Hi! I just learnt how to trade crypto last year and it's still a learning process for me even now so your post was pretty relevant to me! I just wanted to add that I find there is a good balance between studying/reading up on technical analysis and also actual hands on experience - I read up a lot with Investopedia and 101 articles on Cointelegraph, and I find Trading View's chart features and its forum section really, really helpful. There's nothing quite like seeing a group of seasoned traders going onto Trading View and providing their analysis with elaborated charts and graphs for free on the platform, and some of these traders really provide a well-substantiated reading on the week's trends etc. Aside from reading through what tools like RSI and Bollinger bands can do for your trading, I found that what really helps is actually diving right into trading. I started off with Coinbase, then moved onto Crypto.com and Binance after.

It can be pretty daunting to just sink your funds blindly into an exchange though, which was what I did, and I couldn't really practice as well as I was scared of losing the funds I had? Recently I've been practicing instead on a new mock trading app called Roostoo, and from what I read it's an incubator start-up done by a bunch of students from the University of Southern California to help other students or beginners not familiar with crypto to start trading without any fear of losing their capital? How it works is that you create an account (for free!) and you're allocated 50K virtual USD to begin your trades. They pull their prices real-time from several exchanges, but for the purposes of practicing trading, this app works well because you can freely test out your analysis or predictions.

They also host mock/paper trading competitions? The most recent competition they're hosting is in collaboration with an online crypto news publication SuperCryptoNews - it starts this Friday 7 March 2020, and the top 10 traders of the competition (trading based on virtual USD on Roostoo) will win a fixed BTC prize reward + part of the reward pool? There's a minimal registration fee, but if you're also looking to test your trading skills and earn some prize reward BTC then you can also check this out?

Their main users seem to be university students, but I honestly do think this is as good a platform to begin as any. Hope this helps!

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