Tuesday Trading

No, it's not a thing. I just so happened to remember to take note of my activities on and off Hive pertaining to "trading" today. One of my goals this year is to learn how to trade in the crypto world. I have been in the blockchain since 2018, learning how to trade should really be on my path to growth.

My Learning Curve

When I was in the corporate world, I make sure that my learning curve does not take too long. Most companies set 3 months as their employees' learning curve, I am stricter to myself. I want to make sure I know a lot if not everything at the first few weeks. This would mean that I would want to get myself exposed to all kinds of scenarios, with or without supervision - it doesn't matter to me, as long as I know I'll learn and master the job as early as possible.

That was me in the corporate scene. Since blogging was just a hobby, I took my sweet sweet time in learning every nook and cranny in the blockchain. Of course, there's the fear about losing money all those rewards I earned from my posts) if I do something wrong always stops me from moving forward. Even though I know in the grand scheme of things, the only investment I did was my time (in writing all those posts back then). And we all know time is the most precious commodity.

Though that fear of making mistakes, losing big along the way was really crippling, I know now that I should be facing them. Slowly, testing the waters, small amounts at a time. For over a month, I used the internal market on Hive, buying on dips, accumulating more Hive along the way.

When there's Excel, you know sh*t just got real

While I was gaining more Hive in trying to gain more familiarity with buying in the market, I was slowly looking into leodex for other tokens I should acquire. At first, I rely on my memory to count how much I bought of what, and how many tokens I am holding. At this point, I am still in my testing the waters phase. Buying small quantities of tokens here and there.

Right now, I have a small stockpile of tokens I gained from buying in leodex.io. But with the amount of anesthesia injected into my system during childbirth, my memory doesn't really help me much in remembering a lot of numbers. I miss those days when I was the walking talking phonebook. To address this, I have come up with a simple excel file to track all my trading activities in leodex. Though the view and format aren't really that finalized, it works for me now. It shows what I need to see so far.

The data it shows is still very minimal but I know as I learn along the way, I'll be entering more data in it and who knows I might end up creating a more complex file for myself one day. For now, that I'm still in my testing phase, I'd like to keep it simple.

Enjoying the learning journey

The ultimate goal is to be more financially literate both in the crypto world and in real life. And soon, enjoy the realized profits from learning how to trade in Hive, Leodex, and soon in Bittrex. My short term goal is to try out trading in Bittrex by December. Who knows by January, I'll be sharing some analytics I may have done. Now that I am already immersed and now know the Hows, I can move on to the next lessons: the Whys.

I downloaded the Investagrams app and I have read a few articles there about investments. Though Investagrams is more about stocks, the lessons are still applicable in crypto trading. So in a way, crypto trading is like my training grounds for my future endeavor of diving into stocks exchange.

My learning curve may be really slow, but oh well, my only excuse is that this is my pace and my timeline. And I stay true to my motto: Slowly but surely.

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@romeskie is a full-time stay at home mom juggling homeschooling, crocheting, and homemaking. A Business Administration graduate with a major in Marketing who ended up in the contact center industry, on the frontlines, climbing her way up to Workforce Management where she found her passion in real-time analysis and management. A once self-proclaimed careerwoman who soon realized homemaking was her real calling. Her passion varies from reading, writing, photography, and most of all, crocheting.

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