Tips To Follow While Investing In Cryptocurrencies

Nishant Rawat
4 min readJun 30, 2021

Today, investing in cryptocurrency is one of the many viable options for investing your money. In fact, it has become so common that investors are supporting various emerging cryptocurrencies with full confidence. Some are even believing that cryptocurrency can be an alternative to fiat currencies like USD, Euro, etc. The trading activities and trading platforms around cryptocurrencies are also flourishing with each passing year, but it has also drawn a large number of speculations because of the highly volatile nature of the crypto market.

As a crypto enthusiast, you might have heard glowing stories of people making millions because of their crypto investment, but there are also a lot of people who lost a lot of money while betting high on the crypto market just because of the fear of missing out and blindly following the hype around it. The real truth is cryptocurrency market is highly volatile and is not a safe or low-risk investment. Therefore it’s very important to not allow FOMO to influence you in making risky and fast decisions. But if you are still interested in diving into the world of cryptocurrency investment, here are few tips for you to invest smartly and make profits out of it.

1) Only Invest Money That You Are Ok With Losing

As we already discussed the cryptocurrency market is highly volatile, therefore you must only invest money that you are ok with losing. It must be the money that you don’t need in your daily life and if you lose that money somehow, there should no effect on your life. Never take any kind of loan to invest in the cryptocurrency market.

Although the cryptocurrency market is known for its volatile nature, investing in cryptocurrency sometimes requires you to be patient. There can be times when the market is not doing good and getting a return on investment will take longer than expected time. It’s important to keep calm and not do irrational things that can result in losses. But if you only invest the money, you can afford to lose, then you will have the liberty to stay away from your investment and not act under the influence of your emotion which is very important in any kind of investment.

2) Do Your Own Research Before Investing

To make a profit from your cryptocurrency investment, you need to do your own detailed research about the cryptocurrencies you are looking to invest in. This will improve your understanding of the crypto world and help you understand the utilities of the cryptocurrencies you are interested in and how they can fold out in the future.

Many people suffered huge losses during the super-high volatile time of December 2017, just because they entered the market without any proper research and started investing due to the fear of mission out. Just like stock markets, in the crypto market, you don’t have to gamble to make a profit, you just need to more aware and careful with whatever investments you make rather than blinding putting your money anywhere.

3) Diversify Your Investment

There is a good old saying “ Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket”. This concept applies to many aspects of life and is pretty much valid for the cryptocurrency market also. Diversifying your cryptocurrency investment is a very good strategy for reducing risks. There are thousands of cryptocurrencies in the market, you just need to more aware of the options available in the market, research about them, choose the ones that have potential, and then invest your money proportionally based on your budget and risk calculation.

4) Never Invest On Hype

Good investors always invest based on their risk calculations, their knowledge of the market, and following the right people or right guides. Making investment decisions based on hype is very risky and December 2017 crypto market events are the prime examples of it.

It’s always better to be aware of the market, ask the right people for guidance, and do your own research before investing. Making money in the cryptocurrency market is not as easy as it seems, you need the right information and strategies to make profits out of your crypto investments.

5) Secure Your Cryptocurrency Investments

Well, we all have heard various news about cryptocurrencies getting stolen by hackers and common links among all of them are cryptocurrency exchanges. We all know how it feels when you lose your investment and it sucks much harder when you can’t do anything about it. Therefore it is advisable to be cautious and if possible not to store your cryptocurrencies on exchanges. It’s always better to store your cryptocurrencies on cryptocurrency wallets.

With cryptocurrency wallets, you can have more control over your crypto assets compared to cryptocurrency exchanges and it always feels great to have better control over your investments.

Here I have just discussed some of the tips you can follow as a beginner in the world of crypto investment, but this doesn’t mean that this is it. There are always new things to be learned and the best way to learn them is by doing yourself.

I hope that this post has provided you with some interesting and useful information about the world of cryptocurrency investment and how you can navigate through it in a better manner.

Thank you so much for reading this post, please feel free to leave your feedback.

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Nishant Rawat

Product Management, Crypto Enthusiast, Ex-Software Engineer, Entrepreneurship, & Side Hustle Enthusiast