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Friends, what are you doing now, when the market situation continues to deteriorate, in your opinion how to take advantage of such a serious decline in order to win at least something? Did you manage to wake up the bear and get at least a small profit? Have you bought any coins in the hope of growth in the new year? I  am only waiting for the market to wake up.

Do you mean the wake up the "bulls"?

One way to take advantage is doing short tradings. One example is that if you bought at least 1 BTC when the price is like $3600-$3800 and waited for a couple of days to go to $4300 then you can easily sell them off. That is if you're willing to take that risk.

As for waking the bulls, only way to wake them up is that if we're going to hear very positive news to sway investors to suddenly pour their cash on the market again, sadly though, we might not hear those kind of news this year, perhaps a BAKKT going live or Bitcoin ETF being approved by SEC will be enough catalyst to wake up and hear the herd to start their massive run again.

Its bull run.

If you want to take advantage of bear market by buying and selling at regular intervals it may give profits for you but for the bitcoin it can make the conditions to get worse so all you need to do to bring the bull run here by holding the cryptos as much as you can and start spreading positive thigs about cryptos from here to the world people and make new investors for cryptos.

market has slightly improved and moved up to 3500$ which was below 3300$ till yesterday. This could be the turning point in coming days if market slowly and steadily keep moving up from here then soon we can expect some bull run might happen and this would be a great chance to make money if you stay invested in this market.

I don't think anything much improved now since the market keeps swinging at this particular range for too long.

We don't have any news which can acts as catalyst to bring the bull run to market,everyone is waiting for that influential news.

I wish I could buy some BTC's at this lower price. I am also waiting for market to recover. I have invested in few altcoins and BTC/ETH but with every passing day my investment is dying. I don't know whether I would be able to recover my losses. How you can talk about profit in this situation. Everyone is just waiting to recover their losses.

You can not make profits if you rely on expectations and hopes, if this is your plan, you will definitely lose.
Instead of waiting for the market to recover, you can make a profit at any time. I think we found a bottom at $ 3400 so if you're ready to lose $ 500 you can buy and stop losses when the price falls below $ 3,000.

Do not gamble and buy any altcoins unless you are sure of the project you support.

I think coin prices will dip more before the end of the year, I'm hoping to see BTC go under $3000, which will trigger a wave of despair that results in more coin selloffs, further crashing prices. 

Which is good for me so I can buy in cheaper, get more coins, and make more profit when the next bull run takes off!  :)

I think people will sell coins at a loss soon for tax purposes, got to get those deductions!

If I were actively looking for opportunities the only ones I'd be considering would be angled toward growth a couple of years down the line. Scalpers will be out in force trying to push prices all over the shop as everyone's so jittery, and the more obvious the move the more likely they are to try and rape it or try to take it in the opposite direction to expectations.

If you've bought high then soon it'll be prime selling low territory and if you let go then you'll have followed through on the most classic mistake of all, but also the most human one.

To take advantage, basically you have to risks purchasing at the current rate and a) try to ride the price swings or b) literally hodl for quiet some time.

Just take note that it's not applicable to majority of the coins.


Didn't understand the context but generally, yes people can get a small profit even out of the bearish market. I managed to get profits from other alts.


Yes mostly on alts since btc is always on hodl purposes.

Not just because Im expecting a growth in the near future but some of the alts Im playing shows some spectacular price movement even with the bearish trend on which I able to take advantage of the price swing. Bad market doesn't mean that I will not continue my usual way of doing trading.

You can make a profit by short selling Bitcoin but it's risky because you don't know when the price would stop. I haven't bought any coins recently because i'm currently holding some in my wallet and I don't have any plans to invest(for now). I still think the price could go down even further but it doesn't matter for any long term investor that bought this past month.

To answer your question on the title you need to be a whale to start a bear/bull run. The more money you have the more orders you can clear then the others will quickly react to the price change..

With the fall in market value it would be better to buy more, but if we already have it and are disappointed with this situation then I think we only need to wait and be patient, because after all if we sell it at this time we will definitely lose. Making use of a moment like this is actually just buying but if you still believe the crypto market will recover later, but if you are not sure of buying in a situation like this then I think it will only make you continue to worry.

The other way to take advantage of such decline is to look for those profitable and worth noting coins and start buying them at the very low rate. How should I wake up the bear? it's already woke up and stomping us.

I have bought a couple of coins that I have been checking and wanting to hold. I'm starting to be wiser now and won't turn my greediness of waiting too much before selling, I don't want to be stuck in the middle again.

It's too late already to do so. People not knowing how this market works generally do the wrong thing time on time again. People bought at the wrong time and right now consider to sell at the wrong time.

I'm not sure why people constantly feel the need to do something in a market that doesn't signal anything other than uncertainties. Doing nothing in this case is better, especially if you hold Bitcoin already and don't plan to buy more.

Where you in traditional markets have the weekends to calm down after steep price decreases you are confronted with them continuously in the crypto market. Maybe a good idea to take some distance for a month or two?

Yes, it seems he is mistaking bulls and bears as these are already in heavy actions right now. When they are in action, how to wake up them, lol.

I never suggest to go for short-term trading rather I am always suggesting to go for buying at dips. The current situation of this market is very good opportunity for the people who prefer to invest some small amount which may become very big in coming years. All they need to do right now is, buying with the very small amount right now and then waiting for another dip to happen. If anything like that is not happening then they must be happy with their current holding. This is one simple way to make use of every dips.

I am only waiting too. I have much tokens in my wallet but now they cost nothing...I spent more money to buy them.

You mean bear or bull?

You clearly stated about price increase or wake up thing which it do mentioned about "Bulls". For now we wont able to say what thing can able to triggered out the next bull run.
If we can remember clearly even positive news of this years doesnt really have any affect at all on the current market condition.

And now more negative news comes our way today, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wave-bomb-threats-causes-evacuations-anxiety-nationwide-n947671
https://abcnews.go.com/US/bomb-threats-demanding-bitcoin-funds-reported-country-authorities/story?id=59805500
https://nypost.com/2018/12/13/fake-bomb-threats-nationwide-were-part-of-bitcoin-export-plot/

So again, we are moving further away and it means that bull won't show up this year. So it going to be mentality tough for everyone to stay in the market and wait for the bulls to come. But as the saying goes, patience wins all the time so I hope people can wait a bit longer for months and see whether the bulls wrestled this market from the bears.

I bought different kinds of coins because I believe it will up the value of the coins next year. But only limited altcoins that I bought.
Because if Im going to buy more coins with the price already decreased possible to lose my money more.

You really got the best rates at present because if tomorrow suddenly market wakes up or start rising then you would really make the good profits as altcoins being dumped badly and they would eventually recover the quickest.

i did research and buy some coins i do think when markets recover this coins will return decent profits or else risk is very low , i thought this is the best time so invested some money now

In the past, this bitcoin market has thrown away such a news many times (incidents like laundering/hacking/kidnapping) hence these kind of negative news are not going to stop waking of bulls. Markets will simply ignore these. Bad things are happening everywhere as bad people are just part of this world and not just due to introduction of a new system. Both bitcoin community and rest of world have understood this fact more clearly. That is the reason, market never got stopped due to such news in the past.

A common mistake most investors do in the name of diversification, investing into heavily dumped coins and tokens and most of such dumped assets never find way to get recovered and then simply get delisted. Better thing is just sticking with well known and reputed altcoins otherwise just bitcoin is more than enough to minimize the risks.

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for this moment you may do is to do only short trading and dont buy any long term coin which may resulting of losing your money, for me much better to find other way to earn with coins you want and let the market will turn into green before turning back on trading again. But it doesnt mean you need to sell all your coin you should hold it and wait for the profit.

No, right now I really have stopped temporarily to trade and chose to calm down from the declining market situation by learning more about crypto and also researching more coins.

Waking up bear or Bull cannot be known but if you want to earn then their are lot of option today, their are exchanges which are giving margin trading, through which if you properly trade then daily you can make 1% to 10% of profit with decline .

It's hard to define a strategy on long term because market is hard to predict and having in mind past conditions further dump is also possible.
So, at the moment I think that best is to choose short term trading, daily trading and thus you can use the best options for possible profit. Watch market closley and be prepared to act accordingly in short period of time.

Of course this is the best time because all coins are cheap as of the moment. But waking up bears or bull is very hard to say because the market is open for everyone as this is a 'free market'.

So we need to have a strategy for both trend. If you see some cheap coins that has the potential, then get them specially if we are in a bearish trend. While its better to be a hodler in a bullish market.

The one who can wake up the bear is the bull of course. And in order to unleash the bull, we need more believers and less FUDs. I'm sure the bull can easily kicked the bear out if that's what gonna happen.
Be a day trader. Day traders have the ability to handle this kind of situations because they can adapt. They can nake profits by playing with the fluctuations. 

But if you can't then that's okay. You can do something even as a small hodler. Just remain hodling and do not panic sell, it defibitely helps a lot in the community.
Yup! Actually I bought some eth a while ago because I do believe that it will pump hard this 2019 (I'm expecting a lot for the upcoming eth's upgrade). I just really hope so :D.

This is the right time to buy as market is panic I am buying some alternates after reading whitepapees and study

we always do the same thing which we all wait the right time when will be the time that market to wake up and give us a nice and better hit this new year and guess what there's a changes in the market which it gives us a hope. we should wait at least don't let your fear of losing to overcome you but if you're really want to earn at least something you should probably do daily trading.

That’s right and all those changes are so positive and in our favor. I am happy with the movements of market that is day by day getting b better and improving. This is surely New year and all new hopes are now coming true because banking is announcing for investors to invest from their system which is safe for sure so in short now it’s time for bull to run.

If you have money, you can invest in bitcoins and altcoins now. Most of the people who are in this crypto field, have already invested in altcoins when they were very high price. Now they have do not have bitcoin or more fiat to buy coins when they are cheap.
I think it is advisable to keep 25 percents of the funds in bitcoins so that we may buy cheap altcoins in times like this when there is a massive dump and prices are all time low for most of the coins.

If really this market is controlled by the rate of demand and supply , then we will have to wait for the investors to buy in and you will see the market going up again. Positive news doesn’t move the market as some people claim it does.

If it’s true, then why isn’t the market going up after all these positive news that has filled the space all this while? Despite the news that bull is coming, still the market has been down and not showing any signs of going up. Investors are the ones who control the market, when they start to invest, the market starts to go up.

You either decide to take a break or continue with your Hodl. Then another thing you can do earn even as the market declines is trading. A lot of people here do trading and that’s how they earn even when the market is going down. There are also lots of others things you can do when price is down, but you might not like others. I have seen some people claim they earn close to $200 from Faucets by claiming several Faucets at a time. Then there are those who do freelancing.

Like any other basic systems, bitcoin market is also working based on supply and demand and whenever more people are not looking for storing/holding bitcoin we are getting imbalance and then having negative markets. Being patience will be good because bitcoin market will definitely restore its rising trend in real soon.

Due to the reason of bitcoin still is in its early days and the total market cap is relatively small, many people are able to control the direction of bitcoin markets. Hopefully, they will lose their power over the time when bitcoin will be growing in terms of market cap.

All of us are waiting for the wake up of bull market which can help us to wake up again our profit. I have bought many potential coins in this bear market like I bough waves, ripple and many more. However, even we see a bear market we can still earn money and in order to gain money you need to do daily trade or scalping which is hard to do.

I stopped trading and buying before but the moment I see the price dumps so hard, I decided to buy more bitcoin and eth because I know it will rise in time. I don’t know how to wake up the bull alone but I think we can do it all by just buying and hold. If the bull still not happen this year, maybe we need to wait for more years and better not to panic again.

focus on your initial goals, so psychologically will be maintained until it reaches the expected target. by buying more coins at a cheaper price, of course we participate in reviving the cryptocurrency price, or we do not worsen the current market situation. and with positive news, this can strengthen our psychology

nothing is more profitable than buying when the price goes down, if you just become a spectator and whine when the price drops then you have done something very futile.

Personally, I continue mining ether. I was lucky, in my country there is not very expensive electricity, so I decided not to stop the farm. For 10% of the extracted ether, I buy promising altcoins, which I see promising. I have bought such coins as EOS, ADA, NCASH, QKC, MFT, SKYFT for the last year and continue to accumulate ether. For myself, I decided that I was ready to keep cryptocurrencies for 3-5 years in the hope of growing cryptocurrencies during this period. I believe in the fundamental power of the blockchain, so I’m ready to wait. I hope that I do not believe in cryptocurrency for nothing.

The bears are fully awake the ones that need to wake up are the bulls and the only way they will do that is with money, lots of money, otherwise they will not bother to wake up, so there is not much to do but even during this bear market there are opportunities to make money you just need to look at the markets and wait for the opportunity to appear, but the problem is that many have dreams of becoming a trader but what they do not get is that being a trader is very boring, you need to watch charts for days or weeks until the market finally does what you want.

The whales are needed to wake up because as they sleep the bulls sleep too. It is just a matter of time before it happens but they will just move if there is progress(fork).
Making a lot of money is really boring unless you are used to it. People will find it difficult at first when they felt the struggle already in the first test but as long as they never quit no matter what the circumstances, they will survive and their chances to get in the higher rank is very high.

no one will wake up with a bear but will only arise and wake again from his deep sleep. but before in his intense sleep i will do everthing i want to buy bitcoin at low price and save, selling at high price. now just waiting for the market to recover again in its fall and to rise again. I know everyone is looking forward to the rise and wake of the bear market.

In my opinion, the price of Bitcoin is still uncertain if you want to sell it better, you see the price first. Because it could be when you sell the price it actually decreases and you will lose, so before selling it you see the price first, don't let you regret it.

all back to personal self. when we believe that later bitcoin will rise. then all our efforts will be done, and we will be more likely to survive until then, but if we just follow the steps of others, then later panic can occur

If we will go together and buy cryptocurrencies than selling at this point for sure we can wake up the bull but unfortunately this will never happen for the same reason that people here are greed and only want to profit with no care if what will happen for the market tomorrow.

But yes this is the grest time to purchase cryptocurrency now to gain in future,either this year or on another

wake up the bear or bull? Throughout 2018, both stocks and forex including cryptocurrencies has be in declined and the bear is much alive even till this time.  But we can stop the bear by the majority of us stop selling and start buying.  The market is currently extremely cheap and buying now is also part of taking advantage of the market.

I still trying to trading to make a profit, no matter it's hard. I believe that if we keep trying and we have a will to get the profit, I am sure that there is a way to do that. The problem is we are only waiting for the time to comes which we never know. I already buy coins and not just one coin, but I buy more than 3 coins, and I am glad I can get the lowest price and now, I only waiting for the high price. I hope the price can increase higher soon.

The fact that prices have stopped falling is the first signs that the crypto marketplace is stabilizing. Of course, we can not be sure that this is the end of the bear market, but prices have fallen so much that the probability that prices will rise is much greater than that they will continue to fall. We are all waiting for the market to wake up.

I hope the coins that you bought are the coins who have potential in the future so you may gain huge income. I also bought few altcoin like waves and ripple that seems the price will increase in this year. The reason why I buy ripple is because of news about their platform.

the question now is how to put a bear to sleep, because as you say bearish that happened throughout the past year make crypto prices on the market become very cheap, if we wake up bears will certainly make the price fall back down right?

coins like ripple have always performed based on hype alone and they have always performed in short term and then fell down hard as everyone dumps them which is why experienced people don't "invest" in them. they always tend to only stick to trading these coins for maximize profitability.

Good, seems like the OP has managed to poke the bear enough with a stick and how he's fully awake, grumpy, shivering from the cold outside and pissed of about the hard forks that all the market went down by around ~10%.


Well, a bear should have no coins in the first place, since he is a bear, he must have sold months ago, so no matter if they are fully interested in the market they can't influence the price since they don't have any coins to sell. :D
The current drop is because of bulls turning bearish.



What is that avalanche of good news you're talking about? I've never seen one other than delays, delays and delays. And bankruptcies.

I think you can use the opportunity to buy, after that you hold for some time to come, and when a recovery occurs you can sell it.

It is strategic to take advantage of  the bear market at every stage, do not wait until the final correction, or when the bull run commence, The recovery is sure to occur, you must ensure to take advantage in order to take profit when the bull run is on. Invest and HODL, do not miss out on the next bull run.

I agree.We should not be totally bothered about the bear season because even if the price is low at the current,we can still make profits in the future if we start investing and holding some coins with great potentials.Let's not focus on the negative side of the market but let's look at its bright side.Crypto market has still more chances to recover especially if more investors will come to invest today.

I don’t want to wake up bear because it brings too much negativity in the market, i want bear to sleep forever, so the bull will have fun in the market. Well, its not gonna happen since this market is a pump and dump trend so its really normal. We just need to know the ways on earnig profit during bear market.

I think you mean is to wake up the bull as the bearish market is still in effect right now. For me the most good scenario to trigger the bull run is the approval of the ETF products by the SEC as i believed that once ETF will be approved it will attract millions to billions of investments in which it will make the Bitcoin and the whole crypto market to become great once again. Hopefully that ETF will be approved soon.

In this bear market, i am prefer wait and looking a good altcoin with working product. Many good altcoin drop the price more than 90% and i think its an opportunity buying with cheap price. I am believe cryptomarket will survive for long time and good altcoin price will rising again

How can we wake up the bear? it will go back to hibernation when its winter but it seems like the season hasn't yet to come.

Buying while the market is on bear mode, you can get a little profit if there's some spike and it's to you on how you will respond with such small pumps.

Most likely the bear market will continue till this year, the cryptocurrency price has declined again and forced the bitcoin price to touch $ 3500 again, that is not a bad time.
Buy low and sell high is the best time right now, the decline price is not take a long time, it only takes a few hours and suddenly rise. So, short term or trading is the best way for someone who need profit in the bear market.

There's not much that I do in this current market trend. I just hold my coins and wait for the next bullrun. Buying reliable coins is better to do right now or even do day trading, it just up to you on what you think best to survive in the current market.

Yeah I already accepted that if ever we will see this bear going on until the end for this year. But it's still 11 more months and we're just half of this month so there's really a lot of things to happen positively.

Suddenly rise doesn't have an exact time and indicator on how long it will take. Sometimes it takes a week, a day or two or hours. I'm okay with long term holding but I do short/scalp trading.

I didn't buy crypto when the prices were at their high. I just worked and made tasks that paid in crypto. This way, the downturn of the market hasn't made a considerable impact on me. Of course, the value of the crypto that I own has dropped very much but I don't feel so sad because still what I have it is a profit for me.
During a bear market, you can still buy more coins taking advantage of the low price and reduce your losses/gain more profits in a long-term period.

Who knows about that, we are not sure when the declining price will stay and although we are trying to buy low and sell high, this is the hard things to do. I hope that you are right because if it does not turn back to the green again, I will hold for a longer time without know when will the price increase. But I admitted that now is a good time to buy and if the price can increase for a small price, then we could sell some to take the money's back.

Poke it with a stick ? Lol. Best case scenario bears will be gone and not woken up, we do not need bears to wake up or even be active, we don't need the bears to turn into bulls, we just need them gone. Consider this, is it easier for a thousand people who thinks bitcoin will go down to sell their bitcoins or making them think they are wrong and it will go up instead ? I feel like selling is an easier option.

So, we just have to wait for people to stop selling because people who sell are out of things to sell instead of stop selling because they think they will be capable of selling for higher. If they just change their minds and wait to sell until higher price we will still have problems in the future when they sell but if they run out of things to sell than we have nothing to fear since even if we go too high they will be long gone.

It is true that making money in the market as a trader is not easy at all but if you have what it is necessary to become one of the few which become successful then the profits you can get from the market are difficult to comprehend since the volatility that so many people despise is what will give you profits in just a few days that it could take a full year to get if you traded other markets and your capital will grow at an incredible speed.

There is not much of a choice but to wait if it is bitcoin we are talking about.

But there is other options when it comes to altcoins.
One good example is Ethereum.
Already made some profit with this good coin. From like $80 then now at $130 - $150. I say that is already a wow. $50-70 difference is a big amount if you have lots of Ethereum in your wallet. Almost like a giveaway when it stayed at $80-90. It is like already telling you to buy him.  ;D

Its not a "give-away". You invested on it. You were holding. The price went up and you made profit from it. The price could have gone down and you could have made some loss. In other words, you took a risk and you got the result. So don't think of it as a "give-away".
And other alt coins are much riskier to invest on. Some are just being manipulated to be dumped later. Others are just crap.

Waking up the bear will take a lot of efforts but it not impossible because once everyone get involved the demand will change which will result in the bear getting on it fit again, and we can also spread the good news in other to draw the attention of investors and users into the centralized market.

You are wrong, it should be when the market is bearish you should be able to take advantage of the situation as well as possible, instead of waiting for the market to go up and then buy when the coin is above. that's not how trading works. Take advantage of the red market and when the market goes green, you only need to take the profit.

For inexperienced traders and afraid to trade these days, just buy now top 10 coins and hold until the next bull run. The bearish continues up to now ahead of the ethereum upgrade that might trigger bull run. But the problem is that every coin in dependent on bitcoin. The one that might wakeup the bulls is the bitcoin ETF. It's approval might be the key.

buy as many coins as there are in the market to increase market capitalization, then prices will also be pumped up and bears will wake up then bull run.

basically the market price movement is dominantly influenced by our own behavior as the market where the buying and selling katiitas move the price balance, therefore if we want to make the market go up we can make large purchases automatically the market will move up. But to make people sure to buy is a very difficult thing

but to buy yourself in large quantities, without any news that can have a dominant effect, I think it will only increase the price for a moment. therefore it is necessary to have positive news that can support its development. moreover the news came from the government, so there would be many investors who believed

Thats seem easy isnt it ? But that is actually hard to do . you cant just say that he can buy many coins as he like because theres actually alot of coins in this entire crypto market . buying with small amount of cash is not enough . we need a billions or even trillions amount of money and we  must also chose the right set of coins in order for us to succeed on waking up  a bear  .

I am sure by learning more detail about trading, we can find a way to trade, and we can make a profit like the other traders. Although it is hard, with more effort for trading, we can try to make a profit from small profit to a big profit. And if we continuously do trading and make the profit, we will grow the capital, and it means, we can have big money in the future. And of course, we need to be patient to trade day by day because this is what we do to make a lot of money.

We can't afford that much money, let's work as a team, so to contribute the crypto market being awake let's hold together our coins and invest some. Focus on Bitcoin and Ethereum because they are the leading coins of all cryptocurrency. Let's motivate weak hand holders and keep holding their own crypto asset no to easily panic selling.

how much money to make price cryptocurrency recovered.did we have billions dolar in our bag to make crypto rise again? its not easy ferguso, we could not make it.only good fundamental that could make investors trust their money in this market.good fundamental will bring huge demand.

For sure, investors won't put a big amount of money when the market goes like this.  The risk we might fight will give difficulties in all parties and so they afraid of losing huge amount.  There is no need to stock millions of nonsense tokens, having 3-5 kinds of coins is good enough and so you can manage and focus of them. You just simply add more on the amount if you want but not of buying other coins.

You have to do something else to make money for your own and try to make regular trades that could give you a winning trade. But do it carefully in a market like this.

Making an always transactions on cryptocurrency can also contribute a progress growth on crypto market price, trading is the best option on it. And of course, mass adoption is the main reason for an increasing price so, I think the price will grow if they approve the ETF and BAKKT implementation. Let's wait for the result and we will know what is the possible happen.

The market will go up, that's for sure. No one knows when exactly, but in 2019 there should at least begin the start of a prolonged upward movement. All we can do now is invest, as long as we can, and just wait, nothing more!

There are some good threads in the "Trading Discussion" section with people showing their exact trades and what strategy they use to make a profit even in a  bear market.  It is worth checking out if you are a beginner at reading markets and day trading.

Personally, I earn as many tokens as possible by participating in bounty campaigns and, just like you, I am waiting for the market to recover, and that the price of my tokens will increase. But you know, sometimes I also think about how you can still make a profit under such market conditions, and I also bought some coins that are in the top 10.

Me the same. I'm just waiting for the market to improve and not doing any active trading at the moment.

But I'm also taking a position in some projects that I believe will do a good performance when the market will hopefully start to be bullish again.

With si many scammers and hackers how could you expect for.crypto to wake  up with that easily? I takes some time like months or years so that market can go back to normal. But for now, scammers and hackers are getting good all the time and they are more advance now. Besides they were working hard on it so that thy can scam or hack others digital wallet. They were very aggressive now believing that lots of money were being involve in cryptocurrency.
You have to do something else to make money for your own and try to make regular trades that could give you a winning trade. But do it carefully in a market like this.

Same thing here, just waiting for the market to wake up. Even when the market wasn't in this decline, I got my hands burnt many times while trading. so, trading is not an option. Not buying any coin as well due to lack of capital. I'm just participating in few bounty programs that I believe will making significant impact in the market when it's finally awake.

Maybe leverage trading is better in bearish market as most of the time one can short the trades and gain profit. The regular trading of bitcoin and altcoin is very risky and time taking in bearish market conditions.

I think the price will go up if a lot of good news comes to Bitcoin, so Investors will feel safe to buy Bitcoin when there is good news about Bitcoin, let's wait for the increase in Bitcoin prices this year, hopefully.

I think it's a legend. Margin trading is to blame. Bulls and bears are the same person from whose decision we fall or grow.... I hope this will change in the future!

Well we all know it's riskier to trade actively in a bear market like this so as many here said, probably best to keep still and focus on other things first until the market swings. There are people who are efficient traders even in this kind of market and you may want to emulate what they're doing but again that's a very big gamble.

I think FUD and FOMO both are really strong psychological things in the market. If the price goes low people are afraid that its going to even further down and when its going up people are afraid they are going to miss out on an amazing bull run. There is really no middle ground with many people there are sooooo many people in the world that thinks bitcoin and crypto in general will go to zero or people who think they will be a million dollars each.

I mean not unlike here, take a look at the price estimates on this forum, there are so many people who call out bitcoin for 1900 or less right now and there are many that says 20 thousand is coming again. Not that many people say "we will probably go back to 4000-4100 range after hitting 3600" which actually makes sense.

Even the current price of ethereum is a bargain, I find it very interesting that many are looking to buy the most recent erc 20 token and they somehow miss to buy ETH when it is right there with a price so low that I cannot think of anything else but to buy more of it even if I had run out of funds already, however while the profits in fiat are still great the profits in terms of bitcoin have been going down for some days and are not as attractive as they were a few days before.

in this market situation when I was in bad condition, I did not make a trade, preferring to indeed have some coins to come forward, and after recovering, my heart would be glad there would be no more panic.

You can’t change bear market all by yourself lol, unless maybe you have billions of dollars to invest and send the market moving another direction. The best thing for you to do now is to buy, since it seems like the market is at the bottom price. So buy some coins and hold them in your wallet while you are waiting for the price of market to get better , and when it does, you will be happy you did invest at this time around.

Because demand and supply are connected to the price of bitcoin Jr in market demand will be high so  if we will buy the price will increase by it self.  We should keep on holding as it’s best way to overcome your lose and make profit. Only this way we can wake up the bull which has been sleeping since last year.

Last bull market was caused by ETH. Next bull market will be caused by ETH too. Bitcoins survival depends on ETH now.  We’ll see real world killer apps soon.

It came to be that most of us now are in the holding scheme but it help to move the market going up,  instead we're getting stuck. People were not really in the used of cryptos and therefore the demand isn't that high enough to make bull run happen. So nothing to expect if people will keep in holding.

cryptocurrency demand day by day drop continuesly.and there is no sign to recovery.and now we need big trigger to make all demand rise and price rise again.

I think with investor confidence and government policy, it will bring funds into the crypto market, of course, the crypto-siding policy that is needed now. and one more thing, hopefully the whales wake up from sleep

I had many plans with my earned tokens/coins and from my coins (more than 200k usd now i have only 8-9k usd) but with this market i cant do anything now dont want to sell and regret all my life for that ,so nothing more than waiting i cant do now only wait and hope for good news about market,hope 2019 would be like 2018.

We can do nothing but wait for the market to get better and we need to change the speculation strategy to better suit the market at the bottom.
I think ETH is still my most important goal and I will buy it at $ 110. Our market will continue to be red tomorrow and the price of ETH will fall at that price. holding ETH is always a wise decision because it's an altcoin that really has a great technology base and has a huge fan community.

  Eventually market is not to easy like that can be recovered so easily like for the traditional business, but not like bitcoin from dumped to pumped it can be 1 night can recover the market does the behavior of the bitcoin market.

The suddenly changes in the market are inevitable. We can't do anything because we do not have power to make a change, we should just follow the flow in the market for us to not lose opportunities.

Of course not, look I like ethereum as a coin and I like what brings to the market but that is completely wrong the last bull market was caused by the expectation that bitcoin will finally activate segwit which was critical to make it scale and most of the variation in the price was caused by the different events which transpired at the time, and finally when segwit was activated despite the protest of the miners we got an explosion in the price.

Yes, despite the fact that the negative market situation lasts a long time, and we have not seen a bull trend for more than a year, we need to monitor the market and the position of our coins so that we can make a profit when the market recovers. I believe that a set of positive news, such as the positive adoption of ETF-Bitcoin and the launch of the bakkt platform, can revive the market.

This could be the people selling at the bear market that we wonder asking ..who are those selling to the whales? THey will sell all they have and  might not be able to buy back. In previous bull run price rarely pull back, so the strategy is not the best.

We are just minorities in the market controlled by the 'whales' whose impact on the market can felt instantly when they invest massively in this bear market of course at the appropriate period or time the prices of Cryptos will surely pumps we are just observers in the cryptocurrencies world.

Dude, just hold and don't make sell order on the market, that's one of factor to make something will be expensive. Market situation right now just do some scalping method, just take litle profit then stop when the target has reached.

It is hard to tell because many are gaining little profit from the sudden increase. In that situation we could gain more opportunity to buy at lower price and wait till it bull again. We shall have stable job for us not to depend on the profit from investment because this could give good return when really recovers.

We can have bulls if the sentiment will reverse, however if these selling pressure doesn't stop then enjoy a very long accumulation period but burden to most investors bought at ATH. This current market situation is really enjoyed by whales doing short term profits diggin deep, soarin high.

Getting at least small profit during the bear is possible. Just buy at your own comfort and though there's no way to wake up the bear. It's still winter so let it rest for now.
It's okay sell during the bear as long as it's above the bought price.

Following with patient, while we have a chance to buy and sell too because I see we have a good opportunity to trade and make a profit. When we can do this, I am sure that soon, we can get a profit and slowly we can recover the losses while we still waiting for the bull market. This bear market will end, and we don't have to lose hope because the only chance we had is only keeping trying to trade by buying and selling the coins.

Yes indeed at the time of two weeks ago there was a pretty good jump in the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum, because on January 11 there will be Hardfork ETH, but what happened was fraud, so prices dropped sharply again.

to be able to wake a sleeping bear like the current conditions maybe you can buy coins because if you wait for someone else to move the price because without a purchase order it will be very difficult to be able to make the market crowded again, only from your business and only from the news good that will make prices more expensive.

We must buy coins and increase the market cap volume, so that the sleep will be disturbed and will certainly wake up. after that the bull will run quickly with full force.

Again, bitcoin price rise, so may be in the coming month bitcoin more increase, and about ETH, when bitcoin price increase then of course eth is also increase. But indeed within 2 or 3 days bitcoin again drop and come under $3990. So it is depend on ourself who we can make money from it.

We all can help others who are panic sellers to ask them not to panic and sell their coins. If people avoid selling coins then market will not fall it will only rise as majorly when people want to buy their are no sellers so they would be ready to pay little higher price.

demand decrease day by day? I don't think so, if you saw bitcoin marketcap a few weeks ago and compared it to today,
which one is bigger? recover is there, but it takes a long process if there isn't much support

its obvious that its not true . the demand is not decreasing every single day but the flow of the demand are totally random  . sometimes there are people who sells and quit temporarily but there are the ones that will enter the crypto scene for the first time  . now back to the original question of waking a bear ,  waking up a bear is not easy . its not our job to wake up a bear but that is a job of the whales and big time manipulators   . in the meantime i can say that the bear is already wake up from its deep sleep because we can now clearly see that the value of cryptos are now increasing  .

The growth is not in our hand we can only make it more comfortable investment with this type of situation otherwise the market condition are totally not in our hand so if you are trying to do some changes it will definitely affect your current investment so making changes will need a huge decision before it can be done that will helpful for you to be a better investment.

This can be easily possible when the investment are increasing because the investment is needed to increase the demand of the Crypto market if it will be possible right know the opportunity of bull Run will definitely happened right now.

You can do short day trades to earn small profits or join bounties while waiting for the market to look good again. You cannot provoke bulls since they manipulate the market and they are the ones who only knows when should they start making the market green again.

that way we can get good results in market conditions like this, so trading and joining in the gift is indeed a good way to wait for the market to rise again

I think that the Bitcoin price will remain almost the same (close to 4 thousand) for several months more. later, we will see its slight growth. Therefore, it will be not wise at all to sell BTC now.

it is very difficult to explain in this situation but the problem is the existing investors had lots of doubts about the future of their investment that's why they are panic and make their investment very low otherwise the traders are always been confidence with their trading still now.

The main problem is, people prefer to wait rather than enter into the game?
Yes indeed, all must have risks, but if you do not join, then the risk will definitely be much greater. Try to imagine if everyone waited, then in the end the volume on the large market also decreased. Like it or not, this will also cause fear and eventually prices will continue to decline

Exactly, this has been a waiting game for many investors and speculators. I would say that eventhough the charts is pointing to a likely scenario of pushing the price further, it is still the sentiments that will carry us to the next level.

There are a lot who is not yet confidence in the conditions of the market. So they rather prefer to wait till the price hits $6k before jumping in, I reckon.

At this point a number of investors are no longer taking the risk to invest,cause they feel there well be no more bull run. But for a fact it is the best time for me to invest.

everyone has different thoughts, of course, the current situation is indeed experiencing a decline, and indeed many investors are retreating because they are unable to deal with the current situation. but there are also those who still survive even though the situation is like anything. moreover, most people think now that investment is very risky.

It a decline most investors would halve their funds kept half for the long term the other half for, you are right, for short trades. Long term investing is one of the best ways for now let's not forget it.

there is nothing we can do but just wait for the market to rise and return to investing while the prices of all coins are still low, even though we as small investors have returned to buy it but that is not enough to wake the market from its slump.

looking for profit in the current market situation in my opinion is very difficult because the movement cannot be predicted, the risk is very great if we are careful in choosing coins to be able to seek profits in this situation.

for long-term investments it is not too volatile, but their goal is to open savings in the long run. now what we can do is improve investor confidence by spreading positive news about crypto

Waiting for the bear to wake up means waiting for when the rain is coming. Why not take advantage of the situation? Doing some short trades, buying more coins while the market is at dip. In other terms, invest more while bull is still active.

Yes, it's no use to wake up the bear because if the time is not right, then the bear will be stay. Still, trading will be a good idea this time as we can try to make a profit from any coins because many coins can increase higher than before. So it is better to use the situations than to wait for the bulls market because we need to add more bitcoin in our balance so we can sell the bitcoin at the highest price.

As of now we're into making the bear sleep, market is independent and it is in the urge to reach the next price barrier. In recent days we've experienced forward price push as well fall back. With this in mind it is appropriate for the wake of bull. This bull market is predicted to grow gradually at least till the days of halving.

In fact, in my opinion these are the best conditions in which one can enter the market to obtain good benefits with low risk, because you do not need to look too much in the exchanges to find cryptos with the potential to offer more than 10% of performance from one day to the next. And sometimes we forget that such a benefit is not negligible in these days when investing in a bank does nothing but ruin your finances. Therefore, I believe that we should continue investing with confidence, knowing that the loss potential seems quite limited.

Yes, the OP should make clear difference between bull and bear market.
Well, I bough some coins in expectation that they may raise. Unfortunately my part in bull's waking up is too small to do something.

Only few coins have perform lately, BNB had the most success despite the bear.

The title is a bit misleading, waking up the bear, where we are at bear market now.
Maybe it meant bulls, as once we are in the bull market, we can sell easily, of course with a profit.

We are small traders and we cannot wake up the market. so we can only predict and bet our money on a certain altcoin. I only believe in ETH because it is a great altcoin and has always been profitable for me since February.
In the near future, it will definitely have a pump and its price will increase to nearly $ 160.

The crypto market for the future is experiencing good growth, this is evidenced by the price of bitcoin which has reached USD 5311 today, and will continue to increase along with the high demand for cryptography.
In a market that looks calm, there is a lot of supply and demand throughout the world so that it will increase prices, because of business law where many requests will increase prices.

We can't wake the bulls or whales, but i think if they want to come and put again the money on crypto this can happen, and also if more people will but crypto even if they don't have a lot of money they can start the bull run.

It would be very difficult for individuals to be able to wake up bears, because we know that the crypto market is a group of investors and also large traders so that it might require a lot of money and assistance from several communities to be able to start an increase in the market. Or at least we have to convince people to continue to believe in the future of crypto.

Halving and  sec is approved automatically wakes up the bear

That is why with ETFs, there will be lots of investors who will certainly make the market bullish. Some say that ETFs will not affect the crypto market, but as we see today the market is experiencing a trend of a good increase after there are leaky issues regarding SEC approval. Whatever is happening in this industry that has become a hot conversation will definitely affect the market and fortunately this is a very positive effect on the growth of the crypto market.

it could be possible or not because the SEC ETF does not guarantee that there will be an increase in price
the most important is the crypto play community, the greater the transaction and there is no need to be afraid of falling markets as many people still play trading
I think instead it needs technology that is renewed on this in order to spur greater transaction growth

In such situation there is future trading. Future trading can help you trade on both the sides it sounds like a little risky but you can take some serious advantage of bearish situations like the one continuing now. Otherwise you can just sell your holdings at a loss in these phase or keep your assets holding in a hope that prices would recover upto the same mark as they were brought.

If you want to wake up a bear and turn the bullish market into a bearish market then all you had to do is to spread fake news and also create panic selling scenarios in the market where the weak hands type of people will follow your lead and that is how to wake the bear but you can also take that bearish moment into an opportunity by buying stocks of cryptocurrency.

It's not a good idea to wake the bear because it's now sleeping, bear market is a bad market for most investors, like me, I like the current market now.
The market now is bullish and I'm sure with that, we have slowly rise from the bottom price and it's stable for now.

HOW CAN I WAKE UP THE BEAR? IS TO INVEST MORE MONEY ,SEARCH FOR COIN WHICH ARE VERY CHEAP AND INVEST ON THEM AND ALSO KNOWING THE RIGHT TIME TO BUY AND TO SELL DONT' INVEST AT THE WRONG TIME.

I have a feeling like some other people shared that there might be fewer bull run in the future and possibility of relatively lower pumps like we could have in subsequent years. maybe 2 or 3 more bull runs. The bull will soon get tired and might see a scare and tougher control. There could be stronger competitor with bitcoin where people will put more of their money, they are just still my speculations . Bitcoin will exist for life but the manipulation, pump and dump will controlled.

It is also impossible to wake up the bear market alone, I don't think there is enough just one whale to make panic in the market. Maybe only Satoshi can do it. I am sure the OP is not one of the whales that manipulates the market, so he cannot make a bear market and will not be able to.

We need the help of the whales. They are the reason why bitcoin is moving up and wake the bear. In addition, news and development are also the reason why market begins to wake the bear. As of now, the market experiencing a stagnant position. Maybe, it is a sign already that the market will fall few days to go. However, I am hoping to have profits before btc and other altcoins become exhausted.

That’s a good question, i wish we’d know how to wake up the bear. The whole problem would have solved.
For me, my strategy was staying calm and watching the market. Of course i also tried to catch some opportunities, for example i had a chance to collect more Eth and Btc when the price is lower. I think it was the best part of the bear season, i bought some coins when their price cheaper. 

Whales won't even think of helping the market.

You know what's on their mind? to make money as much as they can. They don't care to the opinion of people on how they can make the market better.

yes I think like that. Maybe when the market situation is not good many people are pessimistic because the market is not going well but in my situation we can buy as much as we can while we can and we save until the market improves we will definitely get big profits. In a way that is rich so that we can take the positive side of the market again is not good

But don't invest on the the lower prices if you are not ready to hold it longer because we are not sure about how long the bear should exist with the following Trend but I don't think this is not a beer market this is just a correction on the prices we are not going to see huge fall in the prices in that case you can keep investing but remember don't invest if you are not ready to hold.

buying does not wake up a bear but buying wakes up a bull  . the title says how to wake up a bear , bear means fall of the price . people must sell in a huge percent to be able to wake up the bear .


if you arent ready to hold long you can still buy and go for short or mid terms  . buying in a dip is better than buying on a pump and you shouldnt worry too much as long as you invest on a trusted coins because their value would always recover  .

What is certain is that prices are made due to supply and demand factors, so if there is a lot of demand, prices will increase. Especially if the supply is small, the faster it rises.
Besides that, there are also external factors such as the existence of positive stock exchange information or big state policies that respond to the development of digital money and regulation globally.

As for me, there are many ways to overcome bear market and that strategy is beyond my understanding and what literally clear to me is that when many people buy bitcoin it will affect its price as what the law of demand and supply says and the hodl move is only to prevent the fall down of coin value.

Making profit while the market is going down is not waking up the bear, you’re simply just making profit because you’re doing the right thing and seizing every single opportunity you see to grab some profit. But if you’re talking about Waking up the bear then that’s something that happens occasionally, there are times the market will go up and there are times the market will also go down. You just have to know the right time to seize the opportunity and invest, so that as the market is going up you will be making the profit you need.

It is naive to think about any help from their side, but these are those people, who really can push bears (or bulls) come to the market. Now, when the market is swinging greatly again, both variants (fall and rise) are possible.

Right. It's a matter of finding the right timing. Even if the market is in bearish, as long as you see good chances to make profits, then seize it. While others keep on holding their coins to make bigger profits when the price goes up, others too are taking risks to day trade even if the market price is in sideways.

Yes, the demand for the Bitcoin will increase when the people start holding the Bitcoin because when a percentage of Bitcoin will be on hold for many months will always help the coin to increase the price. In the same way, when we hear any positive news about the cryptocurrency then we might bull will start increasing the price of Bitcoin.

I really saw Binance's spectacular wake up for the crypto market. The Binance Launchpad was launched at the time of the bear market and the IEO has really attracted a lot of foreign investors.
In any financial market, dump will come to the pump and that cycle will continue to occur. You should not be too pessimistic about the market situation. Be alert to choose potential projects and investments. I think that is the best way to wake up the bear market in yourself. ;)