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I am currently transitioning to sustaining myself as a full time cryptocurrency trader. It is definitely not for everyone, and extremely risky to say the least, but it fits my personality and one of the very few possibilities of earning one’s living without any human interaction. It’s just you and the market.

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It sounds like a joke but you probably mean it.

Why it sounds like a joke?

You're a full time gambler? Or have you somehow figured a way to beat the market?

My risk tolerance is very low, so I focus mostly on automated market making and microstructure trading. It is more like reversing other people’s strategies and designing my own to profit from them.

Which, by the way, is a full time job, you cannot just design some good algorithm and sit back while it earns you money. It is not this easy. :(

No, you're constantly rebuilding.

Like a hedge fund.

It is smart to be doing this now, as it'll only get harder as the large financial firms get better at it over time.

Historically all you had to do is to buy and hold.

In December 2017, sure.

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