Your path to success in cryptocurrency trading and, or investing can be paved in gold if you take appropriate steps to research crypto assets, fund your exchange account, secure your assets and continually monitor your assets to determine optimal buy and sell targets.  To begin trading cryptocurrencies you will require the following:

1) Fiat To Cryptocurrency (Crypto) Exchange account (buy crypto with fiat dollars (credit card, etransfer or ACH/Swift). It also allow you to transfer your earnings into your bank account
2) Identification: You must get verified to trade on fiat to crypto / crypto to crypto exchanges
3) Crypto To Crypto Exchange (these exchanges allow to trade multiple pairs of crypto)
4) Software or Hardware wallet (this tech allow you to securely store your crypto assets)
5) Crypto Exchange Alert (update you when coins/tokens are to be listed on major exchanges)
6) Crypto Portfolio Tracker (monitor your crypto profit/loss in real-time)
7) Crypto Trend Reporting / Research Tools: (monitor market trends & historical data)

FIAT TO CRYPTO EXCHANGE:

For Canadians the fastest way to get approved and buy crypto (under 10 minutes) is with Shakepay. In fact, new users earn $30 once they have created a new account. Apply the funds towards your first crypto purchase or withdrawl to your bank account. Furthermore, Shakepay supports both etransfers and ach as easy methods to fund your account. Once you have purchased your bitcoin or eth you can transfer to a crypto-to-crypto exchange like those listed below.

Go here to buy/fund your Shakepay account via etransfer or ach:
https://shakepay.me

CANADIANS & INTERNATIONAL CRYPTO INVESTORS CAN ALSO USE THE FOLLOWING EXCHANGES:

Coinsquare: 
https://coinsquare.com (Canadians)

CRYPTO TO CRYPTO EXCHANGE:

There are many options to chose from. The list below highlights some of the available options:

Gate
https://www.gate.io

XT (to trade most Meme coins)
https://www.xt.com

MXC
https://www.mexc.com/

Ascendex:
https://ascendex.com

Kucoin:
https://www.kucoin.com

Bitfinex:
https://www.bitfinex.com

Coinbase:
https://www.coinbase.com

Kraken:
https://kraken.com

SECURE YOUR CRYPTO WITH A HARDWARE/SOFTWARE WALLET:

Once you have purchased your cryptocurrencies you can either leave them on a centralized exchange or secure them in a software or hardware wallet. You have many software and hardware wallets to choose from. They include the following:

• Ledger - Hardware
• Trezor - Hardware
• Trust Wallet - Software
• Metamask - Software

GET CRYPTO EXCHANGE LISTING ALERTS:

Cryptocurrency asset prices often increase right after being listed on top exchanges like Coinbase. Get exchange listings before the asset pumps. Use the data to evaluate whether or not you wish to make a purchase while keeping in mind that many projects correct after the Exchange Listing Pump.  Monitor 23645 assets across 43 different exchanges. Receive notifications via Email, SMS, Phone Call, Push, Browser notification, Webhook, Telegram, Discord, or Slack.

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CRYPTO PORTFOLIO TRACKER:

A crypto portfolio tracker allow you to keep track of your profits, losses and portfolio valuation with ease. Many portfolio trackers also allow you to connect to your centralized exchange account via an application programming interface (API) in order to buy and sell crypto assets.   There are many options to choose from; however, you can get started with the following:

• Cointracker Portfolio Tracker
• TradingView Portfolio Tracker
• Coinmarketcap Portfolio Tracker
• Atani Portfolio Tracker

CRYPTO TREND REPORTING / RESEARCH TOOLS:

• Pamper Me Network: A directory of crypto press releases, articles and earning opportunities including (affiliate programs, funding, collaboration and staking opportunities)
• Messari:  Make better trades by learing how to analyze charts. Analyze price, sector and marketcap
• CryptoRank: Monitor the daily, monthly, quarterly, annual and all-time performance of crypto assets
• Glassnode: Monitor crypto (blockchain) network activities including transactions
• LunarCrush: Monitor crypto social media sentiments and trends
• Coin Metrics: Provides financial intelligence, market, index and network data
• Santiment: Provides onchain (blockchain) and social media data of 2000 + crypto assets
• Coin Dance: Monitors heavy data including hash rates, network nodes, fees, block sizes and mining metrics
• CoinGecko: Monitors cryptocurrency prices by marketcap
• Coinmarketcap: Monitors cryptocurrency prices by marketcap
• CoinMarketCal: Cryptocurrency calendar that publishes upcoming events
• CryptoMiso: Research tool that ranks crypto projects based on development activity on Github. This tool helps to determine whether a project is active or not (dead)
• Skew: Data analytical tool that combines data from derivative exchanges onto one screen