One Big Trade vs Multiple Trades, Which Is Better?

[Odogwu-Blockchain]

I will rather be a long term trader than any of these persons you illustrated, I will choose that because I don't want to be anxious on a consistent level, been a daily trader or once in a month gives rise to tension especially from who is trading the first time.

I like trading, I don't like when trading is taking out my peace of mind, when making me hate myself for not getting it right.

So for me to bypass these anxieties, I only choose to trade once and wait for long for profits, doesn't matter how long.

[AVE5]

Person 1: Places only 2 trades per month and risks all of his capital on just 1 or 2 trades because he believes that, by finding the perfect opportunity, he can make the same amount of money that someone else might make by placing multiple trades in a month. He believes it is better to take a big risk only once or twice rather than risk money on multiple trades. He also thinks that people who trade more often are not skilled traders, and are just trying again and again until they hit the jackpot like gamblers.

Who does or says this shit is a reliable trading strategy? If you ask me, I'll say that this is even the worse strategy because you'll have to place maximum of 2 times trading order only for the whole month while the trading remains risky as gambling.
What I'll only recommend in this strategy is that such trader is only acting according to his risk levels and also managing his time like he's really trading for fun like that we treats gambling.
I don't really see how this kind of strategy will be profitable in the long time like traders.

[Issa56]

Which person would you rather be, and why? Please give your own reasons, not the ones already mentioned above. Share from your personal experience.

I will prefer to be the second trader. The risk which the first person is taking is just to high, you can decide to go all in, and if you are lucky you going to be winning some money back, and if you are unlucky you going to be losing everything, which I will say thats the problem. When you are taking risk, then you should make sure you take a risk which won’t affect you so much if you lose.

As a trader we should always expect loss, even if you are a professional trader, loss will definitely set in, you can’t avoid that so if you decide to use everything you have in a trade, and you lose, you going to have to look for another capital. If you involve yourself in multiple trades, if you lose in some, you going to win some which is going to cover up for even the ones you lost.

[passwordnow]

Less stress if it's with one big trade and you've made it with that. Because having multiple trades is exhausting and you're just trying to recover your first losses. But with one big trade, it's all solved and done and you're now free to step away in a day or two or how long you want it to be. With multiple trades, it's given that not all of it will not win. So, if you're ambitious then just take the one big win and go away.

[shinratensei_]

Maybe its possible for them if they are busy person and they fine if their trade wins or even lose. Those type of people are risk takers, but for me its not going to work. Because I find it not ideal action to do and we are just wasting our money for doing those situations.

Instead of doing that I might choose to focus only buying Bitcoin, since I think this is more ideal decision to do compare choosing to do two trade each month. Maybe some people earning some profit for doing this, but for sure everything is temporary and maybe on their next trade they won't get anything.

Well, risk will always be there but by not monitoring the market daily and finding the right opportunity i'd still find doing two trade a month as just wishful thinking and not really practical.
I personally have set up some crypto alarm and so on. Yet I still find myself looking at the market constantly. To me, two trade a month with stress free approach is impossible if we seek a good profit.

[NotATether]

Person 1: Places only 2 trades per month and risks all of his capital on just 1 or 2 trades because he believes that, by finding the perfect opportunity, he can make the same amount of money that someone else might make by placing multiple trades in a month. He believes it is better to take a big risk only once or twice rather than risk money on multiple trades. He also thinks that people who trade more often are not skilled traders, and are just trying again and again until they hit the jackpot like gamblers.

Never do this. I did this recently. I was extremely lucky I didn't lose it all, given that it was a very real possibility towards the end, so please take my advice. But I also didn't make as much capital as I thought I could've gotten.

This mindset is completely wrong. You need to create a trading strategy with positive EV, and then buy stuff based on that. Then it won't matter if you win or lose, because there will always be net profit.

[darewaller]

Honest question here, is it possible to do two trades per month without constantly monitoring the market? I can't fathom how you can find the right time if you don't monitor the market daily.
Hence it's the same as doing trading for living but with fewer trades therefore, it won't improve psychology in anyway and makes us stress free.

Even with just two trade per month you will find yourself constantly looking at the market and it will cause more stress. Although doing fewer trade in a month seems good, doesn't seem to affect the state of our mental that much.

Maybe its possible for them if they are busy person and they fine if their trade wins or even lose. Those type of people are risk takers, but for me its not going to work. Because I find it not ideal action to do and we are just wasting our money for doing those situations.

Instead of doing that I might choose to focus only buying Bitcoin, since I think this is more ideal decision to do compare choosing to do two trade each month. Maybe some people earning some profit for doing this, but for sure everything is temporary and maybe on their next trade they won't get anything.

That is also depends on the capital as well. Someone who is rich, not just as networth but as income, and making a lot of money every single month, could lose a lot of money or do few trades and learn that way and get better with time, and when they lose, it's not end of the world and they could just make more money because they have income and then try again.

For people like us, who is not rich, and do not have a high networth and not even have a lot of income, it's hard for us to take that much of long time to get better. This is why, all the way back when I first started, probably nearly ten years ago, I started with only 20 bucks, because if I lost that, I would not feel bad about it at all and it's the same now.

[Wakate]

Less stress if it's with one big trade and you've made it with that. Because having multiple trades is exhausting and you're just trying to recover your first losses. But with one big trade, it's all solved and done and you're now free to step away in a day or two or how long you want it to be. With multiple trades, it's given that not all of it will not win. So, if you're ambitious then just take the one big win and go away.

It is better you take multiple trades to reduce the possibility of losing your money when you use the money to trade on a single coin pairs. Trading can be unpredictable and that is why traders need to be careful whether you are experts or struggling to make money by depending on group signals. When you split your trades, this will reduce the possibility of you losing money to the market at once.

[gabbie2010]

I would prefer person 2 who places trade on many setup in a month, personally I think placing 1 or 2 trade per month would be very boring unlike placing trades regularly and person 2 might also have a monthly target let assume 5% on the capital once target is hit the trader might quit itrading till another month and as far trading is concern there is no perfect trade I.e no holy grail in trading it is trade management that would enable an experience trader to have an edge in the market therefore person 2 has the opportunity for trade management as well gain more experience due to plenty trading setup executed by that trader.

[JeffBrad12]

I would prefer person 2 who places trade on many setup in a month, personally I think placing 1 or 2 trade per month would be very boring unlike placing trades regularly and person 2 might also have a monthly target let assume 5% on the capital once target is hit the trader might quit itrading till another month and as far trading is concern there is no perfect trade I.e no holy grail in trading it is trade management that would enable an experience trader to have an edge in the market therefore person 2 has the opportunity for trade management as well gain more experience due to plenty trading setup executed by that trader.

It all boils down to opportunity, doing one big trade seems promising but opportunity for a really good trade doesn't come so often and we might have missed it because we thought the RR wasn't so great.
Doing regular setups, might actually give us some good random opportunity to stumble upon so yeah I agree with your take.

[michellee]

How good their skills? If both had good skills in trading, we can't say one will better than the other as they have different target in trading.

Person 1, maybe he doesn't have much time to trade and only have two times monthly. He use big money after he analyze the market and find the potential coin, he will not waiting for more and execute his trading.

Person 2, maybe he doesn't have much money and realize that he might difficult to win big if he just trade for one or two times monthly. He decide to trade many times monthly and improves his skills as he know that will helps him to get the right coin.

I prefer to trade many times but under my control, I don't set a high target to profits because I know the market can change easily. But I have experienced to trade two or three times in a month and I satisfied with the result.

[pusaka]

How good their skills? If both had good skills in trading, we can't say one will better than the other as they have different target in trading.

Person 1, maybe he doesn't have much time to trade and only have two times monthly. He use big money after he analyze the market and find the potential coin, he will not waiting for more and execute his trading.

Person 2, maybe he doesn't have much money and realize that he might difficult to win big if he just trade for one or two times monthly. He decide to trade many times monthly and improves his skills as he know that will helps him to get the right coin.

I prefer to trade many times but under my control, I don't set a high target to profits because I know the market can change easily. But I have experienced to trade two or three times in a month and I satisfied with the result.

Everyone has their reasons for trading in first person or second person. But I myself would emphasize never overdoing it in trading. We should still have limits, be it when we make a few entries in a month or make many entries in a month.
 

Everything has its own risk and we have to adjust to that risk, whether we are trading in first person or trading in second person.   Don't think that trading less often will make you risk-free, and vice versa.

Making a good plan by doing financial and risk management is a must in every strategy we apply.

[Z_MBFM]

It depends on your experience. If you have a lot of experience and you are confident that you can profit a lot from the coin you will train with, then of course you can use large amounts there, but if you are new to trading, then you should never use large amounts at once. In this case, it would be better to do multiple trades with small amounts because if you lose in one, another will recover that loss. So you will not face big losses. But no matter how you trade, you have to remember that it is very risky and you can lose from here. If you can trade with this mentality, then in that case you can do any type of trading that you want to do.

[ChocolateBitcoinK]

Less stress if it's with one big trade and you've made it with that. Because having multiple trades is exhausting and you're just trying to recover your first losses. But with one big trade, it's all solved and done and you're now free to step away in a day or two or how long you want it to be. With multiple trades, it's given that not all of it will not win. So, if you're ambitious then just take the one big win and go away.

It is better you take multiple trades to reduce the possibility of losing your money when you use the money to trade on a single coin pairs. Trading can be unpredictable and that is why traders need to be careful whether you are experts or struggling to make money by depending on group signals. When you split your trades, this will reduce the possibility of you losing money to the market at once.

The trading market can always behave uncertainly and unexpectedly, so using the entire capital in one trade at once creates a huge risk, which can put us at risk of losing everything at once. Therefore, we should definitely trade under control, in a controlled manner, with limited multiple trades. So that even if we face a loss once, we can recover that loss later. Yes, it is true that many people want to make quick profits by following other people's signals, but these are risky, our own research is the best, this will give us the opportunity to make the best trades.

[EarnOnVictor]

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Which person would you rather be, and why? Please give your own reasons, not the ones already mentioned above. Share from your personal experience.

First, let me correct the notion of a "perfect entry," it's a misconception among traders, as there's nothing perfect in the market. This is why Person 1, as patient and conservative as he is, he should know that trading once or twice in a month does guarantee his success for the month. However, it's a good call if he couldn't be consistent with it, and at the end of a year, he might have more winning than losing, provided his trading strategy is good. This style will even reduce stress, mistakes and trading fees&charges.

As for Person 2, this is the behaviour of regular traders. It has too many cons than pros, even as the results are not always good. By virtue, I choose Person 1, but my trading management must be able to quantify it.

[tvplus006]

...Which person would you rather be, and why? Please give your own reasons, not the ones already mentioned above.

The first example is not a trader, but a player, because a trader will not risk his entire capital under any circumstances. The second example shows a trader who takes care of his deposit and trades according to risk management. And he really has a better chance of making a profit.

[AmoreJaz]

It depends on your experience. If you have a lot of experience and you are confident that you can profit a lot from the coin you will train with, then of course you can use large amounts there, but if you are new to trading, then you should never use large amounts at once. In this case, it would be better to do multiple trades with small amounts because if you lose in one, another will recover that loss. So you will not face big losses. But no matter how you trade, you have to remember that it is very risky and you can lose from here. If you can trade with this mentality, then in that case you can do any type of trading that you want to do.

If you are venturing with alts, it would take time before you will get a good grasp on how to actually profit from it. So this is not an overnight task that you can do. And if you don't have much time, better not to go into this tedious job of monitoring the market as well as the project itself.
You would find out real quick that it needs a lot of due diligence before you can really get the rewards of your trading journey. Also, the strategies can be learned thru time and not just in one trade. If you want to focus, better dedicate yourself first in btc. And see how you can improve your trade later on with other top alts. But I would say, if you don't have much time, better consider btc as your main alt to trade, as its position is quite solid already.

[Jaweria parveen]

I don't think it will matter much if we play off the small trades or big trades, it depends on our analysis and our investment. I believe that small trades are acceptable as the risk of losing the money is not as great and loss of money is not all at once. Now, the big traders have their own and strong analysis, so they work with big trades and take profit from it. It is dependent on the trader's ability to comprehend the market and how he operates. So, in my view small trades are better because if earning is less, then risk may be less which is fine for beginner or small traders, big traders will decide as per their strength.

[Alpen]

There are two kinds of traders. Which one would you rather be, and why do you think that style of trading is better than the other?

Person 1: Places only 2 trades per month and risks all of his capital on just 1 or 2 trades because he believes that, by finding the perfect opportunity, he can make the same amount of money that someone else might make by placing multiple trades in a month. He believes it is better to take a big risk only once or twice rather than risk money on multiple trades. He also thinks that people who trade more often are not skilled traders, and are just trying again and again until they hit the jackpot like gamblers.

Person 2: Places multiple trades in a month. He has the same capital as Person 1, but he have more setups. Let's say he places 10 to 25 trades per month. He believes it is better to spread risk across multiple trades rather than risking everything at once. He thinks that if he wins 10 trades out of 20, he could still end up profitable.

Which person would you rather be, and why? Please give your own reasons, not the ones already mentioned above. Share from your personal experience.

It all depends on volatility. The higher the market volatility, the more profitable it is to adopt a long-term holding strategy, letting your positions run over an extended period.

On the other hand, if an asset’s annual growth is under 200%, short-term, high-frequency trading becomes much more lucrative.

[Bushdark]

Maybe its possible for them if they are busy person and they fine if their trade wins or even lose. Those type of people are risk takers, but for me its not going to work. Because I find it not ideal action to do and we are just wasting our money for doing those situations.

Instead of doing that I might choose to focus only buying Bitcoin, since I think this is more ideal decision to do compare choosing to do two trade each month. Maybe some people earning some profit for doing this, but for sure everything is temporary and maybe on their next trade they won't get anything.

Well, risk will always be there but by not monitoring the market daily and finding the right opportunity i'd still find doing two trade a month as just wishful thinking and not really practical.
I personally have set up some crypto alarm and so on. Yet I still find myself looking at the market constantly. To me, two trade a month with stress free approach is impossible if we seek a good profit.

The risk is not about trading at once using a big capital but knowing the right time to jump into the market to make a good deal.
The price of Bitcoin can fluctuate at anytime due to the news and this is what people need to consider when trading to make money in the market while checking so many factors that can arise and make everything unbearable. Having a good settle that works alot is what is going to determine if you will be entering the market at once or will have to do it gradually. The crypto price can move aggressively without any sign which is why we need to be sharp and check all signs before trading big in the market.