Of course, people can do whatever they want and the should do whatever they want, yet at the same time, a lot of people are lured into trading as if that is the default, when it surely is not anything close to a default, and frequently it is going to be better to spend some time building a position in bitcoin with various forms of buying, and perhaps study bitcoin for a while to figure out the extent that it might be helpful to risk any BTC on trading..
I understand the risks in trading. Trading is certainly no safer than buying and holding bitcoin for long periods of time. But what I just want to say here is that anyone with knowledge and skills can make money from trading. It is not purely gambling or a game of chance.
I am not sure why you feel it is necessary to make such a distinction. If we stick with bitcoin in regards to this discussion, then we may well reasonably come to an assessment that bitcoin is amongst the best of assets in which we can currently invest (if NOT the best), so if we know that bitcoin is a good investment, then why fuck around with trading it, even if we think that we know which way the price might go in the short term.
So sure, there are likely skills that people can develop both in terms of providing higher than 50/50 probabilities that you know which way the BTC price going to go in the short term, and also there could be techniques to hedge both sides, so that if you make a bet in a certain direction, then you are able to still recover (and perhaps not lose as much) by taking the other side of the bet, but still if bitcoin remains such a great asymmetric bet to the upside, then why fuck around with trying to trade it instead of merely going long with it, and sticking with long. There should be no reason to persuade people that there are ways in which they can increase their odds in trading in order that they have slightly better than 50/50 so therefore it is not gambling. blah blah blah.
At the same time, if we are referring to shitcoins, then they already don't have any kind of presumptive long term value, so they are kind of tradable by default, but bitcoin is not tradable by default, especially since it is likely amongst the best assets ever known to man (if not the best), so there should be some caution when fucking around by selling bitcoin with a plan to buy more at cheaper prices, when it is way safer (and probably even smarter for more than 80% of the people to default by buying BTC regularly, building a position prior to even considering entering into trading.. which may or may not devolve into gambling depending on how much they might learn how to create positions that are hedged and/or not really gambling but preparing for either price direction rather than focusing on ONLY 1 price direction, even if it seems that the odds are "on your side" blah blah blah.
I think we should not talk about shitcoin because it is gambling, not investment, shitcoin is only used for short-term speculation for those who like the roller coaster feeling.
If you are going to fuck around with trading, then it seems much better to be doing it with relatively worthless assets rather than something that is likely so valuable and so much of an asymmetric bet as bitcoin.
I also oppose the idea of selling bitcoin and waiting to buy more at a cheaper price. We need to allocate capital properly, only buy more for a long-term investment portfolio, and absolutely not increase bitcoin by selling at a high price and waiting for the price to decrease to buy, that is very risky. Buy low and sell high should only be used in a trading portfolio, and the two portfolios of investing and trading should be completely separate.
I don't really disagree with anything that you are saying here, except that if someone may have spent years accumulating bitcoin, there may well start to be strategies regarding various points of selling.. and there is no need to even expect that the BTC price will come back down, and so for example, if someone is selling around 10% of the value of his/her stash every time it doubles, then that would not be a bad strategy, and maybe the first time selling is more than a doubling (and needing to be in profits, too).. or to start to measure from the cost of the BTC, so the first doubling would mean that half of the value of the BTC is in profits and the other half is principle, but if the BTC price doubles again, then only 1/4 of the stash would constitute the value of the principle.
I am a newbie in bitcoin I want to learn a lot about bitcoin I want to do marketing and trading with bitcoin if any of you are expert or if someone is more skilled please give me some suggestion so that I can do something good and my future is good. can shine through bitcoin and i can stay away from casino and gambling games and without these two means i can earn money in my life and i can work hard to earn bitcoin everyone.
If you are truly interested and willing to invest and learn then best not just to ask people
here instead you should enroll in some online classes that will provide you coaches , yeah you must pay but you
will earn easily and worthful.im not saying that you should not trust people in bitcointalk but there are lot of
here that will advise you with no value at all so better seek help from crypto experts.
This forum has a lot of good discussions about Bitcoin investment so if a member is interested in knowing about investment then he can definitely learn about investing through this forum. If a topic related to investment or bitcoin is created here, others don't comment there, but not like that, but all the topics created here about bitcoin or investment are well replied. Here the forum members must know about certain things and then someone will tell you but here no comments are made without knowing anything. And you think online classes are good for learning about investing but very few people can do that bad by taking online classes whether it is about investing or anything else. First you have to have your own interest and then you have to keep trying to get a good idea about investing if possible.
There is a lot of useful knowledge on the forum for newcomers as well as those who have been participating in the market for a long time. Just spend some time searching and learning, we will have all the necessary knowledge to start our investment journey.
Here we can study for free and receive help from many people, why do we have to spend money to register for online learning? Meanwhile, they also teach us knowledge that can be easily found here or on the internet. Knowledge about bitcoin is not too difficult to find, it's just that we are too lazy and just want someone to help us make money quickly.
It is not easy to be self-directed in your learning, and sometimes there are needs for foundational instructions and/or courses to help normies to learn how to learn and to put those kinds of learning how to learn ideas into practice, since practice is also a very good way to learn, but frequently will be needs to figure out some of the theoretical ideas surrounding practices, which is not ONLY curiosity about the practice but frequently needing find other sources and different perspectives - and many times books will have had gone through ideas much more thoroughly than any of our somewhat spontaneous posts in the forum.
Another difficult thing to put into practice is "critical thinking," and sometimes normies will believe that they understand critical thinking because they happen to be critical in their thinking about of all (or most) things, but then sometimes even those people might not be able to see that some ideas are better than others, and sometimes they might devolve into too much black and white thinking.. and/or inabilities to analyze the other side, to the extent that the other side is even worthy of analyzing.
Sometimes also in the guise of "critical thinking" someone might be exploring a variety of shitcoins and perhaps giving shitcoins benefits of the doubt when they do not deserve any benefit of the doubt. Sure, there might be some possibilities that some shitcoins might be adding some value, but it the person does not adequately understand how bitcoin is distinguishable, then they might not be analyzing the shitcoin (to the extent that it warrants any analysis) with some faulty framings and therefore not as much "critical thinking" as they might have concluded that they are employing in how they choose to spend their time, their energies and sometimes their monetary value. There are ways to employ critical thinking without necessarily being dogmatic and/or overly exclusive, but there are also balancing considerations regarding how much time, energy and or money that any of us might have to deploy or partially deploy into shitcoins versus the amount that we may well choose to deploy into bitcoin.. which is also a balancing matter if many folks are not able to spend large amounts of time studying bitcoin and they may well need to earn money in order to be able to eat and also perhaps develop some of their other skills in life, whether it is work related or even considering non-work related values that people might have around family (relationships), spirituality, hobbies and/or other things going on in their life that they are needing to balance..
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I agree with you and it is better to collect BTC consistently using the DCA system and that way the mind will be calm and peaceful. but op seems to still be a beginner and I'm sure op will understand about BTC if he dares to ask in this forum because in my experience this forum is very good and has many benefits.
It is really difficult to determine how long any one should engage in pure DCA and/or building of his/her BTC stack prior to considering trading any of it, and for example, if someone were to have had lump sum invested into bitcoin like around $1k (or surely maybe even higher amounts) at around $27k/$28k in September, and then maybe continued to buy around $20 per week of bitcoin in the past 10-12 weeks, and so then when BTC prices are around $37k, there can be some dilemmas about how to manage that, and some folks might consider shaving off a bit of the profits, but other folks might consider that they are into bitcoin for the long term, and they are not necessarily going to start shaving off bitcoin prior to reaching a certain level of accumulation.. maybe they want 0.5 BTC and/or $50k worth of BTC value before they start to shave any off.. and they also might want to be at least a minimum of 100% of profits, so they might have a couple of criteria that need to be met prior to starting to trade, and sure they could have lower thresholds of profits and/or BTC accumulation levels, but I have my doubts that it is a very good practice to sell BTC and to be expecting the BTC price to drop, but if they might well get to certain levels of BTC accumulation and certain levels of profits, they might not be so concerned about if they sell a little and the price does not end up correcting back down.. for example selling around 10% of the BTC every time the BTC price doubles... or some kind of criteria like that.
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and also trading is more risky than Holding (of course when you are with bitcoin it is safest)
there are many talking about keeping your funds on hold for long term(as in very long term) but for me as what and how the market is showing us? better to sell when there is a Bull market and Buy once the bear comes.
in this you will keep making your finds Higher in value long term.
There surely can be problems of selling high and buying low if you have not otherwise, figured out your BTC accumulation goals, but sure everyone is free to do what they want in terms of trying to sell high and buy low and many times it becomes more problematic when these guys are playing with large portions of their BTC stash in those kinds of ways, rather than relatively smaller portions of their stash, just in case the BTC price does not end up coming back down sufficiently to justify buying back some or all of what had been sold.