Started trading since 2014 with $100 worth of BTC. Transformed them into $600 in 6 months. Transformed $600 into $3000 in 1 year. Transformed $3000 into $9000 in 3 months by going all in into some unknown coins that big players used them as fast profit (I got lucky, I am not gonna lie). After that I took some break of trading, and I invested all those $9000 worth of BTC into pascal at the beginning. My plan was to pump the coin but I ended up failing so I thought what if the coin will reach 1 dollar, I can become a millionaire and like something from inside was telling me to keep the coins and not to sell them. On 27th of January while I was on a trip to Hawaii I was like let me see how is pascal doing, and then I saw the price of the pascal that reached $1.37 so I sold all my coins which were 1476702.92414997 so that's how I've become a millionaire, I was so happy, so I cashed out like most of them that I opened my own business and soon I am in plan to invest like $200k in GPU mining equipment and i kept only $100k for trading and still trading it, I can tell you is easier to make a profit when you have $100k because you can easily manipulate with one of those coins that barely get any attention, it's so easy to drag so many noobs that will start buying after they see bullish traps because they don't understand anything ... So this is my story, I've never lost any single penny, I am just patient even if the coin gets dumped so hard I still believe in it and I am still holding it. On long run it pays off to trade but on short run to trade you really need to understand the whole situation and learn from your own mistakes, read news about cryptos daily and learn how to trade from other people especially the charts.
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Forgot to mention which coins I've been trading since I started. PTS/PPC/NMC/NVC/LTC/XMR/PASC/ETH/DASH/XRP
This is one inspiring story, though there is a great touch of luck there, there is something to learn. Knowledge, taking risk and patience. I could have been in the same boat as you if I have patience, but well most people lacked me included. I have gotten millions of VPN at 1 satoshi and sold them at 57 satoshi without knowing that it will reach 2k plus satoshi after two months. Still I have not learned, I also accumulated NEM at around 30 sat and sold them at 63 due to my impatient behavior. Oh well maybe it is not too late for me to learn patience, I am holding couple of potential coins now. Still waiting for it to moon.