Futures trading is similar to gambling, don't do it if you don't want to lose especially if you don't have the skills.
If you want to be safer then it is better to invest, you will not lose as long as you do not sell halfway and accumulate with the DCA method this is one of the best ways to collect bitcoin you will not think harder like trading by investing you will be a little calmer.
Trading is risky just like gambling but trading is nothing compared to gambling. In gambling, you will always need luck, but in trading, you can solely depend on your expertise and flourish in it if you know your way out. But the issue with people is that they do not know how to trade but are just forcing things, this is why you can even compare trading with gambling Still, what I agree with you on is that people can resort to investing instead of trading as a less risky option. But it still has to be strictly engaged, otherwise, an investment could be silently more dangerous than trading at times. DCA is also a very good investment style but we should not let it enter our heads as a safe haven for investment as it on this thread. The right application is key.
I can't comprend this, how did you come to the conclusion that investment is more risky than trading at time as you said, personally I don't concur to this notion of yours, lets get this straight, how would someone thats doing his or her investment gradually and continuously with DCA method be involved in risk than his opponent that concentrate in trading that we all know that has a high level of uncertainty surrounding it, I already know that no matter how experienced a trader is, he or she must lose but in bitcoin imvestment hence your are an investor that understand that the investment is meant for a long-term, the depreciation of the price wouldnt be a problem for you instead it will be an opportunity to buy at a lesser amount, in trading when you lose, you lose all the money that use on a particular trading sesion but in investment you cant lose, your asset may depreciate to an extent and also start appreciating once the market pump. In all round I don't see where investment can be more dangerous than trading, the risk involved in investment will always be lesser and manageable than that of trading.
I am glad that several forum members are not agreeing to EarnOnVictor's framework, which surely seems misleading in terms of seeming to want to compare trading and investing in bitcoin as if they have similar kinds of tradeoffs.
I agree that there is risk in either one, yet surely the kinds of risks are different, including the execution risk of trading has a lot of potential complications and variations, and surely even EarnOnVictor would not even be limiting himself to trading with dollars and bitcoin and perhaps using leverage and other financial instruments, but he may well end up wanting to throw various shitcoins into the mix, and each kind of product that any of us might attempt to learn about and how to potentially hedge it would bring additional kinds of complications, which may well not be impossible to learn, but the level of skills should not be compared to those of someone who may well have some kind of a longer term investment into bitcoin that is 4-10 years or longer.
Regarding investment into bitcoin, there always exists a risk that the investor could lose up to 100% of the investment, but if such investor is merely employing long trades, which would involve engaging in various forms of ongoing buying of bitcoin (accumulation) through DCA, lump sum investing and buying on dips, then the downside risk is losing 100% of the amount invested, and accordingly position sizes can be chosen to make sure to ONLY invest from the discretionary income and to employ other forms of responsible cashflow management such as creating back up funds that would fall in the categories of emergency funds, reserves and float. Surely if leveraging and margin and other tools are brought into an investment mix, then we might start to consider those as trading and/or gambling techniques rather than investing, even though some folks might overlap in regards to how they label their activities and the amount of risks they are taking.
We can also quibble about the extent to which trading devolves into gambling and/or if there might be ways that trading could be responsibly executed in order to NOT fall into a gambling classification, and so yeah, any of us should be able to understand that there are degrees and extremes, so gambling, trading versus investing likely falls more on a spectrum rather than having exact dividing points that we could agree upon.
Many of us also should realize that historically bitcoin has been quite a great asymmetric bet to the upside, and there are no real reasons to consider that bitcoin's investment thesis has gotten weaker over the years rather than stronger, even if the the upside potential might not be as great as it was in the past, and also past performance does not guarantee future results... yet at the same time, anyone who studies bitcoin may well end up reasonably being hard pressed to figure pout some kind of a better place to be engaging in long-term investing, so in that sense, it seems to make
less sense to trade and/or gamble with an asset such as bitcoin that is amongst the best if not the best of assets that any of us could actually work upon accumulating through various forms of buying it rather than considering that selling it or otherwise using financial instruments are improving your abilities to just accumulate bitcoin through regular spot buying methods.