Another Day in the Red

in steem •  6 years ago 

Hey guys! Keeping this post short as I gotta go sleep soon.

A sea of red

Today was a bloodbath in the cryptocurrency markets... almost every coin in the top 100 was red today with most of them falling double digit percentages. This was not something I wanted to see but something I was kinda expecting.

Markets too good lately

The markets had been way too good lately. I have been very tempted to sell ever since Steem hit over $1 again, but we have so much potential and development happening I simply couldn't let myself sell Steem so close to its most recent lows. Greed got the better of me and I didn't listen to my own advice :(

I swear we never learn to take profits whenever we can! Remember, if you're up 10-20% on your investment, take a small bit of profit. That way if it keeps climbing, you've got more and if it happens to drop, you have more to put back in!

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There are a couple of typologies in these times, depending on how much time free time you have:

  1. Investors - who don't bother of every 5 minutes price change
  2. Swing traders - who are trading the momentum change
  3. Traders - who trade opportunities
  4. Day traders - who have no life/job
  5. FOMO and FUD noobs, who try to do all of them, but ROI in time/gains are deceptive
    For example, if you day-traded in the bull run, you may have made some gains, but if you acted like an investor, you could have gained more, and not wasted that much time.

with steem either you are ready to sell or you already vested your Steem and need to wait a week. You should value your Time too. Because if you keep flipping the coins with 10% profit and it goes up you will fomo in and loose even more. If you happen to be a trader, YES DEFINITELY but if not and you are a normal Investor you should see the bigger picture and wait accordingly. A Strategy is only good when you respect it. :D

Great comment! I have a large amount of Steem here vested as SP, but I also have some Steem on Binance that I trade with! Back when I traded a lot, I was consistently making 20-30 Steem per day from trading (if I decided to trade while studying), some days I had some losses and other days massive wins, but overall I made about 650 Steem in about a month, of which I probably traded on 20-25% of the days.

I mainly swing trade now since I don't have enough time to look at my laptop since university is getting quite time-consuming.

Despite this, I still don't see myself as a trader. I tried leveraged trading before with a small amount of money and my shorts/longs were rarely well-timed.

Its awosome

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