Stocks vs Crypto | What is The Difference Between Crypto and Stocks?

[pickforbies]

Crypto investment became a hot topic after Bitcoin experienced a drastic price increase. Investors are racing to try their luck in crypto investing to make a profit. But, it is not as easy as you think about investing in crypto like magic money. In contrast to stock investment, the old players in the investment world still put this investment as a favorite ‘way’ to turn their money for profit. Many people are starting to compare crypto investments and stock investments.

Based on Blocksize-Capital Article, there is 8 key differences between traditional stocks trading and cryptocurrency trading.

The cryptocurrency market differs from traditional markets in many ways –  from ownership to regulation, fees, and volatility. The whole industry still has enormous potential for growth, as payment giants like PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and more are joining the cryptocurrency space. It offers a great opportunity to increase diversity in our portfolio.

Let's choose who's more profitable and stable, Crypto or Stocks. Let's decided

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[Husires]

Let's choose who's more profitable and stable, Crypto or Stocks. Let's decided

You are making an inaccurate comparison, as the difference between the two systems is far, just like someone who compares gold to cryptos.
There are basic differences between the two systems, which means that making profit will not be a factor:

• Working hours: crypto market operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, excluding stocks.
  
• Regulatory laws: The price of a currency can end by 80%, which is what happens in the stock market.
  
• Liquidity: Liquidity is based on platforms.
• Limitations: The cryptocurrency market is global.

But we find that investing in cryptocurrencies as a whole is not profitable, as many projects have lost a lot of their value, unlike bitcoin and ether, most Altcoins are dangerous and not withdrawing your profits in a timely manner means that you will achieve losses.

[pickforbies]

Let's choose who's more profitable and stable, Crypto or Stocks. Let's decided

You are making an inaccurate comparison, as the difference between the two systems is far, just like someone who compares gold to cryptos.
There are basic differences between the two systems, which means that making profit will not be a factor:

• Working hours: crypto market operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, excluding stocks.
  
• Regulatory laws: The price of a currency can end by 80%, which is what happens in the stock market.
  
• Liquidity: Liquidity is based on platforms.
• Limitations: The cryptocurrency market is global.

Thank you for sharing here. Maybe in Blocksize-Capital Article that I mentioned here already listed some of your factors, and I assumed we understood about it.

But the main idea of what I want to discuss is about Trading. Trading is common-activity and we can choose the object of trading we wanted. That's the point of my discussion topics.

But we find that investing in cryptocurrencies as a whole is not profitable, as many projects have lost a lot of their value, unlike bitcoin and ether, most Altcoins are dangerous and not withdrawing your profits in a timely manner means that you will achieve losses.

Happily, we have forums and as decentralized-network introduction, affected also on our community, so everyone have any right to bring guidelines (Example this forum). Observations and analytics about the project should be first step.

[bussybuddy]

For the stock market, the biggest risk is that companies go bankrupt and the market almost crashes. However, the most common case is the company cutting the dividend. There are many companies that have less growth than the competition, so investors will not get the return they expect. Compared to accounts like Bitcoin, the risk of securities is still acceptable. The electronic market is full of factors and stocks that are completely unpredictable. Cryptocurrencies have always been speculative, and they are primarily supply and demand based. To some extent, currencies will all be based on what people are willing to pay. However, for cryptocurrencies, each asset is too small compared to the overall size, so it is quite volatile.

As for Bitcoin, investors will have to face that it will be replaced by other new cryptocurrencies. And it's very difficult to control well.

[ipanks]

If those people come and join in the crypto without any preparation and consider that crypto will be the same as stock, I am afraid they will not profit like what they did in stocks. I prefer to do crypto investment and crypto trading than using stock because I do not have experience with stock and I consider that stock needs more difficult to learn about the analysis. Maybe I am wrong but that is from my perception and so far, using crypto as my investment really works to earn money.

[crwth]

I do agree with some of the points from Husires. But since you said the discussion should be in trading, essentially, there's no difference. The main differences are probably the market itself and what pairs are available depending on where you are trading. All of the drawing tools, mathematical equations, indicators, etc., that are being used in stock trading are the things used as well in crypto. So there's not much any difference with that.

If we are to focus on what could give us financial freedom, I think the easiest way is through cryptocurrencies. That way and the growth should be more significant since the market is younger too. Of course, there are other things to consider, like security and regulations. For sure, the stocks are being heavily monitored, but it's not much applied for crypto. Additionally that there are DEXs that could be used without any KYC or something.

The best explanation that you could give to someone, who is not yet aware of the difference between the two, is that Cryptocurrency has 24/7 markets and stocks do not have. That's one of the essential things that we could focus on—more profitability in Crypto IMO. The stock is a slow market comparing to cryptocurrency markets.

[Strongkored]

But the main idea of what I want to discuss is about Trading. Trading is common-activity and we can choose the object of trading we wanted. That's the point of my discussion topics.

Basically trade on both are same buy low sell high, but you will rarely or in my experience will not find an increase in stock more than 50% a day, whereas in crypto it is very possible to see one coin pumped more than hundreds percent a day. Stock market is more regulated , it is very possible that trading in certain stocks is stopped when there are suspicious activity on that market, you will not find on crypto market.
One stock can be delisting after passing accurate research while crypto is only based on low volume trading or when there is a problem in the coin network.

The stock is a slow market comparing to cryptocurrency markets.

Yes, very slow so don't expect high profit if use little capital to trade at stock. I think stock more suits for long term.

[YOSHIE]

Let's choose who's more profitable and stable, Crypto or Stocks. Let's decided

Maybe everyone on Bitcointalk already knows these two definitions, general.

Shares are letters that prove someone has a share in the capital of a company. A person who owns shares has rights to part of the company assets.

Cryptocurrency or crypto is a virtual currency that is guaranteed by cryptography. Meanwhile, another definition of crypto currency is a currency that is used to transact one person with another online.

Both clearly have their own risks, the crypto where you invest and trade online, if the price goes up and down at your own risk.
While stock assets, this can be plural, meaning: if the company you invest in grows and develops you will get big profits, on the contrary, if the company loses you also suffer the same fate.

The bottom line: if you look at the current conditions with a prolonged pandemic, which doesn't go away, it's clear that my choice is crypto, the current state of the best alternative crypto to increase profits, believe it or not just prove it for yourself.

[crwth]

Yes, very slow so don't expect high profit if use little capital to trade at stock. I think stock more suits for long term.

I don't think so. It's cryptocurrencies still for the long term. If you believe in it and choose the coins that you wouldn't mind to HODL long-term, I think it would be okay. The long term would depend on the asset and the person for sure.

[TheUltraElite]

if you look at the current conditions with a prolonged pandemic, which doesn't go away, it's clear that my choice is crypto, the current state of the best alternative crypto to increase profits, believe it or not just prove it for yourself.

Backing one's opinion based on current situations is a short term measure, the long term does not change, is what I feel.

Today this one is doing good, tomorrow that one might come back into action. You are forgetting that situations change with time and it is better to use a backing statement that is not reliant on changes in situation but is backed by your own strengths.

Being well-versed in stocks, I would say, continue with stocks. I have seen good gains myself by buying at the dip of stocks back in May 2020 and today they are performing well. In the same way bitcoin has risen too, so my portfolio is green on that too.

Being an investor, a wrong step is to use the current situation to evaluate the portfolio, dont do this. Extrapolate the situation for the future and you might get a better idea of what sectors might profit.

To what the OP says, neither is stable and neither is profitable if you dont know how to trade or invest. This is no get-rich-quick scheme in either markets and therefore no short answer. The long answer is that if you are already trading something, moving to a different asset class is a wrong move.

[darewaller]

Backing one's opinion based on current situations is a short term measure, the long term does not change, is what I feel.

Today this one is doing good, tomorrow that one might come back into action. You are forgetting that situations change with time and it is better to use a backing statement that is not reliant on changes in situation but is backed by your own strengths.

Short term is the trader, long term is the investor. If you are calculating what is going to happen based on what is going on right now then you are going to end up being upset in the long term, but you may get lucky during the short term. This is why I understand the ones that make decisions in short term by looking at what is going on right now.

Stocks are great for long term as well, I have been investing in stocks for over 12 years, and I am not upset about that, I have a lot more money in stocks then I have in crypto because it is easier and never really cared about moving them, but if you look how much money I am putting in both then I have been putting more into crypto. Which means that my crypto worth will go beyond what my stocks worth eventually, not right now but it will happen in the future. Being good in crypto is not really that hard, you could do it by simply buying and waiting, it will go up eventually anyway.

[jossiel]

I've got a friend who asked me about bitcoin years ago and I don't know what's his stance right now towards bitcoin. I've looked to the possible potential profit in investing in stocks.

And if I just did chose that, I guess I won't be sitting in profits as high as I can see right now for having bitcoin than owning those stocks.

[Alisha FR]

we agree on 8 differences between stocks and crypto.
but when it comes to stable and profitable, I think therein lies the similarity, because when we talk about stability, stocks and crypto are unstable, so when we talk about profits, stocks and crypto are both profitable. it just depends on how comfortable you are with both.
but for those of me who hold crypto, I believe in crypto because so far I have never been disappointed with its development and I take care of all the analysis to feel comfortable in making a profit.

[taufik123]

I've got a friend who asked me about bitcoin years ago and I don't know what's his stance right now towards bitcoin. I've looked to the possible potential profit in investing in stocks.

And if I just did chose that, I guess I won't be sitting in profits as high as I can see right now for having bitcoin than owning those stocks.

Bitcoin or Stocks can both be profitable, depending on how you use them. Bitcoin or crypto is currently hype and many stock players are also moving to crypto. The real potential advantage is not only investing in stocks, but cryptocurrencies also have more opportunities. The risk of cryptocurrencies is quite large because of high volatility with price fluctuations that are crazier than stocks.
Cryptocurrencies are more popular because currently the price of Bitcoin is increasing until it reaches a new ATH at a price of $65k and this of course will continue.

[redsun114]

The cryptocurrency market differs from traditional markets in many ways –  from ownership to regulation, fees, and volatility.

Fundamentally cryptocurrency market is NOT same as stock market but if you want to day trade then you can go for either one along with your same level of skills. I mean you do not need to go for any special training when you plan to switch over from one market to another.

It offers a great opportunity to increase diversity in our portfolio.

Yeah, cryptocurrencies are offering new opportunities for both traders and investors to diversify their risks. If you are new to crypto space then it is highly recommended to go for long term crypto investments with at least 10% of your total capital. For active trading of cryptos, I recommend only less than 2% of your capital.

[tbct_mt2]

With crypto, with public ledgers, you can check coin distributions and discover whales on the network. You can observe their coin movements, any time you have connection to Internet.

With stocks, you can not do this. You have to rely on reports that can be true or untrue and those reports are not released on time.

The beauty of crypto is you can verify things you read or hear by yourself.

[tbct_mt2]

With crypto, with public ledgers, you can check coin distributions and discover whales on the network. You can observe their coin movements, any time you have connection to Internet.

With stocks, you can not do this. You have to rely on reports that can be true or untrue and those reports are not released on time.

The beauty of crypto is you can verify things you read or hear by yourself.

[AakZaki]

crypto is very transparent and decentralized. anyone can see and anyone can't delete it, everything can be tracked easily.
and For stocks it will not have a report like crypto. Crypto is available 24 hours and there is no time off, while stocks have time off and of course the market will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays. open monday - friday.

I've never traded stocks until now, I'm more comfortable in crypto and more profit I get.

[lixer]

The cryptocurrency market differs from traditional markets in many ways –  from ownership to regulation, fees, and volatility. The whole industry still has enormous potential for growth, as payment giants like PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and more are joining the cryptocurrency space. It offers a great opportunity to increase diversity in our portfolio.

Let's choose who's more profitable and stable, Crypto or Stocks. Let's decided

Cryptocurrency works for me, so everyone should choose what works for them. That it is working out for me in this way doesn’t mean that it is also going to work for others, because as good as I believe cryptocurrency is, I have still met people who feel that cryptocurrency is the worst investment that they have ever made in their life.  Like you said, they all have their own unique ways that they are different. There is too much risk in cryptocurrency because of how volatile it is, although that doesn’t mean that others doesn’t fluctuate, they also do, but not as much as cryptocurrency does.

[Webetcoins]

The biggest difference is the ownership, seriously. Most of the time when you buy a stock, you do not actually buy the stock, you buy the digital footprint of it, which means you do not actually own it, but you are told that you own it, and you could move as you wish with it, banks and other parties own it for real, you are only show the profits and losses that come with owning one.

In crypto I can do whatever I want and it is my own doing, I do not have to do anything else, I am capable of actually following whatever I own and I can trade it and swap it and that is the great feeling about crypto that everyone keeps forgetting about.

[samcrypto]

I've got a friend who asked me about bitcoin years ago and I don't know what's his stance right now towards bitcoin. I've looked to the possible potential profit in investing in stocks.

And if I just did chose that, I guess I won't be sitting in profits as high as I can see right now for having bitcoin than owning those stocks.

My friend encourage me to switch from stocks to crypto and I’m so thankful that he introduce me in crypto market because this offers me a great opportunity to earn more thought this is more risky but if you do trade correctly, its more rewarding.

Stocks and crypto offers a different opportunity, i still have my stock account and still using it since I believe in diversification and stocks are also good for long term investments.

[Lanatsa]

I've got a friend who asked me about bitcoin years ago and I don't know what's his stance right now towards bitcoin. I've looked to the possible potential profit in investing in stocks.

And if I just did chose that, I guess I won't be sitting in profits as high as I can see right now for having bitcoin than owning those stocks.

My friend encourage me to switch from stocks to crypto and I’m so thankful that he introduce me in crypto market because this offers me a great opportunity to earn more thought this is more risky but if you do trade correctly, its more rewarding.

Stocks and crypto offers a different opportunity, i still have my stock account and still using it since I believe in diversification and stocks are also good for long term investments.

Also my friend did encourage me to know crypto which it did really poke out my interest on dealing with this market and seeing that the possible income or profit you could get then this is the primary

thing that I do look for but of course im aware with the risk involved and its just normal that you would commit out mistakes when you are still newbie.

Im a long  time forex/stocks trader which I could say that even with less volatileness of the market but still it is way too unpredictable.

[Silberman]

The biggest difference is the ownership, seriously. Most of the time when you buy a stock, you do not actually buy the stock, you buy the digital footprint of it, which means you do not actually own it, but you are told that you own it, and you could move as you wish with it, banks and other parties own it for real, you are only show the profits and losses that come with owning one.

In crypto I can do whatever I want and it is my own doing, I do not have to do anything else, I am capable of actually following whatever I own and I can trade it and swap it and that is the great feeling about crypto that everyone keeps forgetting about.

This is an interesting point, unless you actually have the stocks in your hands most of the time you do not truly own the stock you are supposedly buying, and while it is true that in the market of cryptocurrencies you cannot touch your coins with your hands you at least know you have true ownership of your coins and you can get them out of the exchange whenever you want, and you can do more than just trade them but you can actually use them to buy stuff that you need, something that is not possible to do with a stock.

[jrrsparkles]

Why we have to keep our path very narrow, instead of stock or crypto why not stock and crypto?

Both are different in few aspects like volatility and regulation but the basic thing is same more the demand the value will increase so when we are capable of managing and finding the right assets at the right time we can make profits.

However, cryptocurrency market is more reactive so we can make profits in short time frame compared to the traditional stock market investment now the choice is yours.

[breathlessz]

Why we have to keep our path very narrow, instead of stock or crypto why not stock and crypto?

Both are different in few aspects like volatility and regulation but the basic thing is same more the demand the value will increase so when we are capable of managing and finding the right assets at the right time we can make profits.

However, cryptocurrency market is more reactive so we can make profits in short time frame compared to the traditional stock market investment now the choice is yours.

stocks and cryptos do sound better, on the other hand with different levels of risk due to different volatility then this will be a good asset diversification. but it's better to ask and study both of them until we finally understand and decide which investment is right for us, or even choose both

[jossiel]

I've got a friend who asked me about bitcoin years ago and I don't know what's his stance right now towards bitcoin. I've looked to the possible potential profit in investing in stocks.

And if I just did chose that, I guess I won't be sitting in profits as high as I can see right now for having bitcoin than owning those stocks.

My friend encourage me to switch from stocks to crypto and I’m so thankful that he introduce me in crypto market because this offers me a great opportunity to earn more thought this is more risky but if you do trade correctly, its more rewarding.

Stocks and crypto offers a different opportunity, i still have my stock account and still using it since I believe in diversification and stocks are also good for long term investments.

Good friends do exist and will encourage you to take risk that you can bear.

The good thing is that I've believed to bitcoin and stocks is good and I have nothing to say about it. I respect the stock investors and those that don't want to take risk in crypto.

I've met those that has a bad stance about crypto because it's quite new to them and they can't believe the high profit that we've taken from it so that's why they're butt hurt and bitter.

[sana54210]

Here you need to understand what the trader wants to get in the end, and what his general abilities are in trading. This plays a big role when choosing an asset for investment.

Still, the skill set you required to win in either crypto or stock market will not be different. So, your general abilities may not be having big role on choosing either one here. Every trader wants to make money from trading but they are choosing either stocks or crypto based on their own preferences and exposures. After getting into crypto space, I'm not into stock trading anymore because I'm comfortable with crypto trading and investment then why should I go back.

Why we have to keep our path very narrow, instead of stock or crypto why not stock and crypto?

I don't think that will be that easier unlike how it is sounding; because you cannot manage trading both crypto and stock markets simultaneously. If you're getting signals from some other resource of then you can go for it but if you are generating signals by your own through technical analysis then you cannot focus on both.

[adaseb]

The biggest difference is the ownership, seriously. Most of the time when you buy a stock, you do not actually buy the stock, you buy the digital footprint of it, which means you do not actually own it, but you are told that you own it, and you could move as you wish with it, banks and other parties own it for real, you are only show the profits and losses that come with owning one.

In crypto I can do whatever I want and it is my own doing, I do not have to do anything else, I am capable of actually following whatever I own and I can trade it and swap it and that is the great feeling about crypto that everyone keeps forgetting about.

This is false. You actually do own the stock. However most people rather keep the stock digitally on an exchange rather than keep the certificates somewhere in their house or a security box. Whenever you own some shares, you can contact the brokerage and for a large fee they can send you a physical certificate of the shares you own. However what are you going to do with that then? Keep it in your house and what if there is a fire.

The stocks that you might not actually own are more like options, futures, ETFs which all got fees and decays and are not great for holding long term.

[Silberman]

Why we have to keep our path very narrow, instead of stock or crypto why not stock and crypto?

Both are different in few aspects like volatility and regulation but the basic thing is same more the demand the value will increase so when we are capable of managing and finding the right assets at the right time we can make profits.

However, cryptocurrency market is more reactive so we can make profits in short time frame compared to the traditional stock market investment now the choice is yours.

Simple, most people do not have the money to invest in both markets and they are forced to make a choice, do they pick the stock market or the market of cryptocurrencies? And since this is a forum dedicated to bitcoin then it is obvious its participants are going to have a strong preference for this market, besides the stock market has many barriers to entry that do not exist in this market, and when we add the potential profits you can obtain then it makes sense that people are choosing this market over the stock market.

[illiki23]

Crypto is so much more that only a small subset of its use cases can be compared with stocks (and now you can even have stocks in crypto).   With respect to those I guess the essential difference is that of trusted versus trustless systems... but I feel that is not what the OP is asking about.

And hell yeah you can focus on both!  Even if you are only trading one why not let your data mining process use signals from the other...

[bamb]

Cryptocurrency is the most versatile and open Asset of all time,  everybody is part of the board team and everyone can take decision for the future of their asset. Stock market is shrouded in secrecy and you can even be diluted  without your knowledge!  Cryptocurrency is way more advanced than stock!

[kanayaTabitha]

However, cryptocurrency market is more reactive so we can make profits in short time frame compared to the traditional stock market investment now the choice is yours.

Actually we also able to earn a quick income in stock market but it's like the future market, we guess where the chart is going up or down.
This is similiar to binance future or other future market, with the same risk. And in my opinion the chart movement from stock market is more make sense and able to analyze with technical skills.

[TheUltraElite]

stocks and cryptos do sound better, on the other hand with different levels of risk due to different volatility then this will be a good asset diversification. but it's better to ask and study both of them until we finally understand and decide which investment is right for us, or even choose both

One who is veteran in stocks can and should try to diversify into crypto too. With changing times people need to change too, just that it becomes difficult for the older generations to cope up, which is understandable.

But blindly one must not try to go into both at the same time. For users new to crypto, learn the pros and cons of crypto too and compare with stock market. Such info can be found on the internet. Doing so one can make an informed decision as to which mode of speculative trading is good for them and safe too. High risks does not always mean that they are legal in your country so keep that in mind.

Cryptocurrency is the most versatile and open Asset of all time,  everybody is part of the board team and everyone can take decision for the future of their asset.

There is no "board team" - you dont know what decentralization is?

Stock market is shrouded in secrecy and you can even be diluted  without your knowledge! 

Companies running for long having their stocks are usually doing annual reports and so. So called "secrecy" is more of a "Sour grapes" misguidance. It all depends on how you see it.

Cryptocurrency is way more advanced than stock!

What do you mean by "Advanced" and in what context? Both are speculative assets classes.