I have seen many questions about how they are going to be a professional trader, so I just wanna share my experience, I am not a professional trader but I just wanna share some of my experiences and way of thinking in trading.
1. Trade at your own risk - You should know that investing, gambling and trading is somehow the same because you are not sure that you could win the prize, so expect that you could win and you could lose your money.
2. Limit your budget - always limit your budget for trading, you should use only those extra money you have, instead of spending it on some other things, you may use it for trading, at least you made something to make it profitable.
3. Do not be greedy - There are many people who suffered from being greedy, they tend to spend all their money because of thinking that they could still make more money but instead of earning they have lost their money. ALWAYS KNOW WHEN TO STOP AND CONTINUE TO TRADE.
4. Learn from your own mistake - Instead of being sad because of losing try to think on some other thing why you get lost and think some good strategies to overcome those mistakes.
Some good tips from google: 5. Check the ticker symbol - Ticker symbols are not universal and may vary from exchange to exchange in rare cases. Those cases, though, can come back to bite you. For example, Bitcoin Cash trades on some exchanges as BCH, while it trades on others as BCC. BCC is also the ticker symbol for BitConnect, which was recently outed as a Ponzi Scheme. If you bought BCC under the impression was Bitcoin Cash, you would’ve lost a lot of money.
6. Pay attention to the bitcoin - Most altcoins (every cryptocurrency except Bitcoin) are pegged more closely to Bitcoin than Asian currencies were to the USD during the Asian Financial Crisis. If Bitcoin price pump drastically, altcoins price can go down as people try to exit altcoins to ride the BTC profits; inversely, if Bitcoin prices dump drastically, altcoin prices can go down, too, as people exit altcoins to exchange back into fiat. The best times for altcoin growth appear when Bitcoin shows organic growth or decline or remains stagnant in price.
Trading is really profitable ways of earning money and having skills and knowledge about it would be a great advantage for you.
Appreciate your work here for spending time in getting few good points and sharing here.
Do not be greedy: Do not invest all you have. Just hold back a lump of amount. There will be times when the price might go down and we will be at lose. The lump of amount can be used to average the lose.
Learn from your own mistake: Its common with beginners to loose money by either panic sales or investing on a coin which does not have a growth. Loses teach more. Yes it would be hard to accept but its an experience. How can a beginner avoid much lose? Just invest 50% of what you have planned for on a best coin. Use the remaining 50% to average the lose if it happens though. Here where you can minimize your lose.
Yes altcoins follow bitcoin's growth. Have patience and invest on the right coin when the price is low. Spend time and choose the right coin. This will reduce 70% of loss.