What is the difference between swing trade and DCA?
Well, basically both are same. DCA itself a swing trade.
While swing trade is a strategy used by institutional traders, DCA or Dollar Cost Averaging is a simplified term used by index funds and investment companies.It’s like photosynthesis and food production. Swing trade is a process to achieve DCA.
But there is a difference. When you do DCA, you only focus on Dollar. Your target is get more coins with less dollar. On swing trade, the base currency can be anything. For me, I use BTC as base currency and don’t keep money in USDT. When I trade, I buy the currency with BTC.
So technically I cannot call this DCA.Why I keep my money in BTC? Because I don’t want to see my money deprecating over time.Another good thing is, if you trade with BTC pairs instead of USDT pairs, you can easily see where the market is moving. When you see, market is in bullish trend and keep putting money, I see market is stable.
As other currencies are going up following BTC. I only see a coin bullish when it’s growing faster than BTC. This is one of my secret to find good coins to invest for sort-term. At the end, I don’t want to sell my coins in profit and get USD, I want to sell my coins in profit to get more BTC.BTC is the future, not paper money that US government prints.