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My YouTube video that explains it : 2018 COIN PORTFOLIO and.... TRADING STRATEGIES (https://youtu.be/9zQO99uXUG0)


My Portfolio

42% ETH
24% OMG
10% DCR
10% WAX
12% DSH
1% XMR
1% Bitcoin


Below I will list links to my Medium articles which will explain everything you need to know about them:

Understanding Ethereum (https://medium.com/@therealtimforrest/understanding-ethereum-38bd1dad6838)
Everything you need to know about OmiseGo (https://medium.com/@therealtimforrest/everything-you-need-to-know-about-omisego-8adedf13e815)
What is the Cryptocurrency Decred? (https://medium.com/@therealtimforrest/what-is-the-cryptocurrency-decred-8da02cb0d76f)
Wax cryptocurrency (https://medium.com/@therealtimforrest/wax-cryptocurrency-9965e1c52387)
The hype around the cryptocurrency Dash! (https://medium.com/@therealtimforrest/the-hype-around-the-cryptocurrency-dash-1506fd85368c)
What is the cryptocurrency Monero? (https://medium.com/@therealtimforrest/what-is-the-cryptocurrency-monero-142663366293)



Intro to trading
Making money is relative, if you have a million dollars but invested $999,999 it seems less impressive than if you started with $1k or even $500k. You should be more focused on percentage gains, 10%, 20% etc. You can make a ton of money and people have made millions, but lets bring it into reality. In order for you to make money someone needs to lose out. Someone has to sell the coin for less, or buy it more expensive than you did in order for you to actually make money. So there are losers and winners in the market, not everyone is going to win the same and not everyone will lose the same. Thats life.

The best thing you can do is spend time to actually research the market and study the different coins which can be very time consuming. If you dont have time and want to make money, you should be investing traditionally where it is regulated and you can get a financial advisor. If you have time, you can research and it could POSSIBLY be worth your time.
Yes investing in random coins can make you money, but not intelligently. It is possible to make money and have random gains however over the long term you wont keep making money. Coins and ICO’s are moving into new directions and it will become harder to find the best ones that will have long term gains.


Trading strategies


“Hodl” is not a good strategy, because it assumes you have invested in a long term coin. When investing you should be evaluating the market often, and reading market and specific market news. If you just “hodl” blind it won't be very effective. If you are not going to research you should get a financial advisor.


Free roll method - If you don't like risk, you should try and attempt this method. You should never invest what you can't afford to lose, but if you get some money for your birthday and decide to invest this might be the best option. The free roll method is when you invest $1,000 and then when it goes to $1500 or $2000 typically you will withdraw your original $1000 and Free roll your investment. Now you can sweat the market without having any of your actual money into it. Now of course your investment is not guaranteed to go up, so it is assumed you actually do research and find coins that have a good chance in increasing. This method can also be used in riskier coins, that you got lucky on that actually made money.

Buying in at different times - This method is used when making an initial investment. You shouldn't be buying coins that are at a high or flying up 100%. You should be buying coins that are down and have a chance to reach the appropriate high. So for example if I want to buy X coin with $1000 and its down 10%, I will invest $500 today which leaves me with 500 left to invest. Then if it keeps going down, I can invest the other $500 or do 300 and then 200. If it goes up, my investment would have been better obviously if I had purchased it from the start. This is another conservative investing strategy.


Understanding risk management

Depends on your risk tolerance, but typically older people have less risk and younger people who don’t have a lot of bills will assume more.
If you have high risk, then you will still want to make less risky investments to save you. ( And vise versa )

Thanks for the excellent strategy, not often someone would like to conduct a thorough analysis in the world of crypto-currencies. I can add from myself that if there is not enough time, you can concentrate on infrastructure projects, some of them will die, but some will become unicorns. For example: EOS, Wanchain, Icon.

A good read bud with some solid advice. Thx for taking the time.

No WALTON?

Why bother having 1% in bitcoin?

I prefer to have a part of my portfolio in ICO's of blockchain/fintech projects. And around 5-10% in microcap coins - they have a potential to make x10-x100. This can be seen as a "shotgun" approach.

you choose minimum risk bro :) your profit will be good and bring minimum stress for you..

A good list, I agree with almost all coins, especially I like DCR think that this coin is very much underestimated

Thanks I appreciate the kind words :)


No problem I am glad you enjoyed it.



It is more of a novelty of being able to say I own bitcoin. However if you are making a connection that 1% wont be a lot of money, its relevant.



I have not been a huge ICO investor, however I have bought into a few that didnt make the list because I either sold them on an exchange or they aren't even 1%. I also make some investments in projects and things like that around cryptocurrency. Not just coins. Yeah I mean that certainly plays into the risk management, if they are going to 10-100x then that is rare and shouldnt consume a large % of your portfolio unless you just want to gamble.



I have been invested in cryptocurrency since 2011.... so I got bitcoin very cheap, and have gotten into the other currencies early. Not saying I have a ton of money, but yes I realize the market caps are high now but when I invested they weren't. So I am perfectly fine ridding them out and they still have a lot of room to grow since they cryptocurrency is undervalued. I wouldnt say "minimum stress" because cryptocurrency is very risky, regardless of if you buy bitcoin or Ethereum.

Which coins would you disagree with? Yes I am very happy that I found out about Decred :)

for myself in the year 2018 I focus on investing in Ethereum alone because I really like this coin.

Yeah for sure, and if you can find the best Ethereum project ( which I would say is OMG ) then you can make a nice profit :)

My Portfolio

70% DCR
25% BTC
5% SMART

I like DCR think that this coin is very much underestimated

A good long list worth to go through. Obviously you did some homework on the coins. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks I appreciate it :)

Thanks a lot for these many tips you are sharing here. I think newbies in trading should be listening to you so they can avoid the many pitfalls and traps that are just laying around. I am not really a good trader myself that is why I love reading ideas and tips coming from someone who is already into this whole thing. As to the idea of HODLING it is for the long-term...like buying it now and just forgetting about it for some months when the value has already risen enough. The 'hodl' strategy can only work if the coin or token is really a good project so we have to avoid those 'shitcoins' around as many of them don't really have a future and just made for the pump-and-dump segment of the cryptocurrency market.

You forgot to add plenty of coins in there, first of all, where is Horse in there? You can easily make a x10 just if you buy that coin.

It is below $0,20 cents right now, and it is being traded on IDEX, i have already made a x5 since it got listed.

niccee, thank you for incentive strage

Thanks for  this wonderful video, it really help a lot for a new trader like me. In my opinion the top 10 or top 20 ranking on cryptocurrency market are also like a blue chip investment in stock market like they are now in a slow gain but stable for a long term investment unlike other coin are also like a penny chip where it has a higher gain but for a short term investments like pump and dump.

I appreciate the comment :) Yeah I mean the strategy can work and people can get lucky. The only issue is that most coins suck, and so if you give someone the advice of generally to hold. They generally will be holding shit coins you know? It is okay to hold, but you shouldn't hold for the sake of holding.



These are the type of things I am trying to avoid and have others avoid. Not that the coins are bad, I dont know them. However "easily 10x". Go get a loan from an institutional investor and become a millionaire if it is easily 10x.


You welcome :)


You are welcome :) Yeah they are "sort" of like them, however like I noted in the video any cryptocurrency is still very risky.

A fantastic strategy. I like to do the same, and I support you 100%.

Building a strong portfolio (a good portfolio will steadily increase in value over time, no matter what happens to the individual tokens/coins inside it), deciding on what to trade, what to hold short, what mid and what long term and rolling off your investments is really a way to go.

Timing the market is the hardest thing for trading and short term holding but if you simply follow the general rule you described about when to buy and when not - it should be more or less fine.

One should also have a good tracking system - like keeping everything noted in an app like Blockfolio.
And I also suggest keeping an eye on airdrops. There were a lot of rubbish ones lately, but you can indeed earn a lot by investing nothing except a little time.

I don't know why are you keeping such a big part of your portfolio in ETH right now and I have some doubts about the purpose of some other coins (OMG for example) but looking backward on the crypto market I still belive in their growth. The coolest thing in your thread is that you are one of the few people that bothered to give an explanation to the logic of making investments instead of saying "this shit is good, buy it and it wil make x100". Thanks mate.

Indeed, in my opinion, your portfolio is indeed excellent.
But why not invest in some ICO projects? If the money invested in the ICO project accounts for 20 percent of all your money, you won't care if it goes to 0, but the benefits will be substantial.

You have to remember that I bought ETH awhile ago, and so since it has been on a tear it has taken a large percent of my portfolio. ( although I have been profit taking and adjusting it ) I am a strong believer in it, and see the 2018 future. Thanks I appreciate it :)


I do invest in some ICO's, however I have not found many that have sparked my attention. I have also bought some in the past and then sold on exchanges which is why they weren't listed, and because I rounded up the percents not everything was shown.


Thanks I appreciate it :) Yeah for sure, I track my investments on a lot of different trackers and have a excel for tax purposes.

I like your portfolio. But I oh, just 1% BTC and XMR :)
That's quite little in my opinion.

you have good coins ,however, you aren't dividing them properly . put some in STRATIS

What would you suggest?


I dont like Stratis.

This is good portfolio. Thanks or sharing. My portfolio at the moment i hold about 20 different altcoin because so many altcoin that has huge potential and i dont know excalty which will be most promising one.

Hard to invest in a lot of different coins because you have to keep up with them. Watch the road maps and specific news pertaining to the coin. Lots of work but can be rewarding.

What about XEM (NEM) and ADA (Cardano) they should be promising?

I see you have a couple of Privacy coins in your list, i would like to bring your attention to another upcoming privacy coin with good roadmap and most important is to get in early.

They say 2018 will be the year for the privacy coins and i like Turtlecoin (TRTL). Just over a month old and only started trading on its first exchange, tradeogre.com a few days ago. Current price on tradeogre is 2sats - was 1sat yesterday lol.

Its easy to mine  - if you have a decent GPU you should be able to get 20K coins per day. A lot of folks are throwing nicehash power at the pools recently so mining payoff on your own GPU has come down a bit.

https://turtlecoin.lol/

Have a read of the website and head over to the discord group where you will find a lot of friendly people to help you out with any questions.

https://discord.gg/MqArNGV

No ICO, No premine, no shenanigans.

DYOR and Good luck.

Have been interested in Cardano, but not going to invest in it.

Check out this new coin, already on exchange!  ROI looks very good!  Medical Cryptocurrency with Masternode!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2753447.0

Do your own research, study your own investments :) and luck will come to you :)

Thanks for sharing your experience. Personally i prefer to hold young altcoins because they can bring bigger profit in short term.
I actually hold NIO, DATUM, PRIX, GENESIS, ..

I like you picks but surprise you put just 1% in Bitcoin, also why is there no NEO tokens in your portfolio, this year I am more bullish on NEO than Ethereum, NEO is going to witness a significant growth this year

going for new ICO coins is the way to do it. Try looking at real-world ICO business models like ATFS.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2612592.720

I love this thread, you show people the way to get in crypto market!
1 vote for you! Good job bro!

His coins is not that good, the price of which he will get to be able to cash the money out make come or it might not. That's too much risk for the average trader.

My Portfolio in 2018：
XRP：80%
ETH：10%
XLM：10%

Thanks man :)




Not sure what you are even trying to say, but you do know that " be able to cash the money out might come or it might not" is for every single coin and investment right?




I dont personally like XRP, but good luck with it :)

It's with every coin though I'm just trying to say that there is no single strategy to invest. A holder with plenty coins can kill the whole project if he dumps the price.
You do have a solid technique though.

Wow, 80% XRP + 10 XLM? It's like 80% BTC + 10 BCH  :) Poor choice, no diversification. :-\

I think, chinese coins will fly this year. So,
VEN - 30% (obviously)
NEO - 20% (obviously)
XEM - 20% (aimed at the Asian market)
BTC - 20% (out of respect for grandpa)
BCH - 10% (don't like this fork, but it will be pumped for sure ;D)

Thanks for your job. I agree with you in the most part. But I'm going to have a bit more Bitcoins in my portfolio. BTC still is very promising.

No problem with having more BTC, I just dont like the far future of it.

I think ethereum is a really good choice. And also I think it might be better if you increase your bitcoin percentage. In addition to these, maybe you can consider about stellar or litecoin. Good luck!

I dont personally like Bitcoin, lots of transaction problems. I will likely keep 1%. I have considered adding some litecoin to combat my bitcoin investment. I am doing more research and thinking of buying 3-6%.

I would definitely consider this coin, it has a niche market and had an amazing start!

Check out this new coin, already on exchange!  ROI looks very good!  Medical & Commercial Cryptocurrency with Masternode and Privacy!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2753447.0

Do your own research, study your own investments :) and luck will come to you :)


The stats are taking from https://masternodes.online/currencies/MEDIC/
Daily income
$1,401.8983
0.12076497 BTC
7821.5653 MEDIC

Weekly income
$9,813.2878
0.84535478 BTC
54750.9571 MEDIC

Monthly income
$42,056.9477
3.62294905 BTC
234646.959 MEDIC

Yearly income
$511,692.8636
44.07921340 BTC
2854871.3345 MEDIC

ROI (annual):   1427.44% / 26 days
Paid rewards for masternodes:   179,896.0010 MEDIC
AVG masternode reward frequency:   29m 19s
Masternodes total:   23
Supply:   155,804,306 MEDIC
Coins locked:   4,599,977 MEDIC (2.95%)
Required coins for masternode:   199,999 MEDIC
Masternode worth:   $35,846.82 / 3.08798 BTC

After I see "returns" I am automatically not interested.

If you have funds dedicated to investment, do you think it is still good to apply the Free-roll strategy for managing your funds? I'm more fond to go all in, of course if I could completely afford to invest/lose the initial capital.

Depends on your risk management, and willingness to hold a coin.

Some coins with great potential and still a low price that you should hold through 2018 are ONION, XSPEC and NAV.

Not really interested in those, but if you have invested in them then good luck!

thanks for your advice. This will help many newcomers. I went to see the coins you said. It is indeed a good choice. I will refer to your suggestion. :D

Thanks I appreciate it :)

I think your ethereum decision is logic, but I can't understand that, why you have little bitcoin?

In my opinion, you can consider on XLM, NEO and LTC also. Good luck!!

I see that you have chosen good coins and the right investment strategy. It seems to me that this will bring you success. My similar strategy has already given me a good profit.

I just dont really like bitcoin long term. (which is a bad thing to say on a cryptocurrency forum. I already know I will get attacked ) There are better forms of currencies imo, so I only hold 1% bitcoin really just to support it.





Thanks I appreciate it :)

Why is bitcoin only 1%, while bitcoin is currently down but bitcoin is a strong currency in the money market. I will refer to the coins you give, and thanks for giving the article a lot of meaning. !
 :) :) :)

hmm nice going you have also selected the queen ETC in your portfolio

I dont like bitcoin long term, the transactions are way to high. I would prefer Ethereum. Thanks ! :)



I will never add ETC to my portfolio. There is nothing disruptive about it, and the developers are not well known. I dont get how Bitconnect reached the billions in market cap, and I am just as surprised ETC did.

Good article, thanx for sharing, i wanna look and learn about some things i didnt see before, but 1% for bitcoin? i think it deserves more

Thanks for the comment :) Yes unfortunately I wont be adding anymore bitcoin unless something sparks my attention.

Indeed, in my opinion, your portfolio is indeed excellent.
But why not invest in some ICo projects? If the money invested in the ICo project accounts for 20 percent of all your money, you won't care if it goes to 0, but the benefits will be substantial.

I just haven't found any that I can see a long term utility.

Think well see a big growth overall in crypto by 2018. Projections would be 5k eth, 60+k btc and overall market to reach 3-5 trillions. It may go even further.

Also there is a lot decent projects starting nowadays like Dock, CPChain, Vibe, STK, Wanchain etc. Enjoy!

Hi, good points.
I myself like to invest in projects not coins. If I see the future in them, I would buy at least the minimum I can afford at the time :) Well, yeah my strategy then would be Hodl but I hope I invest in the next Tesla, Google or Facebook. Then even my minimum coins would be worth quite a bit....but sure it will take some time

This is certainly another good avenue if you have the money. A lot of the most interesting things in crypto I think are projects without tokens.

The Monaco Estate ICO is backed by premium real estate and designed as a long term hold for stable appreciation.

Who else thinks these coins will succeed or have a tough 2018?

Its hard to tell if OP porfolio will have a tough or succeed in this year biut what I saw its a good decision to make a 42% for ethereum it has a high chances to spark again in this year in my opinion its better to add eos (anti ethereum) with a blockchain 3.0 this year their platform will be launchinh and expect for price increase.

Here is a better portfolio

bitbay
blocknet
byteball
pivx
xrb
sys
komodo

each of those have proven tested dev teams that already have functioning software and are pretty much all undervalued

Should definitely add IoT Chain (ITC) to that list as well. Security for IoT and rival to IOTA.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-beginners-guide-to-iot-chain-the-iota-of-china_us_5a4a4edee4b06cd2bd03e183

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iot-chain/

Well, good list but it could be way better if you had few more coin in your portfolio. Such as

LISK
XLM
NEO

I believe these 3 will rock in 2018. So have some before it rocket :) good luck

This is interesting. Holding 1% only in BTC is very interesting. People tend to hold around 25% and above in BTC. If you still do this then surely you earned a lot considering that BTC dropped so much while ETH is on the high for quiet a long time now. Would love some updates from you as of this moment.

Basically diversification is key.  Unfortunately many new investors go big on one or two coins.

Good list, I agree with almost all coins, but i cant understand why you pick 1% btc.otherwise your portfolio better enough.But why not invest in some Good ICO projects? If the money invested in the ICO project accounts for 10% percent of all your money, you won't care if it goes to 0, but the benefits will be substantial.

my fortopolio for now aadalah
Eth
xrp
xvg
xmr
because the coin-coin is the best coin that will develop into a big and popular coin

Thanks for this strategy... You have to add Tilx Coin soon!  ;)

Why not GTO? LOL

Look what they pulled on Binance


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One Lucky Binancian will win 100 ETH equivalent of Gifto;
Binance will then draw another 100 Binancians to equally split a pool of 200,000 GTO (2,000 GTO each).
2. Trade GTO to win 30x Reward! 

GTO net purchases  (Buys minus Sells) over 5 ETH, one Lucky Binancian will win 150 ETH equivalent of Gifto.

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To celebrate Valentines, we have committed a total of 750,000 GTO to reward our fans worldwide. The Top 20 Binancians with net purchases (buys minus sells) during the competition period will be rewarded.

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4th-10th: equally split a pool of 75,000 GTO
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So many coin shills in this thread lol

Even if you build the best possible portfolio and just hold it won't give even a 1/10 part of what you can get by daily trading. HODL is not a strategy at all, if you understand the crytpocurrencies, and spend more than few hours each day, you'll definitely can make more profit from ICO investing and trading. The only advantage of HODL stategy is that less risky.

I profit take whenever I see the coin increase above my preferred risk, so yes my bitcoin is at 1% still.

Nice little 80%+ increase with my WAX purchase!

Very nice picks and I appreciate you sharing your strategy. You certainly don't have to worry too much about volatility. I really like your Freeroll strategy. Another great reason not to invest what you cannot afford to lose.

Thanks for your job. I agree with you in the most part. But I'm going to have a bit more Bitcoins in my portfolio. BTC still is very promising.

There is nothing wrong with having different coins or having more of a coin. This is just my personal portfolio.

It is very usefull to have 10-15 % of your portfolio in BTC or in FIAT to be ready pick some new moonshots!

I think this is not a bad portfolio, I really like ethereum. But on the other hand, I think you can maybe consider about buying some bitcoin, IOTA, Waves and ICON. Good luck!

I bought all sorts of shit coins and I'm sure that in 2018 will take off all the coins)

Gotta throw in some IoT Chain in there. ITC is on rise and is going up against iota. https://hackernoon.com/the-alternative-crypto-iot-chain-itc-b6c8621120ae

That is a very optimistic way to think... good luck!

I'm still holding altcoins from the top 100 and bitcoin gold. I want to see what will happen to them for a long time

Not sure why you are holding bitcoin gold, but good luck with your investment!

Everyones best coins are usually different.
I always like Bitcoin.
Some popular altcoin is really potential.
Ethereum,
STRAT,
Waves,
Ripple,
LTC,
NXT,
ETC
I think these altcoin is best for 2018.

I will never buy XRP ( dont say ripple )

ETC is also a negative for me as well.

In 2018,we uvidem the end of the year which was the best,but judging by the movements it is most likely abdut:the Cue,the air classic,Neo,Qtum,Stratis, and more!every man for himself defines what he believes will shoot up!BUT one thing for sure,the coin Telegrams will be very Gud price going into space,although RIPL Tode may chuhnut shorter th guess need technical analysis to watch analyze and then it will be seen that hood what so-so

I am interested to see how this Telegram coin will do.

I think 2018 to invest 99% in Ethereum is the most famous and developed fork.

Very bold, that is for sure. I hope it works out for you!

Who else likes my portfolio or thinks I should add something new

The first block based application based on Cardano: https://www.traxia.co/, is the best ICO I have ever known.
A BLOCKCHAIN ​​SOLUTION TO DISRUPT TRADE FINANCE.
WHAT IS
TMT TOKEN?
Traxia Membership Token (TMT) is a utility token issued by the Traxia Foundation (Swiss law) that gives access to our ecosystem.

Mỗi thời gian An Issuing Provider adds a new invoice to the system, TMT has been purchased at an exchange to settle fees

We see Liqease as an application of blockchain technology for the Cardano blockchain. Its focus on unlocking cashflow constraints for SMEs solves a known pain point for a huge market. We are excited to support the team as they build one of the first FinTech applications for Cardano
---> best ico 2018

From my understanding of Cardano, it seems as though I will never invest.

IXT is targeting the huge market of insurance and reinsurance. Development is proceeding smoothly, and MVP (Minimum Viable Product) has already been completed.
As an insurance-related token that can be bought and sold, IXT is a step out, and I believe it will enter TOP 30 in the market capitalization rankings in a few years.
Current market capitalization is obviously cheap and it is not amusing to list it 50 times or more than 100 times.
IXledger, which is developing IXT, has collaborated with General Re, the main company of Berkshire Hathaway.
The headquarters of the company is located in London, the center of the global insurance market, and has expanded its offices to New York and Singapore.
On Asian tour of the other day, iXledger and Samsung have ageded to organize a series of blockchain events with the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York at the Samsung offices.
IXT is listed on Hitbtc, Qryptos, Yobit.

Telegram Link:https://t.me/iXledger


I have only IXT!!!

Lets stop with the shilling.

This looks a lot like Populous to me, a factoring platform.  (i do believe that's a viable sector to be disrupted by blockchain)

Does anyone have any suggestions for this list? I still love it even though the market has been killing us lately.

What do you guys think about this list? I am sure you guys have different coins

I personally agree with your investment strategy. In fact, I am also taking a portfolio investment strategy. I usually pay attention to the changes in the cryptocurrency market. Then I will focus on the cryptocurrency I like. I now hold several cryptocurrencies. , I think it’s less risky and the profit will be bigger.