It depends what you define as a "20% profit on your trade". As an altcoin trader, I see all profits as coins, not USD, but maybe youre only in the business of trading USD. When you say 20% profit, do you mean that the LSD/USD value went up 20% or that LSK/BTC value went up 20%?
If LSK/BTC went up 20%, then your 0.64BTC has increased to 0.768BTC. Multiple 0.768BTC by the BTC/USD and you have the USD value. If BTC/USD has remained the same since the time of your trade, then you have a 20% profit in USD as well. If BTC/USD dropped more than 20%, then you have a loss in USD (but not until you sell BTC/USD). If BTC/USD has increased, then you have have two different gains multiplied by eachother.
If LSK/USD went up 20%, then you need to know the price of BTC/USD to figure out how many bitcoins you have. If BTC/USD remained the same, then you have 20% more bitcoins. If BTC/USD fell, then you have two gains on your level of bitcoins. However, if BTC/USD has risen more than 20%, which happens quite often, then you have LOST bitcoins.
I mean 20 percent profit on investing in lisk. Thus buying lisk at 5 dollars and planning to sell it at 6 dollars. Well when you daytrade alts, are almost all trading wanting to make btc profit as oppose to usd profit? I can understand btc because if you have more than you started with, thats good because btc will only go up etc.
Well based on what others talk about here... it would seem like even if someone buys lisk at 5 dollars and lets just say they sell it at 3.50. So that would be a loss. However let say btc when lisk was 5 dollars was 5000. When lisk is 3.50... btc went all the way down to 2000 usd. Thus btc price went down even more than lisk in terms of percentage. Some poster said... here this is good because you have more btc than you started with. I understand you now have more btc but you have less usd. Shouldnt usd be king here?
So which scenario do daytraders prefer?
Buy lisk at 5 dollars and buy 1000 shares for 5000 usd or 0.0007 btc per lisk. BTC is at 5000 usd. Lisk goes up to 10 dollars. BTC goes up to 15000 usd.
Or
But lisk at 5 dollars and buy 1000 shares for 5000 usd or 0.0007 btc per lisk. BTC is at 5000 usd. Lisk goes down to 3.50. BTC goes all the way down to 2000 usd.
So in this example, you made profit on lisk but lose btc when you sell the lisk for btc because btc went up 3x whereas your lisk only 2x.
In the second example, you lose profit on lisk when you sell it for btc because it dropped from 5 dollars to 3.50. Lisk dropped 30 percent. BTC however dropped 60 percent. So when you sell your lisk for btc... you are getting back more btc than you started with. That is what you say is the goal of daytrading right... get more btc than you started with?
So which situation does a daytrader like here? Because my thoughts are well in the 1st example, the guy made around 5000 usd profit. But he lost btc in the process when selling lisk for btc.
In the 2nd example, the guy lose 1500 usd profit right? However... here he gained btc in the process when selling lisk for btc since btc dropped 60 percent.