So I have been trying to wrap my head around which is a better option, day trading crypto or buying for long term keep.
While they both have their pros and cons, they both come with a form of risk and they are meant to generate profit.
The major difference between them is that day trading tend to make profit from small market volatility, while hodling make profit from the bigger change in crypto value.
Day trading involves more techniques, self discipline and rational decision making.
Which do you prefer and think is better
I think you have already kind of mentioned what should be preferred. You have mentioned that Day trading need more techniques self discipline and rational decision-making.
Now if I express my own opinion then I will say that which trading is good for a trader it depends on the skill of that trader. If the trader has good knowledge about fundamental and technical analysis then I would say both short-term or day trading and long-term trading will be good for him.
On the other hand, if a trader is new to trading and has very little knowledge about trading, then he should adopt a long-term strategy, and in that case he can follow the DCA method for risk management. Because in this case, a new trader must have less technical analysis skills and for this, most of the new traders face losses while doing short term trading, long time investment will save their funds from losses, and must choose Bitcoin as the coin.