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Trading Crypto: How to Get Started

October 8, 2021 by Frank Kaberna| Tips & Strategies

It’s time to sideline your opinions of crypto and take advantage of the unique opportunity in front of you. An asset class worth trillions of dollars has sprouted up and developed before traders’ very eyes. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the rest present a market so truly singular that attempts to quantify it in terms of gold, currencies, and stocks have all been thwarted by near-zero correlations.

Now, whether the $0.8 trillion dollar valuation of Bitcoin* holds in 2022 and beyond is up for debate, but active traders are often more intrigued by the ephemeral than the permanent anyway. The road to blue-chip or pink sheet status is paved with potentially profitable price action.

How to Trade Bitcoin

 As many traders in the derivatives space know, casting aside your opinion in the interest of letting the market decide your position can be both liberating and stress relieving. This concept is often referred to as price action, and it can go one of two ways depending on your vibe:

BTC \ Bitcoin for Contrarians

Source: Yahoo! Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/)

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Contrarians might look at Bitcoin’s 2021 so far and see a mean reversion opportunity. BTC has doubled its value, come all the way back to unchanged, and then arrived at the middle of this range by the time of this writing all since the start of the year. Selling at an upside extreme and buying at a downside extreme has proved fruitful in a time where the same can’t be said for equities that have seemed to only move higher.

BTC \ Bitcoin for Trend Followers

Source: Yahoo! Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/)

Trend followers saw similar potential through a different lens. BTC making a new high early in the year only to top it a month later could have been read as a breakout to the upside, while the dip in the Spring followed by a further slide in the Summer could have been read as a breakout to the downside.

Regulated Futures on Crypto

It’s been a bumpy path to integrate this innovative market into traditional platforms for the retail trader, but products like Bitcoin futures, Micro Bitcoin futures, and the new Small Cryptocurrency futures have recently provided a bright spot given their ability to short and price transparency.

 

Exchange Fees for Crypto Futures

BTC
Bitcoin Futures
MBT
Micro Bitcoin Futures
SCCX
Small Crypto Futures
$5.00 $2.50 $0.15

Source: CME Group (https://www.cmegroup.com/) and Small Exchange (https://smallexchange.com/)

As the asset class matures and more products pop up, contract size and fees should come down to fit the everyday person’s account. Small Crypto is a step in the right direction, and hopefully it helps the crypto holdouts to better grasp this rare moment.

*Data from CoinMarketCap as of 9/28/21 (https://coinmarketcap.com/)

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About Frank Kaberna

Frank Kaberna is the head content strategist at the Small Exchange. He produces everything from brochures to videos that inform on the Small Exchange’s products. After earning a mathematics degree from the University of Michigan, Frank traded interest rates at the Chicago Board of Trade. He then worked on the tastytrade Network as a content producer and on-air talent before landing at the Small Exchange.

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