I am trader - therefore I have to trade ?

[Oluwa-btc]

This is self explanatory already, except that you don't find it easy to understand.Especially,I believe there's a way this works and also unto other professions.You're a trader but you just don't trade or buy or sell everytime.Trader,you need to wake up to analyzing,observations and repositioning.Some days you wake up to an unbalanced and undefined market,but the earlier you identify bad signs,compare,contrast and execute stages clearly makes you a full trader.

[Cryptohygenic]

Op your texts is not clearly understandable or can not just be comprehend.
But I get you loud saying traders does not have to trade. So what are they supposed to do?
Or did you mean to imply the context that you have to be knowledgeable about trading before you can trade? We also see lot of beginner traders with remorse over their forcing into the market without gaining proper trading knowledge and in the process they blow up their account.

The trading market is a place for survivals full of risks . Those who have the funds to risk and stay consistent and also acquires quality educations about crypto and risk management

[Youngrebel]

To be a good trader you need to have very good qualities that would help you out in  most times of your trading career.. as a trader you must have the qualities to be able yo know the following
1. Ability to know good trading season
2. Ability to know when not to trade. Ability to know when.to buy and when to sell.
These would help you not run into a.loss when not necessary.  It will keep you in business for a long time and certainly keep you in check.

[Dechris_08]

Our main task is not to trade, but find, study and judge opportunities. And actually trade only in this relatively rare occasion when the opportunity (for example strong undervaluation or overvaluation of the asset) is judged worth exploiting.

There's something most people don't understand about trading.

You can trade every minute, every day, every week, it depends on what you want to do.

But it's not about trading every day.

You have to wait for the right trading setup.

[Agbe]

OP you are saying the same thing, as a trader you must trade, there is no way around it. saying that you must study, make research and eait for an opportunity to take your trade is all part of your tradng activities but only a strategic trader follows all these process. For a trader to get into the market without doing any of these things you listed here they might actually end up losing a lot in the long run.

[Japinat]

If you stick to this mindset, you will certainly make consistent losses. But I would suggest to follow this instead, trade only when you think you are already knowledgeable and has developed some working strategies on your trades, other than that, stay away from trading because that will only create false hopes on you especially if the confidence is too much, yet the amount of experience is never sufficient enough.

[Maslate]

That does not sound like a real bitcoin trader. Otherwise, you would have known that being called a trader is not enough, its more than that.

Anyone should enter trading not because he is a trader, but because he knows he has potentials in trading that would led him to future profits, and the amount of knowledge and experiences gained are not limited.

One can enter trading not because his profession is a trader, but because he knows the risk and how to properly manage those risks in order to result into successful trading.

[tvplus006]

...And we conclude that in order to be a trader, one have to trade as well...

This would only be true if you were a professional trader. In that case, you would have to do this job, regardless of your mood and the weather outside the window. But since most of us are amateurs and trading is an additional income for us, we can only open orders when we are confident in our decision.

[jossiel]

trade only when you think you are already knowledgeable and has developed some working strategies on your trades, other than that, stay away from trading because that will only create false hopes on you especially if the confidence is too much, yet the amount of experience is never sufficient enough.

I agree to only trade when he's know knowledge and has some strategies already. But no one can stop anybody from doing such trades when they're still new.

One thing they have to remember is that beginners are dealt to losing so that they'll discover their own trades and how to adjust with the strategies they're trying to make.

But they insist if others have made so much profit in trading, it could happen to them. They're not wrong but it takes a while before like that happens.

[Awaklara]

Our main task is not to trade, but find, study and judge opportunities. And actually trade only in this relatively rare occasion when the opportunity (for example strong undervaluation or overvaluation of the asset) is judged worth exploiting.

A knowledgeable trader certainly will not force themselves to trade at the wrong time or in the wrong market situation. But have you ever seen a trader who engages in daily trading routinely? What they do is make sure to profit, even if only a little, from each trade. 
There are traders who make trading their source of income and may not have any other earnings. I think that is not a problem; they adapt to opportunities that may arise, even if the risks are high and the profits are small.

[Roseline492]

There is one important mistake, totally wrong association from many other (or even most) professions:
drivers drive (almost constantly, vocation time excluded),
teachers teach,
nurses nurse,
beggars beg,
cooks cook,
sportsmen make sport
and so on.

And we conclude that in order to be a trader, one have to trade as well...
No !

If they can do what teachers and nurses do before they got an operation license then they can trade because a nurse didn't appear anywhere and suddenly called a nurse but there was schooling, practical and competency examination they gave them and they pass before they become what they are and this is how all this ones you wrote out follows, so actually this is how someone must also do before they can see themselves becoming a traders, trading is not a title for someone to give themselves because is in the trading market the reality take form, intelligency sometimes deceive people into confident they do not understand.

[Rabata]

A common idea people have about trading is buying and selling. They think that it is possible to make a profit only by buying and selling, but to become a trader, it will never be possible to do anything good from trading if you only have knowledge of these two words. To become a trader, a trader needs to have knowledge about several other things, especially the market chart, public sentiment. A lot also depends on the world economy and trade-related issues.

Before taking a new trade, a trader needs to be patient. One should always try to understand which is an opportunity and which is a lure. One should be careful not to lose money by hoping to make a profit with a random trade, which is why a trader needs to adopt a more logical decision. It is not worthwhile to take more trades, but analyze and trade correctly, there will be high chances of making good profit.

[Byebyebtc]

Its not a task, but it is necessary to trade, if not what is the use of learning how to trade if you are not going to.
Nevertheless it doesn't matter how careful or observant you want to be you still have to trade

[Findingnemo]

An athelete don't just go and keep playing everyday, they just play on the game days but they prepare for that game for entire month or years the same applies for being a trader, you can do just one trade for a month but you are just preparing for that one trade is what makes them a trader.

[Abu-Naim]

Its not a task, but it is necessary to trade, if not what is the use of learning how to trade if you are not going to.
Nevertheless it doesn't matter how careful or observant you want to be you still have to trade

As long as you have learned how to trade and you have used your experience on several occasions to trade, weather you lose or you make profit in your trades, then you are a trader; there is no two way about it and it doesn’t mean that you have to trade daily or regularly to be referred to as a trader because even people the OP make reference to like drivers, chefs, teachers, nurses, and so on sometimes don’t do their work regularly, but they are referred to based on their profession even if they are not doing that regularly.
Once you have learn about trading, and you have traded once or twice, you are a trader even if you don’t trade regularly.

[HONDACD125]

And we conclude that in order to be a trader, one have to trade as well...

Yes, obviously, one has to trade to be a trader, and someone who trades is called a trader. There should be no doubt about that.

No !

What??  

Our profession is fully different in this aspect - we are more similar to poets whose main work is rather to be (to BE as awake and curios and sharp, eager to perceive, find and exploit every opportunity outside and inside) than to write, writing is secondary, there are great poets who have not written a single word and many who have written ridiculously little.

You're not making any sense. What you are talking about is the process. A poet observes his surroundings and what's happening in the world, but they do it only so that they can write about those things, and they are called poets only because they write poetry, no matter what process they go through before writing the poetry at the end.

Our main task is not to trade, but find, study and judge opportunities. And actually trade only in this relatively rare occasion when the opportunity (for example strong undervaluation or overvaluation of the asset) is judged worth exploiting.

Again, you are wrong to say that your main task as a trader is not to trade but to research and study or whatever, because that is the process you have to go through before you make your trades so that your trades become better, but you still have to trade after doing all that, so you are basically a trader.

[WatChe]

An athelete don't just go and keep playing everyday, they just play on the game days but they prepare for that game for entire month or years the same applies for being a trader, you can do just one trade for a month but you are just preparing for that one trade is what makes them a trader.

There are two types of traders disciplined and undisciplined traders. The undisciplined traders are the one who think that trading will make them rick overnight, with this mindset they trade and end up losing everything they have. While the disciplined traders prepare them self for trading first and they understand the risk associated with trading. The disciplined traders can be compared with finest athletes who are well prepared for the job and perform well when it matters the most.

[Webetcoins]

Our main task is not to trade, but find, study and judge opportunities. And actually trade only in this relatively rare occasion when the opportunity (for example strong undervaluation or overvaluation of the asset) is judged worth exploiting.

There's something most people don't understand about trading.

You can trade every minute, every day, every week, it depends on what you want to do.

But it's not about trading every day.

You have to wait for the right trading setup.

Yeah, you can trade anytime you want if you want to be called a trader. However, if you buy today, and sell six months later, I am not sure if people would agree to call you a trader, that is more like a short term investor and not a trader.

Nobody has a guaranteed timing for when you are a trader and when you are an investor, we know that if you bought today and sold today that is trading and we know if you bought today and sold ten years later that is investment, but we do not know when it becomes trading and when it turns to investment.

[Arenga pinnata]

Its not a task, but it is necessary to trade, if not what is the use of learning how to trade if you are not going to.
Nevertheless it doesn't matter how careful or observant you want to be you still have to trade

Well, in the end, a trader is someone who trades. There is no point in analyzing things at length if you don't actually trade. What makes someone a trader is that they regularly trade in the market. However, how often they trade depends on the techniques and types of trading they use.

Some trade every day (day traders), some trade less frequently because they take positions carefully and only exit once their profit targets are met, which can take days or weeks per transaction to achieve a profit (swing traders), and some trade quickly (scalpers). So, it really depends on the type and strategy of trading used.

[uchegod-21]

The primary goal of a trader is to buy and sell (trade) for profits. I am still wondering how one can talk about being a trader without being conscious of the term trade. Every acts of observation, analysis, judgement and whatsoever are just strategies to enable the trader trade effectively and with little or no losses. They are all secondary. I think that it is rather misleading for op to to assume that trading is only secondary while the rest activities are the primary goal of a trader. At what point should a trader take profits if trading isn't the most important thing? We are not talking about overtrading right now, we are talking about the proper and right way to trade. No misinformation.