5 tips when leveraged trading crypto

Summary

The video provides a guide to leverage trading crypto, explaining key concepts like borrowing funds to increase position size and associated risks of liquidation. It offers tips like starting small, setting stop losses, and moving up stop losses when profitable to lock in gains. The high profits but extreme risks of leverage trading are reiterated, advising discipline and caution especially for beginners.

Takeaways

• 💡 El trading con apalancamiento puede hacerte rico o pobre rápidamente debido a su alto riesgo.
• 📊 Es fundamental ser disciplinado y no dejarse llevar por emociones al hacer trading con apalancamiento.
• 🚀 Aprender a operar con apalancamiento lleva tiempo y es posible perder dinero al principio.
• 💰 Las plataformas de trading generan ingresos significativos a través de las tasas de las operaciones apalancadas.
• 🌎 Muchas plataformas ofrecen trading con apalancamiento, pero es importante elegir la adecuada según tus necesidades.
• 🔍 El trading con apalancamiento permite operar con más dinero del disponible, aumentando tanto el potencial de ganancia como de pérdida.
• 🛑 Es importante usar stop loss para limitar las pérdidas y take profit para asegurar ganancias.
• 📈 La cobertura (hedging) puede proteger tu inversión contra movimientos de mercado adversos.
• 🤔 Considerar los tokens apalancados como una opción para operar a largo o corto sin necesitar gestionar la posición constantemente.
• 📝 Es clave practicar y empezar con montos pequeños para familiarizarse con el trading apalancado sin arriesgar demasiado capital.

Q & A

¿Qué es el trading con apalancamiento?

El trading con apalancamiento permite a los inversores pedir prestado fondos que no tienen para realizar operaciones más grandes de lo que podrían con su propio capital. Por ejemplo, con un apalancamiento de 10x, usarían su inversión como si fuera 10 veces mayor.

¿Cuáles son los riesgos del trading con apalancamiento?

Es extremadamente riesgoso y puede resultar en la pérdida total de la inversión rápidamente, especialmente si el mercado se mueve en contra de la posición del trader. Un movimiento adverso del 10% en una operación con apalancamiento 10x puede llevar a la liquidación total de la inversión.

¿Cómo ganan dinero las plataformas de trading con apalancamiento?

Las plataformas cobran comisiones por cada operación y por el préstamo de fondos para el apalancamiento. Dado el alto volumen de operaciones, estas comisiones pueden sumar ingresos significativos para las plataformas.

¿Por qué es importante la disciplina en el trading con apalancamiento?

La disciplina ayuda a evitar decisiones emocionales y riesgos innecesarios, que pueden llevar a pérdidas significativas. Los traders disciplinados pueden seguir sus estrategias de trading sin dejarse llevar por las fluctuaciones del mercado.

¿Deberían los nuevos inversores realizar trading con apalancamiento?

No es recomendable para nuevos inversores debido a los altos riesgos involucrados. Requiere un conocimiento profundo del mercado y una gran disciplina para gestionar los riesgos adecuadamente.

¿Cómo se calculan las comisiones en el trading con apalancamiento?

Las comisiones se calculan como un porcentaje del volumen operado. Por ejemplo, con una tasa conservadora del 0.03%, una plataforma que maneje un volumen de 165 mil millones de dólares en un día puede generar alrededor de 33 millones de dólares en ingresos por comisiones.

¿Qué estrategias se pueden usar para mitigar los riesgos en el trading con apalancamiento?

Algunas estrategias incluyen el uso de órdenes de stop loss para limitar las pérdidas, la realización de hedging para proteger inversiones existentes, y la inversión de cantidades pequeñas y manejables para aprender y ganar experiencia.

¿Qué son los tokens de apalancamiento?

Los tokens de apalancamiento permiten a los traders tomar posiciones largas o cortas con un apalancamiento predefinido, como 1x, 2x o 3x, sin tener que administrar manualmente la operación de apalancamiento. Estos tokens también incluyen comisiones y se reequilibran diariamente.

¿Qué es una orden de stop loss de arrastre?

Es una orden que se ajusta automáticamente al alza cuando el precio del mercado se mueve a favor del trader, asegurando ganancias y limitando las pérdidas sin necesidad de monitoreo constante.

¿Es posible hacer trading con apalancamiento en EE.UU.?

No es posible realizar trading de derivados o con apalancamiento en intercambios de criptomonedas basados en EE.UU. debido a regulaciones. Los traders de EE.UU. deben utilizar plataformas internacionales o buscar alternativas que no requieran KYC (Conoce a Tu Cliente) o ajustes de IP.

Outlines

00:00

Los riesgos de operar con apalancamiento

Este párrafo habla sobre los riesgos de operar en los mercados financieros con apalancamiento. Explica cómo el apalancamiento te permite operar con más capital del que realmente tienes, lo que puede resultar en grandes ganancias pero también grandes pérdidas. Proporciona un ejemplo numérico y menciona la necesidad de poner garantías y pagar comisiones.

05:02

Las enormes ganancias de los exchanges con los futuros

Este párrafo analiza las masivas ganancias que generan los exchanges centralizados y descentralizados con las operaciones de futuros y derivados. Utilizando datos reales, calcula que tan sólo en un día generan 33 millones de dólares en comisiones, lo cual anualizado son 12 billones de dólares.

10:03

Consejos para operar con apalancamiento

Este párrafo presenta 5 consejos clave que el autor ha aprendido con su experiencia operando posiciones apalancadas: 1) Esperar buenas oportunidades, 2) Usar stops loss y trailing stops, 3) Hacer hedging extremo, 4) Usar tokens apalancados, 5) Ir despacio y asegurar pequeñas ganancias.

15:04

Ejemplo práctico de una operación apalancada

En este párrafo, el autor hace una demostración paso a paso de cómo abrir una posición larga apalancada 5x en la plataforma KuCoin. Muestra cómo analizar el gráfico, colocar la orden, fijar el stop loss y take profit. También explica conceptos clave como aislar el margen para controlar el riesgo.

Keywords

💡apalancamiento

El apalancamiento permite invertir montos mayores a tu capital inicial pidiendo prestado dinero. En el video se explica cómo funciona: si invertís 100 dólares con un apalancamiento 10x, estarías invirtiendo con el poder de 1000 dólares. Pero esto conlleva mucho riesgo ya que las pérdidas también se multiplican.

💡riesgo

El apalancamiento y el trading conllevan mucho riesgo. Se puede perder dinero rápidamente si no se tiene disciplina y control emocional. El video recomienda limitar el riesgo estableciendo stops loss y take profits, e invirtiendo pequeñas cantidades al principio.

💡plataformas

Existen muchas plataformas que permiten hacer trading apalancado y cobran comisiones por ello. El video analiza los volúmenes de trading y estima que estas plataformas ganan miles de millones en comisiones al año.

💡estrategias

Se mencionan distintas estrategias para operar con apalancamiento, como abrir posiciones largas/cortas según las condiciones del mercado, hacer hedging para proteger otras inversiones, etc. Es clave elegir el momento adecuado para entrar.

💡pérdida

Es muy probable sufrir pérdidas operando apalancado, especialmente para principiantes. El video recomienda asumir y limitar las pérdidas mediante stops loss. También aconseja comenzar con montos pequeños e ir aprendiendo.

💡disciplina

Se requiere mucha disciplina y control emocional para operar exitosamente apalancado sin correr riesgos innecesarios. De lo contrario, es fácil dejarse llevar por la codicia o el pánico.

💡stop loss

Herramienta para limitar pérdidas en una operación. Se fija un precio por debajo del precio de compra donde se cerrará la posición para no perder más dinero. El video recomienda siempre utilizar stops loss.

💡take profit

Herramienta para tomar ganancias en una operación. Se fija un precio por encima del precio de compra donde se cerrará la posición para asegurar una ganancia. Permite no ser demasiado codicioso.

💡aprendizaje

Se requiere mucho aprendizaje y experiencia antes de operar exitosamente apalancado. El video recomienda tomarse el tiempo para aprender, comenzar de a poco, e ir ganando experiencia de a poco.

💡cryptomonedas

El video se centra en el trading apalancado de criptomonedas como Bitcoin, analizando distintas plataformas y estrategias para operar. Las criptomonedas son activos volátiles que permiten grandes ganancias pero también grandes pérdidas.

Highlights

Leverage trading allows you to trade with more money than you have, increasing potential profits but also risk.

Exchanges make billions in fees from leverage and derivatives trading.

Use small amounts when starting out to limit risk.

Set stop losses to limit downside.

Technical analysis helps but doesn't guarantee results.

Leverage tokens simplify opening leveraged positions.

Transcripts

leverage trading you can get poor fast

or rich fast depending on how you invest

now leverage trading is extremely risky

and you can lose a lot of money very

quickly and doing that will allow you to

learn how to leverage trade much faster

so I have been leverage trading for

several years now and I am very

disciplined to the point where I can do

this without being an emotional Trader

and without risking all my Capital you

have to be very disciplined when doing

this type of trading it's not something

new people should do but a lot of new

people are doing this so I want to go

over the lessons that I learned along

the way and we'll also go over why there

are so many platforms to do this and how

much those platforms are making so

that's what we're covering in this video

and of course none of this is financial

advice I am just sharing some tips from

my own personal experience now this

video is not sponsored so it's going to

be an unbiased opinion because there are

a lot of people who actually reached out

and requested a leveraged trading video

or review of their platform and I don't

make that because it's very risky to new

investors and for myself when I first

got into it I lost a lot of money

because I didn't know what I was doing

and I was taking on a lot of risk so

back in the day I was on bitmix when you

could still use it in the US and I

probably lost about two Bitcoin now

that's when Bitcoin was around two

thousand dollars so that was like four

thousand bucks but Bitcoin can turn into

a lot of money because it's worth much

more than two thousand dollars so to

start off what is leverage trading

leverage trading allows you to borrow

funds that you don't have to make trades

so for example if you have one hundred

dollars and make a 10x leverage trade

you are essentially using your 100 at 10

times its power so you are investing a

thousand dollars now this does come with

some risk if your investment goes up by

10 percent at 10x you get a 100 gain if

it goes down by 10 that's a 100 percent

loss which means your investment gets

liquidated so for you to borrow that

money you do have to put up collateral

in that example your collateral is a

hundred dollars now you also have to

remember you are borrowing funds and you

have to pay fees to do that so each

platform you use to do leverage trading

is going to have its own set of fees and

it can really add up so how much are

these exchanges decentralized or

centralized and making from Futures

Trading let's take a look so top

derivative exchanges by open interest

and trade volume the perpetuals and

features for the last 24 hours was about

165 billion dollars and if we look at

the fees we can take on average kind of

like a conservative amount

0.03 so that's 165 billion dollars being

traded at point zero three percent that

is 33 million dollars of Revenue in a

single day annualized that is 12 billion

dollars a year collected in fees

conservatively for these platforms so

exchanges want you to trade Futures

because they make a lot of money for it

and this goes for centralized exchanges

and decentralized exchanges and for

where you should trade really depends on

your preference if you're in the US you

cannot do derivatives or Futures Trading

on a U.S crypto exchange this happens on

the international sites anything not

located in the US or on exchanges with

no kyc or some exchanges where you have

to change your IP address and then there

are also decentralized exchanges that

allow you to do that as well and if we

look at the top exchanges by volume on

the top we got binance okx buy bitmix C

and a couple more for myself I've used

several different platforms because the

coin selection may vary depending on

what you use but for the most part not

sponsored I use kucoin because there's

no kyc and I really like their app now

once again not sponsored but if you want

to sign up I do have a referral Link in

the description that will get you 20 off

your trades and we also have to

understand why do people leverage trade

because it creates more opportunities

for different types of market conditions

now if there's a lot of uncertainty

maybe you want to hedge so let's say

you're holding a lot of Bitcoin and some

news is coming out that might be bad for

your Bitcoin Investments that's when you

would create a short position to hedge

against your Bitcoin investment so

whether the price goes up or down you're

kind of like buying Insurance to make

sure your portfolio stays flat so if the

price goes up your portfolio flat the

price of Bitcoin goes down the port

polio is flat you still have the same

value of your portfolio you hedged

against some type of news event and you

protected your portfolio value now this

does come at the cost of some fees

depending on what type of risk you're

taking but hedging is a way to protect

your investment now let's get started

with some things I learned about

leverage trading number one you're gonna

lose money if you're new to trading and

you can't control the emotional swings

of the markets going up or down and the

trades don't go your way don't leverage

trade because you are going to lose

money and if you're okay with losing

money make sure it's an amount you are

okay with so a lot of these platforms

have different types of wallets where

you have several different accounts set

for how much you're investing invest a

very small amount and make it very

inconvenient for you to deposit more

funds into that account so this is kind

of a learning experience and you can

always start with very small amounts

there is a lot of risk and learning

takes a long time and now I've been

doing this for several years I am more

of a long-term investor where I just

hold coins but sometimes there's

opportunities that I find where I will

leverage trade and that's just because

it's more entertaining for me in the

short term for any type of leveraged

position you should not be holding that

long term because it involves a lot of

fees unless the market keeps moving in

the direction you want you don't want to

keep paying those fees using leveraged

trading in a sideways Market will not

help your portfolio because you would

just overall be losing against those

fees so that brings me to my second tip

when you do leverage trade wait for

those right opportunities maybe we are

in a bull market there is a lot of

momentum and you want to ride that

momentum you can do that or if there's a

very positive news event about a coin

that's coming up you might want to open

a position and be ready to set your take

profits your stop-lot buses just to

secure that you will only lose a certain

amount of money or that you're

guaranteed to at least take profit in

the event that there is a spike in the

price and then some other people also

like to use technical analysis that does

work for identifying support and

resistance but technical analysis isn't

always 100 accurate there's always

outside factors that can change

everything so don't read into ta saying

that it's going to give you a definitive

answer ta fails a lot because if it

worked every time and it was very

predictable you could write these

algorithms to trade for infinite money

so don't think that ta is going to be

the solution to everything sometimes

there's factors like news and momentum

that can just ride you up into profits

or into losses so you got to be okay

with going long or short depending on

the market conditions number three

trailing stop losses this is actually my

favorite one I always set a stop loss us

initially and then if I am in the profit

I will continue to move up my stop loss

amount where I am in the money and I

will be guaranteed profit now a lot of

protocols don't actually have a trailing

stop loss function so it is something

you have to do manually and you have to

monitor and if you stick around until

the end of the video we are going to run

through an example of setting up a stop

loss and a trailing stop loss that we

kind of manually set number four extreme

hedging now we talked about hedging

earlier in the video how you are kind of

like buying insurance but you could also

do a more extreme version of hedging

where let's say you're 10x long and

you're 10x short as long as the price

moves 11 you're gonna be profitable now

not a lot of platforms allow you to do

this and sometimes you just need two

accounts where you open a 10x Bitcoin

long position a 10x Bitcoin short and as

long as the trend keeps moving in One

Direction you can and potentially be

profitable so that is another way you

could do that but at the same time you

also want to limit your risk and set up

your stop losses and your take profits

because getting rich slow and just

making small profits at a time is still

a good way to make money number five

leverage tokens leverage tokens allow

you to do these long or short position

whether it's 1X 2x or 3x 1X just means

yeah you are going long or short you are

just holding the position of that coin

2s or 2L which you'll typically see for

these tokens it means it's a 2X short or

a 2X long so double your money or 3x now

with these leverage tokens they do

involve fees which are collected daily

and the coins get rebalanced so whenever

you are doing leverage trading and it's

either a leverage token or a leveraged

position you are paying fees daily now

you don't want to do that long-term term

so you really should be playing momentum

plays or short-term news events where

maybe you're holding that position for a

few hours or a few days but it's not

something you want to hold for a few

weeks now let's set up a leveraged trade

and I'm gonna show you some things I

learned along the way we will be using

the kucoin app if you don't have an

account I do have a referral link to get

you 20 off your trades now this video

isn't sponsored by kucoin but I am an

affiliate for them so I would get a

kickback now that doesn't mean you

should trade on kucoin that's up to you

there are a lot of different exchanges

it really depends on if you can access

those trades

um what coins you want to trade and a

lot more so there are a lot of options

out there I think Koo coin is great

because they have no kyc so everyone can

use them alright jumping into the app

here so it says 100x Futures at the

bottom right and that's where we get

started and you gotta have some usdt in

your account to get started now there

are multiple wallets in the app so you

would be transferring from let's say

your main accounts to your futures

account because trading is in its own

wallet and I recommend only keeping what

you're comfortable trading in that

wallet you want it to be a little

inconvenient for you to trade away your

entire portfolio and before you actually

get started you should understand the

risks and limit your risks by keeping

money out of that account so if you are

going to get started start off with a

small amount till you're comfortable and

you know what you're doing so from the

bottom right yeah we are in the future

section at the top left here we can pick

the different contracts so you go to

usdt and they have a lot of different

coins available I happen to be looking

at a VRA and you can see at the top

right there's these two bars and I

select that and then we can see the

different charts so you can change the

time frame of the charts to whatever

time frame you want and you can kind of

see like where things are going now we

can talk about technical analysis

supports and Trends and how things are

looking on the short-term medium term or

long term and uh the hourly for myself

this looks pretty good and uh that's not

Financial advice this is just my opinion

and if I want to buy along this might be

a good time to jump in with a very tight

stop loss because we don't want to take

on that much risk so I'm going to select

the price I want and that's what I'm

pressing there it fills in the limit

price and then we can set the order on

Mount so I'm just going to set up 25

that is quite a bit of money and then

you can see up here the margin I want to

set it can go anywhere from 1X to 20x

we're gonna do 5x I'm comfortable with

that amount hit by long I'm going to

confirm the order

got to put in my trading password

and the order has been submitted

successfully and it's currently being

filled so this should take a moment to

get filled so you can see that and

that's it yeah it was very quick since I

went with close to the market price and

you see my long order there and then you

see my order there you see we're at 5x

how much VRA it is you can see we're

already down 53 cents because we're

paying to borrow those funds now this is

going to grow over time as long as this

moves sideways so even though we're down

53 cents the actual position profit and

losses are zero oh just wind up so I'm

gonna hit take profit and stop loss and

I want kind of a tight stop loss on this

so I'm gonna say I'm willing to lose 15

and at 5x that means if the price drops

three percent this stop loss is going to

get triggered I'm comfortable with

taking that loss so I'm gonna set that

and we can all also set a take profit so

take profit and stop loss you can do

both and for take profit we can say if

we gain 25 we take profit 50 75 100 150

percent now you could get greedy here

and just try to get a lot out of this

um it's possible you can make profit we

can do something very conservative with

25 yeah I know conservative making 25

off this trade but there are a lot of

things you can do with leverage trading

and using kucoin just gives you these

pre-filled options now if you didn't

want to do that that's fine too you

could set your own price so I'm going to

hit confirm so I'm going to cancel that

and then I could say hey when the price

gets to let's let's actually take a look

at the charts

um points

5558 so let's say that let's say take

profit we're gonna take profit at

0.00558 and that will give us a very

small profit of thirty seven dollars so

we're either gonna make thirty seven

dollars or lose sixty eight dollars and

that's if you want to play things pretty

conservatively so now I have my leverage

trade set up and this leverage position

is very likely going to close with me

either in profit or at a loss so I'm

comfortable with this and that's how you

set up a trade now is having a take

profit is awesome because you don't need

to get too greedy things don't

consistently go up it's hard to find the

bottom and for stop losses it limits how

much you lose so if you are just getting

involved with this I highly recommend

trying this out and getting comfortable

with it understanding it and knowing

when to take profit and limit your risk

and at the top right I have Auto deposit

closet margin off this is very critical

because you could lose more money than

your actual position because it's going

to say hey I'm going to use more margin

in my account to keep this trade active

so I don't get liquidated now on other

platforms this is referred to as cross

margin where even though you have just

one leveraged position it's going to

take margin from wherever you have

available in your account and with auto

deposit margin off this is an isolated

position which means that it's not going

to pull margin from the rest of your

account it's just going to use whatever

you have invested into that actual

position so you can see for the position

we've taken here we have invested 543

dollars and we can't lose more than that

so for the position I just opened I

disabled the take profit now I am

currently profitable and if I actually

make 10 20 or 30 percent I'm slowly

gonna move up that stop loss so I want

to have that stop loss in a profitable

area so I actually end up with

potentially more now this does require

me to watch the position more actively

which I am doing and it also causes a

lot of stress and anxiety so that is

just one way I approach things you could

potentially just use technical analysis

to set your take profit but crypto can

move Beyond technical analysis that is

just something that is a prediction

model that is never guaranteed and

anything can happen so my favorite

method when doing leverage trading is to

monitor the position and slowly move up

that stop loss if I am profitable now

that was just a couple lessons that I

learned from how to leverage trade I

don't recommend you getting in I

recommend you learning over time gaining

that experience because it can take

years to become a good leveraged Trader

a lot of people can be good right away

some people might even get lucky but if

you are a long-term investor you you

don't really need to take that much risk

you know you could just make small gains

every now and then and just keep

stacking now there is no guarantee that

you'll make profit it's very risky and

once again I just have to keep

reiterating this it's not easy money

it's very easy to lose money that you'll

never get back because at least if

you're holding a coin you can't get

liquidated it still has that value and

can potentially always recover so even

though Bitcoin hits its all-time high

then all time low when Bitcoin is always

worth one Bitcoin and it still always

has that price potential of growing in

value whereas a leverage position can

lose all of its value immediately and

you have nothing so what I learned the

most is there is a lot of risk and I

don't think a lot of people are ready

for this but at least you can mentally

prepare and know what you're getting

into versus thinking it's just easy

money alright I hope all of that was

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