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Board Trading Discussion
Re: DCA instead of stop-loss
by
Coin-1
on 20/01/2022, 22:18:20 UTC
So, in case that the market turns against me - I become an investor until I spot an opportunity to carry out a correctly calculated DCA (I've done it enough times that now I can be fairly certain when will it move in my desired direction and that the movement will be enough to recover and close the deal in green).

I heard that this type of trading is called "ladder". Since a trader never sells the coins bought on unprofitable orders, he needs to keep a significant amount of deposited stablecoins or fiat money in reserve. Perhaps such a strategy can be used when there is no news about the purchased asset or the trader does not care of the market analysis at all.

I think the tactic you describe might work for Bitcoin which is likely to rally in the foreseeable future, but it's generally dangerous not to use a stop-loss order. You'd better research the market and try to predict the direction of price movement.