trading risk and risk holding more risk hold, because if you hold it you can hold the coin that you hold will run delist so it will make you loss if coin mean too long.
Only shit coins can get delisted and may end up making you bag hold for a very long time but you would want to be smart even as a holder anyway. In this market, everything is risky. Trading is risky because the market is extremely volatile and without knowledge and being cautious, you will end up getting screwed which you would end up even losing much more but with great knowledge, you certainly get the best of it.
All the above, holding is easy, as all you need is to do research on what you are holding, believe in the long term, forget about the mid fluctuations and come back in that long term to see how you have done. For holding, we do not need any big strategies and it may sound simple but definitely highly effective one.
I don't know why this myth is repeated so often.
"Trading is risky because without experience you will loose".
So if newbie cames to the cryptoworld knowing that there is something like bitcoin and didnt even knowing what blockchain is can't trade on crypto because it need experience but for sure can do great research, read 40+ page whitepaper in english (it is not native language of every crypto investor), compare team, CODE, and finding out that this is great project, there isn't any better doing the same stuff, there isn't any project that will perhabs deliver working product faster. From first look he will know that some on statements in whatepaper are impossible to do etc?(it is very important because with 1600 coins currently and 1000+ new coins each year this market will for sure look totaly different after years) To invest first money he will have to read and understand at liest 50+ whitepapers (2000+ pages), get to know about 200-400+ cryptos to make good long term choise. I think good reaserch takes more time than learning trading.
If i would campere risk in trading and hodling i would compere unexperienced treader with unexperienced hodler (newbie in doing researches). And even chosing hodl tactick its good to have basic trading knowledge to knew that f.e. january 2018 was not the best moment for investition even if coin was great. Thats why in my opinion trading with lowest possible bet is best option for newbie. While trading learning about coin that newbie want to trade at. Get basing knowleg about various of coins and then jump to HARDER AND RISKIER hodling tactic.