How to Trade Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrencies – A Step-by-Step Strategy
After being inundated with requests on how to trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, we came up with the practical, step-by-step strategy on this video.
See end of description for direct links to charting and other tools.
To HODL or to Trade? That is the Question!
Before learning about trading altcoins for profit, you should know that to hold a coin or “HODL” (as crypto fans like to say) doesn't mean that you're trading. Trading is systematic and requires a specific strategy of when to buy/sell, and how to mitigate risk.
We sat down with our money manager, a FOREX trader who has been trading multiple markets (futures, stocks, FX, etc.) for decades to put together a simple but effective step-by-step strategy to jump-start your crypto trading experience.
So you want to get into trading?
Forex trading is the act of buying and selling currencies on the foreign exchange market. This market determines the foreign exchange rate, which is the price of one currency in terms of another. Trading allows individuals to speculate on the exchange rate of currency pairs and make a profit from it. For example, if you think the euro is going to strengthen against the US dollar, you can buy EUR/USD. If the euro strengthens, you can sell it for a profit.
However, before you start forex trading, it's important to have a good understanding of the market and the risks involved. Here are some things you should study before you start trading forex:
The basics of forex trading: This includes understanding how the forex market works, the different currency pairs that are available for trading, and the factors that can affect exchange rates.
The risks and potential rewards of forex trading: Forex trading involves significant risk, and it's important to understand the potential rewards as well as the risks before you start trading.
Trading strategies: There are many different trading strategies that traders use to try to make a profit in the forex market. It's important to understand the different strategies and how to apply them to your trading.
Money management: Proper money management is crucial for success in forex trading. This includes understanding how to manage your risk and your account balance to protect yourself from potential losses.
Trading psychology: Forex trading can be emotionally challenging, and it's important to have a good understanding of trading psychology to help you stay disciplined and avoid making emotional decisions.
In addition to studying these topics, it's also a good idea to practice trading with a demo account before risking any real money. This will give you a chance to learn the ropes and test out your trading strategies in a risk-free environment using different trading indicators that traders use to help them make decisions about their trades. Some of the most popular indicators include moving averages, relative strength index (RSI), and the average directional index (ADX).
Moving averages: A moving average is a trend-following indicator that smooths out price action by filtering out noise and random price fluctuations. It shows the average price of a chart over a specific period of time. Moving averages are commonly used to identify the direction of the trend and can be used to generate buy and sell signals.
Relative strength index (RSI): The RSI is a momentum indicator that measures the magnitude of recent price changes to evaluate overbought or oversold conditions in the market. It compares the magnitude of recent gains to recent losses to determine whether a security is overbought or oversold.
Average directional index (ADX): The ADX is a trend-strength indicator that measures the strength of a trend based on the highs and lows of the security over a specific period of time. It can be used to determine the trend's strength and whether it is likely to continue.
To get started with forex trading, you'll need to open a trading account with a brokerage that offers forex trading services. Once you have an account, you can start trading by buying and selling currency pairs.
When choosing a forex broker, it's important to choose a reputable and trustworthy broker. Here are some key signs of a reputable forex broker:
Regulation: A reputable forex broker will be regulated by a government agency, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States or the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the United Kingdom. This means that the broker is subject to strict rules and oversight, which can help protect you as a trader.
Transparent fees: They will be transparent about their fees and charges, and will not have any hidden fees or charges that can eat into your profits.
Good customer service: A reputable forex broker will have good customer service, and will be available to answer your questions and address any concerns you may have.
Positive online reviews: You can often learn a lot about a forex broker by reading online reviews from other traders. Look for brokers with a large number of positive reviews from satisfied customers.
Security: A reputable forex broker will take measures to protect your account and personal information from being hacked or stolen. Look for brokers that use secure technology, such as encryption, to protect your data.
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What is the best cryptocurrency to mine? Should you be mining Zcash, Bitcoin Gold, Vercoin? I will use our NVIDIA 1080 Ti GPU crypto miner on this video to show you how we do it!
Our mining hardware actually includes three of the EVGA GTX 1080 Ti video cards, which gives us a good hashrate and low temperatures when overclocked. Even though it cannot be used to mine Bitcoin, it is perfect for alcoin mining [and might be appropriate to mine Bitcoin Gold (BTG) soon].
We start off by going to the What to Mine website and specifying our hardware (three 1080 Ti's) and power consumption (in kWh) to determine our hashrates based on different mining algorithms and coins.
For a while, we were mining Zcash (ZEC) because it was the most profitable crypto to mine for the Nvidia cards. But on the day of this example, we used the Lyra 2 Revision 2 algorithm (Lyra2REv2) to mine Monacoin (MONA).
On the What to Mine tab mining profitability table, we see Monacoin as the top earner ($7.40 assuming a Kilowatt-Hour figure of $0.10, as of October 25th, the day this video was recorded), then Vertcoin (VTC), both coins being on the Lyra2 Revision 2 algorithm. After that, there's Zencash (ZEN) and Zcash, which are both on the Equihash algorithm. The Equihash algorithm also includes Zclassic (ZCL), Hush (HUSH), and Komodo (KMD). Monacoin is a big player in Japan, which legalized cyptocurrencies in brick-and-mortar stores, and provided access to Bitcoin ATMs, where you can withdraw fiat (paper currency) for your cryptos.
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Wondering how to mine the recently launched Bitcoin Gold cryptocurrency? Today I will share with you my experience and how you can do it.
Bitcoin Gold, a recent fork off from the primary Bitcoin chain, has changed the way crypto miners look at Bitcoin by introducing its first fork in the history of the crypto world that puts the power to mine in the hands of those without access to dedicated ASIC mining rigs. Mining Bitcoin Gold is supposed to be on GPUs (like Nvidia or AMD).
Mined on the Equihash algorithm, Bitcoin Gold is a breakthrough much awaited in the crypto community, as it brings the ability to hash a currency which has historically been cornered by a deeply saturated ASIC market.
We’ll be walking you through everything from where to find the software required to begin mining Bitcoin Gold, all the way out to setting up your configuration files and getting the mining process started. One of the major things brought to the table by this innovative fork is that it truly brings back the concept of decentralization that cryptocurrencies are built around by taking the power from ASIC driven mega farms and putting it back in the hands of everyday enthusiasts and miners.
While there are a number of approved pools available directly through the Bitcoin Gold developer resources, we have found the simplest possible route to get you from an inactive underused GPU to hashing away at a currency based on the source code of the most globally known crypto to date.
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Trading cryptocurrency on charts is a mistake! Yes, you heard that right. Without the order book information I will discuss on this video, as well as other important basics, reading charts to trade on crypto exchanges like Bittrex becomes a waste of time AND money!
Installation of Chrome Extension for Enhanced Charts
Before diving into some of basic information that's essential to trade on cryptocurrency exchanges (specifically Bittrex for this video) and looking at examples with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin, you should download the Bittrex Enhanced Chrome extension (URL at bottom of description). The enhanced Tradingview charting tools that the extension provides are far more useful than the overly simplistic set provided by Bittrex. The resulting color coded bars and candles make the charts much easier for beginners to interpret and understand.
Common Mistake Beginners Make When Trading Cryptos
One of the biggest and most common mistakes made made by new crypto traders is taking the prices on charts literally. If you learn something from this tutorial, learn this: DO NOT TRADE PURELY OFF THE CHARTS!
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Whats up fellow Crypto-heads and Blockchain enthusiasts! Today’s Two Minute Token talk will be on one of the OG privacy coins, CloakCoin!
Another coin from the pre-ico era (can you tell we’re a fan of established projects yet?) CloakCoin encrypted its first block back in June of 2014 with an opening price of around eighteen cents a share. With a Market cap of around twenty million USD and a global ranking of 302, CloakCoin is currently trading between $3.50 and $4.00 a share. Of course the two major draws to Cloakcoin are their grade A privacy and their extremely early entrance into the proof of stake environment.
Hopefully you fellow crypto fanatics found this quick look at CloakCoin helpful! And remember to tune back in for our upcoming dive into Cloak where we take a deeper look at the Staking ecosystem and its privacy features!
If you have a coin you'd like to learn about, an aspect of a certain project you'd like discussed, or even an entire point of comparison you think we should add to our coin tutorials, let us know in the comments!
Use the links below to access some useful tools in the crypto space.
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ALERT! Since the recording of this video, prices for Bitcoin Cash (BTC) vs Bitcoin (BTC) have exploded in different directions! Watch the entire video for our important price prediction.
After a year long surge, the Bitcoin community has hit a tumultuous time. In the wake of the community’s inability to reach a consensus on SegWit2x, BTC's price drops over 20% in a matter of hours. We’ll be taking a look at the driving factors behind Bitcoin's sudden drop, and why Bitcoin Cash appears to be picking up the slack.
Our analysis begins with coverage of the SegWit2x debate over increasing the Bitcoin block size from a 1 MB to a 8 MB limit in order to decrease transaction times and ease the increasingly heavy load felt by Bitcoin miners throughout the community. We’ll also be taking a look at the troubling issue of the ever increasing transaction fees, burdening the crypto community as a whole.
Along with the faults of the current Bitcoin system we’ll discuss the advantages of Bitcoin Cash’s modified code. Factors such as an already present 8 MB limiter and the incredibly important issue of EDA (Emergency Difficulty Adjustment) will be also be addressed. As with any situation though, there are two sides to the coin, and we will also be digging into the issue of increased mining difficulty and node size, and how these issues can push smaller players out of the picture. This in turn can push us further and further away from the cryptocurrency market goal of truly decentralized peer distribution.
To finish off, I’ve teamed up with a Forex guru to come up with an important Bitcoin vs Bitcoin Cash price prediction study, especially what BTC (Bitcoin) and BCH (Bitcoin Cash) have in store for us in the coming weeks. Due to this volatile market, we have seen significant short-term price changes materialize since this video was recorded (11/11/2017). This has actually proven very helpful, as some of the provided predictions have actually taken place.
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Hardware wallets, they seem to be a dime a dozen these days... But the team over at Safepal may have just flipped that script. Today im going to be getting down and dirty with the Safepal S1 hardware wallet; the first device backed by Binance themselves via their Binance Labs incubator. And with that backing came on of the most innovative ideas Ive seen in quite some time; private, anonymous, and secure transacting directly through a dex via your hardware wallet.
We'll be taking a look at the device, showing you guys some basic tools you'll need to get the device running, and dive in there to check out that DEX integration. Along with our usual content we also threw in a little easter egg for our followers! If you happen to track down the 12th and final seed word during the video you can claim the coins on the wallet! Be swift though, times ticking and its first come first serve!
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Coming at you guys with another two minute token talk, and today we'll be going over the essentials of the DigiByte (DGB) project!
As a crypto from the pre-ico era that managed to campaign its way to the top 100 in market cap, DigiByte truly stands out as a project that has proven it's here to produce a extremely scalable and working product. Aimed at being a truly "daily use" payment option capable of low fee micro-transactions, DigiByte is a relatively low priced coin in comparison to similarly ranked crypto currencies. This is of course offset by the massive 21 billion coin supply cap. Another defining factor about DigiByte is their scalability, boasting a supposed transaction processing capability of 27,500 transactions per second!
*** Since this video was filmed, DGB has been making some major moves and has bullied its way up to $0.047 USD, raking in a half billion dollar market capitalization and shooting up to spot #32 in the global rankings!!!
Hopefully you fellow crypto fanatics found this quick look at DigiByte insightful!
If you have a coin you'd like to learn about, an aspect of a certain project you'd like discussed, or even an entire point of comparison you think we should add to our coin tutorials, let us know in the comments!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0VI8rbv59c