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  • Taking 180% Profit Was A Mistake

    Taking 180% Profit Was A Mistake


    Howdy fellas, I want to do a different style of video where I’m talking about some of the trades that have just happened in our system.

    I just closed a trade for 184% profit,
    and taking profits at that time was a mistake.

    In this video, I want to talk about that specific trade that we got the trading signal entry for AGIX back in February 3rd, and yesterday when the prices made a top formation,

    I took profit
    but I took profits too soon.

    So in this video, I’m going to talk about how my trade was actually against my trading system.

    First of all, I want to talk about the signal that got me into this trade because it’s really important for what I’ll explain at the end of this video.

    Then I’m going to talk about why I did the exit at this time and why that was a mistake, why I knew it was a mistake and I did it anyway.

    Then I’ll talk about what I should have done with the trade but according to our trading system.

    I think it was back in early February,

    ⟁ the agix versus Bitcoin price made a 123 formation that was a consolidation and it gave us a trading signal, and

    ➜ our system bought in with a copy trading account over on bitget.

    Now the trading system doesn’t give me an exit signal yet,

    but yesterday I closed that trade and I took profit at about 180%.

    Why I Took Profits Too Soon!

    And I took that profit for two reasons that are not related to my trading plan.

    First was my ego; I wanted to prove that I’m correct and take this profit so that I have the profit.

    I didn’t want to lose the profit, and that’s my second biggest trading mistake and I’ll explain more about that.

    I wanted impressive stats in my copy trading account over following my trading plan.

    The second reason I took that trading was so that I have that in my copy trading account so that the statistics are there of the 180% profit.

    Can’t go wrong when you start stacking those 180% profits in your statistics.

    That’s great stuff for the copy trading account, but it was actually against my trading plan rules.

    Start a Trading Journal

    So if you’ve ever written a trading plan for yourself and then you did something that was opposite to your trading plan,

    it’s really important to journal every step of that trade.

    A written trading journal takes you away from the charts to think.

    Get To Know Your Errors

    So that the next time you come around to that, you can make the decision whether or not you’re going to do that same error at that same time.

    Two Types of Errors

    This is really important because there are two types of errors that you make while you are a cryptocurrency Trader.

    First is the type of error that you get punished for; you lose money.

    So pretty soon you stop doing those kinds of errors or you have to quit trading.

    The second type of error, though, is those errors that you can make just like I had made right now that you will never know that you made an error until somebody points it out to you.

    Altcoin Season Secrets – The Wave and Pullback Strategy!

    And so I want to talk about stage four of the trade, and then I’m going to tell you where you can go and learn about this for free for the next seven days.

    Stage four of the trade is where the price moves up, and then it comes back and consolidates, and you add on so that you are bigger on your winning trades on these few trades that really do the big move and pull back.

    ➤ You want to add on to those, I’m thinking, because it seems to me that we’re at the very beginning of a very large three to five-wave stage.

    Elliot Waves

    So Elliot wave theorists are going to be super excited about what might be coming in altcoin season right now.

    And that’s because we’re coming out of an especially long Wyckoff Accumulation Pattern in the charts with the altcoins.

    And so I believe everything is building up for a wave and then a pullback and then wave again.

    Two Mistakes

    And so it was a mistake for me to take profit on my agix trade for two different reasons.

    ➥ First of all, I’m being fearful when I should be greedy, and

    ➥ Second of all, I’m doing an extra taxable event if I want to get back into that trade and make the profits as it continues the rest of the trade up.

    So it would have been better for me to sit still,

    but I took that profit so that

    • I have the money and
    • so that my statistics are in my copy trading account.

    What Is Next?

    And now I’ve taken that full wad of money, I took 17, we’ll say 17, and I turned it into 52.

    I took that full 52; I put it into another chart that’s making the very same pattern that AGIX was making a month ago.

    And now I don’t know, of course, if this new chart is going to do the same thing that AGIX just did but cross my fingers.

    Let’s see how this turns out.

    And so while I’m talking about the price chart pattern for one specific coin, it’s important to that all of the altcoins move together.

    And it’s better for us to, it’s less risk if we go across more coins in smaller trades and we stay into a spot position so that there’s no cost for holding the trade for a long time.

    Hidden Cost of Leveraged Trading

    Even if you’re doing low leverage, leverage trading Futures Trading, there’s always those ongoing costs as you hold the trade.

    Where as if you get into a spot position, you can relax more because that’s how many coins you have, and it’s easier to weather through some of the difficulties.

    And you’re also there for some of those coins that do the big moves that you would could never have known that they were going to go through.

    Exposing Trading Industry Secrets – Are You Being Manipulated?

    One of the most important perspectives is to know that the exchanges and most of the YouTube influencers, they make their money by your trading activity.

    For example, I was approached by one exchange to sponsor my videos, and then I contact another Exchange that had already sponsored me, and I said how much would you sponsor me?

    And they said it’s based on how much trading activity you generate.

    So the more I get everybody to churn their account, the more the exchanges pay me as a sponsor.

    Day trading crypto and leveraged crypto trading are encouraged only by exchanges.

    So then it encourages me to tell you that you should be day trading and that you should be trading and taking profits and then trading again and taking profits.

    Whereas I’m not sponsored by an exchange, I’m not motivated by how often you trade.

    I’m motivated by the fact that you sit on those trades for a long time and you make some phenomenal profits off of these things that change your life.

    This is the kind of story I want to hear, not how often you trade.

    Trade Smart – Step Away from the 15-Minute Charts!

    I say step away from those 15-minute charts; you should be looking at the charts 20, 30 minutes a day.

    And if you’re doing more than that, then you are micromanaging your money.

    And you should trade in such a way that you can relax and let your money watch the charts instead of you.

    Thanks again for being here; I appreciate your audience.

    Trade safe and keep those losses small.

  • Crypto Trading Mistakes When Winning, Mistakes When Losing

    Crypto Trading Mistakes When Winning, Mistakes When Losing

    In the beginning, I was making crypto trading mistakes on my losing trades, and I was making trading mistakes on my winning trades.  Even with a great trading plan, I could not successfully earn a profit. 

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    This video may provide a shift in perspective that will help, if you are making the crypto trading mistakes where you’re losing more money than you should have, and you’re also making the trading mistakes where you’re not making as much money as you could have 

    Gaining Skills With Money 

    In just ten minutes per day, you can learn to apply repeatable laws of money that can help you get wealthy.

    How can this be true? Getting wealthy is a matter of making money, keeping your money, and growing your money. 

    Even if you are making money by working at a fast food restaurant, you can get rich over time, if you simply develop the habit of saving just $20 per week – and carefully make your savings grow with just a little bit of interest, compounded, year after year. 

    RELATED: A Simple Plan To Become A Millionaire

    The trouble that most people have – that prevents them from getting wealthy – is they do not feel good about keeping their money –  and they have not practiced feeling good about watching their money grow.  

    Instead, they feel good by spending their money.  They act on the slick sales message of debt-pushers ‘get it now with easy payments’, and end up paying interest on that purchase… in effect, they are compounding the growth of someone else’s money! 

    Keep watching the other videos in this series as a way to reinforce and practice rehearsing good feelings about keeping your money and watching it grow. 

    Before we can truly overcome the two mistakes that all traders make, we need to understand them.  This understanding comes from learning new knowledge, and second, from practice.

    Mistake One

    The first category are mistakes that we get punished for. We get punished by losing more money than we should have. Most people will learn from those mistakes over time – or they just quit trading because it’s not working for them. We’ll cover some specific strategies to help you prepare in advance to keep your losses small. It’s not wrong, and it’s not a mistake to take losses in trading – but if you are making the dollar cost averaging mistake we’ll cover in a moment, then your losses are much bigger than they should have been.

    Mistake Two

    The other category is harder to identify; these are mistakes we don’t get punished. That is, when we make this mistake, we simply don’t get the benefits we should have. We may never become aware of this mistake, because there is never a signpost that pops up to say  ‘You didn’t get all these extras!’. Later in this video series, we’ll review a pro tactic that overcomes this mistake and makes winning trades bigger!

    If you are making the mistakes where you’re losing more money than you should have, and you’re also making the mistakes where you’re not making as much money as you could have – then you want to break even in your trading, but you are struggling consistently, and it’s deeply frustrating for you.

    You can overcome these mistakes. It will take some practice, but it’s so worth it!

    Why We Make Trading Mistakes

    The reason we make these two categories of trading mistakes is fear and greed.

    The successful trader feels fear and greed, and the unsuccessful trader also feels fear and greed as well. The difference is, the successful trader feels fear and greed at opposite times to the unsuccessful trader! 

    Here are a couple examples to illustrate the point.

    Mistakes When Losing

    Let’s say we have two traders that go into an identical trade that moves against them; that is, they buy the same coin at the same place at the same time and price goes against them.

    Right away, the successful trader is fearful of losing money – and so he sells out of the position quickly. The unsuccessful trader starts to get greedy because he sees that the price is now lower than it “should be” – and it’s even a bigger opportunity to ‘buy the dips’.  

    They may rationalize: ‘So if I bought 100 coins at 100 satoshi and the price is now 80 satoshi, then I could buy another hundred coins and I would average out the price… therefore I would have two hundred coins at an average price of 90, so really I’m only down 10’, and, such a trader might begin to imagine potential profits as a way to avoid dealing with the current loss; ‘When the price rebounds I’m going to make it killing because I’m into this position when it was even a bigger bargain!’

    In reality, this trader is not managing risk correctly. 

    If the price should continue to go down – the trader now has a bigger position when he’s losing. As the price goes down, he may finally get to where he’s feeling so much pain that he has to get out of the position, and ends up with a much bigger loss than he should have. Naturally, this trader will feel discouraged and kind of panicky when he trades another position. 

    And actually, that emotion is a good guide.

    You want to be feeling confident and prepared when you are ready to put on a trade.

    Mistakes When Winning

    Let’s go to the second example where both traders buy the same coin, at the same time, at the same price – and it goes with their expectations so they’re both profitable. The successful trader now feels greedy – because he’s been proven correct – any buys even more of the coin to have a larger position.

    The unsuccessful trader, however, may be fearful of losing his profits and quickly cashes in the position – too soon. As time goes on the price continues to go in the direction they wanted, the unsuccessful trader now will feel even more anxiety watching the price go… and will head into the next trade with more uncertainty, fomo and doubt.

    And so many traders gets killed in the market – by making mistakes that cause greater losses and making mistakes that reduce their profits.

    Both of these mistakes are the result of trying to do the wrong job.  Most new traders believe they are responsible for making money in their trading… but this is not our job at all.  Successful traders know their job is all about managing risk.  Reducing risk on losing trades and increasing risk on winning trades.

    Surround Yourself With Success Thinking

    DigitalCurrencyTraders hosts a private community. Interacting daily in our membership area can help you change the way you think and feel about your trades – you CAN gain the knowledge and build the habits that successful crypto traders have! 

    While you are safely adding to your savings each week, you can gain more perspective on the challenges and difficulties of trading.  You can overcome mistakes.

    When you start taking smaller losses when you are wrong, and start gaining larger profits when you are correct, added together, you end up creating a cycle of steady growth of your investments, you can trade larger volumes – and dramatically expand your future wealth potential! 

    Both paper trading and backtesting are a good starting approach. You can learn and prepare for each stage of the trade before risking real money – yet a simulation lacks the realism… Paper trading and backtesting do not include the all important emotions of fear and greed that so often cause new traders to make bad choices and lose money. 

    Now you know how the average trader is affected by fear and greed and how these emotions work against them, holding them back from making great profits, and often causing them to lose their money. 


    In a later video, we’ll reveal how to overcome some additional ways that fear and greed may be working against you in your trading, so be sure to subscribe and hit the bell notification icon so you don’t miss out!