Quote from: alyssa85 on May 06, 2017, 09:56:34 AM

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OP: Are you referring to "realized" or "unrealized" profit?

You'll have to define what both of those terms mean to you.

"unrealized profits" = paper profits. In other words you are up and in profit, but because you haven't sold, it's unrealized, and could vanish at any time if the price goes down.

Realized profits are profits where you have actually sold for an actual profit.

Yes, but if you sell and take your profit in BTC is it actually "realized profit"? All you'd be doing in that case is moving from one blockchain token to another blockchain token. The profit is still just paper profit so what's the point?

Or do you mean realized profit in terms of cashing completely out to FIAT?

I asked because I'm sure people have differing definitions of what realized and unrealized profit means to them.