Key similarities between Forex and crypto

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4tla52011Full Member
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#1Jan 5, 2018, 09:02 AM
Forex and crypto definitely share some key traits. For anyone new to this, it’s good to get a grasp on what to do and what to steer clear of. I’ll go over a few of the major similarities. If you’ve got other ideas apart from the ones I mention, feel free to chime in. First up is risk management. Everyone has a different level of risk they can handle. Like, person A might be okay with blowing $1000 in a trade, while person B can't afford to lose more than $100. Knowing your risk tolerance is essential. Then there’s the psychological side of things. Your mindset can be your biggest ally or enemy. It’s super important to keep your head straight while trading. Ask yourself if you’re sticking to your trading plan or if you’re going off-script. Do you find yourself panicking too much? Are you prone to greed? Your lifestyle choices can seriously impact your trading psychology, which in turn can affect your trading results. Next up is position sizing. You gotta know how much you’re willing to risk on a trade. Let’s say you have $1000 to play with. You shouldn’t be risking your entire amount on a single trade. After sorting out your risk management, you need to figure out your position size. Think about how much of that $1000 you’re comfortable risking per trade to avoid blowing your account. Discipline is another major point. Can you follow the trading plan you created? No revenge trading, only taking trades when your strategy is right. Stay true to your stop losses and pay attention to market trends. There’s definitely more to cover. If you’ve got additional thoughts, drop them here.
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alex.shardLegendary
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#2Jan 5, 2018, 02:12 PM
This is the reason most traders are losing. They will think of stop loss, which will encourage them to use high leverage and they will always be losing. They may be winning, but after days or 1 or 2 weeks, they will lose all their money. The best is to just use very low leverage, but most traders will not listen and be thinking that they are professionals.
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its_foxSenior Member
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#3Jan 5, 2018, 05:41 PM
I think forex or crypto what important is the patience of the user. Both concept have might differ but the goal of both is to profit so I think its really down to selfs discipline. I had some friends doing forex and they like the setup there. I wouldnt say crypto is better cause thats being bias since I am pro crypto. I didnt try to do forex yet but hoping I could try and experience it bare hand to know the better differences.
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#4Jan 5, 2018, 08:12 PM
For me I'd say risk management is the most important long term. The reason is you can have great technical analysis and psychology but if your risk management is poor, a single bad trade could wipe out months to years of progress. Even the best traders are wrong quite often, what keeps them profitable in the long run is making sure their losses stay small. Good risk management gives you enough time in the market to improve every other skill. Even as a beginner.
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shard_minerSenior Member
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#5Jan 5, 2018, 10:43 PM
I would say the experience is similar, but since the forex market seems older, and doesn't operate 24/7, that's one of the huge advantages of the cryptocurrency market. One thing for sure is that both forex and crypto currencies market requires high level knowledge and use of risk management in order to stay in for longer and a sound knowledge of position sizing is a peck. If a forex or cryptocurrency trader can be efficient about how they use and protect their capital at first, then they have already won about 50% of the trade, irrespective of the loss so far incurred . So I believe.
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0xR4v3nSenior Member
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#6Jan 6, 2018, 12:31 AM
Long term? Bias. Confirmation and anchoring bias. Anchoring? Happened with me for many many shitcoins because of the BTC price action (ATH will always happen every cycle, and will never drop below 10% of ATH). So you get fixated on a price point and die because it never reaches that. Same happened with forex, on JPY (now all time low vs USD). There will always be a new low, no such thing as a bottom for some coins and currencies. Confirmation bias, you know this. We look for news and Tweets to tell us we're right
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#7Jan 6, 2018, 06:20 AM
The most important aspect of everything mentioned above is risk management because our primary goal is to survive in the long run and eventually learn the other things you mentioned. Take note about fees; I think this is the difference between forex and crypto, including the one mentioned above, in that in the forex market it's not always open, unlike crypto. Forex is closed on weekends, but crypto is always open.
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0xAtlasFull Member
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#8Jan 7, 2018, 06:06 PM
There is no big difference between cryptocurrency trading and forex trading except for the assets traded in the respective structures. Both requires discipline from the trader, cause with discipline it helps to chart a course for risk management while minimizing losses. To know that you should not be trading when your not emotionally stable cause it will affect your psychology, it all goes down to DISCIPLINE To know that you shouldn't be greedy by using large leverage above your risk level, keeping to that knowledge still boils down to DISCIPLINE. Every actions of the trader hovers around discipline, by a trader attitude, actions and reactions to the market it reveals how discipline or indiscipline they are.
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w1z4rd100Senior Member
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#9Jan 7, 2018, 10:54 PM
I will always go with discipline. This is the most difficult to master and maintain in trading, even crypto or non-crypto. Even experienced traders with huge capital still lose huge amounts of money, even though they already have great risk management, but why they already been in the market for too long; it is because of discipline. They are consistent in following their trading plans always without their emotions taking over.
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bear_maxiSenior Member
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#10Jan 8, 2018, 04:50 AM
I will first advise that one should discover his own area of competency or interest, after this has been sorted out, try as much as possible to engage yourself in building up a professional competency in such area, understand why crypto trading is more important than forex trading, know their different strategies and also understand the conditions that each type of trade entails, crypto trading is mostly 24/7 unlike the forex trade that ends on weekends and resumes at the start of a new week.
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real_byteSenior Member
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#11Jan 8, 2018, 08:36 AM
It really depends on what kind of trader you are in order to take advantage of the similarities. If you prefer trading low volatility and high liquidity, then forex is probably your go-to, but if you prefer higher volatility (and with some cryptocurrencies, low liquidity) then crypto is what you would want to trade. You can do market analysis on either or both. Crypto is more about emotional speculation though, especially if you do not view crypto as Bitcoin but rather all the altcoins and shitcoins, including NFT's and so on. That being said, I would put Bitcoin in it's own group and not put it together with crypto. Basically cryptocurrency = crypto+ Bitcoin.
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vault_nodeFull Member
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#12Jan 8, 2018, 02:05 PM
I think this boils down to the qualities of a trader that are expected to do them good in the long term, they include patience and discipline. Only those who possess these qualities will time the traders properly and not fall for the wrong steps. There are people who trade and lose everyday and there are traders who trade sometimes and are often in net profit. Keeping yourself limited to spot trading is also another thing that prevents huge losses from happening. Both forex and crypto deal with currencies, both are speculative markets. How we deal with the basics of trading a speculative market matter.
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WildBearSenior Member
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#13Jan 8, 2018, 07:36 PM
Risk management for me still just as you've said. Because it comes with a lot of things, your limit of how much you'll trade and how much you're going to put the stop loss and the profit that you'll be taking. Having that covers almost everything for the purpose of why we're trading. If you're so good at risk management, you'll minimize the risk and then content with what you'll earn.
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paulyieldSenior Member
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#14Jan 8, 2018, 10:42 PM
Knowing that forex and crypto is similar but different is important. Using high leverage in forex is normal because market doesn't swing too often but if you used the same behaviour in crypto trading, the market going to teach you lesson about respecting wide swing that crypto has. In a nutshell, high leverage trading in forex = pretty normal, high leverage trading in crypto = you are asking to be hunted by market makers. The market of crypto beside the top 3 aren't big enough for your leverage trades to be safe.
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p1x3l365Senior Member
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#15Jan 9, 2018, 09:10 AM
Are you for real? So you're obviously and naturally dislike me over my decision if I goes for all of them options? Well as long as the financial market trading is concerned, they're all shares similarities in risk bearing and psychological behaviors. Difference lies on the market behaviours that requires its strategies of studying the market movement before you take your decisions at what certain point you're predicting the market to settle depending the market direction of your prediction. And perhaps their market driving speculation forces differs. So on the volume of their volatilities and market driving forces differs too.
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g452015Full Member
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#16Jan 9, 2018, 02:25 PM
I don't know why you have been campaigning for people not to use a stop lose but you need to have a solid reasons before I will agree with you. I hope you don't become one of the victims of traders that have lost huge amounts of money because they never used stop loss. It also depends on the kind of trader that you are. If you are a scalper or day trader, I can agree with you on a liitle ground but hope you don't find yourself in situations where you may regret why you never use a stoploss.
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#17Jan 9, 2018, 06:00 PM
This is true, but what about TradeFi? It is called traditional finance form a reason, but it is traded on crypto exchanges and they are closing one hour daily and during weekends exactly like forex, commodities and stock markets. They are traditional finance, but traded on crypto exchanges.
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p1x3l365Senior Member
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#18Jan 9, 2018, 09:45 PM
With a biggest similarity between forex market and cryptocurrency market like high leverage and liquidation risk, traders in both markets must be very careful with their capital, leveraged used and how they manage their positions to avoid market liquidations. With traders, they commonly are affected a lot by emotion from greed, uncertain to fear, so they must use something as tools and weapons for managing their positions and capital. Weapons like stop loss order and stop limit orders can help them closing their trading positions automatically, without emotional delay. One of the best weapons in trading.
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LuckyAltSenior Member
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#19Jan 10, 2018, 02:38 AM
Risk management is the most important of all because limiting your losses will give you a better chance to stay in the game for long and gain good knowledge about other aspects of trading. Some people open a position without understanding the market and they will end up losing. You should only open a position when you understand the market to avoid unnecessary losses.
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coin_sigmaLegendary
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#20Jan 10, 2018, 10:29 PM
I never heard of TradeFi by searching this term; it looks like a DeFi decentralized exchange that has stocks and commodities, including crypto. Can forex, stocks, and commodities be traded there even on weekends? It looks interesting; I might check this site and do deep research about it.
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