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Cryptxtra trading is the process of speculating on financial products and assets over the span of a single day. Our traders will often buy and sell any number of financial instruments in the span of several hours, or less, and profit from speculating on short-term price movements. Our traders stay up-to-date on what moves markets in the short term and can place hundreds of orders in a single day to profit in the long run for you
Cryptocurrency: An overview
For decades, traders have focused on a few distinct markets to take advantage of profit-making opportunities. Over the past several years, cryptocurrencies have been seen as a growing market with increased liquidity and opportunity for trading profit. A cryptocurrency is a digital asset secured by consensus algorithms, such as proof-of-work or proof-of-stake, with transaction information stored on a digital ledger. Today, there are thousands of cryptocurrencies in existence, creating an array of opportunities for day traders.
Bitcoin
In the world of cryptocurrency, bitcoin has become the industry standard. The digital asset has grown not just in popularity, but in its technology as well. Bitcoin is designed as a form of decentralized digital currency that is usable across the globe without the fear of censorship resistance. Bitcoin has a fixed supply of 21 million that can ever be mined. It has remained the biggest cryptocurrency on the market, with a valuation close to $200 billion. Roughly half of overall trading activity occurs in bitcoin, with billions of dollars in daily turnover. Due to the ample liquidity, bitcoin is one of the most popular choices for those looking to day trade crypto.
Alt coins
A cryptocurrency outside of bitcoin is called an alt coin. Cryptocurrencies in this category have various technological differences and uses, from building decentralized applications (dApps) to creating a world of decentralized finance, and beyond. One of the most well-known alt coins is Ethereum, a programmable open-source blockchain. Furthermore, many other alt coins take the form of ERC-20 tokens, which means they are built on Ethereum protocol. These include EOS and TRON.
Stablecoins
There is one category of cryptocurrency that has become increasingly important for traders and investors. Stablecoins represent cryptocurrencies that are relatively price-stable, generally by pegging themselves to fiat currency. The largest stablecoin is Tether (USDT), whose price is pegged to the US Dollar. For regulatory reasons, many exchanges avoid USD, but listing coins against USDT allows them to quote against the world’s primary reserve currency without actually touching it directly. Tether is a great trading pair for bitcoin and alt coin traders as it allows for easy trading within cryptocurrencies without having to off-load capital to fiat currency and back into the market.
Market structure - Trading crypto
Exchanges / execution venues
The cryptocurrency market is highly fragmented, with exchanges operating in dozens of legal jurisdictions across the globe. In many countries, it is extremely easy to set up an exchange, which has led to a proliferation of trading platforms. In traditional financial markets, traders often can only access the exchange through a broker who is a member of the exchange. However in crypto, exchanges act as not only an execution venue, but also a broker.
Each exchange must attract market makers, also known as liquidity providers, to provide bids and offers to the exchange order book. These bids and offers influence price and liquidity. Unlike US equities, where regulation requires brokers to execute customer trades at the best price in the market (i.e. across all the exchanges), there is no similar requirement in crypto. Therefore, a small exchange with low liquidity will often deliver inferior prices to customers of that exchange.
Since exchanges can differ significantly in terms of liquidity or pricing, such as due to supply and demand variations, there is a lot of opportunity, and risk, for crypto day traders.
Access to markets
Cryptocurrency exchanges like Cryptxtra cater to an international customer base, are based throughout the world, are generally unregulated, and are therefore open 24/7/365. Cryptxtra traders can place orders at any time of day or night, and exchanges operate continuously to provide easy access for their users. Though, practically speaking, exchanges may be down periodically for maintenance and system upgrades.