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CEX: What’s a Centralised Crypto Exchange?
A centralized crypto exchange is a platform that helps people to buy, sell or swap digital assets using fiat currencies and other cryptocurrencies. Simply put, it’s where you go to have someone help you exchange one type of currency – fiat money or cryptocurrency – for another. The term centralised itself is seldom actually used to describe…
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What are the risks of using a decentralised exchange (DEX) vs a centralised exchange (CEX)?
Crypto exchanges like Coinbase, Binance and other major crypto-based companies have led cryptocurrencies into mainstream consciousness over the past decade. These centralised exchanges are also the most common way people buy their first digital assets. However, decentralized trading platforms like Uniswap have emerged as a more transparent and accessible alternative to trading crypto. In this…
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Subjective Elements of a Trading Journal
The subjective analysis of your trades can be in an annotation form, and record things like how you well feeling, and how much sleep you got the previous night, to notes about things you feel you got wrong and trading skills you should spend time learning about or improving. When you are at the point…
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What is a Trading Journal?
A Trading Journal is both an objective record of your trading decisions (numbers & dates) as well as a subjective record of why you made them and how they panned out. If you are serious about cryptocurrency trading you must be willing to keep a Trading Journal that is entirely honest. It is too easy…
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Day/Swing Trading
Within traditional stock markets Day Trading relates to trading within the specific hours that markets open and close. Of course crypto markets never close, they trade 24/7/365, so the concept of Day Trading really means someone who is actively trading the markets on a day-to-day basis, opening short term positions, based on Technical Analysis of…
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Momentum/Position Trading
Another crypto trading strategy that is suitable for someone who is just getting started, and may lack the technical understanding and time commitment, is Momentum Trading – also known as Position Trading. Momentum Trading is essentially a more sophisticated version of hodling. A hodler will buy and hold – that is it. Momentum or Position Trading will be…
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News/Information Based Crypto Trading
Though the market capitalisation of all cryptocurrencies is approaching $2trillion, the industry is still very immature. Much of that $2trillion is perceived future value rather than projects or businesses generating revenue today. Perceptions shift on news so the crypto market is heavily influenced by information as it emerges and is interpreted. The crudest example is…
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Active trading strategies
What you’ll learn News & Information based trading Momentum/Position Trading Day/Swing Trading How to use a Trading Journal Trading crypto comes down to managing risk. Learn Crypto has dedicated seven previous articles to explaining why trading crypto is risky, with the previous article – looking at simple crypto trading strategies – underlining the importance of matching your…
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Lump Sum Hodling Combining Fundamental & Technical Analysis
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.…
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Lump Sum Hodling Using Fundamental Analysis
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…
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