market has a way of wiping out both experienced and inexperienced traders.

[Lorence.xD]

Not necessarily a strategy in my opinion, for me buying and holding is just a way of safekeeping your money to combat inflation of the fiat that you want to convert. Strategy for me yields you profits that can help you along the way and not help you when the time comes.

[wxa7115]

I think buy and hold strategy will only apply to some assets/token, Not everyone can get the way of buying and holding like not every token is suitable for that kind of strategy and just holding it means that you are giving your trust to that certain token. I myself only hold 2 coins and it is Bitcoin and Ethereum because longevity wise I believe that I can profit on both of them. As a trader, I like trading big coins but I ain't holding it for too long because I know I can make better profits in trading them. Each coin has different potentials you just need to find them then learn the strategies and how to execute it.

This is something that many traders are simply unable to understand, the strategy of buying and holding can be really effective but only for assets that you know are going to be here for the long term and except for a handful of coins like bitcoin and ethereum the rest of the coins in the market are not optimal to perform that strategy.

And this is because it is known the majority of the coins disappear after being in the market for one year and each day tens of coins are released all promising the same thing, to become successful, to bring profits to everyone and to remain in the market for a long time, and most coins are unable to fulfil a single one of their promises, so when thinking on applying the buy and hold strategy we need to always have in mind the thought of never investing using this strategy unless we are completely sure the coin can remain in the market for years and the developers are dedicated enough to keep improving the code until they reach their goals.

[ChrisPop]

HODLing is the best strategy for the majority of people who are not savvy in trading and do not posses the time to trade properly - implicitly learning TA or QA, finding a working strategy and then implementing it.

As many people in this thread said there is no strategy suitable for everyone. There is no one size fits all strat and there are an infinite number of ways you can extract money from the market.

[nasipadang]

Buy and hold is great when the market is a dump, but it is not a good strategy in volatile markets. In some cases in low volatility markets this strategy has minimal risk and is a good thing to do, such as the top market. For me, every condition in the crypto market has its own strategy, I mean here that one strategy is not suitable for use in many conditions. I appreciate every thread that is done based on research.

[beerlover]

There are veterans of trading and they will tell you that the amount of profit you can make from regular day trading is not even remotely close to what you can make from just buying and holding. Don't get me wrong the fact that buying and holding is profitable is true, people could make money that way and I would say it is quite the investment if you really want to do it, and nobody could argue that people wouldn't be able to make a profit.

However just because one thing is profitable doesn't mean that other one is not making profit, sure a newbie doing day trading will end up losing and someone who insists on not learning and just doing it how they want to will end up losing as well, but someone who really knows what they are doing will make ten times more than the person who buys and holds.

[onecall123]

Buy and hold is great when the market is a dump, but it is not a good strategy in volatile markets. In some cases in low volatility markets this strategy has minimal risk and is a good thing to do, such as the top market. For me, every condition in the crypto market has its own strategy, I mean here that one strategy is not suitable for use in many conditions. I appreciate every thread that is done based on research.

So true. For smart traders volatile markets is good option to gain some quick profit. Others gotta buy it, and not look at it for over a year or more. So, someone going to be for profit, the other is going to be HOLD until Moon or Bust. However, I respect both perspective.

[lenovop-70]

Truly right to buy and keep it, buy on bottom and release it while its high on top, for me it is work on major coin like BTC and ETH, and not working properly on alts because alts is not predictable.
This strategy buy hold and release is safer than you play on futures trading, you can still have it on spot trading even the price goes down to bottom, but if you are on futures, you will loose all of yours when you are wrong to put your move.
For expert, futures may be the solution to daily income from trading, but its not working for me, im not expert, im still learning.

[wxa7115]

There are veterans of trading and they will tell you that the amount of profit you can make from regular day trading is not even remotely close to what you can make from just buying and holding. Don't get me wrong the fact that buying and holding is profitable is true, people could make money that way and I would say it is quite the investment if you really want to do it, and nobody could argue that people wouldn't be able to make a profit.

However just because one thing is profitable doesn't mean that other one is not making profit, sure a newbie doing day trading will end up losing and someone who insists on not learning and just doing it how they want to will end up losing as well, but someone who really knows what they are doing will make ten times more than the person who buys and holds.

The power of trading comes from compound interest, even if you were only able to earn roughly 10% per month if you can do this regularly then at the end of a few years you will multiply your coins many times over and that is where trading shows its power over holding your coins.

During that time frame a person that just holds his coins could earn fiat but the number of coins that he's holding will remain flat and will not increase but with trading you have the option of the number of coins that you are holding to grow significantly during that same amount of time which will obviously multiply your profits in fiat as well but as we know trading is very hard and only a few can earn money with the activity which makes holding such a good option for the rest of the investors in this market.

[abel1337]

There are veterans of trading and they will tell you that the amount of profit you can make from regular day trading is not even remotely close to what you can make from just buying and holding. Don't get me wrong the fact that buying and holding is profitable is true, people could make money that way and I would say it is quite the investment if you really want to do it, and nobody could argue that people wouldn't be able to make a profit.

However just because one thing is profitable doesn't mean that other one is not making profit, sure a newbie doing day trading will end up losing and someone who insists on not learning and just doing it how they want to will end up losing as well, but someone who really knows what they are doing will make ten times more than the person who buys and holds.

The power of trading comes from compound interest, even if you were only able to earn roughly 10% per month if you can do this regularly then at the end of a few years you will multiply your coins many times over and that is where trading shows its power over holding your coins.

During that time frame a person that just holds his coins could earn fiat but the number of coins that he's holding will remain flat and will not increase but with trading you have the option of the number of coins that you are holding to grow significantly during that same amount of time which will obviously multiply your profits in fiat as well but as we know trading is very hard and only a few can earn money with the activity which makes holding such a good option for the rest of the investors in this market.

Every strategy will depend on the person, There are people who aren't good at trading so the most efficient choice is just to hold their tokens and wait for the token value to rise. On the other hand, If a certain person has the skills that can accumulate profit in trading the person would certainly do trading for him to earn much more profit. Trading can give you more profit because you are working for it, Doing some analyzation while holding is just letting your token sit on your wallet and you are just checking the asset price regularly. If we are talking about the time I think the person who daily trades will get profit more than the holder because the profit of it is just pilling up and using it to deliver more profit in the trader's portfolio.

Both trading and holding are profitable if you do it right it's just trading is where you can earn more but put a lot of work on it and holding is earning less but gaining profit slow and small.

[wxxyrqa]

Every strategy will depend on the person, There are people who aren't good at trading so the most efficient choice is just to hold their tokens and wait for the token value to rise. On the other hand, If a certain person has the skills that can accumulate profit in trading the person would certainly do trading for him to earn much more profit. Trading can give you more profit because you are working for it, Doing some analyzation while holding is just letting your token sit on your wallet and you are just checking the asset price regularly. If we are talking about the time I think the person who daily trades will get profit more than the holder because the profit of it is just pilling up and using it to deliver more profit in the trader's portfolio.

Both trading and holding are profitable if you do it right it's just trading is where you can earn more but put a lot of work on it and holding is earning less but gaining profit slow and small.

I believe that everything depends primarily on the skills and experience of a person, since not everyone will be able to make a permanent profit from trading and therefore chooses, at best, investments for a certain period. I am very much afraid of losses from trade transactions and therefore I most often buy and store coins until the next price hike.

[Bitlover10]

This is best strategy when you hold something legit and good project. In this case I can only trust btc and eth. If you holding anything else then it's a big risk. In btc and eth also have risk like eth is came from 480 to 380 which is bad for traders and bad impact on market.

[proscratcher]

It's really a cool strategy for long term holders. I think it is profitable, warren buffet is the father of buy and hold and for me, it is still applicable until now. If you invest in BTC 5 years ago. Then you will be a millionaire already.

[Rikafip]

If you don't know what you are doing and are too lazy to invest time and effort, than hodl is by far the best that outperforms others in the long term (talking about bitcoin here). I've learned my lesson few years ago and realised that I'm not cut for the trading game, so now I just hodl what I have.

With that being said, there are people out there that invested a lot of time ( and lost money during learning process), educated themselves and are making nice living out of trading, but those are far rarer than you might think. So for an average Joe, hodl is the way to go go.

[Janation]

This is best strategy when you hold something legit and good project. In this case I can only trust btc and eth. If you holding anything else then it's a big risk. In btc and eth also have risk like eth is came from 480 to 380 which is bad for traders and bad impact on market.

You could diversify that holdings more if you can.

Bitcoin and Ethereum is not just the best project in the market. I know that you just trust that two but if you really wanted to give yourself a high possiblity of earning more, you could try investing on other coins as well. Another thing is that not all drops are that bad, the price is been at its green for a while and this really happens in this market. If you ask me, this is the best time to reinvest.

[iamsheikhadil]

Buy and hold might not work for crypto as in crypto is much much more volatile than our stock or Fiat market is. I've been new to stock market and invested in some stocks and from what I've observed, the longer you stay invested, the more profit you will be able to make on stocks. But for crypto, the added volatility makes it much more complex.

[Capanatlax]

Since trading is important in trading when to buy and when to sell are very important especially when you prepare yourself to conduct a trade. Not just trading between buying and selling trading in cryptocurrency means concluding all sorts of reviews. Because you can be a loser if you try to do something wrong on one side so you have to be careful.

[gabbie2010]

Buy and hodl is much applicable to cryptocurrencies trading and might not work in forex trading and other trading where according to statistic almost 95% lose their money whereas crypto trading had become a safe haven or better alternative even for inexperienced or newbie trader to make profit by just following the simple rule of buying low and selling high although this also requires some little knowledge however its much more better than the other trading that requires vast knowledge in Technical and Fundamental analysis and the trader must be well groomed by a mentor in other to be profitable in a long run.