Topic: Bear markets survival (Read 549 times)

I am trader and my goal right now is how I will survive in this market. The movements are not normal and that's why I can conclude that market is now unpredictable. I do not know when is the best time to buy and sell cryptocurrencies.

It's a lot harder to hedge bear markets than ride bull markets. When people say "you can make money in bear markets too!" this what they often don't understand. During bull markets, you can just hold spot investments, and once you've seen solid gains you can rotate that capital into other markets that aren't exhausted yet. This is just like moving back and forth between alts and BTC during bull markets. When everything is rising, it's hard to lose money.

When shorting, you can't hold a spot position. You need to pay interest and expose yourself to counterparty risk 100% of the time. And since bear markets are often characterized by long, sideways periods, you sometimes need to wait weeks or months for your position to pay off. That's if you don't get your shorts squeezed in the meantime.

I did alot of mistake in crypto trading and i been loss about 90%, so now i dont have any idea how to recover loss. Hold for afew year is only thing that i can do now. I believe in 1 year bull market will be come and the price of Bitcoin and others will going up to the new high level.

Very risky when trading in a bear market, the opportunity to earn profits is only a little. This is the risk of a trader, they must dare to take all the risks that will be faced, unless he decides not to trade when he is in the bear market, exchanging money to money fiat is probably the best way for now. This is what I did when in the bear market came, in the last few months I never intended to trade.

If you are not a risk takers, you'll be better not to enter trading cause you'll only be broke. Having in trading during this time is really riskier than of the bull runs but there is no good way to make profit everyday even it is 1% from the money invested. So if you'll found uncomfortable with this, then stay relax and patiently wait for the bullish trend. 

To be honest, trading when the bear market is a very bad choice, you should not enter the market when it's happening because it's likely that the market will stay red and you don't know when the market will recover, so it's better to just avoid the trading situation at that time. But if you are stuck in such condition, then try to be patient and find another place to get your money back, because most of it didn't back again or it will take a long time

I think many people do not survive it, there are few that struck lucky and they did profit even during bear because there was couple coins that increased a lot and then dropped which means if you bought some coins at the right time even tough they are still the same price they went up and down so you could have made some profit during those days and that is seriously difficult to figure out which ones will do that but aside from that almost no one really "survived".

I mean we do still keep on investing and we do buy and sell and we do earn and what not but that doesn't mean we made profits, I have lost a lot of money and time to bitcoin, I realized since last June I have lost about 2 months of work amount just to bitcoin which means I worked for free for 2 months which is tough but its still "surviving" if it means I haven't left.

It's very risky to trade under these market conditions, but some people can still benefit from this bear market through several small pumps. I chose to stop trading because I still felt confused about having to start from the side and also still experiencing fear when the market continued to decline.

There are many ways that we should do for us to survive in the challenges that we are currently facing in the cryptocurrency market. I am now well prepared to handle the risks that I facing for me to avoid losses and for me to make a good decisions.

There is nothing differently needed for surviving in the bear market because crypto space is not providing such an opportunity to trade all the trends. It would be good only for long term holders and if you want to survive in this bear market just making use of cheaper prices for buying and then staying away until market get into dominance of bulls. Some people are trading in bear markets by using stable-coins. But, I'm not suggesting anyone to go for it because it would be much better if you focus on long-term rather than active short-term trading.

If you are concerned about preventing risks for your capital than it would be much better to go for long term based trading like buying now and holding for years. Because, it will be much better option for crypto trading and it is coming with absolute no risks involved.

Personally, I just go in and outs in the market right now, if I see some opportunity to short Bitcoin then I'll go in and get out as quickly as I can specially if I satisfy my exit strategy, simply as that. And then there's the side of me to go long if the price looks very attractive and inside of my budget.

But for those who doesn't want to short because of the risk involved, and let's admit it, its easier said than done. I guess the best advise is that don't do any trading if you're not comfortable with this bear market. Just continue to observed that market though so that you can also learn some valuables learns at this worsening market conditions.

I did long on BTC with x50 margin and got rekt =D Went back to holding , no stress and patience . But if you would like to trade then there is option stop/loss . Im not a trader myself , just wanted to try my luck and failed like always

Traders makes money from both the bearish and bullish market and it actually there strategies that put money in they pocket.  Coins that can be traded with usdt can be flip and you will make money from any position you are holding.

Its very difficult to make any money in sideways or bear markets. Look at how many capital firms went bankrupt during the 2008 stock market crash.

In a bull market is very easy to make money because usually there is tons of greed and no fear. In a bear market its completely the opposite and its not a good thing. For one the markets always go down quicker than rise. And this leads to many people entering a short way too late in the game.

Another issue is that any sort of good news can cause a short squeeze. For example if you traded during the 2008 stock market crash, whenever a bank released a quarterly earnings report, it had horrible earnings but the stock rallied anyways? Why did that happen. Because the earnings were bad but not that bad and it lead to a rally.

Same reason why at the end of the week in the last hour of trading there was usually a small rally which was nothing but shorts covering because they didn't want to hold thru the weekend in case there was positive economic news. With bitcoin its the same. Many are short but say that tomorrow the SEC says that "They MIGHT approve an BTC ETF" it might cause a crazy rally even though it gets rejected later on.

Lots of panic, choppy markets, fear and its not a good trading environment. Especially for a new trader like most people who discovered bitcoin recently.

Take it as a positive thing happened to you because you can buy the cryptocurrencies for cheap prices and can sell when the prices bumping which makes the trading lot more easier to survive but not invest on random coins, only invest on those coins which can give the real profits in very long term.

Bear markets suck because they're prone to long, "bleeding out" periods that erupt into crashes. This forces you to hold shorts for long periods (incurring interest costs and counterparty risk). I know of people who simply left the market after the bubble popped in 2013 and 2017 because the market is so much harder to consistently profit from during the bear periods.

I trade the short side using leverage to minimize the funds I need to hold on exchanges. For example, a 5x short means I only need to keep 20% of funds in position to fully hedge my coins.

More than anything, you've just got to recognize the bigger picture for what it is (a bear market) and trade with that bias. Avoid countertrending too much and when you do, don't get pipe dreams about your longs. Take profit and start looking for shorts again. There's massive resistance overhead at $5K-$6K and there's no way this market is just going to instantly turn bullish again. The November monthly downtrend signal is active for a few more months yet.

How much money do you have to buy bitcoin? when you say 'never' then that is something that is not acceptable to reason. For me, I decided to stop trading, there are other things that can be relied upon and do not have a heavy risk. Yeah I just hold my investment even though the price is slowly decreasing, but I'm sure hold is the best choice for me. Trading when prices continue to red will make me blind and unable to decide with a healthy mind.

Well, I’m still doing good since I have some source of income that can make me more profitable. I still trading but not that much because I’m waiting for a dump price and sold it i already make profit, as simple as that. But holding is still my priority especially with eth and btc.

I agree, we can do a lot of ways in order to survive while on bear market and supress for a while your engagement of cypto's virtual world. Physical job can be a great alternative while waiting for bullish market to overtake the bear market. However that's a hard choice to prefer of but there's no choice but have this options in orde to survive. Let's all remain at ease, maintain a good well beings and chill, calm and relax our minds in order to avoid stressful life. Enjoying physical job is healthy for us, and with crypto think it as your secondary and not always a priority so that you won't be frustrated.

I stopped trading since the early right after the bear market started, all I do know is increase my holding on some of the coins, whenever I have some spare money I buy more which is rare in these days but I am trying my best to increase my bag in certain coins. Part of surviving the bear market is focusing on my main work outside Crypto space that why I hope I will not find my self forced to liquidate any of my holding in a loss.

Every of my trading activities have been cut down to minimum. Trading at this time is pretty risky, there's no good upward direction. Again, the sudden spikes and fall is also a very bad thing right now. I just buy a few good coins and hold. Currently trading ripple since it seems a little stable, even though the price has also slumped recently.

In this case, you should be a to make money by trading. Personally, all I do is bounty and frankly it's not the right time to trade for me. In addition I don't have idea when it will recover and coins I keep in wallet may be worthless as time goes by.

you can still do trade while the market is bear by simply picking up the good coin for trading like bitcoin by that you can lessen the risk, the price is moving always ups and downs so it gives the chance to do a good trade.

every one is suggesting  to hold , but what if we buy coins around June last year and some Alts are down 90% ....😭

In order to manage the risk in trading you need to have enough knowledge and patience , you have to build your own strategy to earn huge profit. During this time, the market gives the opportunity to everyone to buy coins and it is definitely good but of course we can't avoid hard situations like losing money so I choose to hold it.

Right.We can still make day trading even when the market is bearish but knowing this is more risky than holding your coins,so i suggest do not just do day trading unless you are trader with special skills and even strategies.That is why only few of the people here prefer to do day trade and for sure most of them are into holding their own coins.

No one knows when the bear market will take place and end. I always play a dangerous game by selling all my Altcoins as soon as the market starts to turn red and buy them back at lower prices. But this is a lot of risks because if it is only a temporary decline, you have made a stupid decision.

Day trading is only for skilled and experienced traders. Also for those who have a lot of capital that even they have lost some, they can make a return for the others times. For those who are not good in trading, the best thing is to hold until the next bull run to avoid losses.

It's really difficult to trade now because of this kind of market but i still do trade my coins on weekly basis. My strategy is to have some coin research, price movement from the last year's drought and the present one then predicts if it will go up or down, as simple as that. I know almost everyone are doing this but this is really the thing that is a must to do with this kind of market.

For those who don't take in trading and hold their funds in (USD) or dollar for sure they are survival in trading because as a trader I know that bear market decrease all altcoins in that days of suffering.

If you are just one of the ordinary traders in this industry, it will be really hard to survive if you are not knowledgeable in trading.
so far the market are still bad, but if you know to yourself that you are capable and have a characteristic in one of the trading experts. I assure you that not just can only survive in the bear market but you can also earn big still despite of the market was declined. 

That's right because that's how we can benefit from this bear market even though it's a small result. but if I myself hold more holding in market conditions like this

Until now even though I have a very large estimated loss, I still remain in the market, and there are not many strategies that I do to trade, only when I can have the opportunity to buy when there is a slight decline and I will sell and take profits when prices rose slightly and gave me a little profit, although I knew that staying in the bear market had a big risk, but I would always try to make a profit, even though it wasn't much I could get.

Day trading is the only way we can do so far if we plan to trade in this bearish situation in the market. It's hard to make some decent profit from this bearish market especially if it's acting weird where the market makes a small movement and yet moving too slow. It is better to just hodl your coins if you can handle the long-term investment idea.

Many people use short term strategy ( daily method ) or leave market and built another opportunity with blog, fb ads and forex. You can't survive but use your time and money out side crypto to get income, as alternative and also built your skill using another way. Risk is depend your money management and don't increase your risk because faith, use your calculation and open mind.

Well bear markets are a good season to shop for cheap coin. IF you can manage to hold them for some time. If you're going to shop fot cheap coins to day trade, then i don't think it's advisable. There's little profit to be made from a bear market.

NEVER stop to buy!

Nothing more than holding strategy.  Actually i still afraid if lose more, especially with this market condition. And i think a lot of people do same thing like what i do. Because it is really hard to do something in bear market if not professional trader.

Bear market is not easy specially when running in long term period but it doesn't mean has no solutions. As long your asset replace into number 1 - 5 from top coinmarketcap list you only need to recovery, but if new coins that's the problems. You only have two option, cut loss or keep hold. People with good money management will keep stay because they have back up fund but people who doesn't have is different story. Survival is about time not how many profit you have, think again.

It is not really survival for me.
Patience is mostly what I use.
It is critical by now so I most of my tokens are on hold. Some of them I sold for a lucky chance and now waiting for a buy back.
I do think many of us here have the same strategy. Just hodling the old tokens and trading new ones.

When the price are extremely bearish I tend to put a halt to trading for a certain amount of time,watching the coins I've already acquired and also study the market movements,i actually also purchase coins during such periods but not on a high amount,but I acquire one or two coins,hoping for a future pump.
So I can quite rightly say my strategy during such periods is to buy low and also little and then wait

I will summarize the answer so that it satisfies all your questions. I do the following: I buy whenever fall. eventually I will have many bitcoins. with this strategy in a few years I will have a good money and who knows, it would have been for my retirement. Of course I'm running the risk of not making a profit if for years the price has not risen, but it is a risk that I must take


bad ideia

It is best to invest in ICOs when prices are not satisfactory, but lately potential projects are so scarce and when they list on exchange, prices are being traded several times below ICO price. Staying away keeps your money in your pocket, due to leverage trading is unpredictable. The best is ''Collecting from cheap price, investing in the future''.

I've stopped trading for the most part in the last week or so with the erratic price movements that have been going on for the last few days with the barting up and down all over the place to survive this bear market. I'm still doing DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging), though, as I do think the prices we're at are prime for fresh investment. If you do choose to trade in this volatile market, though, make sure you're setting tight stops as prices bounce all over the place every few days.

Well, I'm making myself to survive with this drought coz of the bear market.As a trader or simply an investor, losses is inevitable but actually i do have 2 types of holdings or
on how do i trade.I have long term positions and i do have shorter time frame ones.For long term then its quite understandable that I'm holding still as of these days since the market
didn't recover yet and second to my shorter positions its quite hard but i do somehow able to manage to make profits.

The risks associated with day trading is always present and proportionally the same in both bearish and bullish markets. Bear in mind that trades is movement of cash between traders, so if one is losing another is gaining, regardless of the market situation.

Work on your strategy in line with the changing times, Adapt!

It's not easy to get profits when Bear markets, I can only trade the mayor cryptocurrency Bitcoin and ethereum to reduce the risk of accidents that extend to assets. do not take the risk of trading at altcoins, which is mostly manipulated by whales

I cannot share my trading strategy because each person will have different thoughts and my strategy will no longer be useful when it is publicly available to everyone.
But I can share ways to manage risk. We should use exchanges that have a stop-loss function, which is the most important thing in the bear market. because you won't know when it falls.
In addition, you need to pay more attention to news about the recently listed altcoins on CMC. Buying and selling in DEX will be quite profitable if you invest in the right time. good luck

for now I only put up the selling price that I want and leave it, because for now if I trade daily, it will take too much time, and to anticipate losses that are too deep, I have a purchase order at a low price. with a note, choose coins that you think are good.

My trading is currently on hold. The market is too crazy even if you trade short term. It is like gambling. Sudden jumps up or down make it very difficult to predict the market movements. I don't know if you can use any indicators for this kind of market. In my opinion it is better to hold what you already have and not lose your bitcoins. When the bulls come again, it would be a different story. You would be able to trade the various alts more easily and make profit. Patience is the key word now.   

To survive in this current bearish market you have to follow the technical indicators that allows you to predict the market in the short time.  The market is not making any serious move from now except something fundamentals happened and it seems we are all waiting for what will happen next month if ETF is approve or disproved.  The risk is very high especially if you are in the wrong position and this heavy news hits  the market.  I think we are to have this at the back of our mind that the trend is our friend and when it turns it became our enemy and because of this you must place stop loss in a place that you know you can afford to lose.

You can do day trade to make profits in this bear market or just hold the coin until the price reaches more than your bought price.No more strategies in my opinion.

One strategy that we must do now is to make decisions quickly, bear market conditions must be faced without waiting too long.
We must make a decision even though the benefits obtained are very small, the bear market must really be utilized.
Do not let us make a wrong decision and it will give us opportunities to make a profit.

How did you trade in the first place? Have you used any stop loss when you trade? Did you do margin/spot trading?
I personally don't trade at this market, but if I see a shift of market direction I'd act accordingly. For example, if the bear is getting stronger then I'd sell all my crypto to fiat and wait for a new entry. Join the next wave and so on.

I learn this lesson the hard way when last year I don't sell any crypto and then lost quite a lot after bear takes over for months.

How are you guys Surviving in this Bear markets

If you are still trading , what are the strategies you are using.

How are you guys managing risks .