How was trading for you in 2025?

[Asiska02]

I have made my selection based on what was my trading experience in 2025. The year before 2025 which was 2024, I haven’t had the knowledge I got last year in trading, so every year for me in trading is making me to get to understand better what it encompasses. Right my wrongs and also try and only get the least possible losses I can ever get. I didn’t trade much this year but checking my portfolios, I would say that it was a better year than the previous one, at least the negative sign numbers is also reducing which is something to be happy about. Hopefully this year ends in more positive outcome than ever before. Overall, 2025 was never bad and hope for a more prosperous trading environment in this year.

[landheer]

The answer is sometimes profitable and sometimes unprofitable, but the profits outweigh the losses because I always avoid significant losses and immediately stop losses when trading. So, the bottom line is that there are more profits than losses, and I made a lot of profit from trading in 2025. However, unfortunately, my capital isn't very large, so even though I make a lot of profit, it's not like people who have large capital and are experts in trading and make huge profits. But this year, I hope I can make even more profit than last year.

[justdimin]

For me, 2025 was tough. There were some gains, but they didn't make up for the mistakes at all. I forced entries and practically let frustration control me. However, I don't see it as a total failure. It was a learning experience and also a wake-up call. The lesson I learned was that trading without discipline is basically giving money away, so for 2026, my simple approach will be fewer trades, more control, and knowing when to stop.

Pretty similar for me too. I'm actually pondering if I should limit my trading time because I am spending so much time in trading that if I were to dedicate as much time in anything else, I would surely earn a lot more. My subconscious mind tells me that all these hours spent will pay off one day, but I just get frustrated the more time I spend in trading and then lose money.

Maybe I will still trade but not as much as in previous years. Trading too much and too many things also feels like I am gambling with my money and making trades emotionally rather than analytically. I do like threads like these because it gets us an idea of how the market did compared to us individually.

[Wind_FURY]

I believe the better question would be, "To those who made money from trading from January, 2023 to October, 2025. Did your capital grow more from your trading compared to Bitcoin's performance during that time period"?

I'm very confident that more than 60% of those "traders" have NOT outperformed Bitcoin during the Bull Cycle.

[RockBell]

Trading for everyone is usually different, and as for me, everything about Bitcoin is self-improvement. As for 2025, it was a good year, and it will only keep getting better, so as long as we are not relenting, they and one thing have noticed that when things become like this, you just have to learn your mistakes and become better because that is the only way things can be different, but there periods that is actually rough most times. and since all of us have different experiences. And people become better from their own experience. But does that not take these things seriously does not make any difference, so everyone decides how they want to be better for the new year. it is important not to take these things for a joke.

[MusaMohamed]

I believe the better question would be, "To those who made money from trading from January, 2023 to October, 2025. Did your capital grow more from your trading compared to Bitcoin's performance during that time period"?

I'm very confident that more than 60% of those "traders" have NOT outperformed Bitcoin during the Bull Cycle.

If they trade Bitcoin with spot, and if they are skillful, they can have better ROIs than holding bitcoins but most traders don't have these necessary things for profit from trading in long term. They even take risk with margin and futures tradings that only make their trading results worse, turn from profit with spot to loss with margin and futures tradings.

With Bitcoin, the safest practice is investment by buying it and holding it a long time in your open source and non custodial wallets.

DCA Bitcoin.
Hold it.
And take profit gradually after you reach to your Bitcoin accumulation target.

Bitcoin withdrawal strategy for your investment.

[jaberwock]

I think I am in profit overall but the profits could have been way higher if I had not made some silly mistakes. But anyway, that's a learning process I guess, and I hope to do better in 2026.

I have made some plans for my trading this year and feel like I will do very well if I stick to it. One mistake I made last year was buying Trump token purely because of FOMO. The price was going up and up and I felt like I am missing on some crazy token. Ended up another shitcoin. So, this year I will strictly avoid buying or even trading any of these shitcoins.

[programmer3666]

2025 was a bad year for me at the beginning because I was following the wrong strategy and found it difficult to let go of my ideas. However, I then decided to stop and change my strategy, and the results were much better by the end of the year.

In short, I was following a strategy of quick trades on highly volatile coins. While I was initially profitable, these trades quickly turned into losses, so I decided to abandon this approach and shift to medium- and long-term trading with stronger, less volatile coins.

The year 2025 was a bit terrible for my trading journey as well, but in as much as I wasn't happy about the negative experience that was thrown at me by the market, I also got some positivity at the end of it. The strategy I applied when the market was good in 2025 was more of a scalping strategy and it worked well for a while then suddenly, I took one massive dumping hit and then I had to learn a new strategy of compound trading with little funds and grow it bit by bit.

[Powerjumboo]

How was 2025 for you in trading? Trading made it good for you or it was very miserable? Are you in profit or in losses?

You do not need to choose what is wrong. If you are not also trading, you do not need to choose anything, just leave it and not choose anything but you can make comments if you think it is necessary.

The year 2025 was quite good for me. I made a fair profit from almost all the trades I did in 2025. But the most fortunate thing was that I was not involved in the market dumping that took place on October 10. Moreover, since I used to trade small amounts, the amount of losses on my trading platform was less. I traded small amounts because I started gaining experience from trading. If I start trading with a large amount of money, then I will have to lose on the trading platform because I have to stay away from making correct predictions with large amounts of money because large amounts of money always keep me excited.

[yhiaali3]

2025 was a bad year for me at the beginning because I was following the wrong strategy and found it difficult to let go of my ideas. However, I then decided to stop and change my strategy, and the results were much better by the end of the year.

In short, I was following a strategy of quick trades on highly volatile coins. While I was initially profitable, these trades quickly turned into losses, so I decided to abandon this approach and shift to medium- and long-term trading with stronger, less volatile coins.

The year 2025 was a bit terrible for my trading journey as well, but in as much as I wasn't happy about the negative experience that was thrown at me by the market, I also got some positivity at the end of it. The strategy I applied when the market was good in 2025 was more of a scalping strategy and it worked well for a while then suddenly, I took one massive dumping hit and then I had to learn a new strategy of compound trading with little funds and grow it bit by bit.

Yes, that's good. The important thing is that a person doesn't despair, learns from their mistakes, and doesn't remain stuck on them.
Stickening to one strategy is sometimes necessary, but when that strategy proves ineffective, the trader shouldn't persist in their error but should change their strategy and try new methods.

[JeffBrad12]

Nothing much for trading, i'm more of a spot guy and did some analysis with bitcoin here and there to find opportunity in futures but not much.
I'd say confidently that my bitcoin gain has been pretty amazing since 2024 to 2025. Definitely grateful for it and even after price has dumped a little bit the gain is still really good.

To people out there, try just holding bitcoin or at least have big percentage of your portfolio in bitcoin. It won't disappoint instead of getting liquidated on futures everytime.

[Wind_FURY]

I believe the better question would be, "To those who made money from trading from January, 2023 to October, 2025. Did your capital grow more from your trading compared to Bitcoin's performance during that time period"?

I'm very confident that more than 60% of those "traders" have NOT outperformed Bitcoin during the Bull Cycle.

If they trade Bitcoin with spot, and if they are skillful, they can have better ROIs than holding bitcoins but most traders don't have these necessary things for profit from trading in long term. They even take risk with margin and futures tradings that only make their trading results worse, turn from profit with spot to loss with margin and futures tradings.

With Bitcoin, the safest practice is investment by buying it and holding it a long time in your open source and non custodial wallets.

DCA Bitcoin.
Hold it.
And take profit gradually after you reach to your Bitcoin accumulation target.

Bitcoin withdrawal strategy for your investment.

I believe that even if a person doesn't have "very good" trading skills and if they were very efficient with their capital by buying DIPs, discounts and HODL, then they would have obviously outperformed those shitcoin "traders".

Why?

Simple. Watch Bitcoin's performance from 2023 to 2025, then compare it to the performances of most of those shitcoins that "traders" like to buy and sell.

[Mpamaegbu]

Trading as usual might result in some profits at first, but that made me suffer a lot of losses for going into memecoins that initially gave me huge profits,
but then made those profits disappear instantly because I had no control over trading memecoins.

You can have control trading memecoins if you've your plan for it set aside before venturing into that. It's the same thing with degens. Just set a particular amount aside for the season and never add to that amount, no matter what. Once any of the memecoins you've invested in begins to go into profit, take partial profit or completely close it if you think it's losing momentum. Don't reinvest all into another memecoin. Take out your initial capital again and plough that back into anyone trending. At no time should you increase your seed capital. That's if you can have a grip on yourself because every memecoin once we see them looks like it's the next big hit 😏 until we get to find out on hindsight that we've bought into a scam coin.

[taufik123]

You can have control trading memecoins if you've your plan for it set aside before venturing into that. It's the same thing with degens. Just set a particular amount aside for the season and never add to that amount, no matter what. Once any of the memecoins you've invested in begins to go into profit, take partial profit or completely close it if you think it's losing momentum. Don't reinvest all into another memecoin. Take out your initial capital again and plough that back into anyone trending. At no time should you increase your seed capital. That's if you can have a grip on yourself because every memecoin once we see them looks like it's the next big hit 😏 until we get to find out on hindsight that we've bought into a scam coin.

What kind of plan do you want to do if everything is already controlled by a rogue dev, before you can control and make a plan you have already entered the trap.
No one really holds on or waits for the upward momentum to be bigger, in the end the loss always happens in memecoins because I've experienced it.

It's easy to say like you say, but it's hard to put it into practice, not just management and research but also mental issues.
Because some people who get into memecoins are too greedy to want to make thousands of percent in just one night.

[GIF-JOBS]

How was 2025 for you in trading? Trading made it good for you or it was very miserable? Are you in profit or in losses?

You do not need to choose what is wrong. If you are not also trading, you do not need to choose anything, just leave it and not choose anything but you can make comments if you think it is necessary.

The year 2025 was quite good for me. I made a fair profit from almost all the trades I did in 2025. But the most fortunate thing was that I was not involved in the market dumping that took place on October 10. Moreover, since I used to trade small amounts, the amount of losses on my trading platform was less. I traded small amounts because I started gaining experience from trading. If I start trading with a large amount of money, then I will have to lose on the trading platform because I have to stay away from making correct predictions with large amounts of money because large amounts of money always keep me excited.

In fact, large amounts easily push us out of excitement, and trading is not a place for excitement, here we have to make decisions through research with a calm mind. But if our mind is overly excited, then our tendency to make wrong decisions increases here. The more we can keep our mind calm, the more likely our research and strategy will be, which is why we basically have to be realistic. We have to research with patience, not aggression. Here, the more angry, excited and greedy we are, we will never be able to do the right research, and as a result we will only have to counting the amount of losses.

[Issa56]

How was 2025 for you in trading? Trading made it good for you or it was very miserable? Are you in profit or in losses?

Last year wasn’t a bad year for me, it was a memorable year. I didn’t trade much last year, I was occupied with some things, so i didn’t just have much time doing analysis and entering a trade. I traded few times last year, and i was able to make some good amount of money, actually I also lost some money, but it wasn’t so much because I was entering a trade whenever bitcoin price crashed so much, and I was able to make some money from trading last year. I will say last year was a great year, and I was able to win more than loss.

[darewaller]

Bitcoin and altcoins are different in this regard. I did as much money as possible while trading from bitcoin because I did alright, same with ETH and SOL, those were very good. But, I also traded some other alts and the result wasn't the same because I made some losses on those. I was wrong to trade those because on each time I was a bit late, and I do warn people not to invest when things are high, and yet I made the mistake I warn people about. This is trading, mistakes happen, my 2025 overall was profit so I am happy.