This is a short article I thought would be useful for anyone who wants to trade crypto but think they need to be 100% on it or that its probably better that way, just remember that capital preservation is the most important thing when it comes to trading.
How I manage to trade crypto part time
Going full time on trading is not an easy thing and many traders advice to start part time and have a job that you can use as main income, I have been on crypto since early 2017 and have gone through many stages in the crypto market.
-Mining: had a 80 GPU Nvidia 1070 mining farm producing at peak $7k raw before expenses
-Masternodes: did a lot of money buying pre sales and obscure masternode coins and getting rewards on a daily bases
-Investing: buying coins for long mid and long term hold
-Trading Automation: trading bots, trailing, altcoin bot, most very profitable at a slow pace
But for the past two years I have been more focus on manually trade a portion of my portfolio and there are sometimes I hate to trade purely because of all the stress during certain situations like a bad entry or an event that affects the trade like a hack or even bad news for the coin Im trading, for all this stress that you are going to generate and the time you need to invest to learn how to trade is probably best to do it part time.
Here are some of the pros and cons of trading as a side job
Pro:
- If you master your time and the art of trading extra income obvious
- You are not 100% dependent on your trading income
- If you are doing well trading you can inject more capital and size up
- You are not 24hr7 trading like most crypto traders that want to be 100% dependent of crypto trading, you have time blank your mind and get distracted with regular life scenario
Cons:
- You will probably have to do the heavy lifting after getting home from work, stay late reviewing the tape, looking for trading opportunities for the next day
- Weekends you will probably want to catch up and it will also take form your free time
- When doing all this homework you will probably be tired but most of the time is the only time you have to do this things in order to stay on top of the market
Things to avoid
- NO PAID GROUPS or TRADING COURSES, most are trash and you wont learn anything
- Dont trade with money you cant afford too loose, its a classic on crypto but its the true because eventually you will loose, probably not all if you master risk management but its better that you dont trade with money you depend on.
- NO SIGNALS, Dont waste your money buying signal service, you need to understand when to get in and when to exit a trade.
This are some points that come to my mind since I started trading on spot and futures, some things you will need to do and some that you will have to avoid but the one thing that really has help me on this year to finally been green on my trading is "Learn How To Loose" , in life nobody teach you how to loose how to accept that you have lost, even when you play collective sports you may learn part of it but its very different doing it for fun than doing something for a profit.
My steps on how to loose:
- Once you learn how to do technical analysis you will learn what is a spot loss and your take profit, stop loss is a golden rule because take profit varies depending on your goals and style of trading but you cant avoid stop loss, its better to loose part of your capital and keep part of it so you can rebuild
- If you loose all your capital there is nothing to rebuild with, stay in the game
- How much can you tolerate to loose, if on average you make from 10% to 25% per trade then you can probably afford to loose 15% on a bad trade but size should be the same, because if you loose 15% on a trade then you can recover it with one or two good trades.
- NOT THE BEST TRADERS WIN EVERY TRADE, if you are just starting, I still consider myself someone who is starting, WHY do you think there is not a chance you will loose trades or have a bad day or week or even a bad month.
This is mostly I have learn how to loose in trading, there will be days you wont find a trade, there will be a day where you take one or two bad trades and there will be days that all you need is minutes to take a good trade close it and be done for the day.
In trading for me technical analysis is the easy part, because its textbook, by watching the tape everyday you will catch patterns in seconds to identify trades but its the mind, that psychological aspect that you need to dominate, to control your emotions before, during and after a trade and to identify sentiment on the market when there is fear and you short to the ground a coin or when greed kicks on a bullish scenario and you go long and left behind bears, trading is not about being fair, whats right if long or short, or even being right, trading is about probabilities and have the ability to identify the direction of the market, its not about your thoughts, politics, news, what you think should happen or even been rational because under certain circumstances "markets can stay longer irrational than you can stay solvent"
My intention is not to teach you how to trade because gain I dont consider myself a trader or a teacher, I dont have the success, time or experience to do so, Im just sharing my thoughts and experience of the last two years trading spot and futures.
For the past 72 days I have the been the most consistent ever and I think Im starting to see that curve going up up up, take in consideration I love to short so this is not just going long on a Bull Market
Hope you found this useful, good luck, thanks
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This is very educative and enlighening. I wonder why there is no reward in this post. You probably should have posted it in crypto community like "LeoFinance".
Thank you for sharing your wonderful experiences about trading crypto.
I took a brake from Hive and making content and lot of things have change on Hive
Yeah, I realized you've not posted for a couple of months not and truly lots of things have changed over the past few months.
Good to see you back.