Most traders unfortunately do poorly. Too much leverage. Stops too tight. Fear of lossing. Trading against the trend. Too many edgeless tools. Guru fixation. Trade like retail and will lose like retail.
Things I'd recommend to traders until becoming consistently profitable:
- eliminate leverage
- use only very wide stops
- reduce size accordingly
- never go all in
- focus on 1-4 assets
- eliminate indicators aside of volume and maybe 1/2 MAs
- trade only with the larger trend
Could make that list longer, but that's the core.
I am certain whoever does that will do well for the following few years, as odds are markets will trend higher.
A great thing about crypto in particular is that being so volatile, one can do extremely well even without leverage.
Can think of trading as driving a car. Need to know how to drive on the streets before going on the freeway. Need to be able to drive safely at 60mph before speeding up to 120mph. Shouldn't drive at 120mph if unable to avoid crashing at low speeds.
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#1 wait for bitcoin price to go up a lot
#2 feel FOMO
#3 look at underperforming assets for something to buy
#4 ignore that price is going down for a reason
#5 buy some garbage
#6 then bitcoin corrects and garbage drops even more
Always the same.
This is how pros do it:
#1 identify winners
#2 wait patiently for a correction
#3 buy the winners whenever a correction comes
#4 weather the storm
#5 see prices go up and profit
Not difficult. Just need to be patient and wait for the opportunities.
That applies to technical trading whenever the trader has no fundamental/informational edge. In those cases, best to focus on buying the winners on corrections and exercise patience. Corrections always come. Regularly.
If you think long-only traditional asset managers are buying bitcoin to dump it after a short period of time
you deserve to be poor.
Keep on drawing lines in your charts, and enjoy the ramen.
There are mainly four kinds of institutional market participants:
- real money, i.e. traditional asset managers
- fast money, i.e. hedge funds, CTAs
- banks
- central banks, sovereign wealth funds & supranationals
Then you have family offices, and corporate treasuries.
Real money includes pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds and endowments. Unlike fast money, real money is usually long only and has extended holding periods. Fast money may dump on you. Real money may do so indirectly as it rebalances exposure.
I can say the same thing about Cronje. I have been outspoken in the past about things he did wrong, but I cannot understate how much he has done right.
This has been my view on gold since November 9 and the Pfizer vaccine news. I'm long - added to my longer term position today. Expect market to soon start trading increased Fed easing to come on December 16, driving the dollar lower. Also longed silver. Same analysis applies.
This is a big picture play, with stops 8% lower => outside the noise. More likely to exit if the macro changes and proves me wrong than hitting that stop. I don't expect either, but always possible.
No, not going to advertise moving all my liquid net worth into bitcoin, like some do for engagement. I'm already balls deep into bitcoin & crypto, been so for a long time. I generally handle crypto positions independently from crypto.