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      "body": "Hello All,\n\nI have been asked lately regarding crypto trading and how it is done. A lot of people link trading to currency trading, USD/EURO, etc…and when we say crypto trading, they think they will be buying Bitcoin on a lower USD price and then sell it at a higher price. While this is viable and can be done on some platforms, such as eToro, however, one thing to note is that in such trading method/platforms, you are only trading against the price. So if you bought BTC/USD and bitcoin price went higher, you win, if it got lower you lose money. However, you are not owning any Bitcoin here, you are simply trading against a price. There is no BTC wallet on eToro where you own the coin and can transfer it to other wallets on other exchanges or other locations.\n\nThe purpose of this article is to discuss how to trade crypto on an exchange, while actually owning the coins and having flexibility to do anything with them (Buy, Sell, Transfer, Exchange with other coins).\n\nTo be able to do good trading, you need to do your homework:\n-\tFollow social media about news related to your target coin – Twitter is your friend here, because it is the quickest and you get the update fresh as soon as it is out there (Speed is important here, outdated news are already used by others and market price already reflects that. Each minute counts so follow the right resources and activate notification settings for critical ones)\n-\tFollow the price of your target coin – Blockfolio app is a good one on your mobile. 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If today bitcoin is worth today 4000$ and coin X is worth 1.1$, you might think that you did 10% gain, which is true if you look at your USD investment vs profit, however, if you look at your Bitcoins, the 1 BTC that you had before and traded for 3000 Coins X, are now worth 0.825 BTC and hence you have less Bitcoins that what you used to have.\n\nBased on the above your aim would be the following:\n-\tGet the right news at the right time to buy the right coin that will make higher gains compared to BTC, in a way that if you buy the coin now using BTC and sell it later to BTC, the total amount of BTC you achieve would be higher than what you initially invested\n\nLet me elaborate in a real example.\n\nYesterday night, while going to bed, I received an notification on Twitter stating the following “OMG will be added to Binance Exchange tomorrow”. This message shown below was received from a Crypto guy that I was following it on Twitter. What does it mean? When a new coin is created, it is initially available on very few crypto exchanges, however, with time, and when it starts having success and good community, more exchanges start listing it for trading on their platforms. That will give more people/geos/locations/countries to have access to this coin and usually this pushes the price higher.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSijEuwYEPiqtSxXCZLZ8m1S2VFgAV56hDa24yZHuxCNg/image.png)\n\nThank you CryptoRand for the hint/signal by the way.\n\nOf course other types of news can be a sign as well, it is not restricted to the addition of a coin on an exchange:\n-\tNew beta release of a wallet or application\n-\tImportant event\n-\tPartnerships newly established\n-\tNew recruitments / Team members as part of the company\n\n\nSo what did I do when I saw the above Twitter message? \n\nOpened my Blockfolio mobile app and checked the OMG (OmiseGo coin) chart to see if it already did its gain (Maybe the news is old and I just received it).\n\nSaw that the price has been steady around the 2700000 satoshis and didn’t do any major Bull run yet.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYT9zpDuHiqzThtyKiCaiBsZKdwCRnWuGeJiAjqa96aBv/image.png)\n\nWent back to my laptop, opened Bitrex exchange page and Bought 30 x OMG coins at the price of 269090 Satoshis per coin (0.00269090 Bitcoin) and for a total amount paid 0.08092881 BTC (after the 0.25% commission fee).\nWent to sleep after that :)\n\n\nBelow a copy of the buying transaction record:\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUTKMMmRB9ri65grAz5HFq3Cp1fQ8CUJWaobaePQwkvRF/image.png)\n\nWoke up in the morning to found that price surged to 320000 satoshis (0.003200000) and then went down around the 298000 satoshis. This was already around 10% profit based on the price purchased.\n\nSold the 30 OMG coins at that price as show in the below selling transaction record.\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmar4Sa19koGFhL1XjeBsr8qvcCF1XZ29hmP3RnHAxyYm1/image.png)\n\nAnd what is the summary outcome of my trade?\n\nI started with X amount of BTC and was able to make that amount 1.1X through 10.45% Profit out of that transaction as shown in the below detailed record:\n\n![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTXErcY443kByR1jFwBGqQaQxp7H9iJVpUa9xHeRjt5GP/image.png)\n\nSo got the idea of a successful crypto trade?\n\nYou need to invest into altcoins using Bitcoin in a way to grow further your Bitcoins. If you can start with 1 Bitcoin and over time with multiple good transactions transform it to 2 BTC or 3 BTC or 10 BTC that would be the aim.\nForget about the BTC price vs USD or the altcoin price vs USD. Bitcoin will be increasing in price over time. Just look on the long term chart for the past 6 years. 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This creates an environment that is encouraging for more reading and more ideas sharing.\n\nThree weeks back during a friends gathering and while exchanging details about ongoing activities, I didn’t hesitate to share with them my new reading habit. I was very happy to be contacted again few days later by some of them who showed interest in reading wealth management books and needed a recommendation.\n\nNever be reluctant to drive those conversations with your friends. We always recommend to our friends the best experiences, whether a great restaurant that we have visited or a great movie we’ve seen or a fancy resort or night club. We feel as if we are doing them a favor and it is good to do that. The same should be applied to books. Recommend one to a friend and why not get it for him to encourage him reading it, knowing that the information included can be beneficial to him as it was beneficial for you.\n\nHuman beings have a positive curiosity by nature. While driving your 8 years old son to his gymnastics class and you take the book “Getting To Yes, Negotiating agreements without giving in” with you knowing that you have to spend an hour waiting for him. He sees the book and asks, “What does this book teaches Dad?” which initiates a whole discussion about how he should deal with his younger brother and sister during conflicts and how he should try to find some shared interests as part of the solution without forcing things on them so that he can end up reaching a win-win agreement with less tears. It wasn’t that easy at the beginning but after using several examples and continuing the conversation later on at home, he grasped the basics at least. If he wasn’t exposed to that book in the first place, this discussion wouldn’t have happened. Surround your loved ones with positive subjects and hobbies and they will end up wanting to know more about them.\n\nEverybody likes to be knowledgeable. That’s a fact whether you are young or old. It gives you more confidence and makes you look smarter. It allows you to open different conversations with different people with minimal effort. The only issue is that few people are willing to spend the required amount of time and put the needed effort during their life to get that level of knowledge in the first place.\n\nReading gives you as well insights. Reading the book “The 4th Industrial revolution” explains the latest technologies that are just starting out but that will be spreading quickly in the coming 10 or 15 years and will be shaping how the world will actually look like and how they will be impacting the whole mankind. Whether it’s about driver-less cars or artificial intelligence or delivery through the use of drones or digital currency with Bitcoin or smart cities and neuro-technologies this will allow you to open up better discussions with your children and family members and allow them to have more imagination and a wider scope of vision when they understand that these technologies will make things different in the future.\n\nReceived a comment on my first post from a colleague who asked me to add the book list that I have read during the past twelve months. Therefore, I will leave you with some notes from those books while hoping that they will inspire you to grab a book from the nearest bookstore and start your reading journey and share it with others.\n\n\nTalk Like TED: The 9 public speaking secrets of the world’s top minds\n\n- If you can’t inspire anyone else with your ideas, it won’t matter how great those ideas are. Ideas are only as good as the actions that follow the communication of those ideas.\n- Master the art of storytelling. Brain scans reveal that stories stimulate and engage the human brain helping the speaker connect with the audience and making it much more likely that the audience will agree with the speaker’s point of view.\n- Ideas are the currency of the twenty first century and stories facilitate the exchange of that currency. Stories illustrate, illuminate and inspire.\n\n\nDirect from Dell – by Michael Dell\n\n- Our success is due, in part, to not just our ability but a willingness to look at things differently.\n- Seeing and seizing opportunities are skills that can be applied universally, if you have the curiosity and commitment.\n- Believe in what you’re doing. If you’ve got an idea that’s really powerful, you’ve just got to ignore the people who tell you it won’t work and hire people who embrace your vision.\n- Communicating is one of the most important tools in recovering from mistakes. When you tell someone “Look, we’ve got a problem. Here’s what it is, here’s why it happened and here’s how we are going to fix it”, you diffuse the fear of the unknown and focus on the solution.\n- You need to engender a sense of personal investment in all your employees, which comes down to three things: Responsibility, Accountability, and shared success.\n- To stay competitive, you should constantly question everything you do. Even if something seems to be working, it can always be improved.\n\n\nGetting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in – by Roger Fischer\n\n- Understanding the other side’s thinking is not simply a useful activity that will help you solve your problem. Their thinking is the problem.\n- An apology may be one of the least costly and most rewarding investments you can make.\n- Separating the people from the problem is critical. The basic approach is to deal with the people as human beings and with the problem on its merits.\n\n\nThink and Grow Rich – by Napoleon Hill\n\n- Opportunity has a sly habit of slipping in the back door and often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.\n- One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.\n- No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.\n- Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.\n- Ideas can be transmuted into cash through the power of definite purpose plus definite plans.\n\n\nThe richest man in Babylon – by George S Clason\n\n- Wealth like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. 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Psychologists call it habituation.\n- “In a consumer-driven society, we act like slaves, prisoners of envy” – Ivan Illich\n- People who are truly thankful for what they do have are less likely to focus on what they don’t have. That goes a long way toward controlling spending.\n\n\nMillionaire Teacher: The nine rules of wealth you should have learned in school – by Andrew Hallam\n\n- One of the surest ways to build wealth over a lifetime is to spend far less than you make and intelligently invest the difference.\n- Too many people hurt their financial health by failing to differentiate between their “wants” and their “needs”.\n- Your perceptions dictate your spending habits. Many people jeopardize their own pursuit of wealth or financial independence for the allusion of looking wealthy instead of being wealthy.\n- If you teach your child to earn and save money, he will become a financial powerhouse. 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      "body": "Whether you work in technology, trade cryptocurrencies or have interests in any other area or business, i bet you figured out that without constant reading and continuous learning, you can never compete and stay relevant in such a dynamic market.\n\nWhen I was young entering college/university, I thought I will be spending 4 to 5 years there, studying all the technology and material they will throw at me and then have all the knowledge needed to have a job and succeed in life for the coming 30-40 years.\n\nBut as soon as I left university and joined real work, it took me a very short period to notice that the learning cycle has just begun, that what we learned in University was only the minimum foundation and that you either stay up to date and learn more each day or you quickly get outdated and become obsolete.\n\nSometime after that, I became a fan of books, purchasing one or more each quarter, building my library at home. I have always believed that a good book can point you to a promising direction, where you can learn new ideas and different point of views and be aware of your mistakes, past ones or current ones made due to the absence of knowledge or experience.\n\nYou really need the experience of others who have been there and can help you anticipate and plan for things you might never have thought of or even experienced. A book can achieve that for you, at least to a good extent.\n\nHowever, there was a very important point missing in the process. Buying books is a good investment but an easy step. Find the topic and the right book covering it, add it to your cart, and put your credit card details and BOOM! It’s over. Five to ten minutes research and you are good to go.\n\nHowever, Finding time and having the will to read those books every night and apply that knowledge in your life is something else. This is where the real effort begins, especially when you can buy everything in life except for more time, more time for your family, your work, your personal development and entertainment.\n\nThat’s when last year, on my birthday in May 2016, I decided that this has to be changed. I cannot stop buying books, it already became an addiction, but at the same time, I am not reading 5 percent of them, so I would better find a way to start reading more.\n\nSo I drew a simple process and made a commitment:\n\n– Read 6 books minimum within one year, one book on average each 8 weeks\n\n– Keep one book next to my bed all the time\n\n– Read each night before I sleep (it can be 2 pages if I had a long day at work and I am very tired or 30 pages if I have plenty of energy after my kids go to sleep. What’s important is to keep the momentum by reading each night and seeing that book next to me when getting to bed reminded me of this)\n\n– Each time if finished a book, I would go during that same night, put the book back into my library, choose a new book and bring it next to my bed. This was to remind me that this is becoming an ongoing process and lifetime commitment and not a one time job or task.\n\nI am glad to say that this process proved to be right finally. In one year, I have read a total of 14 books covering different topics, from sales, negotiation and presentation skills, to investment and wealth management and industry trends and entrepreneurship.\n\nThis reminded me of a good quote for Brian Herbert “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice”.  You need to make that choice because No one can make you skillful but yourself.\n\nAlso, reading alone is not enough. You should apply what you read and learn in practice to be a winner. I gave a headache to my insurance company agent during a period of two weeks after I read the books about wealth management, but it paid off. When you know more and get to learn from people’s experiences and research summarized in books, you can challenge others in their areas of expertise. You can ask your insurance agent about fees details, commissions, which funds they are investing in, etc… Even though you are traditionally an Information Technology guy or a doctor or a teacher who had zero exposure on that specific subject.\n\n \n\nFew tools helped me along the way:\n\n– I used the Notes application on my phone to summarize important ideas while reading. Reading a book is good. Keeping all the important ideas in your head for years to come is difficult without a summary refresher from time to time. So each time I finished a book, I would send all these notes to my email then put them in one document (7 to 15 pages word document) for future reference.\n\n– Used “Goodreads” mobile app to track my books library, what is read, what is not and see ratings and feedback about a book I might be interested in purchasing\n\n– Used Amazon.com and later thriftbooks.com for books quick purchases. Thriftbooks is very effective for used books in excellent quality (almost new) and very good prices. This helps you lower your budget while getting the same quality.\n\n \n\nI hope those lines will motivate you to start reading more. It started out with me as a commitment knowing how much I can learn through reading. But it ended as an enjoyment and well spent quality time to relax at the end of each day while learning something new. It can become the same experience with you and believe me, it is a rewarding one.\n\nIt was said once that “the time you spend at night, after work, is was determines and shapes your future”. And many activities in this digital world will try to compete for filling that time, whether a TV show, Facebook stories, Snapchat, Instagram photos or something else. The choice is yours and only you can define your destiny.\n\nThe simple idea is as follows: Learn each and every day something new, to try to become each year a better version of yourself!!\n\nAs Magnus Carlsen, the current world chess champion said in an Interview in 2017, “I’ve never been the one to grasp things the quickest, but I never stopped learning as soon as I became interested in a subject.”\n\nPersistence is the answer for any challenge and ultimately any victory. 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