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Share your personal bitcoin strategies during unstable market conditions, on how you were able to minimize your losses or even made gains maybe we can share other personal strategies here on how you maintain your porfolio's balance in a good scale. I'm not a TA person so my personal experience is all based on fundamentals.

1. I sold all my shit coins and convert them to btc.
2. I do a daily or weekly trades based on fundamentals and news on my alts holdings.
3. I joined more bounty campaigns and sold 100% most of them and convert to bitcoins then fiat.
4. Everytime bitcoin drops ( again my personal strategy) i used all the fiat from my bounties to buy bitcoin then sold them once it hits  (10%) gain.
5. I keep on repeating this strategy and noticed that i really survive the downtrend even i didn't not sold my initial btc balance to fiat.

I know there are lots of very technical guys here who managed to survive by selling their bitcoins to fiat and eventually buying during lows. I shared this just to inspired those newbies who are not comfortable in converting their btc to fiat ( as sometimes makes us to loss more ). There are lots of good strategies to maintain our porfolio's balance which does not required extra money from our pocket but only requires more effort. I look forward to learn more good strategies here by sharing your own, Thanks in advance and Godbless to all of us!!!

basically you need to be a trader to want to try any kind of strategy during both rises and falls but what i generally do is that i only use a part of my investment for trading the rest is in a cold storage. and that part i will sell during the drops and buy back with the money i got so i have more bitcoin in the end.

My basic strategy is to forget about it, wait for the market to pick up, and then sell it above the purchase price. I often can't help but sell my token. This is not the result I want.

For me, i just sell it to fiat.
And wait for the big uptrends, or break resistance they i buy again.

I agree with your strategy that I think that is often used by some people, because it can minimize loss and gain profit, I respond to one of your strategies:
Of course if the value of Bitcoin is rising, surely your shit coin value to rise, if the opposite happens if you want to sell all your shit coin assets all?

Not so different from you, usually i just let my altcoins sold, although i get loss from that, and convert them to bitcoin.
That's because i think, my altcoins have no hope, and even if their price will increase, it won't give any difference at all.
But i know bitcoin price is strong, going up and down is almost normal, and i believe it will surely become better again later, that's why i usually sell all of my altcoins to btc, and wait until btc price is high. In the end, i get profits from that.

My view in trading bitcoin is not to sell any fraction of it below my buy price because I usually wait to buy at a dip price so that I won't wait for long to get back to my entering price again when it drops from my buy price. I usually have patient.

honestly im not that good trader, but my strategy is buy when the price of bitcoin os down and sell when it rise, that is the basic strategy in trading when it comes to day trade, hen it comes to long term buy bitcoin and hold until it gains 100x profit. but this kind of strategy makes the market more unprofitable when there are more holders than day traders because the supply cant circulate in the market thats why there is more loss than gain, but in time that this holders become active thats the time that the price of bitcoin will pump and moon again just like the other year.

If you have a funds to release and investing to bitcoin and not from your altcoin it's even better. Do not sell your altcoin to use to invest in bitcoin because many altcoin will be like rocket in 2018.

Bitcoin downtrend doesn't happen frequently. So when it does, it is a golden opportunity to buy more bitcoins and keep holding. Sell them when the price is high. Never sell bitcoins or any crypto lower than your buy price.

I convert some of my altcoins to bitcoin and now holding 30% of the altcoins and the 50% Bitcoin. The rest of the 20% I use for day trading.

Indeed many altcoin will be like rocket by the end of this year but that does not mean bitcoin will be sleeping all the time or cheering altcoins for their performance. The king will show what it truly mean to be a rocket. Bitcoin is expected to touch 30k dollars within this year. Is there any other crypto coin that can rise to this much high value? We all know the answer and it is a big NO. One can keep all the altcoins but will never get as much profit as bitcoin can.

I convert some of bounties rewards to Bitcoin and i hold tokens related to promising project. I'm converting to fiat only my needs.

I convert all of bounties in bitcoin 50% and etherium 40% - for ICO, 10% perspective altcoin

I think you should wait for the rising price of bitcoin and sell them then. After all bitcoin is all about holding for the right moment. It’s all about your trade strategy!

Since i don't have many alt,i just hold all my coin to wait for the big rise in the market.When i got some spare money,i'm going to buy btc and add it to my wallet.I don't do trade often because i don't have time to monitor the market every minutes,i just check the market if my savings has generated profit or not.

basically you need to be a trader to want to try any kind of strategy during both rises and falls but what i generally do is that i only use a part of my investment for trading the rest is in a cold storage. and that part i will sell during the drops and buy back with the money i got so i have more bitcoin in the end.

Interesting strategy. Should work fine if applied properly. But problem is market is too unpredictable, and the turn of stream is not short term act. Despite that I pretty much like your strategy though for now I’m just holding mine.

the truth is?im doing nothing as of now I intentionally forget my folios first and just continue life,working regular job,working in campaigns and enjoying time with my family,but about the price situation of crypto?i dont check market price..in this way I minimize the disappointments and the bitterness on why i let this happen.when I should have sell when the value is high compared as of today

The best solution is to exit market if the price falls or fixes in usdt and returns when prices increase.

Now bitcoin sets the trend for all coins. Therefore, it makes no sense to invest in altcoins. I used to always sell bitcoin at the time of the fall and profit from the rise in prices for altcoins. This year, this strategy does not work. So I sold all the coins and bought bitcoin. I will be holding bitcoin until the end of the year. I think that the price increase will not be before the end of autumn.

This is a nice strategy which you have going there although not everyone can really pull it off. For me I am not trading for now, I am just holding and buying more to add to my portfolio while the market is down.

For me the best strategy so far (working miracles until these days - as for the future, we shall have to wait and see) is to just have the bulk of my crypto holdings forgotten, relax during all that turmoil of volatile price moves, and wait for the general  bitcoin adoption.

actually, I am not doing a daily trade or weekly trade because I don't think that this will be good for me since I am not too often to check the price on the market. and now I only do check the price if I want and I think it is better to hold and don't do anything if we are not sure about what is going on in the market. this situation is too risky for most people but of course not for people which have skills to determine the buy price and the selling price. I see you don't take a big profit and I like that you decide to only take 10% of the profit so you can survive in this downtrend and if you keep continuing this, I think you can reach a big profit in monthly.

In the fall, I will choose to continue to hold my currency. Because I believe it will appreciate, I only need to wait silently, but not every time I will be so lucky, but I still profit, so I will continue to use my approach. ;D

One basic strategy I have in my mind at all time is to buy it step by step, while the market trends seems to be downward then you can increase you purchase power frequency but in general buying it step by step helps you to make risk diversion.

In order to save your money during a sudden downtrend, you can use a simple strategy. If bitcoin has decreased by 10 percent,
and any altcoin from the Coinmarketcap top ten by 20% or 30%, then you should buy this token. After the market recovery,
altcoin must necessarily grow to the previous parity with Bitcoin. Thus, you can earn 10-15 percent on the market fall.

Depends on your position. At what price did you buy bitcoins and what is your long term strategy. If you estimate that you are in bad position and the price is much lower than the price you have bought your coins the best thing to do is to wait for the price to recover. Don't sell you will only make the situation worse and don't check the proce all the time, you will just have additional pressure.

The clear strategy is Buy & Hold. Bought and keep. I recommend to plan it as a long-term investment with some simple strategy of fixing. For example, detecting 10% each time when the net asset valuation increased 5 times from the previous commit. Well, it’s simple! But this strategy will only work if you define the investment horizon in a radius of 3–10 years. Prepare to wait a long time.

How many alt accounts you created for this here ? Control your emotions while responding here. :)

To be honest, you have a good strategy in basic trading method. As long as you have a goal, your own strategy in achieving that goal which can be modified, discipline, and patience; everything will be fine. Always exercise caution during downtrend. You can also try to split your portfolio, the other half for long term goal where you will do the cost-averaging method.

When bitcoin market conditions are undergoing a downtrend like this I do is hold my bitcoin and wait for the price to recover. But, when I have a fiat balance I will buy some bitcoin and sell it when it reaches 5% -10% increase. It keeps me earning both daily and weekly profits.

You can go short in margin trading holding whatever you want. If you believe that downtrend will continue  - go short and get profits) But there is a huge risk that btc will bounce with one huge green candle when you don't wait for this)

Have firm nerves and hold it with the hope of future increase. It's no secret that bitcoin is volatile, so I believe it will return to its previous position or even more somewhen.

The only strategies during the downtrend is to buy more and more bitcoins and hold them till the valuation inflates because holding your bitcoins during downtrend is the only basic rule in any kind of investment.

The best way not to loose is to get USDT for your BTC. It is the most stable currency out there serving as sort of safe for your currency while the market is deep and red. You can actually even make some nice profit when the market will go even deeper and for the same value of USDT you can buy BTC and increase its amount.

I too just follow the strategy followed by most and just sell my altcoins to catch the train bitcoin.I just hold the bitcoins which I already have and increase my holdings during such down trends.When bitcoin price rises again,i would just sell the newly bought bitcoins and enjoy the price rise and would continue to hold the old bitcoins.

My strategy is do not sale any thing,  i am just wait and hold and i will try to buy some more coins but i do this all for long time purpose because the market will go up and give back you good profit,

for trading bitcoin strategy is just simple follow twitter and youtuber

yes, the bearish market makes everyone panic and worry, the bearish market influenced by people who does not understand bitcoin strategy when the market is bearish.

I will not sell all my small altcoins, because if small altcoins have good growth, I will always hold.

my strategy when the bearish market is hold or buy more crypto. and today I have a little asset of some altcoin, especially in bitcoin.

If you look at these downtrends, you will see that there are small corrections on it's way down and that is where the money is. The price will go down from say, $9000 to $8700 <then you must buy> and then later it will recover to $9000 again, where you will sell to take some profit. You rinse and repeat this strategy and hope that this pattern will repeat.  ::)

I only do this with a small percentage of my coins, because this is not a fail safe strategy and you do not want to buy back in when there is a sudden spike in the price.  ;)

My basic strategy is only hold for long time. I am still hold my coin even downtrend in market because i am believe cryptomarket will recover again. If you decide to invest in cryptomarket, thats mean you believe cryptocurrency market will growing and thats mean your investment will growing too.

Cute lose and buy. because if we can only see the price of the downhill will also get worse, usually I will cute lose and buyback at a lower price to me hold in a certain period to restore losses cute lose and get profit

Do not sell Alt coins - the idea is good, but how to understand - which alt coin will give a real profit? After all, here you will not guess. With bitcoin in this regard is easier. He has more hope, and this is an objective opinion.

We need to buy more coins when the price is in down trend that is the best and basic strategy to make money from this condition.And converting your altcoins into bitcoins may not be necessary because normally when the bitcoin price starts to increase the price of altcoins are also will rise so buy more crypto currencies whether it is a bitcoin or altcoin at the time of downtrend.

This strategy works before but not now.
In my own opinion everytime Bitcoin drops it is dragging down every altcoin in the market. Same with ETH.
Look at it now, bitcoin is in bull and most tokens can be seen in green and look at ETH almost at $800 as of now.

It may work if you do it on time before every altcoin will reflect the market price. You will need speed with that and a lot of monitoring.

your strategy is the best category to deal with unstable markets.
the bitcoin treatment like this many people do it to get the perfect advantage.

How much do you buy bitcoin and what is your long-term strategy. You should estimate that you are in a bad position and the price is much lower than the price you have bought your coins and the best thing to do is wait for the price to recover. Do not sell your coins will only make the situation worse and not check the process with all the time. You only have additional pressure on the market you are addressing. 8)

Keep holding. It's impossible to see the price keep on rising without any drop, there will be time for correction, and don't be afraid of the price, if the Bitcoin performance is good, the government agree to adopt then eventually it will rise, and now the market is still good, rising with a little correction is consider as healthy market, if the price keep on rising without stopping like last year, then we will have major fall back

Unfortunately, I missed a lot without fixing the profit received as a result of the growth of BTC, this was due to the fact that I expected constant growth and did not pay attention to local growths. Now my strategy is as follows: I bought perspective alts and expect their growth in relation to bitcoin, with the next BTC growth I will fix it in the dollar for the purpose of subsequent purchase.

Mine a lot of altcoins then convert some to btc(25%) hold the altcoins,join more airdrops and bounties and also sell appreciated altcoins and convert to btc or fiat then mine more altcoins to convert into btc and or fiat and repeat.

If the market drops you should continue to buy bitcoin in your wallet for cheap. Because bitcoin is a very good long-term investment. In the future, their prices will be high and you will easily earn big profits.

Anticipating price drop, you can use the following trading or investment strategy. You prepare your capital and divide into 3 different amount.you should take long term investment for bigger profit. 50 % of your capital , used to buy at the current price. When it retraces lower to 38 % or 62 %, you can buy more using 30 %  of your capital and the rest 20 %  planned to be used if price keeps dropping to 62 % retracement. This is used to control your risk and at the same time can be expected to maximize your profit in the long term.

The strategies I'd like to follow myself during a downtrend are the following -
1. If you've enough cash flow, then keep accumulating Bitcoin during the downfall at regular intervals as you deem fit in accordance with the fall in price.
2. Apart from accumulation, keep reinvesting in alternative coins (altcoins) paired with Bitcoin to increase your holding in Bitcoin by profiting (via trading) in another coin.
3. Keep hodling.

Though I have some portion of my portfolio as bitcoin. I do not convert every thing or large portion to bitcoin because it is alternative coin that can give huge profit when it is pump but it can also be dump easily, So I convert some of my alternative coin to fiat and buy new promising one that just finish ICO and is in the market then sell when there is appreciation in price.

when bitcoin down or downtrend we should hold our btc,
or if we are sure we exchange our btc with USDT,
the more sure the bitcoin will go down the more we buy bitcoin at a cheap price.

it is better to hold your bitcoin during the downtrend because you will see the price increase back soon and you don't have to regret because you sell for the panic situations. you need to stay calm and don't get attracted with the bad news that you might know and makes research by your own so you know that it's not true and you can keep holding your bitcoin. it is difficult to still hold but I know that you can do this with easy and you don't have to worry about the price.

During the downtrend, you must prepare your funds to buy more potential coins.
If no funds, you can sell your not potential coins to buy the potential one.
What you can do with your potential coin is to hold them even they falling at the bearish market.

My own strategy is to forget the wallet, I don't visit my wallet untill the downtrend is over to avoid having psychological trauma.

when bitcoins is rising i will normally buy and sell at least two times for the day so if i make 200 fiat dollars each day then that totals 1400 fiat for the week which if the trends continue for the month then i can end up with 5600 fiat for the month (part time trader) . I try to maximize my earnings during these upswings trading as many times as i can for the day depending on the movement of bitcoins. I do all this to ensure that during the down trend i can buy up as many bitcoin as i have available money to do .my only strategy during the downtrend is to basically analyze the market and buy as many coins as is possible at the lowest price, this normally compensates for the downtrend period.There is no need to stress over these periods as they are opportunities to acquire coins at a cheaper price because as is always the trend bitcoins will rise again.

Well there's not much to it anyways but to do the same as you dude or better yet, to take it to your advantage and buy the dip. There's no better time to accumulate coins than when the market is down though not many people see it that way

Yeah mostly people follow this strategy no matter what they do this in the panic attack also. So its no wonder that altcoins go down in the downtrend period along with the bitcoin too. For time being it is also noticed that many times selling altcoins in such downtrend could lead to more loss as they might just recover faster than the bitcoin due to their low rate per coin and smaller market cap. Thus, its also thinkable that which coin you have got and whether it is worth selling it or not. I mean just for example, you have XRP in your wallet but you know that it will be far easier for the XRP to double itself in value than the BTC then its not worth selling it.

not all the dips are good for accumulation. for example the initial dip after the ATH was the worst time to buy in specially if you weren't planning on day trading.
but when we are already at the bottom and price pushes a little lower to test the buy support then it is the best time to start buying because it is THE bottom of the bottoms!
and as always it is the matter of believing in the future of what you are investing in. if you know bitcoin is going to do well then buying is the best option.

As long as the market conditions are downtren I do not think to take profit instead I think to buy in stages until found the base price of the decline that occurred. That way, I will benefit because I can get more bitcoin and just wait for healing to happen.

Its important to know that there will be always be reduction in prices in an unstable market, we should be prepared for cases like this by converting our coins to fiat or usdt. Sell all your coins ,convert the money to fiat and wait to see how far the reduction will go then you can buy back the dip. A good trader will always prepare some funds to buy the dip. You should only sell if you are converting to fiat or buying another coin that you think will rise and and bring more gains.

I used to use tether when btc hit the support or resistance level in order to secure the fluctuations in market but unfortunately I didn`t do it when it was in the top price

If bitcoin market is on the downtrend, it means it is the best time to buy more coins. Not only for bitcoin, but other cryptocurrency as well.
What you must not do is selling your coins. It is no use if you sell your btc at down market. Later you will regret and buy back with higher price

I disagree on both accounts.
first of all when bitcoin drops everyone knows that altcoins will get dumped. but the thing is when altcoins are dumped it can cause a much bigger dump in them which means they won't survive long and they may continue going down even after everything else goes back to normal.
secondly when talking about selling your bitcoin during a drop you should always consider the time and reason of it. for example when it is a much needed correction and at the start of the drop, the best option is to sell. but when it is already at the bottom of the drop that is the time that you should not sell.

It is a good thing to know that there are sort of first aid or even a prevention in times of bitcoin phenominal calamity or its downfall. Although there are some problems that may probably encountered. Therefore it is a fine thing to lost down tgis possible aid in such scenario. As far as we all know bitcoin is s vulnerable that is why this is a big help for us.

I sell all my tokens from bounties and convert it to bitcoin. Once I feel that the price or the market will undergo correction I will sell my bitcoin into fiat and wait for the bottom price to buy back again and sell when I get 15-25% profits. In this strategy my bitcoin will increase.

For me, my strategy is to forget it when the market falls.

Wait for the market to recover and sell it at a price higher than the purchase price.

yes, we are only could hold during the downtrends because if we are sell or make stop loss, it means we are ready to lose some of the money and I don't think that every trader will do this. hold and watch the price goes is a good thing that we can do and if we know where the price wants to go, then we can make another plan to buy or still wait for a while.

All strategy you shared are really helpfull not only for newbie but in general. That's exactly what's strategies needed for all this time because like the price of Bitcoin is almost stable  successive for almost 4 months so all investor are experienced for not enough getting profit until now. If you think what's the best solution and alternative option for getting profit so just do it.

Even though the great investor has different views regarding cryptocurrencies, I believe that his investment strategies are valid in the crypto market too and hence I follow his principles. He says, "Be greedy when others are fearful and Be fearful when others are greedy". When the market is falling, I try to buy Bitcoin with a systematic investment plan which emphasizes on buying in a smaller number of units at a higher frequency of time when the market is falling and selling in units with the reverse order when the market hits high levels. Even though I am focused on investing rather than trading, this strategy works in most of the cases.

My idea when bitcoin is on downtrend I will hold it to my cold wallet and forget it, until such time when the market recovered the downfall, I will sell it and invest another potential altcoins that may gives great profit in the future.

Nothing new with my strategy when there is a downtrend. I sell all my altcoins and convert it to bitcoin because I believe that if there is a survivor in cryptocurreny, it will always be Bitcoin. I buy back my favorite altcoins when it is already uptrend, that way I survive during red market.