Thinking about diving into crypto? Do you have a plan or simple strategies lined up? Are you in it for the long haul or just looking to make some quick cash with trading? Or maybe you’re just testing the waters for now? Just picture it like saving up bit by bit until you hit your goal, or even exploring other avenues for earning passive income.
The same goes for crypto it’s all about having different strategies that align with your objectives. So here’s what we’ll chat about:
1. What simple strategy works best for you?
2. How to pick the right strategy to avoid losing cash?
In crypto, having the right strategy is key. You can’t just wing it randomly. You gotta find what fits your budget and your risk tolerance, especially since we all have different goals. So let’s kick things off with one popular strategy:
Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA)
Most of you probably know this, but for those who are new, I’ll break it down. It’s all about slowly building up the assets you want. Instead of investing a lump sum all at once, it’s like paying for insurance over time based on how much you can afford. Whether it’s monthly, quarterly, or yearly, it's all about what works for you.
So rather than buying crypto at a single price point, you invest across various price levels depending on market shifts.
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ryanwizardSenior Member
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#2Nov 18, 2019, 11:23 AM
The coin we are investing here is also important for us to understand the way of it's performance, we must have the ability of combining both the fundamental and analytical analysis altogether on our trades or investment, this will help us alot, because we are going nto be more precise about the market speculations and the way we could avoid taking risk will be high, so that we don't lose our capital asset for nothing but our own silly mistakes.
CyberFalconFull Member
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#3Nov 18, 2019, 01:52 PM
Your overall speech here about the DCA strategy. Things aren't too easy that you describe here, actually. Before investing in crypto, you must gain enough knowledge about the crypto. For each coin you invest in, you need to know it very well. Unless you have proper knowledge about Bitcoin, you shouldn't invest in it. It's the same for all coins that you want to invest in.
To invest in cryptocurrency, you must be a risk taker and financially stable. If you aren't stable financially, then you will panic after buying the coin, and you might sell-off during the bear market. Rather, you need to hold your coins during the bear season, and you have to survive from your savings, except crypto holdings.
However, the DCA strategy is the best strategy ever. It's for holders, actually; DCA doesn't work for traders anyway. You need to set your goals; either you want to be a trader or you want to be a holder. Because both are kind of investments, trading is short holding and long.
Yes, indeed, buying shit coin using the DCA strategy would be a big mistake, which would undoubtedly lead to the loss of the deposit. Usually, the DCA strategy can only be applied to top cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Just buy Bitcoin using DCA over the years, and youll be fine. Forget about altcoins as they are high-risk assets that can ruin your portfolio if some of them end up being scams. But if you really cant resist the temptation and still want to invest in altcoins, make sure to stick to those in the top 10, as they are already well-established and have stood the test of time. Even then, keep your exposure limited, maybe 10% or less of your total portfolio.
Losing money is part of investing and that happens even in the experienced people.
DCA is a good strategy and it's suitable for the most of us. But with the wrong choice, it's going to be as effective as it can be for the others that will do that.
And results for doing DCA is not going to be visible as soon as possible and if the person doing it lacks patience, it's not for him.
Selecting a highly potential coin should always be the very first goal. You can't jump into thinking the best strategy that will suit you if you aren't sure what will be the future of your selected coins. Observe the market first and study each and every coin thoroughly. Once you've chosen your best coin, then proceed to what kind of strategy that will conveniently work for you.
DarkR0ck3tFull Member
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#8Nov 19, 2019, 12:03 PM
You can chose to DCA with shitcoins but it would only be a waste of time and money. And no one wants to do that that's why as much as possible, invest in top coins like bitcoin. DCA can be a good and reliable strategy if you can make it regularly, otherwise just buy in dips so you can make a discount and maximize your purchase with bitcoin.
tony_bridgeFull Member
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#9Nov 19, 2019, 01:08 PM
I have never consider out on holding some shit coins or meme coins for long term on which these are types that once you do make out such holding then it is likely that you would really be ending up on holding those worthless tokens into your bag and this is why it would be that truly a gamble if you do made out some decisions on trying out to make a hold of these tokens. DCA will really be only applicable or having some sense if we do speak about holding Bitcoin or with some top altcoins in the market. Somehow its not really that bad to seek and search up into those projects on which it does have that potential because we do know that top altcoins in the market too do came from that position on which no one had anticipated that it will really be sitting in into the top ranks.
This is why majority of investors will really be trying out to catch up and would really be that wanting to have such approach because they do really know on whats the opportunity and the possible things that they will really be able to obtain at the time that their analysis was right? We are all here comes for the profit but if we do speak about Bitcoin accumulation then the best approach would really be having that DCA on which we do know that it would really be that worth considering on the potential but dont expect that the rewards or profits will really be that big.
A very tight work is to do it yourself through many professions. There are some simple and effective rules to make video it if you can keep it correct you will be saucasy of investors. You need to do a lot of research before doing the day. And you have to determine your symptoms. One important aspect is to ensure difference. You should not spend money on any project. And be aware of the risks and invest in understanding the risks. And your plan must be long term. The last thing I think to me is that you need to monitor each project very well. If you can do all these things correctly, you can be converted into a successful traitor and you will be successful in training.
You can simply verify why DCA strategy for long term investment is very effectively and profitable by looking at portfolios of investors applied this strategy like Strategy and El Salvador.
https://saylortracker.com/
https://nayibtracker.com/
If you feel impressed with this strategy through above portfolios, but want to estimate what you can get with DCA for your portfolio, you can use these tools.
https://dcabtc.com/
https://costavg.com/
For me i say DCA should be use for only coins considered or treated as investment because most of the time DCA method only yields profit in a long term basis as such only bitcoin is considered an investment. Many people have actually been categorizing top or large cap Altcoins as asset too but in honesty they them selves are just no too different from the low cap shitcoins. Take for example the Ethereum mentioned, Ethereum has been below his all time high now for almost four years even though bitcoin has actually seen it smashed multiple all time highs since then and with this there is a high probability that anyone who have invested since then might still be at loss right now.
So only treat bitcoin as the only asset in cryptocurrency and DCA, you can choose to gamble some excess funds on Altcoins and then they hit the bottom but DCAing on them seems more like a waste of money to me
There is no relevance for me to do DCA on shitcoins where there is a greater loss as if I were risking money on gambling.
The most appropriate DCA is still bitcoin that is common in many people, maybe you can choose some other top coins to do DCA but I myself do not do it, and focus more on bitcoin alone for DCA.
We shouldn't always settle for the simple things or strategies for investing in crypto. There are strategies that could be said to be best too but people shy away from it because they think it's difficult to keep up with and follow through but that's where the big profits exists much more than in the simple ones. We should learn how to adapt and not always settle for the less simple things if we want to make it to or close to the whales rank.
2. How to choose the right strategy is by trying out each strategy and examine each outcome and the risk ratio to rewards. Others are secondary. Addition to choosing the right strategy, the coins we choose to invest in is also a factor to if the right strategy could work on it. If you pick on the wrong coins even the most right strategy would still fail.
It's such a huge waste of money if someone does DCA with shitcoins. You've got some money and throw to them? expect that it's gone forever. I won't go all out by taking risk with those kind of coins anymore.
I agree, this is the best approach that anyone can do. All we have to do is to make sure that we keep DCAing Bitcoin for what's about to come. This is still a good year or let's just welcome the idea that whatever is the market situation, DCAing Bitcoin has always been a thing for all of us.
With Bitcoin and its proven strength of growth and survival in many years and past bear markets, DCA is a very good strategy for your investment in Bitcoin.
To invest in Bitcoin and hold your bitcoin for a long term, you must do other vital things.
Choose a good wallet to use and to store your bitcoin: non custodial (not your keys not your coins, remember that), and open source (to verify that wallet is reproducible or not).
Back up your wallets.
In backup procedure, make sure you check validity and usability of your backup.
Keep your backups safely.
https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet
https://walletscrutiny.com/
How to back up a seed phrase.
kinda obvious, DCA is investing with long term target, meanwhile most of altcoins lose 90% of its value within just a year or even less, so apparently if we are doing DCA on altcoins we're just giving our money for free to strangers.
DCA only works with crypto like bitcoin or proven asset like some of the good stocks, had you DCA bitcoin, you'd profit greatly, same thing with NVDA and AAPL.
for 4 year or more investment honestly, I'd consider all altcoins to be garbage, even if it's ETH, because just see ETH as second biggest altcoin ever, greatly underperforming compared to bitcoin.
viper_blockSenior Member
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#18Nov 23, 2019, 01:19 AM
DCA method is best simple strategy you can use to invest in Bitcoin. You can learn more about DCA method and how to use it. You don't have to confuse with the price up and down and only focus with buy Bitcoin for certain time.
With DCA method, you accumulate Bitcoin from time to time without think about where Bitcoin price move. But your concern is how much money you will allocate for Bitcoin investment or we can say that is about how much money you can afford to invest in Bitcoin.
DCA method it is like we saving fiat in our bank. But we save Bitcoin week or monthly so we will have a new investment beside other investment.
You will find more benefit about DCA method from your research.
DCA Bitcoin is better than saving fiat in bank account.
Because with fiat currency in your account as saving in bank, you only get an increase with bank interest rate that can be lower than inflation rate.
With Bitcoin, you can have very good ROI, that is much higher than interest rate or inflation rate. Additionally, with Bitcoin you will have private key and truly own and control your bitcoin.
It's your private key, it's your bitcoin, that's what you get by DCA Bitcoin and withdraw your bitcoin to your non custodial, and also open source Bitcoin wallet.
vault_nodeFull Member
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#20Nov 23, 2019, 11:32 PM
DCA is good for bitcoin, would not be applicable to every coin.
I think buying low and selling high is the fundamental method to invest. But most people end up doing or are forced to do the opposite leading to a poor performance in trading. This takes practice and observing the specific asset over months of charts to be able to closely predict a low and high.
Most traders dont make profits from the market and there needs a point from where one should start moving back.
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