For now, trading and investing can still be an option because both can provide short, medium and long term benefits. And it depends on how good you are at mastering the analysis that can help you know when you can enter the market.
But if you are afraid to trade and decide only to invest because the movement is still unstable and can decrease the price like it is now, you can buy and hold it for a while. And even though the price may increase again later, even to the $30k mark, it still seems like a good price to buy bitcoins since the last ATH was at $60k. So buying bitcoins at $60k can still be considered an investment price.
When I talk at the moment in this case I really mean at the moment, so it is not about this year or for several months. I expect that bitcoin will go down soon enough for short term traders to buy it cheaper and then sell again costlier (it is not an advise, my predictions are not even close to 100%, so I can be very mistaken). So investing at the moment is still good as if you hold long enough less then 25k for bitcoin is a good price, but short term trading has other senses (and I prefer not to play with it as I'm not experienced enough for that).
Right, I agree with you. $24k-$30k is still a good price to get bitcoins considering they can go back to previous peaks so if we can get lots of bitcoins at the current price and hold them until they make the next peak, we should be making a huge profit. And this has happened before so that many people can make big profits.
But if the price can't increase this year, next year, or the next few years, it won't be a problem because we still have the opportunity to get those big profits. But holding bitcoins is not easy. Not many people can do it because most people will panic or worry when they see the price increase and eventually decide to sell their bitcoins instead of worrying every day.
Short term trading in my opinion is still a good option if you buy at the right time, and some investors do this which makes bitcoin gradually increase.
if we remember the price of bitcoin was 17k and that was a good price to buy and a lot of short term traders sold when the price of bitcoin was 20k-21k which was only a few weeks, and it repeated many times. Then buy at 20k-21k traders sell at 24k-25k and so on I think bitcoin price will reach 28k-29k in March.
So I think now is a good choice to trade short term if you do it right and it would be better to trade long term or invest in bitcoin even any investment has risks but if we believe and have strong patience I believe it will work.
And that panic only happens mostly to beginners because those who have been in this industry for a long time see that they are very familiar with bitcoin and know its tracks which in my opinion does not make them panic even when they are down. Because believing that it will bounce back eventually and in the long run is the best and safest choice, and also short term trading is good when the market is on a gradual rise.
That's what short-term traders do because if they can get a low price and sell at a higher price many times, their profit will grow even more. We have seen how the market moves and it provides evidence that when the price goes down, it is not always followed by another decline but sometimes the price can bounce back to a higher price. And if we can buy at that low price, we have the opportunity to sell at a high price.
And as long as we don't panic about circumstances or changes in the market, we can adapt well and instead use every opportunity in the market for our benefit. And if we can't see the high price after we buy, we don't need to panic and just keep waiting because the price will return to the high price.
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But if the price can't increase this year, next year, or the next few years, it won't be a problem because we still have the opportunity to get those big profits. But holding bitcoins is not easy. Not many people can do it because most people will panic or worry when they see the price increase and eventually decide to sell their bitcoins instead of worrying every day.
It is a known problem based on poor economy education. How many forum users do understand concept of 1
BTC=1
BTC in any sense? I guess it could be so that a majority thinks that it is a fun meme while this idea in one of senses shows that you haven't lost until you exited into fiat. And it is about investing, you should be prepared to wait long enough and chose assets to invest wisely. So now bitcoin is far from it's ATH and previous peak so it is a good idea for investing. But trading rules are not like that: you need working capital all the time so sometimes you need to close the loss even in a prospective asset to have an opportunity to trade here and now.
Agree with you. 1 BTC = 1 BTC. But the problem is that people easily panic when they see the price of bitcoin dropping as much as it did a while ago and think that the decline will continue. It will not be what they imagine because often, the price can bounce back to a high price and even continue to increase to a certain price level. And it happens repeatedly, and they can use it to trade short term if they want to analyze further. And bitcoin now, which is still far from the last ATH, still needs time to increase in price and we can use that to buy more bitcoins.