Can small investors actually make good profit with bitcoin ?

[Son Of Blockchain (SOB)]

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Talking about the statement highlighted, this is one of the reasons why most Bitcoin investors have problems in their investment because they tend to go all in believing that they are certainly going to be in profit if they can buy and hold for a very long time. It's true that Bitcoin is full of potential, but their is not a guarantee that it will skyrocket in the future, that's is why we are adviced to invest from our discretionary income, which is a fund we can do away with, because profit is not a sure thing as you are proclaiming.
We live in a world where anything can happen, so saying as long as you can hold for a very long time, you are sure of being in profit, that's misleading if you don't know.

I wonder why someone would be so dumb to not know that the discretionary fund is what's used for investment, don't such person worry avout settling essential needs on the long run? Investing in Bitcoin requires long term holding not something someone should be expecting profits sooner so people shouldn't go all in but invest with their discretionary funds.
 Yes the future of Bitcoin is not guaranteed, we invest based on historical prove of long term improvement and hope that the future would remain so, which is also why people shouldn’t invest with money outside the discretionary funds cause it could complicate the investment with time

[Sim_card]

There have been so many newbies that are buying Bitcoin without having full understanding about how Bitcoin investment works.
They may feel like if other people are making money from Bitcoin by buying and holding, they can also make money from the market when they buy and hold too. They may have forgotten that is not by buying and holding only but buying Bitcoin at the right time.
The market is big enough to swallow our Bitcoin accumulation and we have to do it in the right way that will not make us to buy at the top when real investors are waiting to buy at the dip.

There's no perfect time to buy bitcoin and you mustn't know much about bitcoin before you can start buying provided that you have your discretionary income and know where to buy your first bitcoin from, you are good to get started.

When you think that timing the dip is the best time to buy, you will remain a no coiner or a low coiner for the rest of your life because you are busy waiting at the ball park clueless of when the price of bitcoin will dip. What if the price did not dip, it means you will keep waiting missing out the opportunity that you should have used to build your bitcoin stash to a certain level.

Brand new investors should focus on building their bitcoin investment with DCA because it gives you the room to ongoingly buy bitcoin weekly and increase your bitcoin portfolio overtime. Waiting stills the opportunity that you have to increase your wealth in future. With DCA you buy both at the bear and the bull run. It's not the price that you are buying that matters but consistent and persistent on your bitcoin accumulation.

[BluebloodCXVI]

If Bitcoin goes from $64k to $256k, it means BTC will be worth 400% of its current value, and the gain itself will be 300%, not 200%. So, if you invest $1k today, you'll make a $3k profit. Is it achievable? In my opinion, yes. I don't know about other price predictions people are talking about, such as $1 million or $2 million, but I think something around $256k is quite possible, considering that Bitcoin adoption could easily increase tenfold from today's 400 million users.

I feel like $256k is still a pretty more grounded long term target than throwing out figures like $1 million or $2 million without being able to explain why they’re making such assumptions.
Although It’s still speculative, but still it doesn’t require an unrealistic leap if Bitcoin continues to gain adoption and demand over time.

Unfortunately, the market doesn’t have to agree with anybody’s prediction on any particular timeline. And even if Bitcoin is gonna eventually reach $256k, it’s gonna take much longer time than many investors would have expected, and there could also be severe drawdowns along the way as well.

[samadam007]

As an investor you dont get to be the one determining the % profit yourself, that would be dictated by how long you are investing and where you are investing.

Typically, I expect upto 10% profit in bitcoin over the years as the bull and bear markets cycle. But if you are looking for higher gains you can go for short term trading, putting money into funds that advertise such returns without understanding how they function and eventually lose the money because you got greedy.

The more you play it unsafe, the more you are likely to lose money here is the simple way of explaining it. If you want to invest in MLM/HYIP then go for it, you will learn your lesson yourself.

It’s not a good advice to tell people to consider trading if they want higher gains. Trading is a zero sum game before fees, and after the fees and taxes, plenty traders end up underperforming or losing money. It involve constant prediction of short term price movements(something nobody can do consistently). Those people that gambled away their Bitcoin years ago for cheap profits learnt the hard way and they 100% still regret it till date. They missed the bigger gains that came later because they no longer had their Bitcoin. That’s one of the biggest risk of trading and why there’s nothing good about it

Long term investing is superior because it removes pressure of trying to time the market, reduce unnecessary buying and selling and allows one to build wealth over time. All an investor needs is just a simple accumulation strategy with money they can afford to leave invested; it has historically been a much more reliable than chasing quick profits through trading.

[GIF-JOBS]

Edited.

Talking about the statement highlighted, this is one of the reasons why most Bitcoin investors have problems in their investment because they tend to go all in believing that they are certainly going to be in profit if they can buy and hold for a very long time. It's true that Bitcoin is full of potential, but their is not a guarantee that it will skyrocket in the future, that's is why we are adviced to invest from our discretionary income, which is a fund we can do away with, because profit is not a sure thing as you are proclaiming.
We live in a world where anything can happen, so saying as long as you can hold for a very long time, you are sure of being in profit, that's misleading if you don't know.

I wonder why someone would be so dumb to not know that the discretionary fund is what's used for investment, don't such person worry avout settling essential needs on the long run? Investing in Bitcoin requires long term holding not something someone should be expecting profits sooner so people shouldn't go all in but invest with their discretionary funds.
 Yes the future of Bitcoin is not guaranteed, we invest based on historical prove of long term improvement and hope that the future would remain so, which is also why people shouldn’t invest with money outside the discretionary funds cause it could complicate the investment with time

At the same time, ignoring the volatility, to continue investing with confidence, we must invest with discretionary funds. Because when the investment is made with the necessary money beyond our ability, then we will have less power to ignore the volatility, because when you see it decrease after investing the necessary money, then the panic will deepen in you, and besides, will we be able to hold the necessary money for the long term?  Of course not, because we will need the money at that specific time of need, and despite the loss at that time, we will have to sell our investment and take the money to meet that need, where there will be a high possibility of a very big loss. That is why with the right plan, you must invest with the right amount, which you can hold for the long term, because for good success there is no alternative to continuous long-term holding.

[Shineup]

Having a huge capital gives you an advantage but it doesn't mean that Small investors cannot make significant profits from it. Everyone's capacity is not the same and Bitcoin isn't only for the rich, the most important thing is to have a source of income. If you are a small investor you must learn to be patient because you'd have to hodl for a long period of time.

Don't make the mistake of trying to find a perfect timing to invest especially during the bear season, this is a common mistake that a lot of people make. You can use DCA to keep on buying the dip if there's consistent decline in the price of Bitcoin

You have no business with checking the price of Bitcoin as a small investor because your goal is actually that of a long term.

Small investors doesn't have to be discouraged with their little way of buying, it is all about consistency and a matter of time and when all their little buys are being put together over the long term it will become something meaningful and they are not far from making something big and according to the size of their overall holding plus the time they have held, personally I wouldn't even get to ask such question small investors can actually make good profit from Bitcoin as every will only get to reap what they planted and according to how they planted it unbiased.

[adultcrypto]

At the same time, ignoring the volatility, to continue investing with confidence, we must invest with discretionary funds. Because when the investment is made with the necessary money beyond our ability, then we will have less power to ignore the volatility, because when you see it decrease after investing the necessary money, then the panic will deepen in you, and besides, will we be able to hold the necessary money for the long term?  Of course not, because we will need the money at that specific time of need, and despite the loss at that time, we will have to sell our investment and take the money to meet that need, where there will be a high possibility of a very big loss. That is why with the right plan, you must invest with the right amount, which you can hold for the long term, because for good success there is no alternative to continuous long-term holding.

I don't consider the volatility of bitcoin as a major obstacle for long-term investmemt irrespective of whatever method the investor chooses to adopt, it is only a problem for short-term term investors who want to aim the market to get perfect entry and make profits before the market hit their protective stops. For instance, someone investing via the DCA method will not mind any rapid spike in price because the DCA method does not care about the price but is more concerned about getting an entry at a designated time. 

Therefore, dwelling so much on the volatility of bitcoin makes it look like we are discussing trading which is never the best way to go about bitcoin because of the risk inherent in it.