1. When to trade
I belief that the best time to trade is right when bitcoin recovery takes place, the moment price stability occurs is another good time for trading or when price start surging.
2. How to trade
Actually in trading you need to put aside your greed, once greed gets over you losses will follow, limit your daily trading too or you will open door to losses, trade twice a day is enough, always use low amount when trading, do not trade with big amounts, slow trading wins the race.
i am not perfect as well and i have lost some money in trading before i figured this out on my own and it works for me.
yes, the key of trading is we must know when the right time to enter the market and exit the market in profit or by cut our loss short mate
and use max of your funds not more than 5% in your trading activity to reduce the risk on our trading activity my friend