Day trading or Long term

[casey15]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

[1715141844]

1715141844

[1715141844]

1715141844

[Oshosondy]

Day trading can be refer to short term trading like trading within a day or two days. Long term in the way you used it can mean swing trading. Swing trading is when you hold your coins for some many days to many weeks. But the long term that you are talking about is holding. Do not compare holding to trading, because holding is safer, better and it requires less time and energy from you. But this is when you are buying good coins and not shit coins.

[FatFork]

Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Day trading and holding long term have some similarities, but differ quite a bit too.  Both involve risks and needing self-control and smart choices to hopefully make some profit, just in different ways.  

With day trading, you're watching prices a lot trying to catch small ups and downs to make quick profits.  It's a ton of work staring at charts, takes skill to do well, and can stress people out.  

Holding is more hands-off, waiting for bigger price jumps over months or years and  so it takes patience rather than effort.  The gains come slower but you avoid constantly monitoring markets and charts.

I'd say they appeal to different personality types.  Day trading is for go-getter number crunchers glued to their screens.  Holding works better for laidback investors playing the long game.  But both can be solid ways to generate profit.

[hd49728]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.

They are both risky but trading is more risky than investment in general. However you must know if you are professional with trading, you don't have to own Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency and you simply enter and exit the market with good entry and exit, good discipline and prompt actions.

If you invest in a bad cryptocurrency, by holding it you will only lose your capital.

However, again let's emphasize risk of trading is bigger than investment and by holding a good cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, you can get profit, avoid loss.

Trading does not mean you always trade with small market volatility. It depends on your taste and experience but basically, a market is lively when it is volatile and has high trading volume. Traders would like to join a market with high volatility and high trading volume.

[Dunamisx]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.

Trading in general has it own risk and there's no how you can manage yourself completely in avoiding the risk involved, but one thing i just like about it is that you're likely to win more than you loose except you're inexperience, now the kind of trade you should take or go for must be under the one you have seen that best suite your own trading pattern and skills.

The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while holding make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.

the conclusion i see here here is not to go for anything you're not ready for.

[Patrol69]

I definitely have a definite plan for investing and I have a clear plan for how long I will hold my investment but I have no such clear plan for trading. The only expectation of trading is to make money, sometimes I understand the market and am satisfied with a small profit and sometimes I wait a little longer with the possibility that the market may go up. When there is volatility in the market I take some trading for short periods. For example, I took a trade and I made a profit of 20 to 30 dollars. I immediately sold my coins and then waited again to take another short-term trade at the right time. I have had more success trading with this strategy because short time trades are better for me if I can make more money by trading short time rather than waiting long time to make $50 to $100 profit.

[mk4]

Which is 'better' is totally subjective. It's like asking if it's better to be an engineer or a dentist — it totally depends on you.

Personally though, I prefer long-term simply because staring at charts all day is really not for me. I'd rather do heavy research and make big decisions then let the investment sit for a while, while I look for other sources of income so I have more money to invest.

[Rockstarguy]

The both can't be guaranteed,  and you need good understanding for both day trading and longterm. If you must go for any of them make sure you learn to gain better understanding. If you so desperate of making money from any of them without you having knowledge,  you will find it very terrible which you will easily end up losing your money.  Assessing the two based on risk, day trading is more risky  than longterm investment, but people who want to make money so fast sees longterm as something difficult because it require patience to gain profit from longterm investment.

Both trading and longterm investment are profitable,  but it is only with understanding you be able to handle any of them. If you rush to just because of to make money from any of them without understanding,  I bet you will regret your actions, your mentality of seeing both as an easy means of making money.

[goaldigger]

As you’ve said both have their own pros and cons so choose what’s best for you and know that the risk level are both different. I do both most of the time since I play long with my holdings and do day trading if I saw some opportunity and if I have some extra money. Trading can be very risky, and you can just lower the risk by mastering your strategy both in day trading and playing long.

[Bobrox]

Personally which better between daily trading or long term trading depend on your financial condition, if you have stable financial long term is the best trading and get benefit earn much profitable in the future. Has exceptional if your financial not enough well and need get income every day I think daily trading is the best choose. Actually we can't predict in trading should be long term or short term trading when bitcoin and altcoin price suddenly get drop won't or not must be long term holding from your first decision become short term or daily day trading.

Don't make your self under pressure, both of trading kinds goals how to earn much profitable despite have to be long term trading and difficult to earn profit with daily day trading. For efficient earn much profitable with daily day trading must have much capital and small capital seems not easy to earn profit with daily trading.

[SamReomo]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.

I would say long term holding or you can call it investing is much better for those who don't know how to day trade. Most people lose money with day trading because it's quite risky while loosing money with investing is close to none if you do proper research.

Day trading works best for only those people who are good at trading and they know ins and outs of the market. The profits in day trading are way higher than with investing but risk is also high with that kind of trading. Those who want to be profitable in day trading should first master trading and then begin day trading otherwise they should choose investing.

[Zanab247]

The two are good to traders to earn profits from their trading, but the profits will not be equal because long term hodling always bring opportunity for hodlers to earn big from the market but short term traders always earn small from the market because they hodl for short period of time before they can sell.

I can see that you are new to the system, but I will advise you to start as a short term trader so that you will see what you are going to earn from the few days, weeks or months before you will be thinking of how to switch to long term trading that is giving long term holders huge amount of money at the end.

[BitcoinTurk]

Which do you prefer and think is better

By dividing my capital into two, I make both long-term investments and day trading. Both of them have their own advantages but the risk of loss due to little price movements in daily trades is also quite high. If we compare both of my portfolios, especially in the last three years I can definitely say that I have earned more from long-term investments. Of course, constantly making money through daily trading is also a great advantage because every month I trade successfully, I earn at least as much as my salary from trading. In summary, long-term investments always allow you to earn more profits because they aren’t affected by small price movements but day trading leads to regular profits in the short term.

[Nrcewker]

It really depends on the amount of risk you are willing to take. Day trading has huge risk with it. But with high risk it comes with high returns also. Similarly in long term the risk associated is low. But the profits are also very less. Now if you want to take high risk, then do day trading. But if you are a newbie then investing for long term is the best option. At the starting of the career, too much greed is not good for health.

[Ricardo11]

I think long term investment is better, as day trading comes with high risk. But the profit in day trading is also high. But in day trading, as there is profit, the possibility of loss is very high. In that case the investment is low-risk. If you can invest for the long term and hold for a long time, you can make a lot of money from the investment as well. Only the investment should be for long term. And never stop holding in panic. But you will be able to make a lot of money from holdings as well. I always hold using DCA method and I think long term investment is best.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

In general, trading is always riskier than investing for a long-term hold. Mostly, there are more holders than traders because most people don't want to face the hudles of trading, which can result in the loss of capital. As a holder, you don't need to stress your brain to make price predictions, and if you are holding, you will not lose any dime unless you sell your coin at a cheap price.

Well, if you actually have a passion for trading, you can try it; just invest the amount you are willing to lose. While trading, you can also be a holder by investing some funds in Bitcoin and still storing it in your cold wallet. As a trader, you can also be a holder. Don't take this as investment advice; only do what you can handle based on your personal decisions.

[Distinctin]

For most of the beginner traders, I won’t suggest for day trading since the process is quite tough and more risky. It requires a highly skilled and strategic trader so he can be profitable with his trades despite of the high risk. While it offers bigger amount of profits for those who are good in day trading, it can also be a source of instant losses for those who are not skilled enough. So day trading while performing high caution is always recommended.

However, long term hodling is always the safest option for the majority. Though the profits may still takes a longer time before it can be yours, but I would say its massive amount will bring higher satisfaction on us.

[famososMuertos]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Honestly, it is a trick question, in fact, I am sure that someone with another context asked a similar question, I think the best way is to address it and not ask it, then in that idea, you can have better questions, such as what technique to use for day trading, anyway, always find people complaining, that it is not their thing, etc. But day trading is something you have to do because after trying it you discover that you have talent and if you don't you work hard.

That's why many say, "hodl." If someone knows how to do things well, they can make daily trading their profession, and fortunately that is the case, because if we all went to Hodl, how boring.

Stop asking and start trying it, find out for yourself if you have talent, so, take 40-60% for example of your capital, one part to hodl and trade with the other, no one can determine your skills or kill your dream of being a trader for a comment like, "just do it; hodl."

[Issa56]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.

It’s a matter of choice, if you are interested in trading, then you can do that, and if you are interested in holding, then it’s also fine, but some people do divide their money, and they will trade with some part and use the other part to invest. But we all know that trading is kind of difficult and risky. You have to be prepared to learn and keep it in practice before you start making money from trading, and if you are trading, then you are definitely going to be losing money sometimes. But if you really want to learn how to trade, I won’t discourage anyone from doing that. All professional traders also started as beginners.

While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

You already explained the difference. I prefer holding coins because you don’t have to stress yourself out with any technical analysis or spend time monitoring the market, but I don't trade sometimes just to get money to take care of some necessary things that I need.

[lalabotax]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Holding for long term is exactly suitable for lower risk takers. Meanwhile, day trading is usually more for high risk takers. There are several types of day trading that can be done, and whatever it is, of course professional day traders usually already have their own patterns for making very significant and possibly fantastic profits. So it's true that there will definitely be pros and cons to each. Meanwhile, what is dangerous is when we are not very familiar with day trading mechanisms or market analysis, but we join in day trading, especially in the future market, then this is really high risk and dangerous for people like that.

Personally, I'm a long term holding type only. because they don't have the ability to do day trading. So, instead of forcing myself to be involved in day trading, it's better for me to focus on the long term. Because this is more suited to what I can do.

[Lanatsa]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Totally depends on you on which one would suits you considering that not everyone would really be having on the same skills or knowledge when it comes to trading. Some can be able to bare up with the risks
and cant really be able to do so and this is why they do opt on holding instead on risking out on which it wont really be shocking that there would really be  those people who would really be that deciding
to hold their position for long term rather than on actively trading on which they cant be able to assure whether they would really be able to make profits with active trades or not.

Its a matter of choice on which i have said.This is actually my own questions too when i do start on trading on which you would really be testing out with that short trades on which we know
that having that short term gains or profits is much more better and much preferred but of course you would really be able to find out when it comes to the risks involved.
You would really be able to weigh in between risks and reward. If you do seem that you could really be able to take up the risks then go ahead with short trades
but if not then do the opposite.

[BitcoinTurk]

For most of the beginner traders, I won’t suggest for day trading since the process is quite tough and more risky. It requires a highly skilled and strategic trader so he can be profitable with his trades despite of the high risk. While it offers bigger amount of profits for those who are good in day trading, it can also be a source of instant losses for those who are not skilled enough. So day trading while performing high caution is always recommended.

However, long term hodling is always the safest option for the majority. Though the profits may still takes a longer time before it can be yours, but I would say its massive amount will bring higher satisfaction on us.

Although it is correct to say that people who have just started trading should size-up their capital by making long-term investments but there is actually a situation like this;

Someone new to trading must trade as much as possible to gain experience and learn how trading works in the financial markets. The reason for this is that experience in financial markets can only be gained by trading and as many transactions as possible are made in order to adapt to financial markets. For this reason, I think it would be more beneficial for someone who has just started trading, especially in the cryptocurrency markets, to constantly make daily buy-sell transactions with a maximum 5-10% of their budget to gain experience and gain knowledge. Of course, as I mentioned, it is very important that a person doesn’t use his/her entire budget until he/she has experience and knowledge because experience and knowledge in financial markets are best learned by losing money.

As a result, won't long-term investment by someone who has just started trading in financial markets and has no experience and knowledge not only provide him/her with financial gain? Shouldn't someone who sells a financial product he/she bought today for 10 times the price after 2 years gain any experience?

[RewFrew]

Actually i am day trader but some times day trade become long trade. Naturally i feel better to short trade mean day trade. I am comfortable with day trade. And some time i understand market movement and i wait for correct position. When i think now correct position then i take entry. And i take it for short time.

I always want to close any trade within that day. But some times my day trade become long trade. But i think day trade is huge risky. So i think both are good. Who understand which.

[Japinat]

It depends on your own preference but if you are capable and skillful enough to do day trading, then never miss the chance to day trade and gain decent profits. However, if you are still hesitant and fearful of your ability to trade, hence settle for the less risky activity, that is long term hodling.

While both of these can bring significant profits, but it all depends on how capable you are as a day trader or as a long term hodler. Know where you are mostly good and skilled, then focus on that.

[Sanitough]

I think there is no need to confuse yourself since you can resort into doing both if you can cater well to both of its risks. A day trader can also be a long term holder, but not all the time a long term holder can be a reliable day trader. If you think you’re capable to do both, then much better. However, if you are still in the process of learning day trading, focus on long term hodling instead. You can do day trading in the future if you have the necessary skills and strategies to make it work, and of course the sufficient funds that it needs the most.

[Assface16678]

Actually, I do both. While I have serveral open trade long-term, sometimes when I see opportunities in the market, I do day trade or scalping. You see, you don't have to choose which type of trading you want to do, as long as you can handle those trading types. Like me, I want a long-term trade in bitcoin, especially, but I sometimes do short-term or scalping when I see potential crypto currency or bitcoin as well. Yes, it's tiresome, but I get big rewards from what I'm doing. Let's say I like trading. When I have free time, I do trading or analyse the market. In that way, I could hone my trading skills more and earn more. So if you can do both, why not? Of course, you will sacrifice some time and effort to do so, and it is also mentally draining, so be prepared. Trading takes so much effort to do.

[Tipeform$]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

OP if you are talking about day trading and long time holding then definitely holding is better than holding no comparison trading as here talking about trading as long time trading and short time trading like day trading then definitely day trading is better because. Those who are experienced about the market and have enough trading strategies can definitely bring success by trading. And no trading is suitable for those who are not experienced about trading and do not know the trading strategy.

[Marvelman]

Interesting question on day trading versus holding long-term! Going all-in on trading takes guts.  But do we really have to choose just one strategy? There seem to be middle ground options too like swing trading or dollar cost averaging into long positions over time.  Sure, buying and holding is less work, but we miss out on potential profits that way.  Maybe a balanced plan using both short-term trading and long investments based on your personal risk comfort makes sense? Diversity can be good.

[Mauser]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

When it comes to day trading or choosing long term investing, I think there are two criteria that will tell us very quickly which one to choose from. The first one is time and the second is profitability. Long term investing doesn't require a lot of time, we do some initial research to pick the best possible project to invest in and then we only need to monitor our investment and react. Whereas day trading requires a lot of time to constantly evaluate positions and trade on a regular basis. It should be very quickly be clear if we have the necessary spare time to trade every day beside our full time job. The second criteria is profitability, are making enough money with our trades? In case we have a good trading strategy that gives us decent returns after transaction cost, we still need to take our time into consideration. With trading we are can calculate our hourly profits and need to compare that to a traditional job that would also pay us per hour. Our opportunity costs need to be taken into consideration when deciding if we want to go for day trading or not.

[EarnOnVictor]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Well, when you are talking about trading, I advise you to remove the context of HODLing from it, that is for investment, and not for retail traders like us. You can hold your trading position for long-term purposes, but it is not as in investment that people are mistaking a mere monthly investment for HODLing, you should be advised about it.

As for your inquisition, let me say that day trading is all the trades you open and conclude daily, meaning you are not leaving your position till the next day. This is short-term trading where traders can analyse the market for a short duration purpose and either scalp or trade within minutes and hours, but it will not be more than 24 hours depending on the time the trade opened the trade. A lot of strategies can be used here but most traders use between 1m-4H chart for it mostly. But this doesn't stop some traders from using higher charts for clarity, but will still close the trade on that day. They can also open and close many trades within a day.

For long-term trading, the context is relative, it could be a matter of days, weeks, or months, it all depends, though they are all called long-term trading. You can also use 4H-1M for this analysis. Both (Long and short-term trading) are nevertheless good for earning, it only depends on you as a trader. Your time for trading, the pattern, convenience, emotion and many other considerations are important to choosing what kind of trader you will be. This is even as all need discipline, expertise and management, and not better than each other as you believed. It depends on you.

[_act_]

Interesting question on day trading versus holding long-term! Going all-in on trading takes guts.  But do we really have to choose just one strategy? There seem to be middle ground options too like swing trading or dollar cost averaging into long positions over time.  Sure, buying and holding is less work, but we miss out on potential profits that way.  Maybe a balanced plan using both short-term trading and long investments based on your personal risk comfort makes sense? Diversity can be good.

I do not agree with you because there are many people that are financially drained because they are trading. If it is holding, we can say 1 BTC is equal to 1 BTC, but trading is different. Some peoole will go more than 1x leverage or going short in a way that their trading assets can be liquidated. If you hold, that does not means you are missing any potential profit because you are not trading, but it might be that you are missing potential losses while holding might helped you in making enough profit.

[terrific]

If you are good in trading then choose day trading. I see people with no bs that are real life traders and they're making a living off it.
But I know that long term it's just good to choose to be an investor and you don't have to put a lot of things into it compared to day trading.
so what makes you happy and profitable you do and you can even choose both of it if you're just too good to be both.

[gabbie2010]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

If you think that starting day trading to earn quick profit without any prior knowledge of trading consequently that decision would ended up in streak of losses possibly losing all the funded account that means anyone that falls into that category should just adopt long term investment in any credible and reliable crypto afterall profit would be guaranteed after a long period, however if such a trader had enough experience and very knowledgeable in the art of trading then of course such a trader is good to go but trading is very risky compared to long term investment though an experience day trader earns well whenever they triggers a profitable setup.

[Strongkored]

Which do you prefer and think is better

I am a daily trader who has converted to a long-term holder, in my opinion, this is much more suitable for those who don't really like analysis because you only need to buy at a cheap price or use the DCA strategy and patiently save it at a predetermined target time, unfortunately, long term holders have to be careful in choosing coins because this is only suitable for a few coins such as Bitcoin or several coins that are quite stable on the exchange, and this will give you big profits if you are patient in holding it for a long time, the longer the chance of getting fantastic profits, but if not having a lot of patience, you can still get profits from long term holding but not much.

[ScamViruS]

If you are good in trading then choose day trading. I see people with no bs that are real life traders and they're making a living off it.
But I know that long term it's just good to choose to be an investor and you don't have to put a lot of things into it compared to day trading.
so what makes you happy and profitable you do and you can even choose both of it if you're just too good to be both.

Without a very advanced level of knowledge in trading, day trading has a high chance of making losses in the long run. But many people are making good profit through day trading and for them trading is their main earning source. I have a relative who has taken crypto trading and forex trading as his profession and he does day trading most of the time and earns well, but he always says there is a lot of stress in day trading.

And if you invest long term, you will get good returns after a while, which is difficult to get such returns even if you make profit from day trading. So long term investment is a good option if you want a stress free life. Day trading also has good profit opportunities, but it requires deep knowledge of trading and ability to do market research is very important.

[Sorryfor]

In terms of trading, both short-term and long-term gains can be made as well as losses. It depends on your decision when you trade. If you can select the right coin at the right time then you have a high chance of making a profit. On the contrary, if you choose wrongly, it can cause you loss. Whether trading is short-term or long-term, it is also risky. But whatever you do in the end, you can trade with good knowledge and if possible with the advice of those who do professional trading.

[the rise]

It all depends on the project we choose, if we feel the project has benefits and is a popular product, of course I choose to invest in it in the long term, but if the project is driven by fame I will choose daily trading there, because it only takes advantage of the moment Of course, when the fame faded I went and chose another project, I used both day trading and long term trading

[cabron]

It all depends on the project we choose, if we feel the project has benefits and is a popular product, of course I choose to invest in it in the long term, but if the project is driven by fame I will choose daily trading there, because it only takes advantage of the moment Of course, when the fame faded I went and chose another project, I used both day trading and long term trading

It's always going to be BTC/USDT when trading in crypto. AAltcoins trading is often for the long term as the investors are going to wait til the price is ripe for selling.
With BTC/USDT, they can do day trading which is a lot harder in my experience as the trader will need to be on the hourly or even in the 15-minute chart to make trades for the rest of the day.

I prefer the long term and then when the market is great like these days which is always a bull market, day trading can be easy to do. even on the spot market.

[Barikui1]

It's all boils down to you, the individual involved, holding is less stressful and better for a long term thinker, it requires less skills in knowing market sentiment and technical analysis, but in trading you have to be skilled enough in technical analysis, emotional control, patience and how to use leverage wisely for you to be profitable in the market, and you can make or lose  a whole lot of money in a very short period of time compared to holding, so it's all boils down to you how knowledgeable are you.

[Crypto Library]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

I think you have already kind of mentioned what should be preferred. You have mentioned that Day trading need more techniques self discipline and rational decision-making.
Now if I express my own opinion then I will say that which trading is good for a trader it depends on the skill of that trader. If the trader has good knowledge about fundamental and technical analysis then I would say both short-term or day trading and long-term trading will be good for him.
On the other hand, if a trader is new to trading and has very little knowledge about trading, then he should adopt a long-term strategy, and in that case he can follow the DCA method for risk management. Because in this case, a new trader must have less technical analysis skills and for this, most of the new traders face losses while doing short term trading, long time investment will save their funds from losses, and must choose Bitcoin as the coin.

[Natsuu]

It's all boils down to you, the individual involved, holding is less stressful and better for a long term thinker, it requires less skills in knowing market sentiment and technical analysis, but in trading you have to be skilled enough in technical analysis, emotional control, patience and how to use leverage wisely for you to be profitable in the market, and you can make or lose  a whole lot of money in a very short period of time compared to holding, so it's all boils down to you how knowledgeable are you.

Right. The choice between holding and trading depends on your individual preferences, skills and risk tolerance. Holding tends to be less stressful and more suitable for long-term thinkers while trading demands a higher level of skill in technical analysis, emotional control and risk management. It ultimately comes down to your level of knowledge and comfort with market dynamics

[Tomcolor]

It happened in my friend's life that I told him how to make profit by trading crypto and gave him some basic knowledge. Then he got excited and started trading and at first he lost so much that he got frustrated. Later he practiced trading a lot from this forum and now he is actually a successful trader. So I will say if you try with a little long time it is possible to get success from trading and it will not cause any quick profit.

[alastantiger]

Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

I would pick investment over trading. In trading, you must monitor the market 24/7 but with investment and a good strategy in place you can DCA until you have a reasonably amount of that money. The price of the market doesn't determine whether you continuing investing. One little mistakes made in trading can result in a loss of the traders account not so with investing.

[Viscore]

Be it day trading or long term hodling, the risks involved will always be there but it differs on how you manage and overcome those risks, even if we say that day trading is more risky than long term hodling itself. However, if you are highly capable to day trade because of your varied experience, then there’s no problem with that and you will less likely to lose but more on making on profits. But never underestimate hodling as well because the promising profits are also big and huge, but your patience will certainly be put at risk.

[ShowOff]

It's okay to have different preferences in the market, you are free to become a day trader or maybe a holder. I like both, but I tend to focus more on holding instead of day trading. Both are equally profitable, but day traders tend to be more likely to be bothered by price volatility than holders.

You may need to juggle real work and your activities in the markets, meaning if you have plenty of time and perhaps make trading your main source of income, then you should be fine. But however, you may need to have long-term investments instead of just day trading. Try to turn some of your profits from day trading into long-term investment assets, that's useful advice.

[tvplus006]

Day trading requires a lot of time and if you have a main job, then it will be difficult for you to focus on trading. As a rule, day trading is more suitable for professional traders, for whom trading is the main source of income. For the rest, medium-term trading or long-term investment will be more appropriate.

[alankasman]

  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Long term with targets that can be set. Risk can be minimized and does not require many other techniques and patterns needed in trading.
My long term picks are not for all types of coins, just a select few. For coins that are not very popular and do not have strong potential, I am not interested in doing daily trading because I do not have much time to continuously monitor the price chart.

For Bitcoin, the long term is better and that's what I prefer rather than choosing to trade daily or short term which I can't afford the time for.
In conclusion, the research results show holding is better than trading.

[Russlenat]

It's all boils down to you, the individual involved, holding is less stressful and better for a long term thinker, it requires less skills in knowing market sentiment and technical analysis, but in trading you have to be skilled enough in technical analysis, emotional control, patience and how to use leverage wisely for you to be profitable in the market, and you can make or lose  a whole lot of money in a very short period of time compared to holding, so it's all boils down to you how knowledgeable are you.

Right. The choice between holding and trading depends on your individual preferences, skills and risk tolerance. Holding tends to be less stressful and more suitable for long-term thinkers while trading demands a higher level of skill in technical analysis, emotional control and risk management. It ultimately comes down to your level of knowledge and comfort with market dynamics

However, while others need to chose which one of them, but if you know you will grow more of your profits if you take both risk, as long as you’re able to manage them, I guess that will be more satisfying on your part, being a hodler and at the same a day trader. But it’s seldom to see people going in both, majority still chose the less risky one knowing in the end you will still be able to gain huge profits.

[shinratensei_]

It happened in my friend's life that I told him how to make profit by trading crypto and gave him some basic knowledge. Then he got excited and started trading and at first he lost so much that he got frustrated. Later he practiced trading a lot from this forum and now he is actually a successful trader. So I will say if you try with a little long time it is possible to get success from trading and it will not cause any quick profit.

meanwhile some people are stuck losing because they are fomod your friend is a case where newbie trying to become pro by thorough learning process as well as added experience from experiencing first hand losing.
some people out there are instead always having the same problem over and over again, buy high and sell low, like those that ignore bitcoin when it was bearish and thinks its doomed, and then when bullish come and suddenly price rose, they are trying to invest, its too late though, basically worst decision ever, same with trading some people are so eager to make quick profit they ignore red flag of trading don't do proper analysis and this will only resulted in them losing big time.
day trading or long term honestly it doesn't matter, both can give good profit as long as we know how to take advantage of it properly.

[lombok]

Personally, I prefer long term holding over day trading. Daily trading has many temptations and sometimes tends to be negative due to manipulative price movements and making decisions and mental disturbances which result in failure to make a profit. To avoid price manipulation which often goes up and down quickly, I prefer long term holders which are safer when it comes to Bitcoin.

[BabyBandit]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

The best thing is to to do both and mix it up. Only do one thing is IMO bad. But doing both will increase the total profit a lot.

[Litzki1990]

Even if we start trading for the purpose of day trading, many times we have to wait for a good amount of profit. If we take the trade at the right time there is a chance of profit but if we take the trade at some time the market will go in the opposite direction of our idea due to which then we have money loss instead of profit and then we cannot sell the trade at a loss. If trading is done for long term then we can consider it as investment but trading is usually not done for long term. The way I trade is that I have a certain amount target each day and I am satisfied if I meet that amount each day. Maybe sometimes I make a mistake in trading due to which the money is lost for a while but when the market recovers and makes some profit, I sell my coins.

If a small amount of profit can be made consistently every day, it is better than waiting for a long time. But the business that is done for the purpose of small profit has some risk and needs to understand the market well enough and always be active.

[Oshosondy]

It's all boils down to you, the individual involved, holding is less stressful and better for a long term thinker, it requires less skills in knowing market sentiment and technical analysis, but in trading you have to be skilled enough in technical analysis, emotional control, patience and how to use leverage wisely for you to be profitable in the market, and you can make or lose  a whole lot of money in a very short period of time compared to holding, so it's all boils down to you how knowledgeable are you.

Patience is very important in life. Holding means patience while trading means to not be patient. That is why you will see someone that will prefer spot trading before, learn about future trading and prefer to go more than 1x leverage. What such traders will think is that he can make $2 profit from $500, that he can leverage it 10x to make it $5000 so that he can earn $20 daily profit instead. He will not consider the liquidation risk until it happens. Holding means patience and it is the best. One of the ways to success in life is patience.

[Marvelman]

Even if we start trading for the purpose of day trading, many times we have to wait for a good amount of profit. If we take the trade at the right time there is a chance of profit but if we take the trade at some time the market will go in the opposite direction of our idea due to which then we have money loss instead of profit and then we cannot sell the trade at a loss. If trading is done for long term then we can consider it as investment but trading is usually not done for long term. The way I trade is that I have a certain amount target each day and I am satisfied if I meet that amount each day. Maybe sometimes I make a mistake in trading due to which the money is lost for a while but when the market recovers and makes some profit, I sell my coins.

If a small amount of profit can be made consistently every day, it is better than waiting for a long time. But the business that is done for the purpose of small profit has some risk and needs to understand the market well enough and always be active.

I think trying to make steady little profits every day sounds good in theory, but in reality pulling that off regularly is crazy hard.  Markets bounce all over the place naturally, and if you try too hard for the daily wins, it's easy to end up overdoing the trades and making choices too fast without thinking them through enough which jus raises your risk and could totally cancel out any profits you were able to scrap together.  Honestly, keeping the focus on longer term trends and basics might work better over time. 

And when you talk about just waiting for the market to eventually earn back what you lost, that makes me think you've got more of a buy and hold mindset rather than being an active day trader type.

[Marvelman]

Interesting question on day trading versus holding long-term! Going all-in on trading takes guts.  But do we really have to choose just one strategy? There seem to be middle ground options too like swing trading or dollar cost averaging into long positions over time.  Sure, buying and holding is less work, but we miss out on potential profits that way.  Maybe a balanced plan using both short-term trading and long investments based on your personal risk comfort makes sense? Diversity can be good.

I do not agree with you because there are many people that are financially drained because they are trading. If it is holding, we can say 1 BTC is equal to 1 BTC, but trading is different. Some peoole will go more than 1x leverage or going short in a way that their trading assets can be liquidated. If you hold, that does not means you are missing any potential profit because you are not trading, but it might be that you are missing potential losses while holding might helped you in making enough profit.

I think there was a misunderstanding here.  I didn't mean to make it sound like anyone could easily make money trading and  of course there are risks involved.  The market's not some magic money machine you can just turn on and watch the profits roll in. 

But at the same time, smart trading does offer chances to make some gains if you know what you're doing.  Strategies like leverage and shorting can pay off big when they work.  But they can also really magnify your losses when they dont.  You've gotta understand how to manage that risk.

Investing's a whole different thing.  You might not make as much as the clever traders sometimes, but you're not as likely to get killed either.  Theres something to be said for taking the slower, steadier path. 

Anyway my main point is that none of this stuff's easy or guaranteed.  But with some skill and luck, there are opportunities out there for folks willing to educate themselves and take a few risks.

[R100K-Martin-Lunger]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Day trading offers quick gains through short-term market moves but demands constant vigilance and a deep understanding of market dynamics, posing a higher risk. Long-term investment, or HODLing, relies on market growth over time, requires less daily management, and generally presents lower immediate risk, favoring those with patience and a broader market outlook. For those leaning towards active trading strategies without direct involvement, investment funds like R100K.com specialize in crypto, managing assets to potentially capitalize on market trends for their investors. The choice between day trading and long-term investing hinges on individual preferences for risk, involvement, and investment horizon.
If you would like to discuss this further, you can contact me via my Discord: https://discord.gg/dCvaBZWNcG

[aTriz]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.

Day trading is better in my opinion. Day trading have better chances to grow your holding for long term. but there are cons of day trading too that you need to understand. like risk of losing, etc. as you mentioned in your post.
and long term holding is good if you are not experienced trader or too afraid to take risk. then you should go with long term holding only.
 

[WatChe]

Personally, I prefer long term holding over day trading. Daily trading has many temptations and sometimes tends to be negative due to manipulative price movements and making decisions and mental disturbances which result in failure to make a profit. To avoid price manipulation which often goes up and down quickly, I prefer long term holders which are safer when it comes to Bitcoin.

Long term is best thing if you want to get good return. Short term trading will give you profits sometimes but overall you wont find it useful. The main reason why I don't like day trading is because its a full time job and you need to sit on your computer whole day to find right time to buy or sell. If you have long term trading plan then you are free from this hassle of looking at market situation every hour.   

[LogitechMouse]

~
Which do you prefer and think is better

I'll be a bit bias on this one since I don't do day trading anymore.
What worked for me is long-term holding. Lesser stress on my part, lesser risk. Yes, lesser reward but my quality of life is better now than doing day-trading.

I tried to trade 3x but lose all of money on all of it. Yes, there are some people here that are day trading, and they are earning more than those who are just buying, and holding, but if you are the type of person who don't have time to watch the charts on daily basis, if you're the type of person who don't want to look on their monitor for hours just by looking at the charts, then long-term holding would be the better option for you.

At the end of the day, it's up to you OP if what works for you. If you want to day trade, you can try. If you fail on trading, you can just make a transition to be a long-term holder.

[kojektea]

it depends on where you are comfortable in daily trading or long term trading, I am more comfortable with long term trading because it doesn't interfere with my daily activities at all, if I trade daily my activities are disturbed and will be less accurate with the analysis I do briefly

[el kaka22]

Most people think that you have to do one or the other. Just do whatever you want, wake up, go check the prices, go check the market, go check your balance and decide what you want to do. If you want to trade that day? Then great, go trade some that day, if you don't want to trade and just hold? Great then just hold. You could think of BTC as the only coin that you need, so never keep your money at stablecoisn or fiat for too long but aside from that the rest is understandable situations to be fair.

There is no reason to pick or choose, just do whatever you seem to think would be the best way and you could end up doing that, it would not be all that confusing and not all that life breaking situation if you do one or the other.

[cryptoaddictchie]

  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

I think depends on one capability. Technical or day trading needs more knowledge and some parameters to be able to profit off. While long term holding is simply buying low or keeps buying and selling in a long period of time. Sometimes it took years before someone sold his coins or tokens but the profit is huge while day trader have qouta to earn daily. Im not a day trader but more like a swing trader that sold off when it hits my target.

[Lukmanfirdaus1]

It depends on what coin I'm holding. When it comes to memecoin, I definitely do a short term, it can even be one to two hours when buying. but for big coins like bitcoin and top 10 cmc, I do long term, I'm not really worried about price movements, I'm sure they will definitely give me maximum profit. So if asked which one I choose, it completely depends on what coin I will trade. As for my trading technique, I use the most basic indicator, namely SnR.

[jaberwock]

I think long term investment is better, as day trading comes with high risk. But the profit in day trading is also high. But in day trading, as there is profit, the possibility of loss is very high. In that case the investment is low-risk. If you can invest for the long term and hold for a long time, you can make a lot of money from the investment as well. Only the investment should be for long term. And never stop holding in panic. But you will be able to make a lot of money from holdings as well. I always hold using DCA method and I think long term investment is best.

Risk will still depend on the coin, the amount we put in, and our ability. If these three are poor, long-term investment will still be risky. If good, earning high can also be possible in long-term investing.

Other than the three qualities that I mentioned earlier, there is also luck, like for example if you get lucky on a new coin, it is still possible for you to earn big via short-term investing, and new coins usually don't last long, so there is still no point on hodling them. For you it was long-term hodling is the best but for others it was trading, and maybe you haven't tried trading before, for you to say that or be biased? And you only heard the feedback of others which says the same thing.

[Alana Arden]

Which do you prefer and think is better

Your profits will depend on how patient and capable you are with day trading and long-term holding. If you are not an experienced or professional trader, there is a risk of losing in day trading.
 But it is true that day trading can generate more profits in a short period of time if the trades are exited at the right time. But it is not safe because day trading requires enough courage and free time to take the right trade.
But if you are not brave or lack skill in trading, then long-term holding is better. If you wait patiently for some time, you will make a good profit at some point

[YOSHIE]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.

The two trading methods you mentioned both have the same goal, namely making real profits in the crypto market, the difference is in term, for me they both have different knowledge.
1. Daily trading, here you must have knowledge in the field of analysis, graphics, crypto market developments and you must be ready to sit in front of a laptop during the trading process on that day, you really have to understand the crypto and market situation, so that you avoid from loss.
2. Long term, this method is almost the same as investment, only you press a sell position at a certain price within a certain period, you don't need to do as in the points above [1], you can just wait for the price you have determined.

Conclusion: if you have daily knowledge you will make a profit faster, in the long term you will only make a profit when the time comes, the point is: it depends on the crypto trading knowledge you have mastered.

[Huppercase]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Instead of been ideal, I will share you the reality because that's what we need to know, not all these theoretical aspect of discussion because after a while and testing what's been recommended, you will found out that it's what you wish to see you might see in the process.

Trading is not easy, that's a fact, I have been there and have done that, I made money and I made losses but overall, the experience was worth it but you will not enjoy trading unless when there is a bullrun. The bear market is very bad one to engage if you are a trader, you will most likely make more losses than even profit doing trading in bear market but if you are good, you will make money as a day trader in bull run. That said.

As for holding, it's very advantageous than trading, you don't need time resource, you don't need indept technical knowledge of trading, you don't need to do deep analysis like trading, just some few info about the coin, check the chart if it's time to buy and get some on your wallets and you will be fine. You sell when there is profits without going extra miles to check things like stop-loss. However, you need to be careful of the type of coins you buy so you don't become exit liquidity for market manipulators.

[pusaka]

I think long term investment is better, as day trading comes with high risk. But the profit in day trading is also high. But in day trading, as there is profit, the possibility of loss is very high. In that case the investment is low-risk. If you can invest for the long term and hold for a long time, you can make a lot of money from the investment as well. Only the investment should be for long term. And never stop holding in panic. But you will be able to make a lot of money from holdings as well. I always hold using DCA method and I think long term investment is best.

Risk will still depend on the coin, the amount we put in, and our ability. If these three are poor, long-term investment will still be risky. If good, earning high can also be possible in long-term investing.

Other than the three qualities that I mentioned earlier, there is also luck, like for example if you get lucky on a new coin, it is still possible for you to earn big via short-term investing, and new coins usually don't last long, so there is still no point on hodling them. For you it was long-term hodling is the best but for others it was trading, and maybe you haven't tried trading before, for you to say that or be biased? And you only heard the feedback of others which says the same thing.

In this context and when it comes to risk management, I would prefer to hold for the long term, as the risk is lower, although the downside is that we will benefit for a long time as well. Of course, by holding I mean holding very good coins, especially bitcoin.
It's true, some are more interested in holding, others are more interested in day trading. But we also have to look at who is more interested in day trading, as far as I see people who are more interested in day trading are people who already have extensive knowledge and experience. Meanwhile, to gain experience and knowledge must require a long time.
Actually both of them don't matter to me, do whichever one we prefer as long as we have enough knowledge. But for beginners I would recommend holding only.

[GigaBit]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Both day trading and long term trading have certain advantages and disadvantages. A day trader makes there profit opportunities through daily buying and selling but there is no such opportunity for a long term trader he has to wait for a long time. Day traders are relatively riskier. It becomes extremely difficult for a day trader to make a profit in a bearish market. However, a long-term trader can generally be somewhat free from such conditions. If the asset price declines in a bear market, he will gain in a bull market. Day trader has to pass time through human pressure. But a long-term holder can maximize long-term profits from completely free. In this case a long term trader gets relatively little relief. But if one can do day trading by fully using knowledge and experience then it is easy to make profit by day trading.

[Nanga Parbat]

Which do you prefer and think is better

I prefer long term trading  because it avoids the short term fluctuations of the market and protects my investments for the duration.  This approach gives me financial stability and consistent profits and protects me from emotional trading.

[GbitG]

It depends on what coin I'm holding. When it comes to memecoin, I definitely do a short term, it can even be one to two hours when buying. but for big coins like bitcoin and top 10 cmc, I do long term, I'm not really worried about price movements, I'm sure they will definitely give me maximum profit. So if asked which one I choose, it completely depends on what coin I will trade. As for my trading technique, I use the most basic indicator, namely SnR.

Just a suggestion, not financial advice: Don't consider all the coins and tokens in the top list of CMC or any other website to be completely safe for long-term holding. Remember what happened with LUNA? It used to be one of the top cryptocurrencies in ranking and people could never imagine something like that could happen, but unfortunately, it did and it cost investors millions of dollars cumulatively. Though I wish that nothing as tragic as that happens again in the market because it harms the overall industry and the market, it is better to be cautious than to regret it.

So, I would suggest that you make sure that you are always keeping an eye on the cryptocurrencies that you have in your portfolio so that you are not missing anything that's happening.

[freedomgo]

Focus on what you think you are more capable of doing. While day trading can be riskier, but if you are skillful on it, then I think that will be your edge so you can keep winning your trades. However, if you are still a beginner in the market, trading might not be suitable for you because of the high risk it brings. Focus first on buying and long term hodling, aside that it’s less risky, the profits will still be good enough most especially if you are doing maximum purchase on bitcoin.

[GeorgeJohn]

Day trading can be refer to short term trading like trading within a day or two days. Long term in the way you used it can mean swing trading. Swing trading is when you hold your coins for some many days to many weeks. But the long term that you are talking about is holding. Do not compare holding to trading, because holding is safer, better and it requires less time and energy from you. But this is when you are buying good coins and not shit coins.

there is something that we have to understand between trading and holding of a coin based on investment neither long time investment or short term investment so it depend the one that you want to venture into but and aspect of trading is very different from holding of a coin so therefore I believe that holding of a coin can be very easier for someone to make a profit when the coin is a potential coin and when they coin have a very good reputation so you cannot equate threading with holding or buying and storing of a coin for a long time.

[mirakal]

Some would always prefer the less risky long term hodling while others take the challenge to overcome the high risks with day trading. Whatever it is, everything depends on their own preferences and risk tolerance, as much as their knowledge and skills. In the end, both will derived at a huge profits as long as good management and patience are present.

However, based on my experience, if you are not confident enough to trade, then never jump into trading just because of its promising profits. Take your time while learning the basics in trading and develop your skills and strategies first before you decide to go on trading, most especially in day trading where risk is higher and the chances to lose at an instant is bigger. Otherwise, just settle into the less risky hodling so you can save yourself from consistent losses.

[Botnake]

Whether it’s day trading or long term hodling, they share the same thing, discipline should always be given high emphasis. Because the fact that day trading and hodling both involve risks, then there should be high amount of discipline and patience. If you don’t have that, don’t resort into taking risk investing or day trading. However, there’s always a process to learn both of them. Even with day trading that has higher risk of losing, if you can learn its process, you will definitely end up being a successful day trader.

[BD Technical]

If you do daily training every day, you have a little less chance of losing something and a little less chance of profit because slowly you invest slowly because if you invest long term then you buy another disease.  With one dollar, in the future, after seven days or a month, the price of the token goes to three dollars or four dollars, in that case, your per token profit is 2-3 dollars.  But if you tat on the divide, your loss will be less. If you see that there is a market, you can sell the token, but your chances of profit are a little less because the profit is slow.

 But I will say if you have a general idea then you will not come to the train world here there is definitely risk and if you invest you have to take list it is normal but you know and understand and then invest thank you.

[michellee]

If it is Bitcoin, you can choose to buy for long-term holding. You have seen how Bitcoin prices have moved so far. And it can be profitable for you if you buy a lot of Bitcoin.

Meanwhile, for daily crypto trading, you need to learn how to trade. You have to know how to analyze the market, which is a lesson that must be practiced. Moreover, market conditions are constantly changing, so you need to practice your analytical skills to find coins that can increase.

I prefer to buy and hold Bitcoin for the long term. But I also sometimes trade crypto, even though it depends on market movements. I don't always trade daily but only when I feel the market movement is good and I can follow it.

[stomachgrowls]

Day trading can be refer to short term trading like trading within a day or two days. Long term in the way you used it can mean swing trading. Swing trading is when you hold your coins for some many days to many weeks. But the long term that you are talking about is holding. Do not compare holding to trading, because holding is safer, better and it requires less time and energy from you. But this is when you are buying good coins and not shit coins.

there is something that we have to understand between trading and holding of a coin based on investment neither long time investment or short term investment so it depend the one that you want to venture into but and aspect of trading is very different from holding of a coin so therefore I believe that holding of a coin can be very easier for someone to make a profit when the coin is a potential coin and when they coin have a very good reputation so you cannot equate threading with holding or buying and storing of a coin for a long time.

You would really be able to find it along the way in between into these things on which holding and making some trades on active manner. It would really be falling out on someone preference if we do speak about investment
and trading specially if we do able to make those experiences on which we do able to find out on which one is viable and which one is really that something that you would able to adjust accordingly.
So if you do find out that holding is really that effective on you at the same time you do able to make money out with those active trades then this is something that would really be that an advantage on your part.
There's no way that you wouldnt really be able to find out on which one is really that making you money but somehow this particular skills isnt something that could be learn in short time period.

This is why people would really be that planning or deciding on learning into this one when it comes to this skill but we know that not all would really be successful into this field
but you wont really be able to know not unless you would really be trying into yourself.

[Mpamaegbu]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.

No one is better than the other. It all depends on the temperament of the trader. In this industry, both can make you money the same way they can lose you money. A better way to trade them is to develop a trading plan that reflects one's temperament. If one is impatient, day trading or even scalping will be better suited for one. If one has a day job, maybe an office work or one that takes one away from screen time, then swinging or position trading should be a better option. Don't base your trading on what others are trading or the way they trade. Develop your own plan based on what works for you. It's custom made that way.

[cute nmp]

Prefer Long term trades than shorter one .Most of my profits come from my long term trades or coins that I hold or months or even years at times.Have been in crypto for years now but still can figure out how to make good profits from short time trades.

[GeorgeJohn]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

If you don't know too well about trading or you are still learning of trading I will encourage you to ahead for investment neither short-term investment or long-term investment, because the risk measure in trading is higher than the risk measure in buying and holdling of bitcoin, so I know quite well that holdling of bitcoin for long-term will be of profitable than someone who don't know or understand the rudiments of Trading, because holding of bitcoin or any coins can give you more profit indecence that it might take a longer duration than the person who is a beneficiary in trading, when you understand the norms or trading you may make a mega profit trading than someone who is venture into long-term investment because is making a constant profit and another thing is that the particular amount use for the investment.

Investment is all about risk, so neither you make profit or you loss during the process, both long-term investment which involves buying and holdling of bitcoin or any coins for long-term, trading can wape your capital within a short period when you have not understand the protocols of trading, so none of them is assured that you can make a consistent profit, so both have advantages and disadvantages measure.

[Awaklara]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

everyone has their way of determining this. I personally do both. but I don't trade that much at the moment. only when I want to trade or there is a certain event. because I have felt which between trading and holding is better for me.
maybe the situation is different for other people. where some like trading rather than holding assets for the long term. Some considerations are certainly taken into account. but some do both simultaneously. and those who probably do daily trading and long-term investments have a pretty good focus.

[yudi09]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Bitcoin price is past $50K. If $49.8K is currently the trading price, then a return to $50K is very close.
The market is experiencing quite promising things to look forward to Bitcoin's new ATH which is likely to occur unexpectedly. There are no altcoin graphs that are red, all have increased due to Bitcoin experiencing an upward price spike.

In reality, doing daily trading is not bad, but being a holder is better if we analyze what is happening lately. Holders who choose not to trade daily really feel the positive impact compared to traders who choose daily trading apart from the necessary techniques and strategies.

[Fatunad]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Bitcoin price is past $50K. If $49.8K is currently the trading price, then a return to $50K is very close.
The market is experiencing quite promising things to look forward to Bitcoin's new ATH which is likely to occur unexpectedly. There are no altcoin graphs that are red, all have increased due to Bitcoin experiencing an upward price spike.

In reality, doing daily trading is not bad, but being a holder is better if we analyze what is happening lately. Holders who choose not to trade daily really feel the positive impact compared to traders who choose daily trading apart from the necessary techniques and strategies.

It is really that standard that on the time that Bitcoin do make out some bullish sentiment or just simply having that increasing price then it would really be tending to pull up most coins in the market on
which this had been a typical thing that we do have in this market and if you are someone who do really make out those active trades then you could really be able to make yourself having that kind of advantage
knowing about those movements on which we know that if the market do goes up then there would really be a particular time that it would really be going down on which it would really be just that
wise that you should really know on what are the things that you must do to take advantage such movement. We do know that this isnt something that you could really be able to know on whats ahead.
So risks taking would really be the main issue here on each individual on which not all people or investor would really be having the guts on doing so and just simply choosing up on holding instead
rather than on making some active trades.

[Kelvinid]

  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Well, long-term trading does not exist, maybe you are talking about investing as just buying today and holding it waiting for the perfect price to sell it. While day trading means doing a buy and sell every day, may we have to hold but never takes too long because holding just happens when sudden drops happen where a trader waits for the recovery but this does not often happen.

Choosing day trading is good if we are good at trading as well. It is indeed more profitable than long-term investment but it is stressful.
Choosing which one is better will depend on our capability and risk appetite as we know that day trading is quite riskier than just investing.

[redsun114]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

It depends on your personal goals and targets and you can't say which one is better because both are good but both are used for different financial goals and targets and based on different kinds of knowledge and experience. And, there is no restriction for anyone, which means that a person can do both if they know they can afford to do it and have enough knowledge and experience to sustain them both.

If you have enough funds and resources along with enough knowledge and experience, you can buy some assets that you will hold for the long term and can use some of your funds to do day trading to keep earning small percentages of profit based on the initial capital.

Most people these days are doing both, on one side, they are buying and holding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and on one side, they are scalping certain assets to get short-term gains.

[merekamo]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

For now I choose trading per day. Because for day trading, it's like jumping right into the fast-moving currents of the market, taking advantage of the fact that crypto is very unpredictable. So, you right, it does take more skills, focus, and making choices. For me, there is no problem making a small profit and buying again at a low price and doing it repeatedly
And, of course, for earn short profit or making money from small changes in the market, I think you have to be stay screen almost all the time, though, to keep an eye on market trends. Also, don't forget that it can be very difficul

[Questat]

You are just comparing day trading and investing OP. When asking which one is more profitable, well, the answer will depend on - the trader and investor itself.

But for me,  I could say that day trading is quite making some good money as we can possibly earn some profit every day which if all accumulated and counted, can be a bigger amount to generate compared to the earnings we got from holding for a few months. But, this won't generalized as this just happens to traders that we can say are performing well, those so-called pro-traders. But if we choose to be safe at least, investing should be in our minds.

[yudi09]

-snip-

-snip-
So risks taking would really be the main issue here on each individual on which not all people or investor would really be having the guts on doing so and just simply choosing up on holding instead
rather than on making some active trades.

Risks must be taken whether big or small. The courage to take risks depends on how each individual carries out crypto market activities. For experienced investors, the courage to take risks on Bitcoin investments is not a difficult thing to do, except for other coins that are not as strong as Bitcoin.

Experienced Bitcoin investors only think about the chance of Bitcoin reaching the highest price. As long as they think the current price is still far from the predicted next all-time high price, they are still not afraid to buy courage.
In contrast to individuals who use Bitcoin for daily or short-term trading. Maybe this situation makes them overwhelmed in monitoring market prices.

[vs2014]

I think you are dreaming of getting rich very quickly which is why you are so excited about trading. Actually both are risky but trading is generally riskier than investing. Because you can lose money completely if you trade without skill but if you invest the amount of profit will not be much but the loss will not be much. But if you hold a good cryptocurrency like bitcoin you can profit and avoid losses. So learn about the bottom of the ocean and dive in.

[Hatchy]

Which do you prefer and think is better

Day trading and regular trading both come with inherent risks. As you rightly pointed out, whether you're engaging in short term or long term trading, there's always a level of risk involved. How effectively you manage these risks will directly impact the amount of profit you stand to gain. It's important to note that day trading, in particular, carries a higher level of risk compared to long-term holding. This heightened risk factor can be especially pronounced if you lack experience in the market, potentially putting your invested funds in jeopardy.

For those opting for long-term trading, a comprehensive understanding of how the market functions is essential to mitigate unnecessary losses. Successful trading requires a combination of experience, market comprehension, and a well defined strategy. If you're new to trading, it's advisable to start by using a demo account to familiarize yourself with the intricacies of trading without risking real money. Alternatively, if you decide to trade with actual funds, it's prudent to begin with a small amount that you can afford to lose while you gain experience and confidence in your trading abilities.

[JayTrain]

Personally, I lean towards long-term investing in cryptocurrency. In my opinion, it's a more stable and less stressful approach, allowing to benefit from the growth of the crypto market in the long run. Yes, day trading can bring quick profits, but it also comes with high risks and requires constant market monitoring. While both approaches have their pros and cons, I prefer the stability and confidence in the future that long-term investing provides.

[cakravothy]

If you want big and lots of profits, long term trading is better, not day trading or scalping. After purchasing, you can stake the coins you have to maximize the potential profit you can get. because when you stake the coins every day the number of coins you have will increase. But if you are good at analyzing the market, trading in futures or margin trading can actually make a lot of profit and get fast results. But if you're not good at analyzing the market, you won't make a profit but your capital will run out

[Out of mind]

Day trading and trading for long time are different if you want to earn daily then you must do day trading. Moreover, if you trade for long time, it can be a cause of loss for you, and if you trade for a short time, you can get profit, but it is also risky. Trading is essentially a risky trust where you have the highest chance of losing money so you should always start trading with caution. And if you plan for long term then I think its better not to trade but you have to invest it will be the best venture for you.

[irhact]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

If you learn how to trade very well, you can make profits most of the times when you enter the market but many individuals don't know how to trade properly and this is the reason why they keep losing when they try to trade therefore they stay with buying some cryptocurrency and hold. Both day trading and long term holding is good. To decide which one you should be doing you have to know which one will work very well for you. I have tried the both and they're both good ways to make profits.

You can be trading and also make big profits when you combine the profits you have made from the same duration that you invested into holding. Trading is more risky when you don't know what you're doing and only gambling instead of trading. Many individual aren't trading when they say they're trading but are only gambling yet it works for them until they start losing due to lack of experience.

[Lanatsa]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

If you learn how to trade very well, you can make profits most of the times when you enter the market but many individuals don't know how to trade properly and this is the reason why they keep losing when they try to trade therefore they stay with buying some cryptocurrency and hold. Both day trading and long term holding is good. To decide which one you should be doing you have to know which one will work very well for you. I have tried the both and they're both good ways to make profits.

You can be trading and also make big profits when you combine the profits you have made from the same duration that you invested into holding. Trading is more risky when you don't know what you're doing and only gambling instead of trading. Many individual aren't trading when they say they're trading but are only gambling yet it works for them until they start losing due to lack of experience.

If trading was easy then majority of people would really be diving into this one but we know that this isnt something easy to be done.It would really be needing up some sufficient time and
efforts for you to be able to learn up such skills.On the time that you would really be deciding on diving into crypto trading then you would really be needing those steps for  you to be able to make yourself
that at least have a good grasps into it on which you would really be able to sustain and able to survive into this unpredictable space or market.

Day trading does require that active dealing with the volatility and long term isnt something that stressful but of course you would really be that needing that
having some goals on when you would really be making out those taking profit thing. Always set goals and its always important that you should really be just that investing
on the amount on which you can only afford to lose.

[wxa7115]

You are just comparing day trading and investing OP. When asking which one is more profitable, well, the answer will depend on - the trader and investor itself.

But for me,  I could say that day trading is quite making some good money as we can possibly earn some profit every day which if all accumulated and counted, can be a bigger amount to generate compared to the earnings we got from holding for a few months. But, this won't generalized as this just happens to traders that we can say are performing well, those so-called pro-traders. But if we choose to be safe at least, investing should be in our minds.

The issue with the question the OP brings is that depending on the skill level of the person in question the answer will change.

So if we were to compare the best possible performance by an expert trader and an expert investor, the trader will beat the investor every single time, however very few people can reach that level, and if we were to compare the performance of an average trader against an average investor, the investor should win this time around, and since most of us are probably average when it comes to our skills, this means that becoming an investor is a better choice for us.

[Zigabel]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Seeing any above the other is just about preference, what you stand for will determine which you are going to see as better than the other, but in the actual sense none is better than the other they are both good depending on what you intended to achieve from any, for those who has got a day job which literary takes almost all their time, they will not comfortably be day traders due to the fact that they wouldn't have enough time to stay on the chart but for those who do not have a day job, they can stay on the chart all day trading and WI will be able to make profit. But both of them can still stay profitable as traders regardless of their trading time.

Both day trading and hodling are profitable but it's safer hodling than it is trading and it's also profitable hodling especially when you have got a good capital with which you are holding so which ever suits your preference becomes your best option.

[Julien_Olynpic]

If you are faced with the question of what is better - intraday trading or hodl, then it is better to consider all options. There is trading within a day, trading within a week, a month. There is even trading within a year or a couple of years. There is investment with a long period of holding a position. And there is HODL. There is no clear definition of this concept, but in general, HODL is similar to investing. You hold your cryptocurrency or other asset class for the long term, wait patiently through any drawdowns, and hope to eventually make a paper profit someday. This paper profit can be translated into real profit when the asset is sold.
     You should prefer the type of trading that best suits your character and worldview. You can make money in both cases, the main thing is not to commit violence against yourself.

[Bobrox]

If you are faced with the question of what is better - intraday trading or hodl, then it is better to consider all options. There is trading within a day, trading within a week, a month. There is even trading within a year or a couple of years. There is investment with a long period of holding a position. And there is HODL. There is no clear definition of this concept, but in general, HODL is similar to investing. You hold your cryptocurrency or other asset class for the long term, wait patiently through any drawdowns, and hope to eventually make a paper profit someday. This paper profit can be translated into real profit when the asset is sold.
     You should prefer the type of trading that best suits your character and worldview. You can make money in both cases, the main thing is not to commit violence against yourself.

Option which one best trading between day trading or long term trading not only depend on character some one with trading but also how financial supported or not, some trader make trading as main job and get profitable in short term or day trading because they don't have side or main job helped them to earn money every day or every month. Other side many trader supported with stable financial and have many source income will make them easily how to be long term trading without take care their financial condition.

For hodl seems get similar meaning with investing and I don't think many people have strong hand keep holding their assets for long term, looking with how much profitable and potential earn trough long term holding but not support yet with good financial its difficult choose for some one has decision for long term trading.

[Litzki1990]

Even if we start trading for the purpose of day trading, many times we have to wait for a good amount of profit. If we take the trade at the right time there is a chance of profit but if we take the trade at some time the market will go in the opposite direction of our idea due to which then we have money loss instead of profit and then we cannot sell the trade at a loss. If trading is done for long term then we can consider it as investment but trading is usually not done for long term. The way I trade is that I have a certain amount target each day and I am satisfied if I meet that amount each day. Maybe sometimes I make a mistake in trading due to which the money is lost for a while but when the market recovers and makes some profit, I sell my coins.

If a small amount of profit can be made consistently every day, it is better than waiting for a long time. But the business that is done for the purpose of small profit has some risk and needs to understand the market well enough and always be active.

I think trying to make steady little profits every day sounds good in theory, but in reality pulling that off regularly is crazy hard.  Markets bounce all over the place naturally, and if you try too hard for the daily wins, it's easy to end up overdoing the trades and making choices too fast without thinking them through enough which jus raises your risk and could totally cancel out any profits you were able to scrap together.  Honestly, keeping the focus on longer term trends and basics might work better over time. 

And when you talk about just waiting for the market to eventually earn back what you lost, that makes me think you've got more of a buy and hold mindset rather than being an active day trader type.

Even if our plan is to earn a certain amount of money every day, we cannot work as per our plan. Some days the market may go up and down as we expect due to which we can take multiple trades in one day but some days the market goes down unexpectedly due to which we have to wait more than a week for the market to recover. A trader may not be successful with this strategy of taking one trade each day and then succeeding in one trade and not taking any more trades. For those who are very experienced traders, it may be more than enough to complete one trade every day, but it also happens that they trade for a day and wait for the market to recover for some time.

[Peanutswar]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.

In day trading you can make a trade within a week, months or more so you don't need to watch the market every time, in long term trading you just need to hold your asset if you get satisfied with the profit you've got you can pull it out also you don't need to worry too much with the market volatility because your goal is to buy low and sell high. Also, it depends on your availability to make a trade, if you have more time you can make a daily trading but if not and just want to have a small portion investment every market dip go for a long term.

[Finestream]

Some may find day trading as more of a get rich quick since they can easily make profits out from a day or two, although it’s more risky but those profits are always worth the risk. But I suggest if you are still working on your trading skill and strategies, don’t jump into day trading but prefer to start with long term trading first. Day trading requires more experience and expertise in the market, that’s why newbies or beginner traders should stay away from day trading.

However, long term hodling on one side is still profitable like trading. But this will only be possible if you are hodling the right coins worth investing, otherwise your time and effort might go into waste if you end up hodling the wrong coins.

[benalexis12]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

If you are not a rich person and you don't have any other source of income and you don't have any other job or any other source of income, you can do day trading, which of course requires you to have a broad understanding of trading.

But if you have businesses, not just one, you can invest in Bitcoin long-term; just wait for the right time to sell it, knowing that you will have a big profit in the end.

[tygeade]

Seeing any above the other is just about preference, what you stand for will determine which you are going to see as better than the other, but in the actual sense none is better than the other they are both good depending on what you intended to achieve from any, for those who has got a day job which literary takes almost all their time, they will not comfortably be day traders due to the fact that they wouldn't have enough time to stay on the chart but for those who do not have a day job, they can stay on the chart all day trading and WI will be able to make profit. But both of them can still stay profitable as traders regardless of their trading time.

Both day trading and hodling are profitable but it's safer hodling than it is trading and it's also profitable hodling especially when you have got a good capital with which you are holding so which ever suits your preference becomes your best option.

Safer to hold and that is why we likely hold way more than we trade. If you compare the time we hold, like even days we do not trade, you will see that majority of the crypto market just holds, and only a bit of them trades and even thy do not trade all the time. We should consider that as the most important part. I get that it may not feel like a big deal right now, but that is still a big deal and should not be important.

I believe that crypto is something you should be holding, not trade all the time. I am not against trading at all, that is not what I am trying to say here, of course you could trade, I am just saying do not risk it all that much, be careful what you are doing in order to get more out of crypto as well.

[Inwestour]

Safer to hold and that is why we likely hold way more than we trade. If you compare the time we hold, like even days we do not trade, you will see that majority of the crypto market just holds, and only a bit of them trades and even thy do not trade all the time. We should consider that as the most important part. I get that it may not feel like a big deal right now, but that is still a big deal and should not be important.

I believe that crypto is something you should be holding, not trade all the time. I am not against trading at all, that is not what I am trying to say here, of course you could trade, I am just saying do not risk it all that much, be careful what you are doing in order to get more out of crypto as well.

There are very few truly good traders, and I think that statistics tell us the truth that only a small percentage of traders, maybe about 3-5%, trade with profit, and the majority lose money.

But here it is worth clarifying that this most likely applies specifically to daily trading and possibly medium-term trading, because long-term trading has its advantages of making relatively fewer mistakes, and therefore the statistics will be better. I also notice a trend that more experienced traders are moving towards long-term trading, perhaps experience contributes to this decision.

[Emarie]

It is safer to hold that trade for long depending on your analysis. If you're bullish on the long term make sure you have a margin that can keep you in the market even if the trade is going against you in the short term

[fullhdpixel]

Be it day trading or long term hodling, the risks involved will always be there but it differs on how you manage and overcome those risks, even if we say that day trading is more risky than long term hodling itself. However, if you are highly capable to day trade because of your varied experience, then there’s no problem with that and you will less likely to lose but more on making on profits. But never underestimate hodling as well because the promising profits are also big and huge, but your patience will certainly be put at risk.

The amount of risk depends on the assets you are trading or holding, and that depends on your knowledge of the market and certain cryptocurrencies. When you are buying assets that you will hold for the long term, you need to make sure that the assets are the most trusted ones in the market so that you don't face issues in the middle of your planned holding period if that happens, you will most likely lose money because you will have to sell your assets.

And when you are day trading, you are free to trade any cryptocurrency of your choice considering you know the risks involved and have a clear idea of when you need to buy and when you need to sell it so that you don't incur any losses and manage to get some profit from every trade you make, though it's difficult to get profit from every trade, one can still try to be as efficient as possible.

[Dailyscript]

Since you are aware of the pros and cons, you should choose which suits your capacity. If you know your level of income is enough for you to risk some good amount of money, then you can start day trading because i know that if you want to start day trading, there is a level of financial comfort you should have reached so that you won't run out of cash and also that you should have experience in trading.

It is not like investing for the long term, where you buy and hold; you have to learn how to trade, watch the price movement. market chart, and so on. It takes a lot of discipline and determination to day trade, which is why i won't give myself such burdens; instead, i just buy and hold.

[adpinbr]

Yes, it is an open market for people that want to do a day-to-day trading, but that is a lot of things involved on day to day trading the risk of losing your capital or your trade is high because you are entering the market at any time. Your coin is not stable. Actually, it is good to go into the trading but for me I don’t really see much fun on daytrading I just buy hood because of my experience I have also listened to a lot of advice on Trading and the kind of coin to buy but I end up losing a lot.

[Bushdark]

It is safer to hold that trade for long depending on your analysis. If you're bullish on the long term make sure you have a margin that can keep you in the market even if the trade is going against you in the short term

There is no way we could hold trade for a longer time if we are not an institutional trader.
You need to understand that you will need to be paying fee when trading depending on how long you have been in the market.
If you don't have the kind of capital that could sustain you trade for a longer time, it would be an advise for us to go for trades we can make profits easily and not stress ourselves for weeks holding trades.

[bayu7adi]

In fact, I looked at this question before, and in retrospect, I personally prefer long term holding. This seems to be said to be an investment by some people, but what I do is just like saving in assets that I like and in this context they are usually assets with a high cap.

The main difference between short term trading and long term trading is emotional control, where each long term holder usually does not involve emotions because of daily candle movements alone, but their vision is more long term.

The task is indeed easier, but the potential profit in % may take longer to get a high ROI. And most importantly, the risk is not as big as that of daily traders.

[Hypnosis00]

Asking which is better day trading or investing? Well, that depends on your capacity and risk appetite. The most important is we need to assess ourselves and what we think suits us because it is not just we are talking about how much we possibly earn but we are talking about which one is ideal for us.

I can choose trading if I know myself I can do well or choose to just invest because there is less risk and no pressure. Or we can take them both. But why I suggest investing over trading because it is the simplest thing to do. Just Buy and Hold it for a few years, we can already earn money. But in trading, we need to exert effort in dealing with the day-to-day market volatility and also carefully analyze the situation before placing an order. That is a lot of hard work and patience.

[Oneandpure]

Daily trading we can earn profit every day or short term trade and potential to earn up to few percent every entry without holding for long term, but daily trading can't reach up until hundred percentage of profitable difference with long term trading.
But in long term trading need more patience waiting the coins or bitcoin up drastically and take longer time with more long term holding has chance to earn bigger profitable.
Depend with your financial condition if stable and have passive income in other side you can make cryptocurrency for long term trading, seems difficult without have side or main job to make bitcoin or altcoin investment become long term trading without earn any income yet in daily day difference for investors they have main job and side income.

[boyptc]

Best is to wait and do nothing.

I've been on this game for long time and I can say that I am definitely one of the long term investors out there that have been monitoring the markets as much as I can.

Not giving a lot of effort but when it comes to investing, that's where I am putting my all when I am confident that it's the best time to buy.

[shawonngp]

I am trading in day trading and long term trading, i would like to day trading with meme coins because those coins pumping and also dumping in every day, now hype coins are going crazy and i am holding shiba inu,pepe and floki and i sold a few times with profits. Long term trading is BTC,ETH and some other alt coins. I did both of trading.

[xandriel]

It depends on what coin you hold. Only hold the top 10 coins for the long term. Even if they are in the top 10, they can still become dead coins at any time. For meme coins, most of them are not suitable for long-term holding. 

[BD Technical]

If you want to date during the day you have to do binary trading with very little profit or risk.  In that case if you do binary training you must be skillful and you must have idea without idea or without your basics you can't profit from trading in life.  Also now everyone is into trading because everyone is seeing price rise in pir coin because everyone is buying and keeping in bitcoin buying and keeping bitcoin will bring good profit in your future or your dividend.  But bro, I suggest you do long term test because the risk is less if you have a fever, but if you are on a diet, your loss is a little more.  But if you have a lot of profit in bhaginai trading, I understand that you will be profitable, your profit will increase but your loss and probability should be understood at 80%.

[boty]

Best is to wait and do nothing.

I've been on this game for long time and I can say that I am definitely one of the long term investors out there that have been monitoring the markets as much as I can.

Not giving a lot of effort but when it comes to investing, that's where I am putting my all when I am confident that it's the best time to buy.

Choosing to be a long-term investor will certainly mean that we don't have too much risk from holding the number of coins that we own and we can buy and hold for the period of time we want to be able to make a profit from holding a coin and if we know it well the right time to buy and sell, of course we will be able to easily make a profit from holding the number of coins we want and we have to be patient in holding and don't let ourselves be tempted by the market situation which is rising while we still believe there will still be another increase

[God bless u]

Yes, it is an open market for people that want to do a day-to-day trading, but that is a lot of things involved on day to day trading the risk of losing your capital or your trade is high because you are entering the market at any time. Your coin is not stable. Actually, it is good to go into the trading but for me I don’t really see much fun on daytrading I just buy hood because of my experience I have also listened to a lot of advice on Trading and the kind of coin to buy but I end up losing a lot.

It is only fun when you are getting profit from your trades even if it isn't the case for each trade but most of them. One doesn't need to have perfect consistency because that isn't possible, even the experts in the market would have failed trades because it is a volatile market and you can never perfectly predict the future outcomes of certain cryptocurrencies.

So, if someone wants to start day trading, they need to gain enough knowledge before they get into it so that their experience stays fun throughout the journey and as I said, that is only possible if one is profitable in their trading activities despite their losing trades.

[|MINER|]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

[cryptoWODL]

Although there are risks involved in both day trading and long term trading, I feel that day trading is more risky than long term trading. Many of us may think that trading is very easy but it is not. Trading is very risky and we must become experienced about trading. If we are not experienced about trading then we might face huge losses by trading in wrong coins.

Day trading is a short-term trading style. A day trader must have very good analytical skills otherwise he cannot succeed in day trading. Moreover a day trader uses various technical tools. Day traders are called day traders because they trade during the day. I think long term trading has less risk and less loss. Most of those who trade long-term trade in Bitcoin. Long term investment is suitable for those who have small business job or other high income. If someone invests for a long time in Bitcoin then he can definitely benefit from Bitcoin.

[ultrloa]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

The risk is so high for day trading since you can possibly lose some huge amount of your capital on single mistake made and we are prone to encounter those FUD,FOMO or anything that can affect our decision so if we are not prepared nor have enough patience to deal with this then I guess its better to gain a lot of knowledge first so that we can avoid to lose due to unwanted circumstances and can decide for ourselves when doing trading decisions.

Although long term holding have risk but not the same when you do daily trades since you just need to wait for the set time before you decide to sell and you provably not get affected on any current happening in the market especially if you already set your target and intend that balance for long term.

[Cryptmuster]

The risk is so high for day trading since you can possibly lose some huge amount of your capital on single mistake made and we are prone to encounter those FUD,FOMO or anything that can affect our decision so if we are not prepared nor have enough patience to deal with this then I guess its better to gain a lot of knowledge first so that we can avoid to lose due to unwanted circumstances and can decide for ourselves when doing trading decisions.

Although long term holding have risk but not the same when you do daily trades since you just need to wait for the set time before you decide to sell and you provably not get affected on any current happening in the market especially if you already set your target and intend that balance for long term.

I have made comparisons several times, and not only with day trading, but also with medium-term trading, and I can say that they will always lose to a hold (long-term trading, in my understanding, is a hold). It may make sense to trade when the market is in the accumulation phase in a bear market, but in a growing bull market, there is no point in trading, you just need to choose a good coin and wait for profit, this will bring a better result than trading.

[Adams0001]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

Anything about crypto is risk is just you to get the analysis on how to minimize your risk so that you won't be losing anytime, trading is very good because he brings funds when you are lucky and get knowledge on it because sometimes even if you understand everything about trading when you are not lucky you will still be losing, that is why I have not engaged myself very well in trading because I have not gotten enough knowledge that I need to start trading am just learning it gradually, am just focusing on long term investment because that is the only why I think that will minimise my risk very well, without losing many money and you most profitable on it if is long term.

[Ayers]

The risk is so high for day trading since you can possibly lose some huge amount of your capital on single mistake made and we are prone to encounter those FUD,FOMO or anything that can affect our decision so if we are not prepared nor have enough patience to deal with this then I guess its better to gain a lot of knowledge first so that we can avoid to lose due to unwanted circumstances and can decide for ourselves when doing trading decisions.

Although long term holding have risk but not the same when you do daily trades since you just need to wait for the set time before you decide to sell and you provably not get affected on any current happening in the market especially if you already set your target and intend that balance for long term.

I have made comparisons several times, and not only with day trading, but also with medium-term trading, and I can say that they will always lose to a hold (long-term trading, in my understanding, is a hold). It may make sense to trade when the market is in the accumulation phase in a bear market, but in a growing bull market, there is no point in trading, you just need to choose a good coin and wait for profit, this will bring a better result than trading.

I am not against day trading because this is also an effective way to make profits if you have trading knowledge and skills. But I like your thinking, during the rising season we should limit transactions and focus on long-term holding because profits will be higher.

I'm the one who made this mistake. I thought the bullish season hadn't come yet and there was still plenty of time for me to accumulate the projects I loved. I started taking some capital to day trade and with the goal of increasing the number of coins I was holding. But as a result, bitcoin skyrocketed and pulled the market higher, I missed out on some of my favorite coins and now have to buy them at a higher price.  I only earned a few percent on each daily transaction but the value of those coins increased 5 to 6 times. If I didn't use trading to optimize my coin holdings, my profit today would be huge. And this is just one of the disadvantages of trading compared to holding during the bull season, holding during the bull season is the method that brings the greatest profits.

[bangjoe]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

Anything about crypto is risk is just you to get the analysis on how to minimize your risk so that you won't be losing anytime, trading is very good because he brings funds when you are lucky and get knowledge on it because sometimes even if you understand everything about trading when you are not lucky you will still be losing, that is why I have not engaged myself very well in trading because I have not gotten enough knowledge that I need to start trading am just learning it gradually, am just focusing on long term investment because that is the only why I think that will minimise my risk very well, without losing many money and you most profitable on it if is long term.

yes everything is risky even when you are silent in your life that does not do anything it will have a risk in life, in daily or monthly trading is much more risky daily, especially the trade you do is trading futures or binary it is very risky, you will get a safe trade if you do spot trading, after all crypto growth and price increases on a monthly basis have increased since Q4 last year, it shows long-term trading is very effective than daily that maybe you can lose your money, but if it is done with spot trading just need to wait for the price to return and you will not get a financial loss, it may be a matter of time.

[Zanab247]

I think long term investment is better, as day trading comes with high risk. But the profit in day trading is also high. But in day trading, as there is profit, the possibility of loss is very high. In that case the investment is low-risk. If you can invest for the long term and hold for a long time, you can make a lot of money from the investment as well. Only the investment should be for long term. And never stop holding in panic. But you will be able to make a lot of money from holdings as well. I always hold using DCA method and I think long term investment is best.

Long team investment give big profit but you have to hodl that coins for a long period of time before it will bring exactly the profit you want but short term investment will be bringing you little profits that will make you to buy again when the price go down.

 But is not easy to hodl long as a trader but if you can make up your mind to hodl it long for the bull run to come before you can trade your coins, it will make you an expert in crypto trading which is the strategy some traders are using in the market to take big profit from their long trading.

[boty]

Long team investment give big profit but you have to hodl that coins for a long period of time before it will bring exactly the profit you want but short term investment will be bringing you little profits that will make you to buy again when the price go down.

 But is not easy to hodl long as a trader but if you can make up your mind to hodl it long for the bull run to come before you can trade your coins, it will make you an expert in crypto trading which is the strategy some traders are using in the market to take big profit from their long trading.

Before deciding to hold in the long term, of course we have to know for sure the potential of the coins we are going to keep and never hold coins that do not have good potential for the future which makes us lose by holding these coins, if we have a good understanding of how to analyze The market will of course make it easier for us to gain profits both in the long and short term and both of these things will be profitable for us.

[MFahad]

Anything about crypto is risk is just you to get the analysis on how to minimize your risk so that you won't be losing anytime, trading is very good because he brings funds when you are lucky and get knowledge on it because sometimes even if you understand everything about trading when you are not lucky you will still be losing, that is why I have not engaged myself very well in trading because I have not gotten enough knowledge that I need to start trading am just learning it gradually, am just focusing on long term investment because that is the only why I think that will minimise my risk very well, without losing many money and you most profitable on it if is long term.

You did the right thing in my opinion that you didn't get engaged with trading that much when you didn't have enough knowledge about it. Most people don't care about this thing but it is a mistake, one shouldn't get into trading if they don't have enough knowledge about it because that would only make them lose their money in the long run how can you sustain an activity that you know nothing about?
People who don't know much but still want to earn profit should make investments in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin because you don't need to do much analysis or anything to do that.

[Bushdark]

Anything about crypto is risk is just you to get the analysis on how to minimize your risk so that you won't be losing anytime, trading is very good because he brings funds when you are lucky and get knowledge on it because sometimes even if you understand everything about trading when you are not lucky you will still be losing, that is why I have not engaged myself very well in trading because I have not gotten enough knowledge that I need to start trading am just learning it gradually, am just focusing on long term investment because that is the only why I think that will minimise my risk very well, without losing many money and you most profitable on it if is long term.

You did the right thing in my opinion that you didn't get engaged with trading that much when you didn't have enough knowledge about it. Most people don't care about this thing but it is a mistake, one shouldn't get into trading if they don't have enough knowledge about it because that would only make them lose their money in the long run how can you sustain an activity that you know nothing about?
People who don't know much but still want to earn profit should make investments in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin because you don't need to do much analysis or anything to do that.

It is very good for us to know what we are doing and the kind of trader that we are without going too far from our limit.
Since we are many ways we could gamble and try to make money for ourselves, it is very important we keep doing the right things to make sure that we get good results from the market. We can always make money from trading if we know how to gamble and make money for ourselves without having to give someone money to trade for us, we need to keep doing that with rewards.
 

[batang_bitcoin]

Man, what worked for me is to be a long-term investor. It could also work for you as it had worked for the majority of us here. If you can't handle the risk that the day trading has and you're unsure what it is going to be daily then you have to stop that. I do believe that there are great traders that have chosen to be day traders and then they're also investing to the market for their long term holds. So, what's the better option? I don't know what will work for you as you need also to check yourself on the span of your goal staying on this market.

[sulendra12]

The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Trading and holding like you said here is different, since with hodling the time you spend to hold is indefinite it just depends on when said holder want to withdraw their money for any reasons. But in trading, you need to determine when to buy/sell it since the profit depends on your decision making in here especially if you are a day trader where if you miss a single second the price and your decision would be different.

Long term hodling is my choice currently since I don't really have much time to check any news and updates regularly for day trading unlike long-term hodling where I just check the news occasionally and keep DCAing.

[poodle63]

Man, what worked for me is to be a long-term investor. It could also work for you as it had worked for the majority of us here. If you can't handle the risk that the day trading has and you're unsure what it is going to be daily then you have to stop that. I do believe that there are great traders that have chosen to be day traders and then they're also investing to the market for their long term holds. So, what's the better option? I don't know what will work for you as you need also to check yourself on the span of your goal staying on this market.

day trading only worked for people that are experienced enough with trading that they are used to the mentally exhausting activity of always monitoring the market and also predicting future prices based on the chart, personally as well i find that to be difficult and maybe just like you find long term investing to be the most viable out of all.
after all, what we need to do is just buy when low then just wait it out as we have known the usual price cycle for the bitcoin and altcoin its really easy to know when we can make entry and until what prices we can eventually dump our coin.
the only disadvantage though if the market suddenly bearish that it dumps 80% like last year, nobody predicted that and it will definitely causes the holder to be losing their unrealized profit.
but as far as we buy at the lowest possible, we definitely got the advantage if compared with other people out there.
at least if it dumps so hard worst case scenario is that we are losing the profit but not the initial capital.

[Litzki1990]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

You must take risks, if you consider trading as the highest risk and if you refrain from trading as the highest risk, you will not be able to make a profit. Trading is risky but it is natural for people to take risks, you need to master trading in such a way that trading becomes easy for you. When you try to know enough about trading and when you have enough knowledge about trading you will not find it difficult at all but you will be able to trade very easily. Day trading requires you to understand the market well because since day trading is intended for short term, your objective will be to buy a coin at the right time and sell that coin at some profit. Try and keep learning about trading, hopefully you will find both long term and short term trading easy.

[Baki202]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

The entire system is risky but if you want to look at the risk, then you won't trade, and if it is about making money, then taking the risk and trading is better for me even with all the processes and the analysis. because, to me, holding might not have much risk compared to trading, but my problem with holding is that it takes a longer time to start making a profit, and the fact that the market is not even stable. And if I decide to hold, it is going to be a very huge amount of money so for now it is trading. Once in a while, you can make a profit from your trade and when I later decide to hold, I will continue my trading to make it for sustenance because you need money for upkeep.

[Lanatsa]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

The entire system is risky but if you want to look at the risk, then you won't trade, and if it is about making money, then taking the risk and trading is better for me even with all the processes and the analysis. because, to me, holding might not have much risk compared to trading, but my problem with holding is that it takes a longer time to start making a profit, and the fact that the market is not even stable. And if I decide to hold, it is going to be a very huge amount of money so for now it is trading. Once in a while, you can make a profit from your trade and when I later decide to hold, I will continue my trading to make it for sustenance because you need money for upkeep.

You would really be the ones who would really be testing out on how things would work out for you whether you could be able to bare up with the risks or would really be able to stick on what suits you in.
There are individuals who could really be able to bare up with the risks and would continue specially on dealing up with risks since they do know that this is something that would really be worth if they would really be able to make it right. Although we do know that the higher the risks the higher the reward and this is where they would really be projecting themselves on targeting or something that set up the goal.

We do know that this is something that will depend into someone risk taking since not all people would really be risks takers on which there are ones who would really be skeptical
on which it causes for them to hesitate on taking up such decisions on which it would really be that a normal approach. Not all would really be sharing up on the
on the same mindset and sentiment on which they would be having on different approach.

[God bless u]

Yes it is less stressful but someone who does long term trading does not deserve to be called as a trader. Trading involves deep research, calculations and a wide range of guts. Now long term trading only requires money. You just invest it in any of the famous and we'll reknown coins then now or a bit later you'll get your profits.

Day trading requires a very handy skillset otherwise you'll run away from it like a deer runs away after seeing a lion. You lose your confidence and assets both if you're blunt in day trading.  So you need to be very careful. In short a success and skillful  trader is a good short term trader.

[Cookdata]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

The two is about timing. You can be a day trader in bull market and also be a long term trafer in bull market, some coins don't have fundamental news to give you daily profits, some will take one or two months before they spike before they give reach the potential level you want it to be sold. But let's use Bitcoin against USD as example: In a bear market, there is no way for you to daily trade and have a significant profit but as along term, you can gain something in a long term trading but you can make the both in bull market without any stress.

Your aim in trading should be learning how to trade, if you understand trading very well, trust me you will make a lot of money and you will know if you are to go by daily trading or long term trading because the time will always give you hint from your technical analysis if it's going to be favorable or not.

[R100K-Martin-Lunger]

Honestly, I dabble in both. But if you're new to the scene and have a low-risk tolerance, I would say stick to HODLing BTC or ETH or other reliable crypto like SOL. Short-term trading is certainly riskier, and you need to be willing to lose your investment to experiment with it. But it can also give high rewards if your market analysis is good and you know what you're doing. Ultimately, it's all about how much risk you're willing to take and what your investment plans are.

If you're confused about your strategy and wanna know what kind of crypto investor you are, you can take this quiz: https://r100k.com/what-type-of-crypto-investor-are-you

[leonair]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

Yes trading is risky Because selecting coins in trading is a very difficult task. We can only select Bitcoin for long term investment but other altcoins will not provide a strong holding opportunity like Bitcoin. So I think day trading with altcoins is better. Altcoins can make big returns quickly and also lose big quickly so it needs to be monitored constantly. And if there is some profit, the coins should be sold immediately to avoid further dumping.  Because altcoins are quickly pumped and dumped quickly

[poodle63]

Yes trading is risky Because selecting coins in trading is a very difficult task. We can only select Bitcoin for long term investment but other altcoins will not provide a strong holding opportunity like Bitcoin. So I think day trading with altcoins is better. Altcoins can make big returns quickly and also lose big quickly so it needs to be monitored constantly. And if there is some profit, the coins should be sold immediately to avoid further dumping.  Because altcoins are quickly pumped and dumped quickly

I think the altcoin that are top 5 at least are pretty solid for long term holding, arguably, coin like solana and other are indeed does have more volatility if compared with bitcoin, but its good for long term still since their volatility isn't as bad as the lesser altcoin with lower market cap since there are so much trading volume that influencing the price with sell / buy definitely gonna take up some serious capital to begin with.
I personally have been holding for long term eth, sol, matic and they're are proven to be a good investment if we bought when the price was hitting very bottom.
but today, might not be a good investment anymore since they are generally already pumped by whales high enough though.
but to be honest sticking with bitcoin might be a good idea if you want stability, there's reaosn why the big investment fund company sticking with bitcoin for majority of their investments.

[synchronym]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

First of all you need to think whether you are new to day trading or if you are new to day trading you must have a long term plan. However, investing in day trading usually involves long-term planning, but if you are a newbie, you must have a long-term plan. Day trading is very risky and you have to invest keeping that risk in mind. I don't like investing in day trading very much because of the risk of losing money so you have to make the decision but you can if you want.

[moneystery]

after entering the world of trading, i prefer long-term compared to day trading. because with long-term, i can get profits with more certainty (especially on bitcoin investments) and i don't need to set a trading strategy and don't need to determine the exit point every day. so because long-term is more attractive and suitable for me, i can say that long-term is the best choice.

[AnonBitCoiner]

after entering the world of trading, i prefer long-term compared to day trading. because with long-term, i can get profits with more certainty (especially on bitcoin investments) and i don't need to set a trading strategy and don't need to determine the exit point every day. so because long-term is more attractive and suitable for me, i can say that long-term is the best choice.

Long term investment is better because you will not loss daily losses and your money will be saved until you received your desire reward. In case of long term holding people often feel less emotional and they can easily take right decisions because they don't have burden and are less pressurized as compared to day traders.

Once you utilize your money then you will not be afraid of losing it if you know that each dump is just for few days or months and condition will become profitable again but it will be possible only with the help of patience.

[Farhan99]

after entering the world of trading, i prefer long-term compared to day trading. because with long-term, i can get profits with more certainty (especially on bitcoin investments) and i don't need to set a trading strategy and don't need to determine the exit point every day. so because long-term is more attractive and suitable for me, i can say that long-term is the best choice.

Long term investment is better because you will not loss daily losses and your money will be saved until you received your desire reward. In case of long term holding people often feel less emotional and they can easily take right decisions because they don't have burden and are less pressurized as compared to day traders.

You right but if Long term investments have less risk, but you need to have enough funds to be successful. If you don't have adequate funds you can't hold on to your investment during tough times. Therefore before making long term investments it is important to take care of financial stability.  By having backup funds you will be able to focus and hold on to your investment during market swings and unexpected expenses. Making long term investments with less funds can be risky and you may fail to achieve your financial goals. Hence it is important to take care of your financial situation before making an investment.

[cute nmp]

I prefer long term trading when it comes to both Margin trading and holding altcoins .Think long term is more profitable and safer than day trading

[Fredomago]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

Yes trading is risky Because selecting coins in trading is a very difficult task. We can only select Bitcoin for long term investment but other altcoins will not provide a strong holding opportunity like Bitcoin. So I think day trading with altcoins is better. Altcoins can make big returns quickly and also lose big quickly so it needs to be monitored constantly. And if there is some profit, the coins should be sold immediately to avoid further dumping.  Because altcoins are quickly pumped and dumped quickly

There are factors that you need to consider when selecting or picking coins to invest aside from Bitcoin, we can say that it's really hard to find the right asset to select as it's really risky especially with a volatile nature of this industry, you need to know and understand very well before you choose and before you throw your money to whatever project you want to invest.

I prefer long term trading when it comes to both Margin trading and holding altcoins .Think long term is more profitable and safer than day trading

Long term if you have Bitcoin and those top coins from the market, as chances to continue developing and earning support is the key to make it profitable.

[Xxmodded]

You right but if Long term investments have less risk, but you need to have enough funds to be successful. If you don't have adequate funds you can't hold on to your investment during tough times. Therefore before making long term investments it is important to take care of financial stability.  By having backup funds you will be able to focus and hold on to your investment during market swings and unexpected expenses. Making long term investments with less funds can be risky and you may fail to achieve your financial goals. Hence it is important to take care of your financial situation before making an investment.

Financial stability help us to be long term investment but if still get problem with financial condition not easy to be long term holding investor, most all long term holder have good financial condition and for them hold bitcoin or some altcoin more than several years later and increasing much profitable is not problem during have good financial. If trading as main source income make us have to earn profit in short term trading and need to earn profitable every day without hold for longer time.
Need large fund or back up fund if want to be long term holding, not have to sell with investment assets for recovering with our daily needed and long term holder get more benefit how potential profit earn if become as short term trading just take few percent profitable.

[justdimin]

Before deciding to hold in the long term, of course we have to know for sure the potential of the coins we are going to keep and never hold coins that do not have good potential for the future which makes us lose by holding these coins, if we have a good understanding of how to analyze The market will of course make it easier for us to gain profits both in the long and short term and both of these things will be profitable for us.

I agree, it depends on the coins whether they should be traded for the short term or should be held for the long term, and we should also make sure that the budget we are going to use for long-term investments doesn't consist of the money that we might need in short term for anything else because you can't withdraw your money once you have invested it in case the assets you've bought don't stay in profit in short term.

Short term trades or day trading is best if we have proper knowledge and understanding of the market and we know that we can manage our trades very well in the short term, but without knowledge, it's both a waste of time and money and we should go for the long term instead.

[Mehedi72]

I saw most of people prefer short trading within 1 ot 2 days. But short trading news more skill, discipline and self control as you already mentioned. Even risk is also makes sense. While long lerm trading seems good enough and it also works like holding your asset for long. I think if you are in profit, then there's no need to close your trading Right? But if you found the situation will be trun into complexity, then its okey to go with short trading. Both can be used base on your timing and management

[Bobrox]

Firstly, my trading target is for short term but if price unpredictable and dropping more drastically must be long term trading, many unpredictable price with cryptocurrency trading although many trader have target with short term but not brave for using stop loss feature will be long term target difference with the first decision to be short term trading.
Usually my trading target with short term around one until two days later, but many time after becoming long term trader I use stop loss feature and wish get back my capital trade on other altcoin without get more losses. To be short term trader must brave with adopt stop less feature and get limitation target decreasing price of coins under 10% or 15% if won't change from short term to be long term trader.

[pusaka]

Before deciding to hold in the long term, of course we have to know for sure the potential of the coins we are going to keep and never hold coins that do not have good potential for the future which makes us lose by holding these coins, if we have a good understanding of how to analyze The market will of course make it easier for us to gain profits both in the long and short term and both of these things will be profitable for us.

I agree, it depends on the coins whether they should be traded for the short term or should be held for the long term, and we should also make sure that the budget we are going to use for long-term investments doesn't consist of the money that we might need in short term for anything else because you can't withdraw your money once you have invested it in case the assets you've bought don't stay in profit in short term.

Short term trades or day trading is best if we have proper knowledge and understanding of the market and we know that we can manage our trades very well in the short term, but without knowledge, it's both a waste of time and money and we should go for the long term instead.

Of course, we must have a good understanding before we make a decision, whether we will hold for a very long time, or whether we will choose to trade daily. If it is bitcoin, then there is no doubt that holding it for a very long time will bring us profits, but for other coins I can say so.
We must be able to analyze well and in analyzing we must have in-depth knowledge. We can't just look and jump to conclusions, especially if we make decisions because of hype or because we have FOMO. That is the wrong step for us to take. Because we can be said to have no reason to make us take steps like that.
It's actually very easy to invest, but in investing our goal is profit, right? So we must be able to carefully consider before making a decision.

[God bless u]

Both day trading and long term trading are risky.You have to be very skilled to do day trading.Because it is necessary to understand the market risk and trade in a short time.That is the amount of risk is relatively high.Because risk assessment in day trading is somewhat difficult.But in case of long term ready car the amount of risk is less.It is invested and traded for long periods of time.It is easy to assess risk.So most of the people have long term credit.People who do day trading are used to excessive risk.And they are always under a pressure.But long term trading is less stressful.

Yes trading is risky Because selecting coins in trading is a very difficult task. We can only select Bitcoin for long term investment but other altcoins will not provide a strong holding opportunity like Bitcoin. So I think day trading with altcoins is better. Altcoins can make big returns quickly and also lose big quickly so it needs to be monitored constantly. And if there is some profit, the coins should be sold immediately to avoid further dumping.  Because altcoins are quickly pumped and dumped quickly

I think that opinion is no more valid that only BTC will be suitable for long term investment. There are variety of projects that are working for very long and are capable now to be invested in for long term investment option.

Projects like ETH, BNB,SOl etc have very strong fundamentals and they are returning some very good profits to their investors as well. Yes BTC has influence on these a little bit that can't decide the bright future of these coins..I think they'll come more stronger in upcoming time.

[Nrcewker]

As said before, what to choose it completely depends on you. If you have enough time to give the market, then obviously do day trading. But if you are someone who is busy always and can’t give time to the market, then long term investment is the best option. You need to also understand that, in day trading you get huge profits if done correctly. Hence, it completely depends on a user whether to choose day trading or long term investment. I personally prefer long term investment as less hassle compared to day trading.

[Mahanton]

Before deciding to hold in the long term, of course we have to know for sure the potential of the coins we are going to keep and never hold coins that do not have good potential for the future which makes us lose by holding these coins, if we have a good understanding of how to analyze The market will of course make it easier for us to gain profits both in the long and short term and both of these things will be profitable for us.

I agree, it depends on the coins whether they should be traded for the short term or should be held for the long term, and we should also make sure that the budget we are going to use for long-term investments doesn't consist of the money that we might need in short term for anything else because you can't withdraw your money once you have invested it in case the assets you've bought don't stay in profit in short term.

Short term trades or day trading is best if we have proper knowledge and understanding of the market and we know that we can manage our trades very well in the short term, but without knowledge, it's both a waste of time and money and we should go for the long term instead.

Of course, we must have a good understanding before we make a decision, whether we will hold for a very long time, or whether we will choose to trade daily. If it is bitcoin, then there is no doubt that holding it for a very long time will bring us profits, but for other coins I can say so.
We must be able to analyze well and in analyzing we must have in-depth knowledge. We can't just look and jump to conclusions, especially if we make decisions because of hype or because we have FOMO. That is the wrong step for us to take. Because we can be said to have no reason to make us take steps like that.
It's actually very easy to invest, but in investing our goal is profit, right? So we must be able to carefully consider before making a decision.

If you arent that sure on what path you would really be taking then it would be best that you should be testing out whether you would really be going for short term or long term kind of trades. We do know that each one of
us would really be having that kind of different approach when it comes to trading. There are individuals who do prefer on seeing profits in short term period and  there are ones who would really be liking on having that long term approach. There would really be several factors on which could affect out into your choice;

1. Time preference
2. Risk taking factor
3. Capital
4. Knowledge/Skills

You would be the one will really be making out that kind of adjustments whenever you do see that something doesnt work for you. If you've seen that its something profitable
and something beneficial on your part then you will really be sticking into it on which you would really be having such consideration. There are really just those people who do love on sticking
on which it is really something safer but there are ones who are really that risks takers and loving to deal up with something more riskier but something rewarding.

[macson]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Both ^{(daily trading or long term holding)} are very good as long as you feel safe and comfortable implementing them, if asked personally, i prefer to be an intermediate trader, i try to take profits in weeks or months ^{(not years)}, don't force yourself to become a day trader when you don't have enough time and a group that supports you in implementing it, it's better to be a long-term trader and take profits over a long period of time that has been set.  no one becomes truly proficient in trading, all traders continue to learn and hone their instincts and skills in trading.

[Ndabagi01]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

I don’t think anyone is better because they’re both good and you can go with anyone that you’re okay with depending on your preference. This is just an example of a trader and an investor. A trader looks into what they can get in a short term in the market when they’ve seen an opportunity to go into it while taking risk into account.

While an investor looks into the future potentials of their investments, keeping to patience, risk management in order to get the maximum returns from their investments. For a novice, long term trading is more beneficial to them than day trading because of the high volatility it comes with and how easy you can lose all of your capital.

[aylabadia05]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Daily trade cannot be used as a definite action in expecting profits even in practice traders can do it well.
Long -term is also risky if the type of coin purchased at Hold in Exchange and is not appropriate in making the decision to buy coins that are not potential.
What you mean in my opinion related to the long term here is investment, not trade.
Only Bitcoin is included in a good coin for the long term and I will choose a long -term choice only on Bitcoin.

[Stable090]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.

The both are better depending on the on which you choose. But you have to do your research first before you know which one you will be going into. If you want to be a trader, then you should know learning how to trade is not a day task, trading require’s constant learning, and you have to be putting it in practice, trading is not what you can learn easily, and the risk is just kind of high, but if you need constant income, then you can venture into trading.

If you want to be a holder, it requires less attention, and the risk is kind of low if you are holding the appropriate coin, but if you are a holder then you should have other ways which you will be making money, because you won’t be making money frequently if you are holding. Most people don’t really have time for analysis always, so people like this should just buy and hold.

[GigaBit]

Both day trading and long term have the same objective to make profits. But those who want to make quick profits usually they do day trading, while those who want to wait for a long time do the usual long-term planning. However, although the objective of the investors here is the same, the strategies are different. Generally, in order to profit in day trading, an investor needs to use the market volatility every day to profit from it. Even if there is a cash supply in day trading, it is risky. Here an investor has to be experienced enough otherwise he will lose there. Those who are long term holders also have risk but comparatively much less than day traders. Market volatility has little effect on long term holders. Long term holders have to hold for a long time which is time consuming and many cannot afford to hold.

[boyptc]

Projects like ETH, BNB,SOl etc have very strong fundamentals and they are returning some very good profits to their investors as well. Yes BTC has influence on these a little bit that can't decide the bright future of these coins..I think they'll come more stronger in upcoming time.

Those are top coins in the market and those are good choices.

Yes, no doubt that they have strong fundamentals and we have seen the pumps that has came to those. Still, btc's dominance on the market makes it the best choice of them all whether you trade or hold.

[ethmaximalist]

When I first joined crypto back in 2017, I did day-trading and checked everything every second, it was fun.

But now as I think market is unstable and risky, I have been hodling what I have for the past 3 years.

All i earned from crypto are gains from my patience and lonng term hodl.

[WatChe]

Those are top coins in the market and those are good choices.

Yes, no doubt that they have strong fundamentals and we have seen the pumps that has came to those. Still, btc's dominance on the market makes it the best choice of them all whether you trade or hold.

No doubt coins like ETH, BNB are good choices but there price moment is tightly linked with BTC. If BTC moves up these alts go up and vice verse. So why not focus on BTC then to invest on alts that are dependent on BTC for price moment.
To me whether you go for BTC or alts the success lies in long term investment not in short term. Just invest in BTC and HODL, the best way to invest in BTC is to adopt DCA strategy. So far results of DCA for 4 to 5 years are very much hofty. 

[B2Z]

In trading, we must have a long-term plan because if we trade in a very short period of time, then we will face a lot of losses before the market fluctuates, so we should always trade with a long-term plan so that we can achieve success through this trade.  can do  In trading we must have a long term plan and check the market patiently and then we have to trade. Many times we get impatient. We should not be impatient. We want to make money but if we want to make money overnight we have to face loss so we always have to trade slowly and patiently only then we can be successful.

[boyptc]

Those are top coins in the market and those are good choices.

Yes, no doubt that they have strong fundamentals and we have seen the pumps that has came to those. Still, btc's dominance on the market makes it the best choice of them all whether you trade or hold.

No doubt coins like ETH, BNB are good choices but there price moment is tightly linked with BTC. If BTC moves up these alts go up and vice verse. So why not focus on BTC then to invest on alts that are dependent on BTC for price moment.
To me whether you go for BTC or alts the success lies in long term investment not in short term. Just invest in BTC and HODL, the best way to invest in BTC is to adopt DCA strategy. So far results of DCA for 4 to 5 years are very much hofty. 

I am also suggesting to buy BTC instead of many alts. But we can't force people into buying it if their main strategy is to hold a lot of altcoins for this bull run.

Because with what they think is that it's best to have a lot of it for their preparation for the upcoming bull run.

If it is not going to work for them then they can always do the strategy that we're doing and that is to hold Bitcoin no matter what the market status is.

[Natsuu]

Many times we get impatient. We should not be impatient. We want to make money but if we want to make money overnight we have to face loss so we always have to trade slowly and patiently only then we can be successful.

That's why the type of trading plan and strategy that you have should be in the light of the type of your personality. Because if you are trading longer term, then you will have less exposure in the market. You won't appreciate it if you want to trade everyday and  you are more inclined of not following your plan and being impatient. Also, there's a very different style for investing, which means long term trading is not investing.

That's why you cannot just copy other people's trading. You must tweak it until it resonates with you.

[d-baet guns]

Basically long and short term trading has its own risks, short term trading itself is usually done daily which relies on daily market volatility, long term trading itself is usually done long term which may take months or years until you get a profit. Here, we as long and short term traders must be more experienced in order to minimize the risk of losses.

[cryptoWODL]

One of the main goals of all of us traders is to make a profit from trading. So whether we day trade or long term trade we aim to make the same profit in that trade. There are many traders who want to make quick profit from trading for which they choose day trading. There are strategic variations in both day and long term. Day trading is short term i.e. one day trading whereas long term trading is for few years or few months. As we all know crypto is very volatile there are risks involved in day trading.

On the other hand, if we trade a coin for long term then we may face less loss because we will hold it until the price of the coin increases and later when we see the price of that coin increase then we will sell it that is the advantage of long term trading.

[martinex]

But now as I think market is unstable and risky, I have been hodling what I have for the past 3 years.

All i earned from crypto are gains from my patience and lonng term hodl.

I will use both and see where the market is going and the market. If the market looks like it currently enters and exits is quite impressive.  My view is quite decent also for coin estimation customers if we trade daily.

From the results of daily trading I will put the results back into my investment account with the same coin on a different exchange. If the situation has shown a new upward condition, apply a new hold back while waiting for the ATH price to return. Yes. All need patience let alone long-term hold.

[tottong]

While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

The level of rationalist is very dependent on the skills we have and if the daily trade involves a higher volatility because it talks about an uncertain market it will give birth to its own difficulties for most traders.
Therefore daily trading requires more ability to recognize the level of analysis of the market and coin trips themselves. Holding only needs to understand the fundamental level of coins and usually talk holding is inseparable from what coins we will hold. If it fails to understand the fundamental level of coins, the holding will end worse the market for the selling price of coins.

That is why when talking holding people are more likely to think about bitcoin compared to other coins. Apart from some people who might hold ETH or BNB for the long term to hold.

[Gladitorcomeback]

One of the main goals of all of us traders is to make a profit from trading. So whether we day trade or long term trade we aim to make the same profit in that trade. There are many traders who want to make quick profit from trading for which they choose day trading. There are strategic variations in both day and long term. Day trading is short term i.e. one day trading whereas long term trading is for few years or few months. As we all know crypto is very volatile there are risks involved in day trading.

On the other hand, if we trade a coin for long term then we may face less loss because we will hold it until the price of the coin increases and later when we see the price of that coin increase then we will sell it that is the advantage of long term trading.

In my 5 years experience of trading I think long term holding is beneficial for new users who don't know much about market fluctuations but entry on right time is worthy here. If anyone take entry on peak and then wait for long term ,He will wait to recover in 3 years rather than getting any benefit. On the other hand If any inexperienced trader start day trading then 80% chances that he will loss in first week. I made more profit in long term holding but if anyone have a good experience than I think day trading is much more beneficial.

[Fredomago]

Many times we get impatient. We should not be impatient. We want to make money but if we want to make money overnight we have to face loss so we always have to trade slowly and patiently only then we can be successful.

That's why the type of trading plan and strategy that you have should be in the light of the type of your personality. Because if you are trading longer term, then you will have less exposure in the market. You won't appreciate it if you want to trade everyday and  you are more inclined of not following your plan and being impatient. Also, there's a very different style for investing, which means long term trading is not investing.

That's why you cannot just copy other people's trading. You must tweak it until it resonates with you.

You need to work with your own understanding, though it helps a lot that you are walking with the patterns that someone already succeed, but without tweaking things out, there's no way that you will accurately duplicate or immitate the same outcome, there are things behind each strategy and those who created it always have back up plans in case things won't work and they can easily change it when it needed the most.

you have all the resources but you still need that determination to keep seeking for the best ways to anticipate with better accuracy and keeps learning the process.

[bettercrypto]

Those two are obviously the same and can provide profit in all trading if the method or strategy to be used by an individual trader is correct, which depends on the knowledge that the traders have. Actually, they can be done at the same time while doing day trading and long-term trading.

And a lot of people have been doing that until now, to be honest. There are others who really don't want the hassle anymore, so they do it long-term, and there are others who know that they can get a profit daily, even if it's only a small amount of profit, as long as there is at least some profit coming in at the end of the day.

[WatChe]

I am also suggesting to buy BTC instead of many alts. But we can't force people into buying it if their main strategy is to hold a lot of altcoins for this bull run.

Because with what they think is that it's best to have a lot of it for their preparation for the upcoming bull run.

If it is not going to work for them then they can always do the strategy that we're doing and that is to hold Bitcoin no matter what the market status is.

Of course we can't force anyone to adopt our strategy or buy what we are buying. Everyone is free to adopt path suggested by his mind because it's your money and you are the one who will bear profit or loss.
If I have to invest in alts for upcoming bull run then I will prefer to go with 90:10 ratio, where 90 percent for BTC while rest of 10 percent for alts. I prefer to chose alts from top 10 listed on CMC not the ones that are cheap in price with speculation that they will go high in price in next few weeks.
 

[Compromise me]

One of the main goals of all of us traders is to make a profit from trading. So whether we day trade or long term trade we aim to make the same profit in that trade. There are many traders who want to make quick profit from trading for which they choose day trading. There are strategic variations in both day and long term. Day trading is short term i.e. one day trading whereas long term trading is for few years or few months. As we all know crypto is very volatile there are risks involved in day trading.

On the other hand, if we trade a coin for long term then we may face less loss because we will hold it until the price of the coin increases and later when we see the price of that coin increase then we will sell it that is the advantage of long term trading.

Rightly said , I really like your point that our trading is really about making a profit.But what is important is whether you have analyze before trading or investing and which one to choose because sometimes long term investment gives loss while investing for few days or few months gives profit. Your choices are based on your analysis and decision,there are many cases where users make trading and investment without proper analysis and later lose users who place a trade when they see a copy or coin going up and then try to close the trade immediately after seeing it go down, two things to keep in mind when trading or investing. We can be profitable a technical analysis and fundamental analysis lead you to substantial profits.

[$weetne$$]

Those two are obviously the same and can provide profit in all trading if the method or strategy to be used by an individual trader is correct, which depends on the knowledge that the traders have. Actually, they can be done at the same time while doing day trading and long-term trading.

I do not think doing both of them at the same time will be a good decision because you can confuse the two type of trading and you will not become a master of anyone. If you want to become a short term trader, you have to be trading in that way and if you want to master long term trading, you also have to be trading in that way. It is when you are trading and holding that you can do both and still master them because they are two different things that you are doing. Long term trading is similar to holding because you will be holding the coin for almost the same time that you would had been holding if you are investing and not trading. I feel it should not matter how will make profits as long we can make money from any of the ways of trading. Some people can make money from short term trading and for others it has to be long term trading for them to make profits.

[boyptc]

I am also suggesting to buy BTC instead of many alts. But we can't force people into buying it if their main strategy is to hold a lot of altcoins for this bull run.

Because with what they think is that it's best to have a lot of it for their preparation for the upcoming bull run.

If it is not going to work for them then they can always do the strategy that we're doing and that is to hold Bitcoin no matter what the market status is.

Of course we can't force anyone to adopt our strategy or buy what we are buying. Everyone is free to adopt path suggested by his mind because it's your money and you are the one who will bear profit or loss.
If I have to invest in alts for upcoming bull run then I will prefer to go with 90:10 ratio, where 90 percent for BTC while rest of 10 percent for alts. I prefer to chose alts from top 10 listed on CMC not the ones that are cheap in price with speculation that they will go high in price in next few weeks.
 

That's a good ratio.

If someone can't stop the itch to invest into altcoins because that's what you prefer and you like to buy them for the potential profit, no one is going to stop you with that.

There are preferences just as yours for buying the top 10 and there goes the ones that likes the newly launched and small caps.

[Volimack]

Trading is always risky all traders want to know how to gain profit from trading. But trading will depend on the knowledge of investors with proper experience both day trading and long term will be good. Long term investors can benefit from lower tax rates on their gains. If an investment is held for more than one year before being sold the gain is considered a long term capital gain.

[OrangeII]

So far, I probably hold the assets I own more often, and this includes trading in the long term. However, it all actually depends on the circumstances. If I feel I have made a profit on the day I bought the coin, I will sell it. However, I think to get optimal profits, choosing long-term trading is the best. Apart from that, daily trading has greater risks than long-term trading.

[Zanab247]

Both day trading and long term have the same objective to make profits. But those who want to make quick profits usually they do day trading, while those who want to wait for a long time do the usual long-term planning. However, although the objective of the investors here is the same, the strategies are different. Generally, in order to profit in day trading, an investor needs to use the market volatility every day to profit from it. Even if there is a cash supply in day trading, it is risky. Here an investor has to be experienced enough otherwise he will lose there.

If you talk about profits, you will surely make from the both short term trading and long term trading, but the profits will not going to be equal because long term trading used to bring huge amount of profits than short term trading, which I have experienced that from both.

Despite what is happening in the market, long term traders will not be shaking because they know that the more you continue hodling, the more you begin to see the opportunity that will make them profit massively in the market.

Day trading required steady attention, if you want to be achieving profits from market daily because market price can change at anytime for you to earn from the day trading to prepare for another opportunity.

[decodx]

If you talk about profits, you will surely make from the both short term trading and long term trading, but the profits will not going to be equal because long term trading used to bring huge amount of profits than short term trading, which I have experienced that from both.

Despite what is happening in the market, long term traders will not be shaking because they know that the more you continue hodling, the more you begin to see the opportunity that will make them profit massively in the market.

Day trading required steady attention, if you want to be achieving profits from market daily because market price can change at anytime for you to earn from the day trading to prepare for another opportunity.

While long-term investing certainly has its merits, I think it would be unfair to dismiss active day trading entirely.  Sure, the markets can humble even the most cocksure speculators.  But for those with the skill and stomach for it, riding those daily waves can prove quite lucrative. 

I know more than a few folks who do it for a living.  They've put in the hours to hone their instincts and discipline.  And they've enjoyed the fruits of their labor - nice cars big houses, exotic vacations and  im not saying it's easy money.  But I am saying it's possible money.

Ultimately, we all have to find the style best suited for us.  If you're a buy-and-hold investor content to let your coins mature over years, more power to you.  But if you live for the thrill of the hunt and the cut-and-thrust of the trading floor short-term speculation could provide the perfect outlet.

There are scores of paths to profit in these markets of ours. Why limit yourself to just one?

[Baki202]

Both day trading and long term have the same objective to make profits. But those who want to make quick profits usually they do day trading, while those who want to wait for a long time do the usual long-term planning. However, although the objective of the investors here is the same, the strategies are different. Generally, in order to profit in day trading, an investor needs to use the market volatility every day to profit from it. Even if there is a cash supply in day trading, it is risky. Here an investor has to be experienced enough otherwise he will lose there. Those who are long term holders also have risk but comparatively much less than day traders. Market volatility has little effect on long term holders. Long term holders have to hold for a long time which is time consuming and many cannot afford to hold.

the whole point is either day trading or long-term trading. The whole point of going into trading is to make a profit, and the truth is that not everyone will make money out of trading so even if the purpose of starting is to make money, how many people can actually make the sacrifice of losing money and still be passionate about trading.  and if it is about long-term trading, there is not much difference between buying and holding until the price goes up.

it is all based on our understanding of Bitcoin. They have the same motive but different strategies, People who know how to actually handle the market will be able to easily make a profit from the market. Everything is risky,  but trading is more risky. compare to holding. but in a situation like this, people will go for the option with less risk.

[cryptoWODL]

there are many cases where users make trading and investment without proper analysis and later lose users who place a trade when they see a copy or coin going up and then try to close the trade immediately after seeing it go down,

For this, the apprentices should be well educated in trading education at the initial stage. For example if you try something over and over or learn something you will eventually become proficient at it. Likewise, the more you practice about trading, the more you will learn and experience. An experienced trader will never trade without market judgement. And you will see when a trader wants to start trading at the new initial stage he will buy and trade any coin without any judgment analysis thinking that he is going to profit from it. The apprentice will suffer losses instead of profiting from his trades.

two things to keep in mind when trading or investing. We can be profitable a technical analysis and fundamental analysis lead you to substantial profits.

It is normal to make profit or loss while trading. Everyone wants to make a profit from trading because this profit will depend a lot on the trader's personal experience and knowledge. If you have experience in trading, the amount of loss is less than the profit and if you invest or trade for a long term then you may have less chance of loss.

[Jewan420]

In both day trading and long-term, the objective of making profit remains the same. But those who day trade in hopes of making quick profits are basically wrong most of the time, and those who trade for a long period of time are more profitable most of the time. But here the objective of the investors remains the same, both of them expect more profit. Generally, in order to make a profit in day trading, an investor needs to have a specific idea about the market every day, and that idea should only be that of an experienced trader. Day trading is very risky even if there is a cash supply.

On the other hand those who are long term holders also have risk but comparatively much less than day trader. Market volatility has little effect on long-term holders. Gives long-term holders a special advantage in gaining knowledge about the trade.

In my opinion, a day trader has the hallmarks of being a long term trader.

[Tahid12]

I'm generally investor type, not a trades that much. But i think trades depends on time, news, potentiality, technical analysis and so on. And bese on that, you need to take decision. Some projects is suitable for day trading and you also found some projects that are for long term. But in Crypto market, i prefer day trading. Actually crypto market is different from other market. You can see a good pumping token today, will turn into the top losser project tomorrow. So need to take decision wisely

[Suman1]

It depends, sometimes it's beneficial to go with long term or sometimes focus on day trading. Holding might give you potential gain but ensure you're updated about the market and set stop loss properly to avoid huge losses, similarly when the market fluctuates heavily opportunity should be taken from day trading. Such as lately, BGB has gained 107% from its base price of $0.65 and achieved ATH of $1.35, a lot have taken benefit from it in the short term. Nowadays people prefer to rotate their portfolio according to market sentiment and utilise the perfect entry and exit option to earn from it.

[Dewi Aries]

Basically all traders come with the intention and goal of making a profit but there may be differences in terms of how to get it, some trade with short time frames and some do it by applying long-term planning using fundamental analysis, but for this problem I think it depends on the situation and conditions, simply put if for example you are very busy in your daily life with a lot of activities then yes maybe you can try to trade by applying long-term planning and take maximum profit at the end of the plan you made.

But if for example you are not too busy or have a lot of free time then yes there is nothing wrong with being a day trader using technical analysis, but maybe you really need to have very good risk management if you want to be a day trader because every day you will be in front of the monitor screen to analyze the market and open trading positions where there is a possibility of emotions when you experience losses and also quite a lot of other factors that can trigger problems, because not every day you can focus on analyzing, because usually from the experience I have there are always times when I am not focused because at certain times I have personal problems outside of trading matters that make me less than optimal in terms of analyzing and also that make me easily provoked emotions, but the rest is up to you because this is a choice.

[Justin999]

It depends. Usually day trading is more popular and for me, it takes 1/2 days to compete a trading base on altcoin circumstances. There are many altcoins what newly launched and sometime if you see that your project is getting pump continuously then i don't found any necessary to close your trade? Rather let it expand some more days right? I think this is how things works. But as crypto market is volatile, that's why can't execute trade for long and most of the time day trading perform better

[Bananington]

It depends. Usually day trading is more popular and for me, it takes 1/2 days to compete a trading base on altcoin circumstances. There are many altcoins what newly launched and sometime if you see that your project is getting pump continuously then i don't found any necessary to close your trade? Rather let it expand some more days right? I think this is how things works. But as crypto market is volatile, that's why can't execute trade for long and most of the time day trading perform better

The only time I might see day trading as a task is when I want to liquidate my coins and have to spot trade inorder to find a buyer. Besides this, long term investment in BTC is worth giving a try when there's a good DCA strategy to follow and being disciplined enough about doing so.
The volatility of BTC is even not as random as when trading altcoins and as such BTC long term investment has a better option on returns over day trading.

[Z_MBFM]

So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
  Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Day trading is very profitable if you can do proper analysis and chart analysis to understand when a coin will pump and buy that coin at that time to earn profit. Although day trading is very profitable, it is very risky because there is a high chance of losing. But if you want to hold for long term, in this case you can expect to get profit if you invest in top coins and hold it for a long time. so in this case, the risk is a little less than day trading. so you can use whatever you afford because both are risky

[Learn Bitcoin]

The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better

Actually, it depends. If you can do a lot of research and you have enough time to do it, you may go for day trading. You won't make much by doing spot day trading if your capital is not big enough. But, if ou take leverage from exchanges, you are taking a risk of getting liquidated. Altcoins are better for day trade because alts move faster than Bitcoin. But, if you want to do long term trade, you should pick coins that are less volatile. BTC and ETH could be example. To be honest, I should say BTC only. Even though I do not trade much, still if you ask me to pick one option, I will choose Long term spot trading and I will pick BTC as currency.

[Kelward]

Day trading is actually trading crypto coins, while keeping for long term is investment, so the former is short term and the latter is long term, so the better one depends on the preference of every individual. Although more people hodl which is investment than trading, because it's less risky compared to trading, but it can be boring just waiting for a very long time, even years to get the perfect ROI, where you can make as much in trading on a very short time, or lose everything. Trading is very technical and requires learning skills but investment doesn't need much skills to start, but it's important to hodl  reputable coins like Bitcoin.

[boyptc]

Day trading is actually trading crypto coins, while keeping for long term is investment, so the former is short term and the latter is long term, so the better one depends on the preference of every individual. Although more people hodl which is investment than trading, because it's less risky compared to trading, but it can be boring just waiting for a very long time, even years to get the perfect ROI, where you can make as much in trading on a very short time, or lose everything. Trading is very technical and requires learning skills but investment doesn't need much skills to start, but it's important to hodl  reputable coins like Bitcoin.

HODLING is less risky.

We have been holding for years and we're a real testament to it and that's why we're still doing it. You trade freely and do everything that you want to do.

But as you trade, don't forget about the importance of having your own holding that you're setting for the long term because it will bag you more profit.

[GigaBit]

Day trading is actually trading crypto coins, while keeping for long term is investment, so the former is short term and the latter is long term, so the better one depends on the preference of every individual. Although more people hodl which is investment than trading, because it's less risky compared to trading, but it can be boring just waiting for a very long time, even years to get the perfect ROI, where you can make as much in trading on a very short time, or lose everything. Trading is very technical and requires learning skills but investment doesn't need much skills to start, but it's important to hodl  reputable coins like Bitcoin.

Holding is not for those who want a quick return on investment. Because holding usually requires a long wait. Holding is not suitable for those who want cash as cash has a correlation with short term trading whereas those who want big returns and are ready to hold for long term can be solid holders. A long-term holder can trade if he wants but a short-term trader cannot hold long-term if he wants. However, in the case of day trading or short term traders, making profit is not a very easy task. A long term trader on the other hand has a relatively easy task. Even if he does not have knowledge about various matters, he does not have to face any problem in the field of holding. Ultimately which direction a trader chooses is entirely up to him.

[Fiasem20]

Day trading needs more technical analysis to make quick profit on a daily by monitoring the price volatility of the market.
Long term which is also referred to as holding.Holding requires patience and fundamental knowledge on the market.
Trading is more risky compared to holding.Traders are sometimes exposed to losses while investors are not exposed to losses all that because their coins are held for some months and years with the expectation that the price of the coin will offer huge return.

[GeorgeJohn]

I think long term investment is better, as day trading comes with high risk. But the profit in day trading is also high. But in day trading, as there is profit, the possibility of loss is very high. In that case the investment is low-risk. If you can invest for the long term and hold for a long time, you can make a lot of money from the investment as well. Only the investment should be for long term. And never stop holding in panic. But you will be able to make a lot of money from holdings as well. I always hold using DCA method and I think long term investment is best.

in normal circumstances I know very well that in cryptocurrency investment the one that matters most is a investment that will give you profit and I know that a long-term investment is something that gives you profit is long-term investment, some people do invest in short-term investment and some persons like long-term investment due to the profits that is involved on it, I know very well that cryptocurrency investment is with targets if you really want to make a profit, if you want to make a profit in cryptocurrency make sure you invested for long term is due to they want profit

[Natsuu]

Day trading needs more technical analysis to make quick profit on a daily by monitoring the price volatility of the market.
Long term which is also referred to as holding.Holding requires patience and fundamental knowledge on the market.
Trading is more risky compared to holding.Traders are sometimes exposed to losses while investors are not exposed to losses all that because their coins are held for some months and years with the expectation that the price of the coin will offer huge return.

I oppose to the general idea of this. Because Long term and Short Term trading just have the same of level of implied risk. You can both lose money. The only distinction between is the two is the time horizon of the trade. In long term trading or investing, it also will take you time to prove to you whether you are right or wrong. In day trading, the result is immediate.

That's why the type of trading or exposure you have in the market should be in line with traders personality. Regardless of how good he strategy is, if it does not resonate with the trader. It's more likely that they won't follow it.