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Market fluctuation are always used by the whale investors. It's nothing more than their earning strategy. They buy quick making the market go up and sell quick to dump it to novice and small investors to let the market fall and again buy the coins for cheap. So, small investors should be aware of what is happening with their investment.
My tips at current time.
1. If you are in larger loss, hold, the coin would rise one day.
2. If you are in small loss or profit, hold or sell, wait the market to stabilize a bit and buy.
3. If you haven't invested yet, don't jump in now, let the market stabilize before buying.

If you have bought cryptos with your fiat, you will not be in loss or profit until you exchange them to your fiat. So, whether the price may rise or fall, sell only when you have profit in fiat currency. Every Red and Green till than are just virtual.

I disagree. This is a great time for new investors to start dollar cost averaging in.

Sure the market might go lower, but it's better to have skin in the game at this price.

I agreed holding would be the best choice for those who already got stucked with some of these altcoins and im sure if you did your own research before investing to these shitcoins you would not be worried because if you have solid coins,it will surely recover in no time.For those who are planning to invest in cryptocurency market you just need to wait for some breakouts,wait for the total marketcap to stabilize so it will be safe for you to jump in.Some of the people are surely taking the advantages of the cheap altcoins today,that might be a good idea because if the market recovered in just few weeks surely you are making a lot of money in that time.

1. If you are in larger loss, hold, the coin would rise one day.
2. If you are in small loss or profit, hold or sell, wait the market to stabilize a bit and buy.
3. If you haven't invested yet, don't jump in now, let the market stabilize before buying.

Real great tips there, i believe HODL should always be one of the important skills that the crypto investor have  8)
For people who might wonder should you invest and afraid market reverse?

Use the Cost Averaging method
If you have $100
Invest perhaps $50 when ETH is $600
Invest perhaps $30 when ETH is $550
And so on, this you could average down your average cost of entry

Current market crush for BTC and altcoins are just temporary wherein there is still great potential for it's recovery soon in the coming months. I would prefer to wait and hold coins until market will normalize back to it's shape since this is really not the right time for selling. However, if you are eager enough to invest further, I guess this might be the right time to buy while price is still low and again hold it for good. There is still good potential for crypto currency and for what had happen now was just part of the market movement to recover once again as this happened last Q4 of 2017.

With the current actions and rumors about further regulation and hindrance to cryptocurrency in USA, India and China, the market can go further below until everything clears out. But I believe, it would be nearly impossible for all three of them to avoid cryptos completely as high profile businesses and persons are involved in it from all of them.

Great posts,holding indeed would be the best choice for those who are trapped already with some of the altcoins,always remeber this people "weak hands will always fall and hodlers will always win" the market is too volatile so we need to set aside our feelings,be patient because there will be some point that this fall would stop.Market will surely recover when these FUDs has been cleared because lately most of the people are doing panic selling if theres some FUD that came out,we need to be sure that these news has reliable sources to the market situation would neutralized instead of selling that will worsen the situation.

Disagree! now best dip to buy. Or wait for more dip)))

If the hard support level of bitcoin's at $5k will survive the impact of the bloodbath,surely it will be the point which most of the cryptocurrency will start recovering from almost a week of bloodsheds.This must be stopped by the big players because they will the biggest loosers from this crash,someone can stand and flip the market back to a stabilize and healthy environment.

I became very worried in the past few weeks. I am experiencing just as you says at number 1. Every day my assets always decrease $1k, but I am sure to hold and hope someday.

Better my assets to ashes, than I have to lose.

ya, I'm disagree too , it's a best enter time to jump in crypto world, all the coins promotion right now with cheaper price tham before , my suggestion is holding your coins and invest more as you can

You are quite right with your points,we should hold for our coins if we are already stucked,a couple of weeks or months holdings will surely give back our invesment,Market wont die if the bitcoin fails surely there will be some coins that will survive the crash.After the bloodsheds has ended im sure you will get your investments back.

Future is definetly bright but now we need a huge patiance to wait with strongly. there is one way and all time hodl!

Cryptocurrency is the future of our monetary system for economy and trades and I'm always believing in the fact that the world is now changing although there's some resistance on not fully adapting it due to their fear of economic effect.
The current crash only shows that people are not fully aware for the future and I agree that holders will harvest rewards after the market recovery.

Yes, your tips are right. There are some big investors ( Crypto Gambler) who are dumping crypto markets by spreading negativity about Bitcoin, eth and other coins as a part of their making profit to buy at a lower price. Holding is now the best policy.

It's like 3 rules for a beginner, and it's already clear that the market is still so shaky that it's hard to take any steps. Therefore, it is just necessary to forget for a while that there is cryptography and rest.

I'll agree with your tips. Thanks a lot :)

It's not that simple. Look at Dow Jones and Nasdaq - they are rapidly falling down too.

Bitcoin is now decreasing it's value from the past it is very difficult now to use bitcoin for transaction and we have to make some of the arrangements for bitcoin because the bitcoin crash is uncontrollable for us it is panic in the market. the price is decreasing day by day and it is very hard time for the bitcoin users because they will bear a huge loss because of this.

I am in 1st group. And yeah still holding any coins I had before crash. I have trust in ethereum and bitcoin to return back but it will last like a year. Ethereum tokens will take hard damage.

I dont think that this market movement is only the action of whales because if you look at the total market cap it fallen more than 60% this year (now is 284 bil. and in december it was 600 bil.). I think that what we are experiencing right now is a conglomeration of factors that are met at a beggining of a year:
- Chinease new year - 17 feb.
- It is the time of the year when people pay taxes and that takes a lot of money
- It is the time for hollydays
- People need money to recover from the christmas hollydays and new year expenses
- It is a pshylogical time in wich some people cash in the proffit and think oj the next investition.
All this facts met and created a domino effect that made others to panic sell and this is why we are experiencing this crash.

Now with your tips.:
I`ve learned this one the hard way. I`ve lost a lot of money because i did not do this. Almost 80% of my portofolio.
It is a bit risky to sell right now because the market is so low, and the bum will be very surprising and fast. You might loose the chance to get back in the game.
I think that this is the best time to buy. We wont have another chance to buy this cheap.

How do we tell when the market has stabilised? Should there be a certain price benchmark or a return of a cryptocurrency's value at a certain point in time? Any thoughts, anyone?

Oh Yeah, I did feel Big time in this current crash on market, just a month and I loss 80% on my investment, damn me, i did not see it coming, and I can't sell any of my investment for now coz everytime I look, I see bloodbath on it :(... but still I have faith on cryptocurrency, it can recover soon (im hoping soooo much). but for now lets just wait and see what is coming!, im taking a risk on cryptocurrency that is why I believe on it to recover (no choice :) )

Too bad I jump in when crypto was at its peak but it's still not a loss until I sell and I'm here for a long term so will just Hold.

I think your crypto investment advice is a very good one, I will follow it very strictly so as to achieve my deserved goals especially the one that says "If you havent't invested yet don't jump in now, let the market stabilize before buying" Thanks for your great analysis.

i have seen this before a simple manipulation strategy that shakes the weak hands to sell  to the sharks as small investors dont have a big heart to hold, it should come as no surprise once the market starts to go up has the buy orders will soon be triggered

Yes I agree with you! I also think that the market will stabilize soon. I think by the beginning of March bitcoin will cost more than$10,000.

I hope this afternoon's SEC Symposium can be a good result, these days my investment loss is too great, a full loss of more than 60%, my God. This is a sad day.

This very common from the big players,financial institutions like CME and Wallstreet is probably making billions of dollars in each and every market crash they have created,this is how the market works,FUD spreading will result to panic,panic will result to bloodbath.

When will be found solutions of known problems of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. All the world quickly integrate it to all industry. And value of cryptocurrencies will increse many times over

You are indeed right whales are spreading FUDs to have panic in the market which most of the weak hands will do panic selling and it will result to massive dumping ended up in a bloody market and thats the time that these big players are going to buyback what they have sold at the peaks,the market cycles will re-peat to an never ending cycle and this is how it works.

With the current issues and dilemma of crypto this has set to one of bitcoin's biggest crash. But again this is how crypto market works, the volatility of crypto market and as an investors we should look beyond the initial panic of a large prive drop, look unto the long term probability of a positive return. Crypto will survive and prosper.

Yes exactly, crypto always survives volatility is why the returns are so high. You have to survive the massive drawdowns to earn the massive returns. I think we have passed the bottom at this point.

i mostly agree on all 3. but also there is a big problem here and that is the fact that you posted this in altcoin board so you are talking about all of them. this means your tip #1 can not always be true. a lot of the altcoins will not recover back to their ATH. depending on what some people are bag holding and at what price they bought them at, it can be a horrible idea to still hold them any longer.

option 1 is makes sense for me because i believe too this crash will ended soon so to avoid huge loss then hold all of bitcoin or altcoin would be good and i disagree with number 3 because this is the right time to utilize this conditions with buy some coins before the price jumping again

I couldnt disagree to your thoughts,but for me this is the best and only time to aquire more bitcoins and solid altcoins,because they are very cheap compare to their usual prices,bloodbath might be a bad thing but this opens to more opportunity to get a lot of gains ehen the market has recovered.Lets hope that this bloodbath will end,so most of the people who bought at the dips will make a lot of money like me.

In my opinion tip # 1 and 2 are pretty good, I guess we will not sell the coins that are currently declining because before investing in the currency of course we have done the research will prospects of coins that our investment goals and may only need a little time and patience waiting for coin prices to rise.
As for tip # 3 I don't agree because if we make investments (especially short-term investments) with a setabil price certainly little chance to get high profits from this investment venture. Indeed, this alternative is safe enough to minimize losses but if we are a trader of course this business isn't speculation that can give high profits.

I don't agree with the last option. Just take a look at previous dips. This market grows very fast once it drops at the bottom. As a rule there is no stabilizing period.

LOL we have found all of the answers. You didn't need to talk any more about that. There are so many hardforks to fix the bitcoin issues but all of them just full of crap things. To integrate with a lot of industry is not easy as you said, the fact they just need to prove it with real and work product before trying to make any relationship or partnership with another company.

Most traders have surely taken advantage of the red market that we are experiencing right now. Despite the market crashing and being unstable, it's a great time to start investing or buying in coins when the price is low as it is right now. Buying coins at a low price will give you huge profits once the coin's price will start to climb in the future.

Holding is definitely best for those whose investments are now down in the dumps, because what goes down will always go up and the market will always recover after some time.

I'm on the first one. losing almost $10k now because of the sudden drops. there's no other option for me but to hold for now and pray for the coins to recover/