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Topic: Noob Here Interested in Trading Bitcoin - page 2. (Read 4597 times)

legendary
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Merit: 1047
September 01, 2012, 05:33:01 AM
#5
I actually sold half my coins at $10.3. Now I guess I just need to wait.
If this works out it would seem almost too easy  Huh

The most difficult thing for me is when to make the "call" that I feel "OK" with. Buy or Sell.

For example. If after purchasing your 10k USD? of BTC at $5 each, make the call and liquidate at $15, netting you an estimated return minus fees and initial investment of $20,000 USD. However since you may have gambled BTC value would go higher, you missed the opportunity to maximize your gains.

You make the call to liquidate 1000BTC at $10.30 leaving you with realized gains of $300 + 1000BTC. Mind you that is nothing to scoff at.

However you lost out on $4700 if you decided to trade that 1000BTC at $15, instead of at $10.30.

OR you could of traded 2000 BTC at $15 gaining $20,000 after initial investment. Later reinvesting those earnings by trading at the $8 mark getting you back in the game holding 2500BTC. Finaly you make the call to liquidate 1000BTC of the 2500BTC at $10.30 having a realized net of $10,300 and 1500BTC minus initial investment of $10k, maximizing your profits.  

Trouble is hind sight is 20/20 Cheesy
ajk
donator
Activity: 447
Merit: 250
September 01, 2012, 01:18:46 AM
#4
Hey marsh im in the same boat as well, moderately new to trading but have been following bitcoins for over a year now,

I would say that some good advice would be to always do your own analysis and use everyone elses with a grain of salt, ive noticed that 80% of the time what the general feelings of speculation related to the market are totally opposite, everyones always either trying to say theres going to be a crash to reap in cheap coins or vice versa,

BTC charts is the best for everything you need it has all indicators and the chart system is very good from what I can tell however Ive never traded forex, stocks, bonds, only bitcoin

some advice I was given is 2-5 day is good for short term but 10 day 1 mo will always give a more accurate depiction on the market

but im also new to lol always open to advice, good luck!

edit:
also 10-20k is definitely a good float as long as you can accurately play the downs and ups of the market you will definitely see some big return just make sure you are making more correct decisions than wrong, always take losing money as a learning experience thats the way I see it!,
newbie
Activity: 17
Merit: 0
September 01, 2012, 01:04:08 AM
#3
I actually sold half my coins at $10.3. Now I guess I just need to wait.
If this works out it would seem almost too easy  Huh
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1037
Trusted Bitcoiner
September 01, 2012, 12:45:18 AM
#2
sell all your bitcoins now and buy them back Much lower Monday night

its that easy!

lol

 Wink
newbie
Activity: 17
Merit: 0
September 01, 2012, 12:31:22 AM
#1
Hi there, new to the forums. I'm looking into getting into trading Bitcoins. Here is my situation.
I am completely new to trading and have never traded anything before.
I have recently read several books on day trading, technical analysis and speculation so i have a small grasp of some of the basic theories behind trading.
I bought about 10k worth of BTC a few months back while it was at $5 as long term investment so I consider myself up right now with some extra money that I want to use for short term, medium term, or maybe even some day trading.
I am subscribed to a few people on the forums such as s3052 to get a more advanced traders reading of the Bitcoin charts.
I plan on spending many hours putting in work and learning this stuff.

I know trading is a risky game so can anyone give me some advice on how I should approach this?
Is 2000BTC enough to start trading?
How much profit could a good trader expect to make with 2000BTC and in what sort of timeframe?
How often do you guys make trades? Daily? Weekly? Monthly?
Are there any specific software or services or websites I should use?
Does anyone trade Bitcoin on here fulltime??
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong section.
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