Guys, almost nobody is a "professional trader", there is a reason if 90% of the people doing trading loses money. Let's just take a look at the big hedge funds, they're supposed to have the best traders, the best tools, the best info, and yet normally a passive strategy obtains better results. Making money or living off trading is something that almost nobody can do. I prefer to keep things simple, DCA is the safest way if you're in for the long run.

Hmm, good to discuss it more 😃
In my opinion, if a person understands technical Analysis from the trading point of view and has a full understanding of all these aspects, it is an essential stance for trading. So I think that there is no problem for him to trade or accumulate Bitcoin Bitcoin. Well Now from another perspective, I think that if a person is not a pro trader, then trading in altcoin will be best for him while in the Bitcoin There is only one best strategy and that is DCA, which is the best idea and act to accumulate Bitcoin compared to trading in Bitcoin if you don't have too much experience in Trading. The rest of my opinion is not final, all members should do their own research and take a decision accordingly.

DYOR!

First of all I do not think that you are sure that a lot of people's confusion on bitcoin is whether to trade it or not. There are other confusing things about bitcoins, There are many people who are confused about how to accumulate bitcoins, when to accumulate bitcoins and why to accumulates bitcoins.

 The concept of the how, when and why are still not understood, so accumulating bitcoins is still a vague exercise for them.

Both.

One must write a business plan first then stick to it. Remove emotion from the equation.

Just like gambling people get wrapped up in emotions and make the exact same crappy decisions.


Just like Chris Rock says "there is no sex in the champagne room"

Accumulation is better and that is what every one that has your best interests at hand will tell you, trading isn't as successful as it seems. Trading is not what everyone should be doing especially those that don't have a trading background before coming to this industry. Don't think you can always outsmart the market because you can't. You'll lose when trading and sometimes this might be everything that you have as you won't be able to control your emotions and be practicing revenge trading to win back your earlier losses. Trading puts your Bitcoin at risk but hodling doesn't which makes it better because when hodling what's important is how well you store your Bitcoin and keep your private key safe as well and off the reach of hackers/scammers.


There are actually big time traders that are killing it in the market and we'll always have new traders that will be successful but a majority aren't so you shouldn't think that the industry is very lucrative. For every one winner there are countless others that are losing but they won't come on social media to make announcement of their lost but only when they profit to draw attention to themselves. Accumulate bitcoin through dollars cost average and you will eventually get to the numbers of Bitcoin that you want to hodl and make profits without the stress of trading.

Even if you spend all your time in the market and start trading, there is no guarantee that you will make a profit from trading. Trading is not simple and it is not for the masses either. The fact that you spend a lot of time on it only ensures that you will have better knowledge but cannot guarantee that you will definitely make a profit. Knowledge is not too difficult to acquire, but applying it and making a profit depends on your talent and effort.
For me, being able to win in trading requires not only experience and knowledge, sometimes it also requires one's talent and that is why there are not too many successful traders on the market.

 I disagree with you Mate. There are professional not just professional but, professional profitable Traders who live and finance there daily needs through trading, discard such mentality mate and your fact of 90%. Hedge funds run on a different system as they profit meeting up there set yearly goals, don’t give a point about what you don’t know and I doubt you understand anything about Trading.

Trading isn’t a sustainable approach to Bitcoin as it would yield no good results apart from you profiting off your trades whereas Accumulating and Holding with a plan yields good results as you build a Bitcoin portfolio overtime and your value keep increasing. I don’t see any need to trade bitcoin when you can accumulate and have your own Bitcoin with same money you wanna risk in trading.

Bitcoin is a valuable asset not a Tradable coin to make profit off.

Many were trading Bitcoin while others were accumulating more, the Holders are smiling because value increase and is increasing.

Long-term holders make bigger profits than traders because that's what I experienced a few years ago, trading daily making around $200-$300/day for 30 days on the BTC-Altcoin pair when BTC was bullish which Altcoin gained influence because of that but slowly the market started bearish and have to cut losses, and if I save capital at that time around 1=1.5 Bitcoin then the profit is more attractive in the long term, isn't it?, unfortunately more people like daily profits rather than patiently waiting for years before enjoying the results of the increase in Bitcoin prices, and if someone has known Bitcoin for more than 10 years but still chooses to trade, it could be because he can make money from it because many traders cannot survive in trading.

Don't get confused OP why did the majority choose to invest in Bitcoin rather than trading, it is because trading is too risky, stressful, and can't assure a profit. Unlike investing and holding, as long as you are buying low and selling high, profit is certain. But in trading, committing mistakes will end in tragic losses.

So OP, if you think about less stress better see buying Bitcoin suits you well but if you are really a risk-taker, you can try trading.
Or, you can take both as long as you can manage yourself well but if not, better focus on the option that has interest. Never mind those people who said this is the best option as they also have different preferences in life.

In both trading and investing, if you buy low, sell high, you get profit. If you can do it, you will have good trading and investing ROI.

The bottom line for biggest difference and challenge between trading and investing is psychology.

With trading, you get more psychological challenge from market price movements, news, fud that can force you to do bad trading decisions. With investing, you will less likely be affected psychologically because you have good knowledge, strong belief to hold you bitcoin. You won't get loss if you don't sell your bitcoin and fortunately Bitcoin recovers with time and makes new all time highs with new bull runs, historically so far.