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November 15, 2017, 01:17:15 AM
for me i actually am doing this one as well. But now i can't make it to trade on daily basis because of a busy schedule but the same thought is always on my mind. It just satisfies me when i get good satoshi's daily in trading rather than claiming  on faucets for the whole day
hero member
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October 18, 2017, 09:10:38 AM
Mostly altcoins because BTC is a huge amount and hard to day trade because people are holding for a bigger amount so i prefer you to hold. but in altcoins you can daytrade because of people buys then sells it alot in a short period of time.
Only a fool can do day trading that too with bitcoin when currently bitcoin is residing at 5600 dollars. Bitcoin is not meant to be used for such trivial methods of making profits. This digital currency is the diamond of digital world and no one would like to do trading with it. Trading should be done with altcoins because even if you lose them, they don’t put you in great losses.

Why bro bitcoin price fluctuate around the 5.6K now in this especially you can get into the bitcoin trading completely to make more money. If you wish to earn the bitcoin day trading is the best to go actually. Need to have eye on price graph all the time so you can manage your trading account more precisely to get the trade frequently from the all the people. You can earn the money as you have control at all the time.
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October 18, 2017, 09:04:38 AM
Mostly altcoins because BTC is a huge amount and hard to day trade because people are holding for a bigger amount so i prefer you to hold. but in altcoins you can daytrade because of people buys then sells it alot in a short period of time.
Only a fool can do day trading that too with bitcoin when currently bitcoin is residing at 5600 dollars. Bitcoin is not meant to be used for such trivial methods of making profits. This digital currency is the diamond of digital world and no one would like to do trading with it. Trading should be done with altcoins because even if you lose them, they don’t put you in great losses.

I agree and I don't think people are day trading bitcoin nowadays because of how much bitcoin could be worth, most of the traders prefer to hold on to their bitcoin for long term because they know in about a few years it'll be worth than the profit you earn daily.

Good insights
sr. member
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October 18, 2017, 08:41:21 AM
Mostly altcoins because BTC is a huge amount and hard to day trade because people are holding for a bigger amount so i prefer you to hold. but in altcoins you can daytrade because of people buys then sells it alot in a short period of time.
Only a fool can do day trading that too with bitcoin when currently bitcoin is residing at 5600 dollars. Bitcoin is not meant to be used for such trivial methods of making profits. This digital currency is the diamond of digital world and no one would like to do trading with it. Trading should be done with altcoins because even if you lose them, they don’t put you in great losses.

I agree and I don't think people are day trading bitcoin nowadays because of how much bitcoin could be worth, most of the traders prefer to hold on to their bitcoin for long term because they know in about a few years it'll be worth than the profit you earn daily.
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October 18, 2017, 08:34:07 AM
It seems like it's doing an arbitrage or buy low sell process, well it's still profitable if you are holding large amount of bitcoin. and if you are wondering if this can be done and if this is still profitable, I can say it depends with the timing, if your timing is good, then it will be profitable. But if not, there's a downfall possibility to the point that you might lose your investment.



i am a forex trader and i have been obeserving the price behaviors of btc and other cryptocurrencies. I think it is possible to daytrade cryptocurrencies especially if you are able to do technical analysis on cryptocurrency charts. also you can join forums where you can be folowing discusssins and signals on those cryptocurrencies and you will be able to learn one or two things regarding the same.
hero member
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October 18, 2017, 08:26:43 AM
Mostly altcoins because BTC is a huge amount and hard to day trade because people are holding for a bigger amount so i prefer you to hold. but in altcoins you can daytrade because of people buys then sells it alot in a short period of time.
Only a fool can do day trading that too with bitcoin when currently bitcoin is residing at 5600 dollars. Bitcoin is not meant to be used for such trivial methods of making profits. This digital currency is the diamond of digital world and no one would like to do trading with it. Trading should be done with altcoins because even if you lose them, they don’t put you in great losses.
full member
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October 14, 2017, 12:03:17 AM
Mostly altcoins because BTC is a huge amount and hard to day trade because people are holding for a bigger amount so i prefer you to hold. but in altcoins you can daytrade because of people buys then sells it alot in a short period of time.
newbie
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October 13, 2017, 12:45:28 PM
Hello everyone,

I'm wondering if anyone buys and sells bitcoin like a day trader. Like maybe watching for a small gain, selling a few, watching for a small dip, buying back more from what you just sold, and so on.

Are there any reliable sites for this?

Thanks in advance for all who offer insightful advice.

I had tried day trading before but i cannot tolerate the stress it brings you really have to guard the capital invested on a day to day basis which is hard for me and really stressful. Thats why I shift to long term investment.
legendary
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October 13, 2017, 11:42:40 AM
#99
I used to day trade bitcoins in past, and sometimes also did arbitrage with success.
Daily can really be stressful but comes with a huge profit if you are good at it. Apparently, more stress, more money. At first it almost cost me sleepless night when I first started and ended up having insomnia as everything on my mind is usually the trade I was missing at that moment in time.
It was fun though and for anyone with the strength or time, it is actually a good one when mixed with long term as well.
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October 12, 2017, 06:44:13 PM
#98
selling high and buying lower is not risky, but shorting them on leverage can be... Roll Eyes
copper member
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October 12, 2017, 05:19:16 PM
#97
How many exchanges do you know that you could freely day trade and earn any profit? trading alt coins for Bitcoin is possible to do and earn something worth the time, but Bitcoin to fiat is not worth it if you are small.
hero member
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October 12, 2017, 11:53:42 AM
#96
Bitcoin's price is showed daily many times on Bloomberg TV. The price instability and the huge spikes are making it perfect for trading! Traders are looking for currencies they can trade for which they can also make the most profit they can. Having $100.000 in Bitcoin makes every cent moving matter. Instead of GoldOZ/USD which moves only by a few dollars with every important change, Bitcoin can even double or triple.
It' such a fkn aggravation. Buy and hold. Every time I fkn sell my positions it goes up. Last night I sold at 4840 thinking it was coming back down a bit and I wake up to an over 5k bitcoin. I'm so fkn pissed. Now will have to wait for a retracement. TRading is one of the most aggravating things you can do. Buy and HOLD unless it's really confirmed that it will fall.
You hold it but you have not any target, therefore how do you take profits? Depends on each cycle? Nope, I do not think this is the good choice for a professional trader or a really investor. This is the way for gamblers.
newbie
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October 12, 2017, 11:32:25 AM
#95
Bitcoin's price is showed daily many times on Bloomberg TV. The price instability and the huge spikes are making it perfect for trading! Traders are looking for currencies they can trade for which they can also make the most profit they can. Having $100.000 in Bitcoin makes every cent moving matter. Instead of GoldOZ/USD which moves only by a few dollars with every important change, Bitcoin can even double or triple.
It' such a fkn aggravation. Buy and hold. Every time I fkn sell my positions it goes up. Last night I sold at 4840 thinking it was coming back down a bit and I wake up to an over 5k bitcoin. I'm so fkn pissed. Now will have to wait for a retracement. TRading is one of the most aggravating things you can do. Buy and HOLD unless it's really confirmed that it will fall.
newbie
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January 16, 2017, 10:15:49 PM
#94
Anyone care to offer some INSIGHTFUL advice instead?

i did in the past i learned few stuff but not so much, about for example bollinger lines, that if those get out of the average you need to short or long

but besides this i still find it too much of a gamble, and also many other agree that TA is bullshit

It seems that now you finally got it

I'm wondering if anyone buys and sells bitcoin like a day trader. Like maybe watching for a small gain, selling a few, watching for a small dip, buying back more from what you just sold, and so on.

Are there any reliable sites for this?

It seems also that you are talking about exchanges

And there are many of these. One of the posters mentioned btc-e earlier and I agree with such a choice. Regarding day trading, this is probably not the best thing for a novice. If you blindly follow some strategy based on TA, you are in for losses, but in order to trade smartly you need experience and psychological resistance to possible losses. The best thing you can go for given the circumstances is likely doing dollar cost averaging. You can find more about that in Google

At a very high level, I can't force myself to agree with the "short term mostly loses" mentality. Is not the "long term," by definition, the sum of many short terms? If compared with an even longer time scale, is not your hypothetical long term a relative short term? If so, you have created a "losing fractal," and at every scale, losses exist.
legendary
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January 16, 2017, 04:08:39 PM
#93
Anyone care to offer some INSIGHTFUL advice instead?

i did in the past i learned few stuff but not so much, about for example bollinger lines, that if those get out of the average you need to short or long

but besides this i still find it too much of a gamble, and also many other agree that TA is bullshit

It seems that now you finally got it

I'm wondering if anyone buys and sells bitcoin like a day trader. Like maybe watching for a small gain, selling a few, watching for a small dip, buying back more from what you just sold, and so on.

Are there any reliable sites for this?

It seems also that you are talking about exchanges

And there are many of these. One of the posters mentioned btc-e earlier and I agree with such a choice. Regarding day trading, this is probably not the best thing for a novice. If you blindly follow some strategy based on TA, you are in for losses, but in order to trade smartly you need experience and psychological resistance to possible losses. The best thing you can go for given the circumstances is likely doing dollar cost averaging. You can find more about that in Google
newbie
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January 16, 2017, 03:20:25 PM
#92
Before you begin you need to know that:

Over 90% of traders lose money (any market).
You are basically competing with the best mathematicians in the world and their hardware.

Having said that, since you are going to trade anyway, good luck and enjoy your losses ! Grin

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm in my second year of doing this. You don't need any math beyond 1st year calculus and an understanding of first and second derivatives. Most smart high school seniors and any freshman science or engineering major will possess the skills to mitigate losses and make steady progress.

By my charting, 2.9 BTC of my 8.0 were accumulated profits over a span of call it 18 months. Not sophisticated trading. Just understanding the rate of change and rate of rate of change indicators, and keeping track of each small piece of BTC and what was paid for it.

If I were to give an appropriate metaphor, imagine a jigsaw puzzle fully completed, and on the back was a different BTC amount and what was paid for it. Any trade to follow that is a sell, select only those pieces with smaller purchase BTC. You can see how this turns the "mystique" of it all into a game a child could play.

Hahaha, sure, it's so easy that 90% are making money instead of losing...where's the money coming from then I wonder?

He said 90% are losing money.

Smiley
full member
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January 16, 2017, 03:07:57 PM
#91
Before you begin you need to know that:

Over 90% of traders lose money (any market).
You are basically competing with the best mathematicians in the world and their hardware.

Having said that, since you are going to trade anyway, good luck and enjoy your losses ! Grin

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm in my second year of doing this. You don't need any math beyond 1st year calculus and an understanding of first and second derivatives. Most smart high school seniors and any freshman science or engineering major will possess the skills to mitigate losses and make steady progress.

By my charting, 2.9 BTC of my 8.0 were accumulated profits over a span of call it 18 months. Not sophisticated trading. Just understanding the rate of change and rate of rate of change indicators, and keeping track of each small piece of BTC and what was paid for it.

If I were to give an appropriate metaphor, imagine a jigsaw puzzle fully completed, and on the back was a different BTC amount and what was paid for it. Any trade to follow that is a sell, select only those pieces with smaller purchase BTC. You can see how this turns the "mystique" of it all into a game a child could play.

Hahaha, sure, it's so easy that 90% are making money instead of losing...where's the money coming from then I wonder?
newbie
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January 16, 2017, 11:49:30 AM
#90
You can always try my bot out if you like for the poloniex lending system, Its a good way to make your bitcoin earn money while you sit back and let the bot do the market analysis and make percentile loans and looks to take advantage of "spikes" in the lending and order books.

Have a look at the topic if your interested in day trading. We also do trading on the platform and offer a signals service for alerts.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/elevara-poloniex-lending-bot-bitcointalk-member-vouched-python-1744380

Trading signals

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/elevara-crypto-trading-signals-1747026



newbie
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January 16, 2017, 09:29:54 AM
#89
That's exactly how they work. Yeah, they're trustworthy because they're open source. Try one of these: https://sourceforge.net/directory/?q=bitcoin+trading+bot

There are bots available for almost every exchange.

Wow thanks that's EXACTLY what I was hoping for!
sr. member
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January 16, 2017, 02:31:54 AM
#88
Tradingview.com offers a nice feature called paper trading where you can trade with fake money. I've been playing around with it for about a week. it's much better than trading with your real money when you are learning. I'm planning on doing it for a few weeks and eventually try real money trading.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I will try this later if I have the time. Sometimes all that we need is a little practice in trading to make us get used to it. We neither have the formal training or the experience for it so playing with play money is always good.
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