Spot Trading vs Margin Trading Pros and ConsSpot Trading is the most basic form of trading method and is the most suitable for beginners in trading. It's simply a BUY > HOLD > SELL mechanism.
On the Other Hand
Margin Trading is complicated and should only be done by experienced traders. There are various components to margin trading such as Maintenance margin, margin calls, leverage, and liquidation.
Pros and cons of Spot Trading
👉Spot trading is easy to learn and understand and is a good starting point for beginners in Trading.
👉It's an easy process to manage risk in spot trading not taking all the complications of liquidation or margin calls.
👉You can hold an asset for a much longer time and in the case of cryptocurrency can also transfer to any cold wallet.
👉No Trading happens during downtrends.
👉The potentials gains are not very good on a smaller investment amount.
Pros and cons of Margin Trading
👉Margin Trading needs some advanced knowledge of various things such as margin calls, liquidation, leverage, etc. Hence it's not recommended for new traders.
👉You can make profits on both uptrends(by going LONG) and downtrends(by going SHORT).
👉Gives an ability to trade much larger amounts with a relatively small initial investment by using leverage.
👉Margin Trading is risky, and if not done properly can blow your account in a very short time span.
👉Profits are higher when utilizing margin trading, and so are the losses. Every exchange has its own rules for margin trading, which need to be understood carefully before investing.
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Bollinger Bands. An imperfect strategy for an imperfect world.I have seen and tested many strategies in my trading history but I have yet to find anything that can guarantee a 50% or higher win rate (And that 50% rate is before fees and taxes!). Bollinger bands do not provide a competitive edge, but rather, provide something more important to a retail trader. Clarity.
Bollinger bands are based on the standard deviation of the price of an asset at the current point. Standard deviation (std dev) is based on normal distribution. If you dont know what this is, thats okay. All you need to know is after 3 std dev 99.7% of prices are included. This can be used as an imperfect probability metric as only 0.3% of price points over the last 200 days lay outside of the green bollinger band shown above.
Regardless of biases, news and other such factors, bollinger bands can be used to guage whether a liquid asset is cheap or expensive.
As seen on the graph above, everybody's favourite asset (BTCUSD) can be traded with this simple 200 day bollinger (3) and (4) on daily price metrics. However, don't use indicators as a ground rule for strategies. Low liquidity assets and small timeframes significantly reduce the effectiveness of bollinger bands. Furthermore, I would not use bollingers for shorting or leveraged positions as the price has no obligation to obey its standard deviation metrics.
I recommend using bollingers on a spot position of liquid assets as displayed in the above graph. (Notice "position" not "Whole account" as all strategies should be)
