Is it better to invest or trade Bitcoin?

[Questat]

All of us who are involved in cryptocurrency have heard and know to some extent about investing and trading.But I know that there are risks in investing and trading.To do these you need to know some basic things and gain experience.The main difference between investing and trading is the investment period, methodology, risk-taking propensity. Whether you are an investor or a trader depends on your financial needs and investment goals. Investing is long-term and involves low risk, while trading is short-term and involves high risk. Both methods can be profitable if the right strategy is adopted.
Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

Which one is better, it is the option where we think that we can do it well.
Like if you have a low-risk appetite - will certainly be choosing to invest. But those who have high-risk appetites will then choose to trade. It is for sure we know our personal capabilities and the level of our risk. Therefore, we'd choose the best option, in fact, both of them are reasonably profitable but yes, they all have different results depending on our strategies, risk management, and fund management.

[xzy887]

If you are ready to take higher risk and you want to earn a lot of money quickly though, you can do trading. Because the risk in trading is high but it pays us more. Trading is one thing that does not take much time for a man to take everything and it does not take much time for a man to give everything. Only skill is required. If you are skilled in trading, there is less risk. Now if you don't want to take risk and if you have time in hand then investing is best for you. Because long-term investments can earn a lot of money and involve much less risk. If you have time, you should invest long term in Bitcoin now, because very soon the Bitcoin bull market will start and generate ATH. Which will give 3-4 times more return than your current investment.

Not only is the work at high risk, it also requires one's own knowledge and intelligence. You will notice that some traders are profiting even in bad market conditions. Because they have very good market research. Now if a newbie trades six and starts trading the wrong coin with high risk, can he profit?
Therefore, it is important to have more knowledge to become a trader than to invest.

[bitgolden]

I see trading as a waste of time and lack of rest of mind, all the time you are reading charts and looking at bitcoin price and at the end, you might still run at loss. Trading comes with little profit and it is very risky, because the probability of running at loss is higher than making profit. Bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme due to its volatile nature. One of the basic concept of bitcoin is that you should only invest the the amount of money that you can afford to lose, and that you should invest for a long period of time. This is because if you invest with the amount that you can afford to lose, you wouldn't panic and sell your coins when bitcoin price goes below your entry point, you will ignore that fear and leave your bitcoin in your wallet. The best way to make profit on bitcoin is to go on a long term bitcoin journey and use DCA method regularly to increase your bitcoin, because bitcoin price will keep pumping till infinity.

This is sort of my approach as well, I do not see the extra added benefit of it all that much, I feel like I am doing alright as it is and do not feel the need to trade just to make a profit. Investment brings me enough profit, so far it has been good to me and I doubt that it would get any worse on the long run neither.

People who bought as much bitcoin as they possibly could during this bear period in the last 2 years since the last ATH happened and started to fall, would end up with a lot of time to collect and accumulate, and those people who kept it and didn't sell during all this time, could be making a huge huge profit next year when the bull run starts. That's the most important thing and should go on for as long as possible.

[kryptqnick]

I'm sure there are tons of such discussions out here on the forum, but perhaps opinions change over time, so making another one is a bit justified.
Trading is good if a person can consistently profit from it, but that's a big if because only a fraction of people are actually successful with it.
Investment won't bring stable income, but it's very easy to do and just wait for the price to grow, so it's easier and safer, I believe.
I know I don't have time for trading and that I'm not good at it, so investing is a better option for me. I've tried that, and I've tried crypto investments, and the latter worked a lot better for me.

[bbigtart]

All of us who are involved in cryptocurrency have heard and know to some extent about investing and trading.But I know that there are risks in investing and trading.To do these you need to know some basic things and gain experience.The main difference between investing and trading is the investment period, methodology, risk-taking propensity. Whether you are an investor or a trader depends on your financial needs and investment goals. Investing is long-term and involves low risk, while trading is short-term and involves high risk. Both methods can be profitable if the right strategy is adopted.
Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

I think both are great if you have skills in both. Long-term investing and trading can be profitable or not, depending on the strategy you use. Indeed, investments are safer if you understand them well, you just need to keep them for a long period of time. Moreover, investing in bitcoin, you know, there will be a halving soon, bitcoin is also on the rise recently.

Trading: to seek profits little by little towards investment
Investment: to prepare long-term and fundamental funds for your life.

If I use both, 80% for long-term investing and 20% for trading.

[jasonjm]

Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

I suggest you choose the option which best suits your needs. Both are very good options to gain profit. If you don't have time to monitor day-to-day price movement and skill acquisition, then it is better to invest in Bitcoin for the long term and hold your investment. If you have time and analytical skills and looking to make a profit from Bitcoin in the short term, then you should opt for trading. Be cautious because trading is riskier than investment as one can not predict the exact price action/ market trends.  
You can also opt for a combination of both; you can dedicate a portion of your wealth to BTC investment and long-term hold and another to trade in BTC for a more short-term profit.  

[HONDACD125]

All of us who are involved in cryptocurrency have heard and know to some extent about investing and trading.But I know that there are risks in investing and trading.To do these you need to know some basic things and gain experience.The main difference between investing and trading is the investment period, methodology, risk-taking propensity. Whether you are an investor or a trader depends on your financial needs and investment goals. Investing is long-term and involves low risk, while trading is short-term and involves high risk. Both methods can be profitable if the right strategy is adopted.
Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

When you know everything about Bitcoin. You also know about the risks involved in investment and trade. Then what difficulty do you face in choosing trade and investment? From your post you seem to have good experience in both trading and investing. If you have experience and knowledge you can do both trading and investing, if you lack experience you can invest.

I think bitcoin investing is easier than trading. Trading is difficult, and requires  experience.while in investing you can earn a good profit by holding Bitcoin for a long time. Now is a great time to invest, as the price of Bitcoin has a high chance of going up over the next year. So now investing is a good option instead of trading.

[CoinFoxs]

It depends on the situation of the market, by looking today’s market condition i would suggest you to do trading because there is a fluctuation in the market. Adopt the simple rule buy at dip and sell at pump, by this you can earn an handsome amount on weekly basis!

[tjtonmoy]

Trading is not for everyone. It requires complex knowledge and skills. And the risks are high in trading. Investing into Bitcoin could also be risky if not done right. Investing does not require any kind of complex knowledge about the market and price movements also other things related to it. And you don't have to put as much effort you need to put while trading. Both are profitable no doubt about that. But only a few can pull off trading and make profit out of it. In simple words, both have their pros and cons but if done right it is going to be really profitable.

But here's the idea. When you begin, you should start with investment. After that when you stay with the market, learn about it, experience all the movements that are happening in it, then you will somewhat understand how things works. If you get interested after this then you can easily learn about it.

You have your investment in a different account and you use another account to learn how to trade. Your investment keeps on growing while you learn new things and new way of making more profit out of your investments. The profit you get from your investment could then be put into trading for more profits.

[uneng]

How many people claiming trading is a viable alternative have been doing this efficiently along the years? I don't think a considerable percentage of Bitcoin adopters have, and most who have tried ended losing money that could be just held in BTC thinking on long term gains through investment. As I see, trading is a waste of money, unless you get entertained by this practice, as it's quite challenging and rewarding to make profit from this, just like in gambling. But if you aim long term profits and to stay on this universe for a long time, just invest and forget about trading. It's much safer and still profitable, after all.

[Y3shot]

And in the case of trading but these will usually depend on the knowledge and skills of the person in the case of trading you need to know about the indicators of the market there is a lot of experience needed here. If you do not understand the correct signals of the coins the risk is high because there is always volatility in the market.

Understanding is what matters when it comes to trading and investing but it seems people see trading and investing to be something very difficult because they do not have the time to go after learning but just want to gain money quick. Making profits from trading is more about learning and experience . In trading having knowledge about indicators helps in making profit, volatility needs to be understood very well . I think where most people found trading difficult is how to manage the volatility of the market.

[bitcongir]

I think we have to wait for a big setback.
https://bitcial.com/market/currency/bitcoin

[cheezcarls]

All of us who are involved in cryptocurrency have heard and know to some extent about investing and trading.But I know that there are risks in investing and trading.To do these you need to know some basic things and gain experience.The main difference between investing and trading is the investment period, methodology, risk-taking propensity. Whether you are an investor or a trader depends on your financial needs and investment goals. Investing is long-term and involves low risk, while trading is short-term and involves high risk. Both methods can be profitable if the right strategy is adopted.
Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

Ain't a financial or investment advisor here. If you do not have knowledge about trading yet, buying and holding would be likely your primary choice.

Trading requires skills in reading the charts, candlesticks, technical analysis, etc. On top of that, trading has short term results than just buying and holding BTCs which has long term results.

I'm not a skilled trader by the way as I am more into long-term holding of BTCs.

If you are skilled enough in trading, then you can give it a try. But when it comes to choosing whether trading or investing (in case you are alrady a skilled trader), it is entirely up to you. No one would decide for you but yourself. Your money, your choice.

[Sanitough]

All of us who are involved in cryptocurrency have heard and know to some extent about investing and trading.But I know that there are risks in investing and trading.To do these you need to know some basic things and gain experience.The main difference between investing and trading is the investment period, methodology, risk-taking propensity. Whether you are an investor or a trader depends on your financial needs and investment goals. Investing is long-term and involves low risk, while trading is short-term and involves high risk. Both methods can be profitable if the right strategy is adopted.
Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

You know everyone aims to invest and trade bitcoin at the same time. Because if you engage in both, you will achieve financial freedom faster than what you expected. But everything is not easily done because both requires good preparation not just on your funds but also when it comes to acquiring knowledge and skills, and honing them so you will be well-experienced in both aspects.  And once you decide to enter either in investing or trading, there's no way backing out because that will only mean you will incur losses if you do. However, everything depends on your preferences on which you find easier to be in profits. But most of the time, investing is the people's first option and when they started to yield profits and maximize their investment, that's when they decide to take risk in trading. Trading demands a higher risk so you really have to prepare yourself twice the effort from investing alone.

[jeraldskie11]

To be honest, if you want to make a lot of money, you should consider trading. However, because the risk is so large, trading is not a simple way to make money. If you don't have an edge in trading and you push yourself to trade, you'll most likely lose money. Trading takes time and money before you can be profitable, whereas investing only requires you to buy and wait for the price to rise to the desired level. Personally, I am still learning to trade in order to become a profitable trader in the future but always looking forward for investment.

[SOKO-DEKE]

All of us who are involved in cryptocurrency have heard and know to some extent about investing and trading.But I know that there are risks in investing and trading.To do these you need to know some basic things and gain experience.The main difference between investing and trading is the investment period, methodology, risk-taking propensity. Whether you are an investor or a trader depends on your financial needs and investment goals. Investing is long-term and involves low risk, while trading is short-term and involves high risk. Both methods can be profitable if the right strategy is adopted.
Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

As you have said, both investing and trading involve risks, but trading involves a higher risk than investing. From your write-up, I understand that you already know that trading has a higher risk than investing, and with that, you should know that investing should be the best option,especially for newbies, because trading requires a lot of knowledge, and I believe that newbies will not get the required knowledge of trading. That is why I will advise any newbies not to choose trading over investing when they are just new to cryptocurrency.
 
And when we look at investing,especially in bitcoin, someone just needs to buy, hold, and provide it with strong security. Even with basic knowledge, someone can do that, but in trading, nothing like that happens when you try to trade without proper knowledge. With help from technical analysis, someone will likely lose money, and the fact is that even those with proper knowledge of trading sometimes also lose money because of the high risks it involves. Op I am not discouraging trading, but the truth is that trading is not for newbies.

[gunhell16]

All of us who are involved in cryptocurrency have heard and know to some extent about investing and trading.But I know that there are risks in investing and trading.To do these you need to know some basic things and gain experience.The main difference between investing and trading is the investment period, methodology, risk-taking propensity. Whether you are an investor or a trader depends on your financial needs and investment goals. Investing is long-term and involves low risk, while trading is short-term and involves high risk. Both methods can be profitable if the right strategy is adopted.
Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

Which one is better, it is the option where we think that we can do it well.
Like if you have a low-risk appetite - will certainly be choosing to invest. But those who have high-risk appetites will then choose to trade. It is for sure we know our personal capabilities and the level of our risk. Therefore, we'd choose the best option, in fact, both of them are reasonably profitable but yes, they all have different results depending on our strategies, risk management, and fund management.

Yes, you are right, dude. Actually,  they are both helpful to us, and we want to do the same. Maybe the only question is which of the two is easier for you to do since they can produce the same amount of money as us.

As for me, I have mentioned it several times here in this forum that if we know ourselves that when we don't know anything about crypto trading, we shouldn't try to do something we don't know how to do, so to speak, don't attack a battle you are not prepared for; no training is done for the battle, because for sure you will lose in the end. Now, if you really want to try it, you can do it while you learn it, but it's better to put your capital first in investment, not trading.

[Minor Miner]

To be honest, if you want to make a lot of money, you should consider trading. However, because the risk is so large, trading is not a simple way to make money. If you don't have an edge in trading and you push yourself to trade, you'll most likely lose money. Trading takes time and money before you can be profitable, whereas investing only requires you to buy and wait for the price to rise to the desired level. Personally, I am still learning to trade in order to become a profitable trader in the future but always looking forward for investment.

In terms of profits between trading and holding, it is difficult to say which will bring greater profits because as you have seen, many people get rich by holding, but very few traders get rich. People who like to trade are mostly people who like to make profits in the short term, there is no guarantee that trading will bring better profits than holding because no one can win forever in trading. It all depends on your abilities, if you have good knowledge and skills you will make a lot of profits in trading. On the contrary, you will not earn anything from trading if you are not suitable for it.

[Onyeeze]

All of us who are involved in cryptocurrency have heard and know to some extent about investing and trading.But I know that there are risks in investing and trading.To do these you need to know some basic things and gain experience.The main difference between investing and trading is the investment period, methodology, risk-taking propensity. Whether you are an investor or a trader depends on your financial needs and investment goals. Investing is long-term and involves low risk, while trading is short-term and involves high risk. Both methods can be profitable if the right strategy is adopted.
Which one is better if I want to invest and trade bitcoins.

Trading bitcoin requires more attention and more time, but investing in bitcoin don't  requires much of those things, so when looking at it will advice people to invest in the bitcoin instead of looking for another way to trade, because in trading if you don't know anything about trading I don't think you will do anything that will profit you in trading, so trading need more skill more attention and concentration, some of the senior colleagues have said such before, why buying bitcoin band store will be more safer than trading because trading will take off your capital when a small mistake is being done

[LittleBitFunny]

I see trading as a waste of time and lack of rest of mind, all the time you are reading charts and looking at bitcoin price and at the end, you might still run at loss. Trading comes with little profit and it is very risky, because the probability of running at loss is higher than making profit. Bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme due to its volatile nature. One of the basic concept of bitcoin is that you should only invest the the amount of money that you can afford to lose, and that you should invest for a long period of time. This is because if you invest with the amount that you can afford to lose, you wouldn't panic and sell your coins when bitcoin price goes below your entry point, you will ignore that fear and leave your bitcoin in your wallet. The best way to make profit on bitcoin is to go on a long term bitcoin journey and use DCA method regularly to increase your bitcoin, because bitcoin price will keep pumping till infinity.

It also cannot be said that bitcoin trading is a waste of time and money. Just because we can't profit from trading doesn't mean others can't either. I couldn't do that either, but I remember even on our forum there were some people claiming that they could make money from trading and even consider it a source of income to support their families. That proves that not everyone will lose money when trading.

Trading or investing long-term depends on each person's preferences, you are a long-term holder but you should not say trading is bad. You and I can't make money trading, but maybe OP is better than us?

People who didn't get a result for trading bitcoin might think that bitcoin trading is really a waste of time since they forget the fact that trading it would take time especially if they do spot trades. But if they are into future they can possibly figure out that trading it would be profitable the same with other coins they trade. But unfortunately for those people saying negative about that want to see immediate result so they get dismayed since bitcoin is for long term just like what we experiencing at the moment where good pump happen.

Trading or investing like hodling for long term really depends on the person since as said not everyone could able to trade it right since some think about getting rich quickly without knowing the whole stats going on bitcoin. But if they could just save it and intend to hold for long term maybe case will be different and they find it a good option to trade.

If they are newbies, they should avoid trading when starting, they will lose money because they do not have experience and knowledge, investing will be more suitable for them. But if someone has knowledge about the market and wants to try trading, they can also start because it is also one of the methods of making profits in this market.

There are many people who have been making profits from trading, it is not as bad as many people have experienced. So, I find it quite funny that many people don't like trading just because they can't make a profit from it. What's worse is that they are giving advice to others to stay away from trading just because they are not making profits. They think everyone will be like them, LOL.