These days, people don't have to get special training to identify a money farm. Solely working hard is slowly becoming a sign of ignorance. Infact, the advice has shifted from "work hard" to "ask your financial adviser". This is because innovations in technology has created new platforms for buying and selling.

In today's world, most of the physical goods and services have adopted digital forms, with the rest opting for virtual reality. Funny as it sounds, people now build houses and buy lands on the internet. These properties are then sold like they are physical properties.

Amidst this barrage of innovation is an investment opportunity that fails to provided a limited lost of testimonials. It's a mathemagical concept developed from a combination of mathematics and digitalized financial models. It was christened "Crypto".

CRYPTO AS AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

Ease, returns, genuinity, security, scalability,... just name it, it's most probably present on the list of the advantages of investing in crypto. Infact, you only have to "ask your financial adviser" and "do your diligent research" which sometimes, is as easy as searching "Top crypto prospect this year" on Google.

To invest in crypto, you basically needn't anything but money, emails, mobile phone numbers and an internet enabled device with an internet connection. Platforms like Kucoin and Huobi lets you roll without KYC.

Where to invest also comes with low risk options like perennially profitable projects like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Keep your nose on the ground and you'll probably sniff out the next AXS or SOL and turn your $10 into $1500.

To think that keeping you keys private means even your government can't touch your asset makes crypto sound like a safe haven. And if you want to scale your investment, it's only a question of "by how much?".

USING INVESTMENT TOOLS TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION

Okay, now you've heard that someone could put in $10 and get $1500 from a crypto asset and there's an idle $100 in your possession and you're beginning to do the maths... Wait a minute, you can also lose 90% of your funds through bad decisions so better read on.

Before you sign out your however earned money to a crypto investment, you need to understand that the driving force of the crypto market is volatility. In English, this means you can lose up to $90 in a minute when you put $100 in the wrong asset. So here are some investment tools you need to identify the right asset and the right time to invest.

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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS/INDICATORS: When investing in crypto, you have the news, rumours, charts and your instinct to guide you. Haha. But don't listen to any of them first, rather make some technical analysis and look at tools like technical indicators. Many times, you'll have second thought. To use the indicators, get elaborate charts like Tradingview charts that have them built in. You can stick around the Cryptoacademy if you want to learn how to use some of them.

STOPLOSS: Stoploss is the price point you preset your investment to close when the market goes against you. You do this because there's always a chance that you loose, even if Evgenii the whale told to you enter the market and you don't want to lose a lot of money in the name of risk.

TAKE PROFIT: Here's another preset point but this time to ensure that you secure your profit. You need it so you don't kick yourself after you've accumulated profit on an investment, hesitated and lost a good part of it. The reverse is unfortunately true though, so I guess it boils down to your precepts on safety.

ONCHAIN METRICS: Some other tool you'll enjoy is onchain metrics. The only scare is it's a bit advanced, financially I mean, if you want to use it. It's just as vast as the technical indicators but you need special service providers to access these kind of data. It tells you exactly what's happening onchain which is the real situation, not what the news says. It can be done through websites like glassnode, santiment, intotheblock, etc.

FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS TOOLS: It's also important to check the background story of any coin you're about investing in. This is called fundamental analysis. It can be done through website like CoinmarketCap and CoinGecko.

PRIVATE SALE IN CRYPTOCURRENCY

There are different ways a token can kick off. It could pretty much be airdropped to selected VIPs or better still, they could be used to make good friends. Many brilliant project founders however decided to kickstart with something called a private sale.

In a private sale, selected individuals are invited to a closed door event where they introduced the coin for the first time, if it's the first round. These selected individuals get the tokens at a very cheap rate, the cheapest actually as it's the first sale.

The money realized from this private sale is not profit, no it's for further expenses to be run in the project. After private sale, it's expected that the project should have acquired some financial resources to get on impressively.

Benefits

Huge Profits: One good thing about being an investor in a private sale is that you get the token at the cheapest price. This means your return on investment or profit should the token make it to main net will be huge. Some tokens are sold for $0.22 and go on to be worth $150. Crazy right?

Funding: After private sale, the project behind the token gets much needed funding. With this, more work can be done like completing the mainnet, listing on exchanges, etc.

Risks

Huge Risks: I don't mean to abuse your psyche but you could participate in a private sale and later find out that you just did some charity. Yeah. Some coins may never make it to the main net and that means all the money spent on those coins are gone.

PRESALE IN CRYPTOCURRENCY

After private sale, there's another round of sales called presale. Here they hope to increase the price of the token and sell at a higher price. While you may see it as buy at a discount lower than the initial discount, it is actually a way to keep the private sale buyers positive that the tokens will appreciate in value.

In pre sale, the discount is reduced and the price is increased from the private sale. The audience is also increased as more and more people get in on this new token. If the token makes it to pre sale after private sale, that alone is a sign of progress.

Benefit

Huge Profits: Though not as huge as that of private sale, the profit is still quite huge. Buying at presale is earlier and cheaper than subsequent sales.

Less Risk: Buying at a presale is less risky than at private sale. At presale, the token has proven to keep to timetable. It's still new but is showing signs of progress. Generally, there's a confidence that by the time sale kicks off, the price will be quite higher than presale.

Funding: After a presale, more funds is generated for the project. They can continue with the development of the project from this funds and this will bring the project closer to achieving one of it's milestone targets - going live.

Risks

Possible Risk: Though at presale, the token may still fall short of main net. There are no guarantees in crypto and so after presale, the token may not go on to be as productive as assumed. The token could also be faced with challenges from competition and this may reduce it's prospect.

PUBLIC SALE IN CRYPTOCURRENCY

This is the last stage of fundraising for the token. Here, the public is involved as the most awareness is created. The issuers of the tokens are making one last move to raise funds and increase the token's growing list of users. It also serves as a means of selling the tokens at a higher price.

The price at which the token is sold during public sale is higher than in the private sale and presale. The discount is further reduced from presale making public sale have the lowest discount in fundraising phases. The good thing though is that more users are expected to adopt the token as the reach of public sale is widest, including the entire public.

Benefit

More Profits: After participating in a public sale, you're bound to get more profits than people who buy on exchanges. As a matter of fact, most times, when a coin gets listed on an exchange, price increases as much as 3000% but you won't get this if you didn't at least participate in a public sale.

Least Risk: Compared to the other rounds of sales, the public sale carries the least risk. After the first two rounds, the token's community should have grown significantly and from then on, you can tell how close the project is to succeeding or failing.

Increase in Community: At public sale, the token's community members increases. The general public now know of a token that has gone through previous rounds of sale and is about to be listed on exchanges. Most people begin to find out how to acquire the tokens before it's listing so the can benefit from the early profit which is usually very sure.

Funding: After the public sale, the project gets more funding and further development can continue on the project. This funding is most likely going to be more than the previous rounds.

Risks

Possible Risks: The public sale is not void of risk. One may engage funds in a project that may not yield profits when there are other better proven alternatives. Also, the project Amy never make it to exchanges as planned.

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investment through private and public sales

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