Hi all - I'm now to the forum and new to crypto trading. For the last couple of weeks I have been studying various charts and patterns using TradingView.com and reading lots of blog posts, articles, news, videos, etc. There is quite a steep learning curve to it - especially the technical analysis, but I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it - I've (fairly) accurately predicted a few trends on some crypto currencies I have been watching - I'm just trying to gain as much experience as I can.
I understand about spreading risk/hedging bets, and have a budget of about $2,000 which is what I could afford to lose (although I'd rather not!) and have created a bitcoin wallet and have opened an account on Binance.
Anyway - having read lots of articles I'm thinking of three, maybe four, possible strategies and I'm wondering what you guys would recommend a newbie like myself should focus on;
1. Long term trades - buy into various currencies where I believe they will increase in value in the long term. I have identified a few and think they may be profitable in 6-12 months or so.
2. Short term trades - I have seen some people describe this as "swing trades", where with some technical analysis I try to buy currency at a low point with an aim for it to increase in value and then sell it. Timescales being a lot shorter; maybe days or a couple of weeks.
3. Identify new and upcoming coins - the idea here is to research coins that are fairly newly launched. I need to do some more research if this were a viable option, but picking the right coin to buy into early could be very lucrative.
4. Short selling (margin trading?) - This is probably not a good idea at this point, I understand the concept of short selling but don't think I'm ready for this yet.
- Or if I'm completely on the wrong track or have missed anything, just let me know!
Looking forward to reading your views. Thank you in advance.
There are many different things you can do in order to develop and improve trading strategies. The best advice I think I can give is to try to learn from more experienced and successful traders than yourself. This can be done in several ways including reading blogs, watching videos, and using social trading platforms. The social trading platform that I personally enjoy using and learning from is
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