Category: 4. Simple trading strategies

If you satisfy yourself that you are comfortable with a passive long term investment decision based on Fundamental Analysis, you still have to decide on a price entry point. If your analysis suggests significant long term gains, then you may feel that the marginal gain from establishing an optimum entry point isn’t worth the consideration.…

Cost Averaging is an excellent first step into investing in cryptocurrency, which can gradually lead into trading type decisions. It does however, have a few downsides. It takes a significant time to build a position and you will never benefit from investing at the bottom of the market. If you decide you want to wait…

Once you’ve established a routine of Cost Averaging, becoming comfortable with the mechanics and record-keeping, one option is to segue into trading by using technical indicators to adjust your regular investments.  Your goal should be to adjust your allocation down during periods when the market is overbought and the reverse when the market is oversold.…

To add some yield to your Cost Averaging investment, you can combine it with a service that pays interest. This can be either Soft Staking – with no commitment – or Hard Staking, where you get higher returns but funds are locked up for a minimum period. This isn’t risk free, as the providers of…

We’ve written elsewhere about Cost Averaging in our section on how to earn crypto. Cost Averaging – sometimes called Dollar Cost Averaging – simply refers to making equally sized, regularly recurring trades, instead of one lump sum. The attraction of cost averaging is that it can help mitigate concerns around volatility and choosing an entry…

It may seem like a silly question, but a crucial part of trading and investing decision making is having a clear idea of why you are doing it. Making money isn’t a specific enough answer. To start with there are other things you can do with your money to derive a return, so what you…

How much time you spend in thinking about trading will of course be relative to how much money you want to invest. Before thinking about allocation, you should always follow these golden rules: Never invest money you cannot afford to lose Don’t invest using a credit card or debt such as student loans or re-mortgaging…

Everyone will be familiar with the phrase ‘practice makes perfect’. The celebrated author, Malcolm Gladwell, popularised the idea that mastering a skill takes 10,000 hours of practice, along with innate skill.  Though Gladwell’s idea has been challenged, there is a definite correlation between time and success in trading cryptocurrency. You have to commit the time…

What you’ll learn : The Importance of time Allocating discretionary income Have a clear objective Cost Averaging as trading strategy Learn crypto’s section on how to trade cryptocurrency provides a basic foundation for anyone new to the subject. Trading is about trying to quantify and manage risk. Cryptocurrency markets are inherently risky because they are…