Crypto Trading **What is Bitcoin Trading?** Investing and trading in bitcoin is different. **Investing** - when people invest on bitcoin, it is for a long term. They believe that the price will ultimately rise regardless of the ups and downs of bitcoin price. They invest because they believe in the technology, ideology and the group behind the currency. Bitcoin investors tend to **hodl** the currency in the long term.
**Trading** - people trades buy and sell bitcoins in a short term, whenever they think a profit can be made. They see as bitcoin as an intrument of profit.
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**Bitcoin is higly volatile** - you can make a big profit if you correctly anticipate the market **Bitcoin market is 24/7** - you can buy and sell whenever you want **Bitcoin is decentaralize** - it is unregulated making trading simple. It don't need long identiy verification process. Subscribe @Serg0213 **Different types of traders**
All traders are not the same and there are differents types of trading method. **Day traders** - conducts multiple trades throughout the day and trying to profit in short term price movement **Scalpers** - attempts to attain profit in small price changes. Its like picking a penny in front of a steamroller **Swing traders** - takes advantage of the natural swing of the price cycles. They are waiting for a certain amount and enters trading and hold it for a week or months until the target profit is met. Subscribe @Serg0213 **Bitcoin price prediction**
There are numerous financial advisers, well known people in the bitcoin community that predicts the bitcoin price. But no one can actually predict what will bitcoin do. Traders identify some methods, patterns and rules that allow them to make profit in a long run. **Two methodology used in trading** Fundamental analysis - it evaluates the bitcoin industry, news in currency and technical development of bitcoin. This method looks bitcoin as a technology regardless of its price Technical analysis - it tries to predict the price based on market statistic. It analyze pattern of the price cycle of bitcoin and predicts what will happen next. Which methodology is better? As said before, no one can predict the bitcoin price.
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**Bitcoin exchange** - are online sites where buyers and sellers are automatically match. It has lower fees and no direct communication between buyers and sellers. The complete list of **buy orders and sell orders** are listed in the markets **orderbook**. **Buy orders are called bid** since people are bidding a price to buy bitcoin, however **sell order are called ask** since they show the asking price of the sellers request. In exchange, **Bitcoins price** refers to the price in the last trade conducted in a specific exchange. You will also not in an exchange the terms **high and low**. This refers to highest and lowest price of bitcoin in the last 24 hours. **Volume** stand for the overall bitcoin that have been traded in a given timeframe. Significant trends are usually accompanied by large volume and vice versa.
**Types of orders** There are three types of order you can place in an exchange. **Market order** - an order that is instantly fulfilled at any price. In this order you don't stop buying bitcoin until the order is fulfilled. **Limit order** - you only buy or sell in a specific price that you decide on. You may not fulfill your order because of buyers and seller don't agree on your price **Stop Loss order** - a timed market order for cutting losses. Its as if youre saying that you will sell your bitcoin when a certain price drop reach. Subscribe @serg02 **Reading price graph**
• **Bull vs bear markets** - a bull thrust his horn up in the air, while bear swipes his paws downward. This are metaphors of the movement of the market. If the trend is up, it is a bull market but if the trend is down, it is bear market
• **Resistance** - bitcoin graph has a virtual ceiling when hit and cannot go any higher for a ling period of time • **Support level** - acts as floor by preventing the price of an asset to go downward. Resistance and support levels are usually whole round number. This round whole numbers tends to acts as strong barriers. Subscribe @serg02 **Common mistakes of traders** **Risk more than you can afford to lose** - trade in an amount you are comfortable with **No action plan** - you should know why you are entering a trade and when to exit a trade **Leaving money on exchange** - you should always pull out money on a exchange that you don't use to prevent accidents like hacking the exchange **Giving in to fear or greed** - when entering a trade, you should be ready for any consenquences Bitcoin trading is complex. There are many things you should consider before entering the trading game. This article are the basic of trading. So if you wanna get into deeper, you should do uour own research or ask some financial advisers.
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Great article. Its a better start for beginners like me who wanted to try trading in the future
so I never knew this was why the market was called bullish or bearish.... i thought it would be based on something a little more... substantial XD cool to learn something new though!
So this is how I always hear bull and bear market when talking about crypto. This is useful for us beginners
Thank you for this. Got some information about trading. I know that we still need to do some research of our own.
Bitcoin are very popular now In the world
It's good to invest btc, but it's just too expensive to buy 😢
You can buy 100$ or 1$ un BTC that’ a not that expensive. 1 BTC is expensive but 0,001 BTC is not expensive. No excuse let’s go invest my friend !
First of all, a very good article to popularize the cryptomoney market! Secondly I'm interested in this market since recently I would like to know if you have some advice on how to start ? Which book to read, which person to follow on social networks, which video / conference / YouTube channel to watch? Thank you for your answer and keep on writing qualitative articles.