i need help on this future treading. how do you make money when the market moves against you. it is not clear to me. i hope someone will eplain better. How is it possible to gain from a bear market. Tezos has been my favourite for a very long time.
Hi Tonymillee, thanks for your reply. You can make profits trading on
Bull and
Bear markets using crypto
futures contracts. Basically, if you feel that the price of
XTZ is going
UP, so you can
BUY (long) and if you fell the price is going
DOWN you can
SELL (short) and make profits on the
downtrend.
For example: Let's suppose you
BUY 10 contracts of XTZ paying
2.61 each, which is worth about
26.20 TUSD. To do that you need to have a bit more of only
1 TUSD of
margin, as can be seen on the screenshot below. So, if the price goes
UP, you can
SELL those 10 contracts for a
Higher Price and make
profits. It is like many traditional spot exchanges.

But, if you think the price is going
DOWN, so you can
SELL (short). Let's suppose you
SELL 10 XTZ contracts per
2.61 each and when the price of XTZ is now
Lower or reached a point that you think it may start to grow again, so you
BUY 10 contracts to close that first transaction, and so you make profits on the
bear market as well.
It doesn't matter if you buy or sell, the margin is the same. So you can make profits if you think the price is going
UP you
BUY LOWER to
SELL HIGHER, but you also can make profits if you think the price is going
DOWN. Thus, in
BEAR markets you
SELL HIGHER to
BUY LOWER.
You don't need to have the crypto you are trading. Let's suppose you have 10 TUSD in your account and you think the price of XTZ is going
DOWN. So, you just open a
SELL position of XTZ. You don't need to have XTZ in your portfolio to SELL because you are trading contracts of XTZ and not XTZ itself.
I hope this explanation helps you to make profits in the Bear markets as well, but if you still have some doughts please feel free to ask me or other community members that may help you too, but if you like you can submit your telegram and we can chat personally.