How to trade cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrency trading steps
The cryptocurrency market can be daunting for beginners and seasoned traders alike due to the vast amount of jargon and processes involved. We’ve broken it down into six simple steps to help you better understand the cryptocurrency market and how to trade it:

Decide how you’d like to trade cryptocurrencies
Learn how the cryptocurrency market works
Open an account
Build a trading plan
Choose your cryptocurrency trading platform
Open, monitor and close your first position

As per a recent news report, over 10 crore Indians own cryptocurrencies. The number, in all likelihood, may go even higher during this festive season.

However, similar to trading in equities and commodities, crypto trading is fraught with risks and pitfalls. In order to get long term benefits from crypto trading, market enthusiasts need to develop strategies that can make trading fun and safe at the same time. Let us start by going through strategies that can help you get favourable returns.

Day trading
This trading strategy involves taking positions and exiting on the same day. The aim of a trader while adopting such a trade is to book profits amid intraday price movements in a cryptocurrency of his choice. For a successful trade, investors often rely on technical indicators to figure out entry and exit points for particular crypto.

Range trading
Market players also rely on experienced analysts, who give out support and resistance levels each day. ‘Resistance’ refers to the point up to which the price may rise and therefore a resistance level is a price above the current price. In contrast, ‘Support’ is a level below which a crypto price is not supposed to fall, hence a support level is always below the current price.

Scalping
This trading strategy involves using increased trading volumes to book profit. Although there is risk involved, a smart trader takes care of the margin requirement and other important rules to avoid bad trading experiences. Scalpers analyse the crypto asset, past trends, volumes and choose an entry and exit point within a day.