Originally Posted by mineistaken

I wanted to start trading some coins a year or 6 months ago, but bigest drawback was - there was no convenient way to quickly buy them (where you instantly trade cash for BTC) + fees on both ends - when you buy and when you sell.
Lets say you invest in 500$ and want to sell at 525$, 5% that is huge an satisfying profits, but most of it would be eaten by the fees when you buy and sell...
Not sure about current situation, but that was back then when I wanted to speculate.