I'm new to the idea of bitcoin trading in general, and I was wondering how people actually get into it? It sounds like a lot of people have some sort of background in economics or finance, or work in trading in their day jobs and use btc trading as a sideline, are there a lot of people like this? Do people learn by losing money and then figuring out where they went wrong and correcting it?
I'm interested to hear people's stories.
There's really no background needed. My partner and I were not educated in finances and economics (just the basics) and had our own full time job as well. We learned a lot through trials and error, and from scams and fraud first hand. It was difficult at times, and there were times when trades were so slow that we wondered if we should continue. Since we were quite active and one of the top sellers at LocalBitcoins for cash deposit in the world, we were the target of a lot of new scams so we had to develop ways to prevent them from occurring again and taking an active approach of what *might* be a future possible scam.