Volatility is a big one. If you took the S&P 500 index and we've got decades of history, you compress that by about seven because the cycles are much quicker in crypto, and we go through bulls and bears like they're going out of fashion. Thus, you take the S&P...
Unless you are a systematic trader, the answer is mostly going to be my investment thesis is probably pretty shaky if you're truly honest with yourself. If you've just bought Bitcoin and you're a Bitcoin believer and holding forever, maybe that's a little different....
Stock and Crypto traders lose money for a whole bunch of reasons. In crypto, one of the biggest things is we don't know who the winners are yet. There have been some winners to date. However, if you buy a selection of coins or tokens, most of them will probably be...
There are a couple of things that will undoubtedly change. The first one is that more institutional money will come in, which means very different styles of participants. Right now, many participants are people on their iPhones with $1000 in their account going with...
There's a whole range of reasons. First, there's a huge profit opportunity for informed traders if you look at what the market participants are doing. Masses of uninformed and completely new traders who have never traded anything before are flooding into the crypto...
The first thing to notice in the chart of Bitcoin over the last several years is that the bull markets are very fast and sharp. They don't last that long, but they are exponential, and the market skyrockets. But after the bull market is finished, there's typically a...
There's are different types of risks to consider which is catastrophic risk, system risk, and a position risk. The regulation space is evolving rapidly and what you can trade in one country from one month to the next can change. The future of particular tokens or...
The first and most obvious is a broad-based adherence to buy and hold. This idea is very popular in crypto, that if you buy and hold, you'll be a billionaire or be rich. That might be true if you happen to choose the right tokens. That might also be true if you just...
Is Crypto DCA a really sensible crypto trading strategy? There are countless influencers encouraging listeners to Dollar Cost Average their crypto investments and never sell, but is it really sound advice or could it send you broke? Generally speaking, as a retail...
Look, I think the biggest challenge that I faced in my trading journey is really just understanding my own psychology and learning about myself as a trader and what I need. I mean, I read a lot of books about different styles of trading and in the early days I was...