it all depends on when we buy coins, if the time to buy coins is during a bear market then our chances of getting big profits are for the long term with the hope that the bull market will also recover well, but when we buy coins during a bull market it's better for the short term due to current market trends it is great for making profits quickly due to relatively fast and increasing price fluctuations.
short or long term depend on what time we entry to market, some of us still come in wrong moment. when market being bearish or at reversal point , we buy coin so it could make us being rekt. Time or momentum was be main important factor for our trading or investment result. technical analisys will help us to identify this momentum , entry or exit from market.