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Having trouble deciding if I should sell or hold IOTA. I have 600 shares that I bought a couple days ago at $1.55 and another 390 shares I bought at $2.78.  IOTA is now trading at $3.93.

Upward trend going to continue or is this simply a pump and dump?

You can still hold :)

Time for IOTA will come. IOTA is a really good project. It is coin of next-generation crypto and it has a really bright future.

It uses DAG-system and it solving known problems which blockchain - based cryptos have.

It seems a good project. I do no have much but I think I am gonna hold IOTA little bit more. I am watching it maybe ı can buy more It's prize is very low now, it is a good time for buying if you are still think about it.

it is very difficult question but i think or  i'm feeling it will increase more keep holding good luck

In my opinion IOTA will do a hughe pump in a future . If have some IOTA and I plan hodl it at least a half year . But of course , you can sell it now to receive a good profit and buy something else , that is more perspective than IOTA (sure , if you know such token) . Anyway, that's only yours decision .

well, HOLD!!! HODL!!! the coin is very promising. it has high hopes. I decided to keep at least one year. should give a good profit

I would say sell it because of the new year crypto dump then rebuy after it since all of the coins are way overpriced right now,even Vitalik tweeted did we really earned 500 billion worht of crypto martket.Also i dont know for others but i am having problem with iota withdrawal from finex for a week buy now....

You don't buy shares you bough a currency. Don't listen to other people, make your own dessicion. IOTA has good conecpt I can at least tell you that, but they are still in beta phase and somewhat is a currency thats strictly depended on speculation value more since you can't really use it elsewhere. If you are not certain you could transfer some IOTA to BTC/other crypto/ fiat currency only the amount that you have invested in. So basically all other coins that are left over can stay for holding - its a nice strategy but if its implemented and price of IOTA raises up whell then you lose something...


Yeah I have a felling that all there is is just some big pump since many cryptos are just breaking new ATH, although we might be wrong but there is a good indication that this scene is just a bubble. But for me I guess it i easier to hold my cryptos than to try to re-enter the crypto scene buy selling now and waiting for price to drop or simply use it at places that accept bitcoin and some alts.

honestly i don't know how much is iota 's price is now but for sure i know that iota is very promising alt which i wish to trade with someday.

IOTA is one of the few long-term crypto-currencies. According to the forecasts of specialists, the number of connections in the world of "Internet of things" to 2020 will reach $ 1 billion, which will significantly affect the needs of users in a reliable billing network with transactions without commissions. IOTA has great potential.

Thats a very very very very interesting question, IOTA is for sure an interesting token and the technology is very nice, so its your decision maybe its too hot maybe not, nobody knows it so

Tangle is still a distant concept. I'd rather stick with my blockchains on my portfolio :)

if you're in profit then Sell or if you wanna hold it for the next few years then hold. i read a lot of article about IOTA the next big thing an internet of things, big companies has announced that they wanted to partner IOTA on their project.

In the long term I think it has a lot of potential because not every crypto based business partners up with Microsoft. I think IOTA can become something really big in the future, so my recommendation is to hold it.

Iota created a big hype among us last  week. All these rumors including the one with Microsoft got us thinking if iota will keep on going up. It seems it will stay in these levels for a while . We will see where it goes after we learn the truth behind these rumors.

Hodl everything!  The way new money is flooding into the market, you could throw a dart at a list of coins at make a fortune!

i just some IOTA before and i still hold it. if i'm sale now i get very huge profit  :P sale or not?

So based on your post you already made money so why are you still holding? You wan't to earn more? Selling and Buying again is not a good idea because we cant tell if IOTA price will drop after New Year. After you sold IOTA what are your plans with the proceeds? You plan to buy another coin and wait till profit? Its same thing? But at the end of the day its still you who will decide if you will sell or not.

If you have large fund, you should definetly hold. But your intention is to make money via trade, then you may change your focus (at least I did).

Hold some sell some :) Diversify and good luck! Don't put all eggs in one basket as they say...

Should sell a half of you own. I hold all of my IOTA. Cannot believe that IOTA increasing 600% from October. Sometimes, price is $5.x/ IOTA, so we can believe in IOTA at future will hit and pass this price again.

I want to put all my savings in IOTA... but i am not 100%.

Easy, buy the upcoming dip below 18-20k satoshi and enjoy the upcoming ride :)

In my opinion any others similar project like IOTA that development internet of thing, that project is DATA Stream and this project in my opinion look better, so by divide the money by portfolio each 50% to IOTA and to DATA is good decision. These project has big potential so just hold it.

I think it's a great long term project, so it depends how far you're looking into the future. If you want to trade, sell when it's handsomely up, get rid of half your stack or more and hold a bit more for further profits. If that doesn't concern you, ride the waves and HODL.

Sell your first bought IOTA  then buy every dip repeat the process with proper trading and you will gain profit more. HODL most of your shares.

I think you should hold until the next pump.  It's had a massive rally up and the price compared to BTC is down at the moment.  It could drop more imo, but if you hold you should be good.

There are true believers of iota, but tangle is just a new technology. It's not proven yet, I think it's in hype period now, became ver popular and people are buying this in crazy rates.

It's a good thing to sell at the peak

IOTA is a good coin to hold. Microsoft has adopted it for its internet of things project. so i will recommend that, those who bought it cheap to hold it. it will grow more.

Yes, I agree with you. you can sell some to get your capital back and HODL the rest for big gains.
it will make people millionaires. It's a good coin to hold.

I think that you should sell it. In the next months, obviously, the price will strongly fall. Current price is magical and we should take use of it.

I will not advice you to invest all your savings in crypto currencies.
no matter how good the currency seems to be,
Invest what you can afford to loose.
Thats the rule of thumb for crypto investments.

I like Iota and i'm definitely keep holding. For me, it's just not the right time to sell, i mean at least you can consider waiting few months more. Of course it's your decision but you better think twice mate :D

Iota is one of those do or die investments I think.
Yeah, you can sell now for a small profit, but if you really understand what it is about, you can see that it has insane potential.

That's why most people who invest in iota are in it for the super long term, we're talking 2 to 3 years holding.
There are a lot of naysayers about the project, and of course, we can't see the future on if the project can really work or not, but I believe it has potential.

It is also a large enough project that it won't just suddenly crash and die, there is too much support and development for that to happen.

If you only bought 600, then I would say you can sell now and make a nice little profit.
If you was to go big with iota, then aim to put in $2000 or more and hold for a long time.
Of course, now would be a bad time to buy more, just wait until it price corrects and then buy in.

Hodl IOTA have an prediction by next year increase the price and pump in the market price, don't worry and be patience and calm yourself i know nervious is the part of tranding investment.

I sold my all IOTA at 5.20 level. Now I am waiting for a good position to buy again. But I dont wanna buy during downtrend. I dont know when it is gonna start pumping again. But you should hodl your IOTA you already have profit as well and it may go up again.

I considered selling but I held. After seeing massive downward wave I regret not selling at high.

Anyway, I will buy some more, hold until the right time.

I am more specific to hold the coin, because I believe the coin will rise and increase in price in the future. so it is suitable to be a long-term investment.

Be careful because IOTA is already on top. It would be impossible for it to beat Ethereum or Bitcoin itself. IOTA has sped up from down under to a spot up there in the high ranks but I would assure you that IOTA is not a mere pump and dump coin. Right now, it has gone down a little from your mentioned $3.93. I have just checked IOTA's price out in coinmarketcap and it says there that IOTA is currently valued at $3.70.

Iota is great project, so may positive comment around this forum amd also outside about iota.
In my opinion, regarding the good support to iota, i will hold it for any longer.

Sell 60% and HOLD 40% this is the great way to make some profit and hold some profit on it. IOTA will boom by christmas and also it will dump by new year. Buy some of it on new year when it dump. IOTA is an undervalued coin that has great potential in it.

Psychology Today article on FUD cycle featuring Iota:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/how-fear-is-being-used-manipulate-cryptocurrency-markets

Current IOTA price: $3.53 (-14.98), Source:https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iota.

If you have bought $1.55 and $2.78 respectively, then the average you have spent is $2.94. Let's do the math here:

Total Shares: 990
Avg. Spent: $2.94
=990 X $2.94
Total Value of Shares: $2,910.60

Total Shares: 990
Current IOTA Price: $3.53
=990 X $3.53
Total Gains: $3,494.70

=$3,494.70 - $2,910.60
Net Profit: $584.10

Base from the computation given above, you have already gain profits from what you have invest. If I am in your current situtation, I would immediately sell my shares. Its current trend is more likely a pump and dump. I won't wait till the value gets lower as this will make your net profit below $500. You can buy at a certain value if the price starts to rise up again.

If you were to sell it, you are selling it for btc.  But when you get that btc, are you going to hold onto that btc... or are you going to sell the btc to usd and then have a bank transfer to lock in your 500 dollar plus profit?  Or would you sell it for btc and sell it for usdt and then have that usdt as profit but then wait to buy something else?

IOTA is a good project it's just that like bitcoin it will experience pump and dump in price that's their nature anyway you can sell half of it if your in doubt or convert them into bitcoin that will assure you of good return after holding for quite some time. But taking risk with alts may give possibilities of good harvest soon you just have to be patience.

better sell. IOTA is hard. Their wallet is poorly designed and you always hard to find a node to send and receive coin. Their code is not open source, hence i seriously doubt it will be highly adopted by big companies such as Microsoft. There are currently many new platforms claim to be next gen. Companies like Microsoft could easily find an alternative and modify it for IOT. Current price of IOTA is too high. It will drop back to 1.8-2.2 soon.

Hold some if you are losing trade right now,disposing it without profit is useless even the hype is gone with this coin theres still hope in the future that it will pump.

400-500 billion marketcap so still small as I think so all altcoin price will keep going up. people should keep hold your coin . top 10 coin is da best include IOTA

I think if IOTA has a good coin in the hold first, because I believe IOTA coins will bsia have a good price in the future and will be pumped because IOTA project is good.

i think we should hold the IOTA if you believe that it will have a bright future in the next few years. but if you are satisfied now about its price, you should also sell if you really need the money, it also has a risk if you hold. the price could get low because we cannot be sure about the price of the coins.

Interesting... I  wish someone would explain the IOTA wallet a bit more as I think there would be more buyers of the coin if their full node/light node steps weren't so complicated or maybe if there was something like a Jaxx or Coinomi wallet.

Also Iota is loosing a bit of steam because of that article that apparently wanted to receive hits by saying they're in partnership with Microsoft. Once that got clarified I think that's why you're seeing a small dump on the markets. It will be short lived but others will get scared and think "ohh no it's a scam" and also dump their own coin.

Still that should iron itself out shortly as others takes advantage of the drop in price and join in the fray.

I've wanted some IOTA for days but their wallet is so damn confusing. Full Node? Light Node? Also it kept telling me I was offline. I just felt like should I really attempt to shapeshift a small amount for IOTA just for it to disappear because the wallet isn't connecting properly? That's the one thing that I feel would sink IOTA ....that damn wallet. I also don't feel safe holding any coins on an exchange at all really because you just never know when they'll decide "nah we're letting this coin go" and in a hasty fashion, you transfer out to a wallet that isn't set up or worse they just disappear right in the middle of a trade.   

I still think IOTA is an interesting project I just want to make sure if I receive IOTA that it's actually going to be accessible with minimal issues that the average person with the right "basic steps" can figure out.

Just sell it of you get any profit now. If the price lower than buy price, hold it till a certain loss limit that you set.
Iota has big supporter in the back might be the price will increase. Before increasing, the price will do correction first.

While agree that the wallet should be improved, you have to insert the caveat that the main development is on machine-to-machine tx, so their focus is on that and the data marketplace. They offloaded an upgraded wallet to a third party, so should be here soon. Just don't confuse them for a p2p coin--it's simply not their main market.

i suggest to invest on another coin. iota is a good coin but the reason significant increase that happen before cause people think they have partnership with microsoft.  i think so sad to know it were wrong and make the value drop so deep.

compute your profit and know your percentage goal for your investment. Sometimes being too greedy because of pumps will give more lose than a profit specially when an alt is suddenly changing. Try having 40 to 50% profit from your investment then sell.

More research, less FUD:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/how-fear-is-being-used-manipulate-cryptocurrency-markets

Right now altcoins seems growing good in value. Maybe this can be used as an opportunity to earn holding iota as well other altcoins. Today the price has dropped in value, so this too can be used as an way for buying and holding purpose.

I think sell IOTA is good choice. I think it was high price. Don't hold after so long. I scarry the price will decrease :) it is just my opinion :)

I advise you sell about 60% of your IOTA to buy some other trending coin. Take your profit and hold the rest.
Take note some coins are future coins and at the right time, the price will pump

price increase and decrease all the time. so the basic is do you belive in this coin? do you believe in IOTA. that's all

Hold it till it gets $10 they have high demands so high chance to increase

Its really hard to say. Just like other coins, their value is very unstable. It might increase very fast or it might cease to exist quickly. So you have to decide carefully. For me, I think when it doubles its current value, its time to sell it. Don't hold it very long because it might decrease its value rapidly. But still, it depends on your preference. Give a IOTA a little more time to prove itself and its worthiness in the crypto market.

We could never know but seems this alt coin is in a serious run since it has very big market capital now at 10,045,222,443$ which means many investors pour in their money on this alt coin. So why not HODL it for good and wait till next year before you decide whether you continue HODLing it or selling it.

No one knows what is going on in this market. IOTA is very potential so keep it low

I sold 100 mIOTAs at 2.5, then it rose to 5+. Now I'm holding it, will buy again 200-300 IOTA, but it means to go back to shitty bitfinex experience.

It is difficult to say something about this coin know what the project is good. Innovative. They have problems but solve them. But with regards to the latest growth. He was on the news and then they turned out to be false and now there is a fall. I think the coin from the top 10 looks very good for investment now.

If you are really into it,hold it for o moment it should pump more news are coming in IOTA's development.

I agree there are upcoming news and partnership with the big companies,IOTA's technology has a lot to offer.

I think you do not need to sell, a pretty good coin for long-term retention, I think it's not a lot to buy yet until the price has fallen, and the bets on it are not even very small for the next year, it can give a lot of x

IOTA still seems to me to be a coin of great potential, so I suggest you keep holding it, perhaps it will give you a bigger surprise next month.

This is so specific coin and the success depends on people,because its a tangle based-technology,Wich means: more and more people = high price of IOTA, Because people confirm each other's transactions and that's why Devs promise us that we will make easily micro and nano transactions and thats why i think you must hold it and buy more and more,but its your choice and i cann't predict it 100 %.It depends on some questions for example if you need money,so its depends on you there is no guaranteed response

With the base price of IOTA at the moment is 4$ and the changes of price of the IOTA from previous months indicating that is on the increasing side, by considering all these can come to the conclusion that it's better to hold it for the long term that gives a good margin of profit.

Have you tried binance? They are pretty good exchange, new to the market tho... But yeah I don't trust bitfinex because of some reason, I will advise you to go to binance and try it out if you are looking another exchange where to trade IOTA, or you may want to wait till price falls and buy at dip either way.

One can not say dump or pamp happens to IOTA. I would advise to sell part (50%) and the rest leave.

I will still hold my IOTA even the rumors are fake,i will continue to hold the 3,500 iotas i have and wait for another pump.

I think that the paradigm of Internet of Thing will continue to develop along with other IT technologies and such crypto tokens like IOTA will grow on the higher level. So I would hold IOTA for at least some months.

From the intention of market I obtained from the traders, they will hold iota to see better prices in 2018, yet this could not be enough. Anyway, if you trust it, keep holding your iota.

I would not keep it, I do not know why she is so popular, as it seems to me, this is all deliberately invented around her, in fact, grow it will not be so as to buy it

Yeah, I've heard and understand few positive things about IOTA and would likw to HOLD for long term and ripple as well.
Do not look for selling them just for now at sudden pump. If you have idea for long term holding then dont get excited for single spike. Try to control yourself for holding. Selling should reward you something big,
BTW no one will give you exact answer about the trend in future. Its totally depends on their vision and developing their project

I would hold. There has been a decline in value because of the announcement they are not officially cooperating with Microsoft. The project is still solid though, so the value will go up again when people have calmed down. I think this coin has a lot of potential left.

A good project. He has a decent technology. I hold a little IOTA. I think in a year he will make a 1000% minimum. Just keep in the long perspectives.  8)

It is better to hold because 2018 is the year of crypto and it might have a chance rise up until the planet mars. It is a good project for everyone for having a goos sysytem. Holding is the best option for you.

I think the price will be up to 5.5-6 $ because there are not so many useless coins like IOTA,therefore,People  don’t understand it yet,they just follow trends of the market.today crypyo market is not stable,But I think The demand will rise  soon and we must use this opportunity and buy as more as we can,Because by this we have a good opportunity to make microtransactions cheaper and faster.So I hope this coin will be very successful and we need it because there is a big problem of sustainability.that’s why You must keep your coins but Its your choice....