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The downtrend market is a very normal phenomenon in the overall market movement. But for investors, this is a very unfavorable time because it is difficult to buy & sell and take risks if trying to buy a certain crypto code. The downward market often drags most crypto down.
So what to do to survive and live well when the bearish market happens??? Here are some tips for you.

1. SHOULD NOT CATCH THE BOTTOM IF YOU ARE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
Normally, investors like to catch the bottom. Catching the bottom is a normal action, even helping investors buy cheap cryptos, but it is a huge risk. Therefore, if your knowledge and experience are not enough, it is the best not to see the price drop too cheap and buy it, because in fact you cannot know how much the price will drop.
The thing to do in this period is to jump outside and wait for the price to stop falling, start to create a solid price base or show signs of increasing to consider whether to buy or not.
In the three states of increase - decrease - sideways, the trend of rising prices always gives us the highest probability of buying cryptos.

2. FOCUS ON READING BOOKS, SEEKING FOR INFORMATION, GETTING MORE KNOWLEDGE
Our knowledge is very limited, no one can claim that we know everything in this market. Instead of watching the price board, charts, just find a book about investment, or crypto trading to learn more knowledge from previous people in order to upgrade your level to new heights.
When the crypto market starts to bullish, with the knowledge you have just acquired, will you invest better when you don't know anything?

Every investor does not follow the trading think, maximum people thinking that one-day "bill gets" no learning, no hard work no experience, feeling just buy and sell next few days she is a "Rich man".  

I think all traders should follow some of the rules and regulations It should not be rush here Before taking any step here should be considered.

Your needed must follow some think:

1. Not all money should be invested in a token or a coin(you can invest 20-30% of your total money).

2. Do not invest any token or coin first analysis deeply than invest It cannot be thought that I will always gain a lot(target 5-10% average).

3. Do not follow any pumping group or signal group Because if you do this, then there is a lot more chance of losing your profit

if you want a real trader or investor so You should keep the same amount as you invest(always reserve 50% money on your total amount) Besides, you will lose your capital once.

Stuff like this isn't highlighted enough: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2848987.5

There are plenty of things to do other than trying to find the next big thing.

A bear market is a great time for accumulation, especially if you believe that the fundamentals are strong, and you can afford to hold for the long term. You can take chance and speculate by shorting the price , but you need to understand price movements to do this. The other alternative is a variation on price averaging. The price never goes straight down, but the drop includes periods of sideways movement, and price corrections when the price goes up. If you buy when you think the correction is near the bottom, and sell when you think it has gone up enough, then you can increase the quantity of Bitcoin that you buy. If you never take a loss, but move the coins that you can never sell for a profit into a HODL wallet, then you are just boosting the number of coins that you would have purchased as part of your averaging.

Note that this is an ultra safe approach, and is based on the opinion of someone who is not a professional adviser, and who isn't too good at chart analysis. With this approach, you shouldn't use money that you can't afford to lose, and you are prepared to tie up for a couple of years or more. Also you need to be convinced that the long term trend for Bitcoin is bullish.

1. "A bear market is a great time for accumulation, especially if you believe that the fundamentals are strong, and you can afford to hold for the long term."
--> I don't agree because:
- How long is long-term? You can wait for 3 months, 1 year, 3 years but can you wait in vain for 10 years or more?
- Today or next month or even next year the fundamentals are strong but who know they will be collapsed the second year because of sudden reasons?
2. You cannot understand the price movements and even the best traders because nobody can smarter than Mr Market
3. "The other alternative is a variation on price averaging."
--> I don't agree also because averaging price in bear market is the most stupid action. Never do this
My conclusion: Jump out of bearish market a.s.a.p and spend your precious time for your family and reading books to learn as much as possible about the market. The market is younger and younger but you're older and older. Don't be afraid of losing chances, be afraid of losing your money.
P/s: I am writing by smart phone so I can do smoothly. Please forgive me if I have any mistakes
Regards

Addition to #2.

There are great people who are sharing their opinion about the market. It's more of technical analysis with reasoning and they are worth and valuable to read. Most of these people are also co-forumers who are commenting what they think about the market.

Most of it can be found on Speculation. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0)

It seems to me that your thinking is related to daily trading or maybe short-term investments, and as many traders you are disapointed with this bear market for simple reason, low volatility -> low profit.

On the other hand such times are great opportunity for long-term investors to accumulate more coins and to profit in next bull run. They have big advantage compared to small investors, money they can invest and wait 5, 10 years or even more. It is nothing wrong to spend time with family and to read more, but next time when price start to skyrocketing people will come here and regret for not invested in time, same as every time in past.

I am not 100% sure that past will be repeated, but short 10 years of bitcoin history has certain repetitive patterns, we just have to look at them and decide if we will make our decisions based on them or not.

Anybody can make profit in bull market and how do you know that bull market is not going to crash on next minute after you invested.


I guess you will keep gathering knowledge in your life with zero wisdom.

When the market is bearish it is time for investment. With bitcoin as other cryptocurrency the market will show continues fluctuation unlike the market trend. Users need to be prepared for all market situation and should have the ability to make an earning out of the market volatility. As an user stated when the market is bullish everyone can profit. A separate board has lots of discussions relating the same on speculation board.

I agree that the market downward trend is averse to investments but so investors and traders are making it even as I type.
Just like you noted, one should try and understand the market setting of cryptocurrency in order to know when to invest and when not to sell and when it's good to hold.

Invest a bit more when there is a bearish market. Having a bearish market is a signal for a few investors to add some more investment. Nevertheless, you will gain profit from the bearish market.

I have focus to keep the funds in my wallet for long term. So here for bearish time also I do the same and keep my funds safe. Something I missed which I believe is investing on BNB.

I advice to the newbies please invest on top 10 cryptos because we can see certainly price dropped last two days. It will help us to grow more.

I have come to the realization that the bearish market trend is actually the best time to invest in cryptosphere.
The rule"invest when others are scared" comes to mind here.
My friend invested in ONT the other time when the price was 0.58$.
Even though some people tried to talk him out of it.
After 3 weeks ONT price rised to $3+.
He sold and just bought back again last week.
The bearish market is investment time. The only thing is for one to do proper findings about a coin before investing.

The bearish market itself is not the best time for investments, because it means that the prices will go down even more. Investing during the bullish market is mainly safe, since the prices are rising, but you might end up investing during ATH without even knowing it. The best think to do during the bearish market is wait until it looks like the prices have reached their bottom. And then buy and wait until the market gets bullish and the prices reach the point when you are satisfied enough with the profit you made. I also think it's good to decide a certain prices at which you'll definitely sell no mater what, because toehrwise the person might get trapped and not benefit from the dynamics at all because of being greedy.

I see this reading thing and gathering of information while market is bearish as a corrective measure, to gain knowledge and take better decision next time. Because you can't have all the time or emotion to be reading at the time your money is at risk , you rather would be looking for means to safe your loss.

Work more to have more money to invest when bear market will finish, and study to make my work be more worth.

For most people, the best answer is to just walk away from the market. It's not a good time for investment. If you're looking for returns on your capital in a bear market, you need to be shorting the market, and you need to be comfortable being a trader vs. being an investor.


Just try to accumulate near the end of the bear market, not the beginning. People who bought in the $3,000s are a lot happier than people who bought at $10K or $12K.

Accumulate to the coins which you do believe that do have the potential specially to those coins who are on top 10 of CMC.They are cheap as of this moment
and if you can dare to risk up money the go ahead but dont expect too much.

If you are holding some bags, then its wise for you to keep holding on and wait for the market reversal.

I have the same sentiment also when it comes to investing coins in this bearish market. But I would choose coins from the top 10 of CMC list minus Bitcoin Cash.  :P I believe, individuals behind this coin are the only ones gaining from this yet another bitcoin fork. Sooner or later, we will be out of this type of market. And since mass adoption is getting stronger everyday, the price increase is very imminent.

Actually, bear market is not intended to get profit in a short time. Buying and accumulating coins with good performance and high volume yet low prices is the best thing to do during this market trend.

Agreeing with you, a bad market has taught many things to me, because then I become more patient and not greedy, because the Bitcoin market can be tamed with extensive knowledge, and it requires failure first.

Sticking with the top 10, is good, but actually you don't need to only stick with them, there are plenty of good coins in the market.
You can go with a medium risk and high risk investment, because of the bearish market, there are coins that are very undervalued, they may even look worthless but in reality they have an active devs and therefore they have a potential, that's the gems in the market.

During bear market our holdings are decreasing thus its better to stay a way for a while and refrain from monitoring the market often to not be tempted to panic sell.

Some investors who set their investment to hodl for long period accumulate when the value of popular coins are declining, although we cant figure out if we already reach the bottom during this time atleast we know that if the value of our favorite coins are cheap its a best chance to take advantage it.

Well I think those users who have enough knowledge about the market and knows how to do technical analysis are likely the investors that are fully aware of what should we expect next in the price of our coins.

In bear market our holdings lose value, amount doesn`t decrease if you keep it safe. There isn`t bear market for day traders, there is just a range of fluctuations, for holders bearish market means discount and they are buying if they think that bottom is here, or at least close. That is the clue for people who don`t know what to do, you can always trade cause price always fluctuate, if you are long term you need to buy more and wait for your moment.

You also need to believe that there is a future in Bitcoin in order not to be tempted to sell of during bear market. This is the reason why most of new people in cryptocurrency tend to be a panic seller.

I think even with experience it's still hard to predict the bottom.Since we expect Bitcoin prices to rise eventually, I think anytime other than a rally is a good time to buy - that is if you intend to hold longterm.

don't listen too seriously to the news that brought you to FUD, if indeed you are serious in this industry. because it can make you cut loss. it's better to keep hodl, and also buy again.

Point number 2 is actually a good point if you ask me. There are a lot of people who, during a bear market, just forget about the market all in all and just tend to focus their attention on something else and are not trying to gain information while the market is bad. Personally I view a bear market as a learning opportunity to get better at trading and not just rely on a bull market to profit. One does not necessarily need to trade in order to learn but reading a lot of materials and articles regarding the present trend of the market is, IMO, one of the best things to do.

As the market fluctuates without any prior indication, the large scale price fluctuation easily make the people get into panic attacks. These days very few get as a prey for the inappropriate news that is being circulated. Bearish market is same as bullish market and the fluctuation continues with it. It is us and who are knowledgeable can make use of it in making profit.

This is a remarkable thing between bearish and bullish because both of them had same trends, base on how a trader observed along the way. We might see some good moves and eventually it doesn't meet our expectations when bad fluctuations occured, during volatility begun to initiate more spikes. It can be an upward movement or sometimes downtrend changes depending on market changes that we see. During bearish market don't decide quickly as if you have no future on your assets, and instead of selling early prefer holding your tokens and sell when price increase at profitable value.

The current situation is like climbing up on a mountain so it definitely be tougher for everyone but if you wait for sometime we had some ideas about how to climb and make it successful this will be the same situation for currency also so I am not doing anything in this situation I waiting for a good time and make it profitable

What you can do is follow the trend, and as long as it is down, which has been the case for over a year now, people expect it to go down further and either short or have fiat ready to buy up spot in case the price does tank.

The thing however is that following the trend hasn't really offered that much of an advantage in the last months. People were better off longing the 200WMA touches and take profits on the upper side of the channel we're in.

It's quite similar to how the $5800 mark offered massive support last year. You long the $5800 touch and short where you believe the next lower high would be. It worked for most of 2018 till there was no support left and we tanked hard.

To be fair, it is enough just to follow all the basic rules of investing, and then there will not be much difference between a growing and a falling market. Simply, you will know what needs to be done in a given situation and control your risk level. Catching a falling knife is one of the biggest mistakes. It is better to miss part of the profits than trying to catch the bottom. And most importantly, you can never forget about stop loss. No one knows where the market will move and at what speed. By setting stop loss you will save yourself from losing money.

This type of situation also people had lots of opportunity to make money in this field, so the bearish market will not be a problem for long term investors and traders the problem is only for daily money making people so I think they are struggling lots but still now we can make money and profit in Crypto market right now.

And the more reason to be extremely careful to bear with the market as it is now. If support has totally collapsed , that also means resistance will be difficult to find (at least for now) and that also means market is on it own.

To me bear is a bigger risk than buy.

all you have to do is invest more, in this bearish market condition it would be better if we add investment to some of the coins that occur so that when the bull run occurs then our investment will continue to increase.

When the market is red the only thing to do is to Hold and you should be wise when you want to buy more because you're not sure if the market will recover in a short period of time because mostly market recovering will occur in a long period of time. Being wise when the market is bearish will make you get profits or will make you to avoid losses.

Unless trying to short, buying at this price range is still OK. I think that's what's good with holding for a longer period, there's more chances to recoup investments. Just don't buy during bull runs and you'll be OK.

it should be the moment for us to test our mental and faith in this market.maybe if we still have strong faith and dare to take risk by buying some coins i am sure in near future we will gain much profits.

No one can predict the bottom, thats why its recommended to buy in at different levels to average your buy in cost.  The old saying is that time in the market beats timing the market and I definitely agree with that.

simply I am waiting for a good chance of getting my investment with a profit and also waiting for a good development to invest in some good investment for getting the future for mine will be brighter and peaceful.

That's definitely true, but the difference that favors the bulls in this case is that we're re-testing the 200WMA that keeps moving up as time goes by, while last year we kept testing the same flat support level.

I don't agree on the resistance levels being difficult to find. If we break below the 200WMA that functions as major support average right now, it will turn into a major resistance average. Support becomes resistance once broken.

Not sure what you exactly mean by that, but if it's something like being a bear right now is more risky than a bull that buys right now, it could be, but only time will tell. In hindsight we're always either right or wrong

You need to find out the profitable coin, I am sure that you can find with some learning about the analysis.


We cannot invest in any coins if we don't know anything and that is a gamble because we will randomly to choose the coin, expecting that coin will increase in the next day.

Start investing more in the bearish market because you would get the coins at much cheaper rate than your expectation and this would help you to grow your portfolio at a very good buying price and have a multiple coins with you so that in bull run you make money for yourself.

of course all we have to do is continue to wait until the market experiences a good improvement, because that way we can get great results and we can also avoid trading losses or invest

I think playing safe is the key.And also we've to be patient and wait for the right moment to make good decision.The Market can be go on both side.Some will lose and some will win, I think those who Will be patient and calm will make profit from this situation.Also my advice will be dont invest that much which you can't afford to lose.               

This is one way you can do when the market is bearish but you also can buy more when the price is cheaper and can sell when you see some good marginal growth and this is called day trading.

Hodl or tether up are the only options. The problem is that the price increases are so dramatic that it's easy to miss when it happens. Hodl is easier is you have patience

Yeah and i agree with what op said that you don't have to try and catch the bottom. It's the same as holding on selling trying to catch the peak. You can try to make small trades with altcoins who show more signs of movement since there are quite a number of traders who make profit out of this in a bear trend.

It is time to show our trust and our believe about crypto market, bearish market is not forever soon it will be over. In future price will be high once again then investors will be happy, in bearish market most of time we buy to hold and later on it rises higher, patience and waiting for the price to be recover is best thing to do.

Right.Since the market is not really in a very good condition right now,so it's best to keep holding our coins and maybe accumulate more potential coins while they are still in a low price.Bearish market might be an advantage to those who are already experts in this market because this is a great opportunity to earn huge profits once a bull run comes.

Yes right, the key to staying in a bearish market is patience to maintain our emotions, because in today's market we have to be smart to still get profits, so the point remains to be sure that this is the lowest price we should buy as much as we can.

During the bearish market trend, my strategy is to keep investing, keep HOLDING sure bull run will commenc to bring in the profit, but ensure you research well before investing, consider token with an available product and already listed on coinmarket.

Bearish market is a good time to invest for hidden gem coins. Though it will require you bit of effort but it will be rewarding afterwards. Research and studying the coins and market will guide you which coins have potential to become valuable. And yes, working product is one factor to consider in choosing a good project to invest with.

There's two best thing you can do during bearish market. First is hold, in that way you can prevent yourself from lossing any amount of your coin. Especially if you aren't sure on your decision. Second, buy more if you still have money to invest, take advantage on low price result of others panic selling, etc.

if I myself do all I have to do is hold on and continue to wait until the market experiences a good increase, because that's how I and all of you can get a big profit

Bear market is the best time to buy and hoard coins, but you need to think about the coin potential and the term of investment and if you are not really a good trader then don't try to trade, many newbies try to trade in bear market and end up losing a lot of money, just hold and be patience until the trend turnover

The bearish market time should be the time we should learn and invest at the right time.  When market is going down most times we don't know how far it can go but if we spend time in learning how to understand the bottom from the formal data there is no way we would not invest aright.

The actions that you take on a bearish/bullish market depend on your vision and expectations about the market.The biggest mistake would be to seek advise from someone else and to follow the "trading gurus".
Waiting/HODLing is the only safe bet.Despite the bearish trend,there's always an expectation that bitcoin will reach another ATH.The question is when it will happen.

 The main content is daily learning and perseverance for a long time. These are things that investors should keep in mind. I think patience with my portfolio is very good. We are trusting ourselves and we make money with our talents.
If you understand that, making money will not make you boring, because every day you show your talents.
Comfortable mood will also help you invest smarter than ever. so learn to be patient and determined.

Quite good advice that you give when a time like this where the market that still has no signs of increasing we really have to be patient and also keep doing evaluations to get updates about the information that we really need as an investor

Rather than thinking and wasting time on thinking its better not to look into the market for a few days and then only comment on the situation. This bear market is having a long run so its not going away soon. As we have observed, every bullish upstroke is quickly being brought down by the bears and bitcoin goes back to 3.9k USD level every time it tries to touch 4.1k USD. There is a big resistance level building up here and bottlenecking the system.

Instead keep out of trading in short term unless you are margin trading with leverage on shitmex and all. If you are doing so then all the best and keep an eye on that "liquidation"  ;D

If I noticed that it has a bearish market I don't look my wallet, instead, I take a break from trading and makes my mind busy on another thing so that I can't remember those red days. However, in a while that market is down I must prefer to invest a little and hold until the market was fully recovering.

Trying to apply this suggestion, because usually, new traders were cant control there emotion and for sure do panic selling.

indeed the best way to do this now is to wait until the price of the cryptocurrency at the exchange can be recovered, but what if the condition of the cryptocurrency price cannot recover? Are you going to sell a loss or keep your assets stuck with very long conditions?

everything is back to conviction and patience as the main capital in investing with crypto currency itself and must be smart in utilizing every opportunity we will get in its investment

Do not get dragged by the hype and panic of the people.

There will always panic on the sidelines and more of them are lurking in telegram which could really make you sell if you are that weak.
Decision making is really important in a bearish trend. Some people rely on luck but that is like killing your investment already.

Research should never stop specially with a market that is volatile. It happens mostly with crypto currencies so you got to be ready as always.

Instead of waiting for this long-running bearish trend there is some productive way to earn some profit while bag holding and waiting for the market to starts the bull run. It won't happen yet since every time Bitcoin tries to move up the bear is always pulling it down but once the right time that the bull will be released then that's the time the market will start to skyrocket faster than the bear that's pulling it down.

For me personally when the market is bearish like now, I do continuous research about the price movements of Bitcoin and Altcoin, because it is very important to know the lowest price, so I can get a position to buy.

it is related to analysis, indeed it is necessary to know the lowest price of bitcoin, to buy it with the existing power, so we are easier to make a profit, believing in personal analysis is the best thing in my opinion

A bear market can test your patience and discipline regarding your trade. So while we are at it, it is also best that we should try to improve our patience and discipline.

There are lots of opportunities too during the bear market. You can short some stocks, accumulate those low priced cryptos and evaluate your coins if they are still worth keeping. If they are not doing anything during the bear market, then maybe they are just trash that needs to be disposed of.

That's right. For most people this is the time to amass some good coins under your belt, if possible, those good and seasoned ones that you know for sure would have better movement and value once the market landscape changes. Also, it's a good time to see what coins still have some activities, despite how little it is, to note which ones, despite the sluggish market can still support some transactions. That way, you can see which ones would be more active come the time the market status turns green. But, just a word of caution, as much as it is a good time to buy as most coins are low on their values, make sure still that you have the right amount of planning so that you won't be fooled to just follow up any leads and coins just because it can be bought for a bargain because not every coin will come out of such bearish market, some will be left dying after that.

I suppose that the problem here that when you want to sell crypto for the recent rate, its value can go down if the transaction is still pending, so it appears that you sell for the numbers you didn't really expect to appear there. So it really important to find out the exchange where you can trade fast without any delays. We should find solution for this issue

I think if you only do research without using a moment like this then you will only experience losses because when your price rises too late to buy and the price is too expensive, it is better to immediately buy and sell when the price has gone up.

if I think I saw the red market, the only way I would be to hold my altcoin at a better market price, so I would also get a better profit.

I guess watching netflix is a good option, if not youtube is great for watching videos as well ;D ;D.
I think reading a book would be better than all of that because it would make you smarter (depending on the book of course) and broaden your imagination for sure.

Whatever you do trading on bear market is always a danger and if possible and if you can than you should stay away from it. However, lets say you need to trade on bear markets than all you can do is to drop your dollar cost averages down, if you bought from 5 than buy again at 3, if it goes down to 1 buy again, there is not much else to do during bad markets.

I had a lot of coins at higher prices (around 8k) but than I dropped that down when it went to 5k or so and now I purchased so much during this 3k times that I have managed to drop my averages down to 4.1k as of right now, its even possible for me to sell for a profit, that is all you can hope to achieve during these days.

The best thing we can do in a bear market is to hold good developments coins for long term growth Bear market is a big opportunity to grow our portfolio  coins

Always remember to be patient and remember why you are here and why are you going to stay here for a longer time frame.
Paper losses are paper losses and paper profits are paper profits!!!

I think anyone who is an investor should always plan ahead. Know what should be your target for the year. Some of us are greedy and they don't have any plans. They just watch the market and that's why they will continue to lose most of the times. You should know what time to cut your loss and when to cut your profit. If you don't, that means you will always take whatever the market gives to you. And it's good to buy coins during bear trend and store them till bull. If you decide to wait till bull, then you will be buying out of FOMO

Lolzzz… I don't see why you added that number two ;D. Why would you be reading when you already lost your money? That's funny. That's why, if you're a trader you always need to setup your stop-loss, so that you don't lose and even if you do lose, it wouldn't be that much. Then as for those that are Hodling, you need to be following up with the market regularly to know when you're meant to withdraw.

We can evaluate opportunities to survive. There are always opportunities in the crypto market, even if the price of bitcoin falls over and over. Or if you have no idea what to do, wait for the better situation.

Of course now is the best price to invest because price is not very high and there are so many chances for the price to be high, never lose the opportunity and be an investor for long term. Bearish market gives us chance to buy at low price and then hold for long term, according to me bearish market we should hold only.

A wise thing to be done rather than on panicking or hurrying up yourself on making money and place up entries without any
analysis will lead into more further deeper loss. Just wait and analyze on the situation.Just follow your traditional trading system
and don't panic because emotions is really a big factor to pop out in these kind of situations.

Yes right dude in this bearish trend try to find another way on how to earn profit even the situation are in falling down, then always calm your self dont be impatient hold your altcoin wait for the right time.
Dont give up even you see the market are in hard fall because everything gonna be fine this is only a test for cryptoworld.

The only right decision for a bear market is a long-term investment in cryptocurrency, as well as a revision of all of its assets, with a view to real prospects for the future.

Better decision skills and knowledge, people will be able to make himself a billionaire. The market is really in the downward position but we all know the possibilities of the market and that is the reason why still, there are a lot of investors sticking to their cryptocurrency investments. The price is low but not that low, still, the possibility of it pumping is still there that is the reason we just need to wait and grab the opportunity when it is there. That is how people should do it especially on cryptos, grab the opportunity while it is still there.

That could be true as we don't have to worry on the price movement, if it will pump and dump, so be it.
We just have to believe that the overall price movement will be uptrend so our big target will be achieve, and it's not hard if crypto will be successful.

Like you said, price averaging is only good for long term portfolio building, but for short and mid term investors, even with strong fundamentals the temptation to build one's portfolio in a bear market isn't as strong as the will not to lose money. IMO tho, for short and mid term investors or traders, profit is key to sustenance, so I recommend the fluid approach. Dance with the market. Buy and sell even at the bottoms, and track profits - it's called being penny wise. But it takes gut and a level of risk awareness to be efficiently fluid with the market, hence, investors should groom themselves with every technique available to asset management.

If I need to make an evaluation based on my own experiences, I think that many factors should be considered during the month. Although there is a steady downward trend especially during this period, we can see that there are certain rising trends daily or weekly. During this period, we should assess these price fluctuations in the short term and not limit our short-term budget with a single option. In addition, during this period, we should also increase our capital in our long-term basket and make purchases from different investment instruments gradually for the long-term process. On the other hand, we should not make panic sales because of the negative price decomposition in this period and we should definitely use stop loss in our short term transactions.

The bottom value for any cryptocurrency is always as hard to predict so that you should always think that the bottom price is not the actual price we might see everyday. Sometimes it can go lower that expected so that reading and a lot of research should be a thing to do if we really wanted to know what is happening around the market. But should you want to help the market I think it is wise to establish a business that would utilize any digital coin. Usage or utility makes the progress we need to lift the bearish market.

Through history of BTC bear markets, it were great times for accumulate more BTC, and I think that this bear market is not different than bear markets before.
This strategy works only for long term investments, but if you want fast money, it is better to wait for another bull market.

I am new to trading and am keeping it safe. I do day trading and only on the first top 15 cryptocurrencies. With these coins no matter the market situation. I believe my loss will be minimal

I am trying to learn the Strategies and some tips and tricks in this situation and how to handling it because it is very important in this situation to handle our investment and make it more profitable it will not been very easiest job right now and without doing nothing it will not been stay in the same position so the work from yourself will be more higher in this time.

Nice to see you as a trader if you are new then you will have to be very careful as you said you are holding then you are going well but still be careful of those whales who will only discourage you to sell at panic then they will buy from you at low to hold so better trade very carefully and being new you should trade for long term.

Yes. Its more risky to day trade knowing you're still a newbie so you should be very careful with your actions not to make huge losses in the end. Mistakes are normal because this will eventually turn you into a better trader. I suggest to make long term trading too because the profit you will gain is definitely bigger than doing day trade.

I continue to trade but on a small scale, because we know that Bearish markets are still very vulnerable to falling prices again, so at this time I invest carefully.

At least the market is not in the bottom anymore but it is still bearish though stable so continue short trading in this situation of the market may be harder compared to when the market is in the bullish trend. Just continue to learn the fundamentals and it will pay off in the future while keeping your experiences to guide you.

But some people do nothing for the investment they make. not sell and not buy and only keep holding in the hope that one day the market will return bullish and they will still benefit from the patience they have keeping up during the bearish period. By making that decision also in my opinion would be a good choice if indeed the coins they hold are coins that have maximum recovery potential when the uptrend occurs.

You can't control the price movements or how will the market behaves. You are an investor of volatile crypto currencies and instead of being confident on your investments, you should have a plan to what you will be doing when a certain thing happens. It is good to be confident with your investment, yes but the thing is that you don't know what might happen so being careful is also needed.

the question seems to be dependent . What should you do in bearish market?  , in my case im only a seller and a worker  i heavily relly on the highest possibe price of cryptos  .  when there is a bear or a dip  , i only hodl my coins until the bad days are gone  . while on the other hand , for some that are investors and traders  , they are going to be buying at the bears because that is a big oppurtunity to them while at the same time they are also selling at highs  .

One should have patience and do not sell in a hurry as it can lead to losses. Also consider this is a testing time as well because time will come when you will see market will reach 10k+ and those who hold the top coins will help them to make money from their investment.

the best thing we can do in the bearish market is to collect most of the development coins follow their roadmap and social media and hold those coins as long term asset  .Bear market is right opportunity to buy coins at cheap price

In my opinion selling valuable assets during a bearish market is really a bad idea because losses are surely guaranteed as price decreasing rapidly. It is advised to better hold until the bear market calm in order to sustain a manageable profit when market soon to recover.

traders will not be able to wait that long for recover prices, I think a trader must have the wise decision, even if it gives a loss. Bears are full of risks so you have to be prepared for that, the most important thing is to use the opportunity as well as possible when the conditions are bearish, don't wait too long to sell. keep trade and becareful

It is a bad idea since you are just surrendering your future profits. Instead of just selling them at a low price, it is better to wait or hold them for some period of time until the price gets back to a good price. Instead of losing your profit, I guess it is a good call to just wait and be patient since we all know that being patient is a good thing.

It is never known how much the price will drops in bear periods and our guess are often incorrect. However, even in these periods, a short-term increase may occur. Instead of doing daily trading, it is more logical to me to trade with less money in times of rising.

In a bearish market, look for a promising project with a proof of concept - preferably having a working product, buy their dip and keep buying and brace for impact, if you survive it, you'll be really rich. Else, you'd have to gamble your way through a stack of shitcoins and hoping against favorable odds that you hit a jackpot - a coin that will ride the bear and come out unscathed.

common and commonly done investors buy when cheap prices and sell them when prices become expensive and of course to get profits in their investments

that's the basic on crypto trading.simple thing that its difficult to to because most of us have no knowledge about trading.but the thing we can do in bearish market was buy cheap on major coins

To have more patience is importantat during bear market because you can’t easily make profit on this trend. The best way to enjoy the bear market is to buy bitcoin or other top altcoins, you have to trust them because those are the coins that can bounce back even if it falls big. There’s still time to accumulate, take the risk of holding top coins.

Based from my experience, here is what I did during a bearish slump market:

First, never lose your head and composure. A bearish market can literally destroy your head especially when you purchased something and its initial price is lower to the market price. Seeing your resources lose value can be devastating but never lose your composure and goal;

Second, panic-selling is the worst move you can do during a bearish market. Not only that you sold your resources in a lesser value but this also may give rise to poor decision making and regret at the future. Although panic-selling may be acceptable in extreme situations; and

Third, decide when to sell your investments. This will be relative to every individual but you have to determine on when you should cash-out your investments to fiat. Losses may incur but this can also mitigate the damage further.

In my honest opinion I am already hoarding a lot of my earned money from my usual work and saving it for later when the market start it's charades. It may seem shady but only those who wants to risk it has their own freedom of doing it. It may also seem stupid but I am waiting for that jump to happen.

During bear market times, it is always good for coin holders to stay calm and avoid any form of FUD creation because it does no good to the market than to create panic selling. Also, it is good for investors to buy more of the valuable during bear markets because they sell at relatively low prices.

I googled up the word charades and it means fake or false.  Do you mean you are spending your cash for fake market trends ?  (  ex. Fake bull , fake bear )    .  and why do you call it shady ?  Its not a shady act to spend your hard earned cash on cryptos but just make sure that you spend it on proper times and not for the fake/trap trends   .  chosing the  right kind of crypto do also matter the most 

I agree.Panic selling won't bring any good to all investors so as much as possible,stay calm and relax when bearish season comes.We won't lose our capital unless we sell our coins with a relatively low price.Bearish market has always given us great chances to earn more bitcoins and even potential altcoins which are bargain at an affordable price.

Panic attack is just normal. It's how you are going to react to it that might affect your decision. When we are in panic mode, our decisions are clouded and can make a quick action (like pushing the sell button) and then regret it later.

And yes, it won't bring any good to us and even to the market. That's why we always advise against panic selling, worst you are losing. There's nothing wrong with waiting or make your move when the dust settles. If hard to control it though, but through experience, I'm sure most of can learn how to control ourselves and make a good decision later.

Yes, selling when the market goes down is always a silly idea because we all know that whales want to manipulate market prices to accumulate, they will always push prices down to lower levels over time, and of course when they have accumulated enough, they will pump again, and selling at the time of pumping will be reasonable, instead of selling at the time of going down, calm and patient will win in this market, so what we should do is maintain positive and control emotions, don't let it fall into the depths of despair.

I like the bearish trend to accumulate more coins. More & more, day by day..  ::)

Also trying daytrading in this sideway market is something i can recommend (made about +10% in the last few months).

Assuming the stock don't completely collapse and one's left a bagholder of course knocks on wood but yes, that's a perfectly reasonable buying strategy. Most people complaining about the low prices are those that bought expensive bitcoins anyway. The hodlers are unpertrubed as always.

Just hold your crypto and just wait. As we all know that in bearish market every investors or contributors has potential loss and it will be a loss if one will going to trade or sell. Anyway market slowly recovering so there is no need for one to panic now and do selling of crypto holdings.

Actually it depends on each other perspective, as I can say there is a lot of difference between traders and investors because traders need a continous profit meanwhile investors only get to hit one big bearish moment and boom. So if it starts the momentum then they will be more active to trade meanwhile investors just watching how it grows and let it keeps on going up

right, when the bearish trend of traders can still make money with scalping, of course this must be based on good talent, because it will be more dangerous than investing in the long term

Its true, if you're an investor, just keep watching it, don't panic, be patient to holding it. while the trader you can keep the trade, but the important thing is you have to be more careful because prices tend to fall more often, its mean more risky, take advantage of the best possible opportunities

The bearish market plays two role one of which is that it gives investors the chance to buy at a low price but in doing that one need to increase your knowledge about the market movement which is some time very difficult to do. And the second one is the the bearish movement always result into devastating market where the smart traders alone are able to make positive use of it. In all the bearish market is not favorable to newbies.

In the bear run is the perfect time to gather altcoins because the price evolution is predictable and usually it goes down.

If you don't have enough knowledge of daily trading while the market is in bear then I should refer to investing a coin which actually has a better profit and worth of holding in the future outcomes.

The hardest part is recognizing the bottom. We all know that buying at the bottom is the right thing to do, but in reality we keep asking ourselves "Are we there yet?".

Putting aside over 90% of all existing coins and tokens, let's talk about established ones. Being around for years, those coins have small chances of disappearing completely, so we can try to invest in them. So, here's my advice on when to start buying. Look at a coin's charts, and if its current price is around or less than 10% of what it used to be at some point in the past, we are most likely at the bottom, so there are great chances of that you can't go wrong with buying this coin.

Most investors would still panic sell big time because they mostly do expect the profit to come immediately. The reason is because they have likely not experienced a bear market before that has stayed for this long, but any investor that can be patient enough not to sell at this period is the smart investor which I don’t even need to advise the already experienced ones.

This is a great time to accumulate coins and just patiently wait. It’s kind of a hard time for traders with the way the prices keep falling and rising but I feel some traders are taking advantage of this time to make money also.

right, getting profit now does not rule out the possibility of traders buying in the valley, releasing it. but for those with long-term investments, certainly not affected, because indeed they may have mastered the fundamentals

indeed in situations and conditions like now investors must be able to take advantage of every opportunity that will be obtained to get the benefit of course

While catching the bottom without a doubt is something that is very difficult to do and very few traders are capable of consistently investing during the period in which the coin reaches its lowest price the truth is you do not really need to invest at the bottom, as long as you have a very clear investing or trading strategy then you can still obtain great profits by capturing most of the movement of the coin but this requires two things that are not very easy to get, one is to have a winning strategy and the second is to follow that strategy no matter what.

My strategy is to research on ICO  with realistic and viable project or an ICO with a product, I tend to invest in dduch project and patiently wait for the bull run to commence, Also I ensure a larger percentage of  my investment is on BTC, as  the bull run tends to commence with BTC,

the thing I usually do when the market goes down is to buy a few more coins, for me when the bearish market can be an opportunity to increase my investment.

On a bear market, it is best to consolidate more and increase your knowledge every so often. You could also do trading so you can profit at the same time. If perhaps you don't do trading, might as well buy a coin that is already established and has a low chance of being manipulated by pump and dump schemes and hold long.

The best you can do in a bearish market is to accumulate tokens which are very low form their initial price but have potential of rising again and keep so as to sell and make good profit durring bull run

That is a very good idea, because in the bearish market there are a lot of low Token prices, and that is a very good opportunity to collect cheap, but has good potential Tokens, so multiply to do research on the low Tokens.

Not only altcoin. If you are also determined to invest in Bitcoin, that is also good since the price of it is also going down in the past, but since we are talking about Bitcoin right now, if you did not invest before the pump that is happening right now it is really bad. The price is increasing now so I think you better wait again for the price to go down or invest now.

Bear market is the best time to invest in crypto because most of the valuable coins are selling at relatively low prices. What an investor ought to do is to perform a personal research into the coins of interest in other to choose the right coin capable of rising within some particular period of time.

yes you right. at the time of the bear market, the price of coins is very cheap, those with weak hands throw it out of fear of falling continuously. so this is the time to invest and I believe that soon the market will return to a bull run, maybe start in September

  Bear market is one of a way to confused people how wide our patience to hold the asset during the crisis day. Seeking good and valuable coins to be invested is a preferable way to elaborate when the market gain its stability. As of now, we are heading a steady growth of some value of coins and many of us are still keeping some and wish for a big bull run for this 2019.

I also think like you. I just got a lot of money, that's $ 4,000 from some projects I did. but now I'm quite puzzled about investing because I don't know what a potential altcoin is and how to test it. I need books that only invest and analyze. Which book are you reading? Please introduce me. thank you

 I enjoyed reading and learning. Now I am only 19 years old and only know about the crypto market as well as basic investment rules. I really want to be a real investor after 4 years. Is there anyone with a lot of experience here? I need everyone's guidance. Thanks for sharing my experience with me. I currently have $ 1000 to invest in coins but I really don't know where to invest.

you still young man and maybe spending much time to learn and observe could be main advantages for you.focus on your knowledge about this market , profit could be second goals if you want to be profesional investors.

if we have much time to observe and learn all about technical or cryptocurrency fundamental we will gain another advantages.profits not only about money, but if have skill in analisys it could be our advantages too.our skills will help us to gain money.and its the time for young man working in finance market like cryptocurrrency market.

A BEAR can lead your money into profit. I know in crypto community its hard to hold and wait. Your post is good and i am agree with you. We have to do some other activity in order to bear and wait. Also that's the great moment to grab more bitcoins. Because mostly investor wait for the dropping of price

in bearish moment we should doing another activity so we will not stress with it.maybe learning technical or observing coins in market could be good decision for us.so our knowledge improved.

You're right being involve with other activity can make our mind fresh and take away from doing any panic selling. By learning technical we not only save our money but increase the knowledge too

In my opinion, even a bearish market is giving us an opportunity to gain profit you should have a good insight about the coin that you are going to put your money on. During the bear market there are still lots of coins that are having a good trading volume within the last 24 hours which in my experience can really give profit.

We usually feel bad when market dumps especially when it takes a year as it happen last year. It seems to be normal but we shouldn't have to make a huge deal with it cause it will turn us down badly. In some ways we can escaped from that by doing some stuffs which I usually did it. But I've learn something into this, instead to find another activities why we should have to take advantage of buying more potential coins. Its pretty sure we have a huge gains once in bounce back.

I was a margin trader for more than a year now and bearish market isn't the issue for me. Unlike your tips, I do like the bottom because I have a chance to buy some coins at a cheaper price. Aside from that, entering a short entry in margin trading can also give me some profits. Rather than reading books, I do love to enter trading while the market is in the bear condition.

The trick is to know when the market has bottomed.

Easy guessing it wrong and then having to wait out a 50% drop from your average price.

Bitcoin sustained the U$ 3k region for months. So people are not willing to sell below 3k. That's a good support zone. But will this support give investors confidence to drive it 100% up to U$ 6k in short term? Can it get back to the ATH anytime soon?

So that's the problem: you never know when it's cheap because Bitcoin still doesn't have widespread adoption.

If we knew a coffee cup was worth 100 satoshi and that you could pay rent with X satoshi, then Bitcoin value would be easier to estimate. Right now everyone's just guessing what the value of BTC can be so we don't really know if U$ 5k is low or not, bottom or not.

To tell the truth, I'm pessimistic on the possibility of existence of such a strategy. Buying-low-Selling-high only looks easy to follow, but in reality you never know where the market is going from a particular point. I can assure you that many people sold a lot of their coins, "to buy more later at lower price", when Bitcoin hit $2,800+ for the first time ever in Aug 2017. But the truth is that the price was never lower than that since then.

Well, I even doubt if there are people who will divert attention by reading books or seeking other information when the market is bearish. Some things will also be a wrong step for investors. Its better to keep our eyes on the market and get some price in the bottom

Some people say that on bear market, but on red and sell on green, but maybe some people lost faifth on bitcoin and other coins when they see in past month the price goes down and down and they think if the price goes too much down, better i sell now and maybe they lost some money. But in bear market better invest only some low amount of money and wait to see how is going, the be sorry later, but if choose coins who have good price in past can always be a good bet.

Everyone does try catching the bottom and lost more they could afford, of course I would be emotionally atfected, but not for long until I studied some of the symptoms as well counter measures in future, broader knowledge of the market always favourable. Recently just got in shorting positions which seems to be reasonable to be part of my trading strategies

When market is bearish and lower price I will keep holding and make re investing my money at some altcoin and  bitcoin, I never panic when faced moment bitcoin and altcoin in lower price because I think bitcoin will be back to higher price.

well, that is a common thing when bear markets occur. the majority of people will hold their assets in order to avoid large losses, and wait for prices to recover. however, some people also make large-scale sales to stop losses. but, basically, I hold my set when the bear market occurs

holding our asset in bearish moment was be best strategy for us.i am sure we will not loss our money as long as we hold it.and now most of cryptocurrency market start its recovery now.

there is no other thing we can do in bearish market except holding our portofolio.maybe we could improve our skill in analizing or even make some observing to coins in cryptocurrency market.in this bearish market many thing we could to in order to forget our asset value for a while.and its very effective for us.

i do the same too,in my faith someday cryptocurrency price will recovered again,i don't know when it happen but i am sure bullish trend will coming and our asset value will increase too.

It is not that hard to know which coin is worth investing and potentious one, because there are so many expert investor who can give you good ideas about best coin, right now when the market is not fully bull, I trust only bitcoin which has more potential and it can rise higher in price more than my expectation so I am not worry because in bearish the only thing I use to do in bearish is holding and buying more.

The best thing a wise investor would ever do in a bear market is to keep accumulating more to the fullest of his capacity, bear markets are always a form of blessing in disguise, I don’t think there is anyone that has ever invested in bear market that regrets it.

I mean those that invested in very good projects and not shitcoins, most bear market investors end up becoming rich when the bull comes but the key to these investment are some of the things the OP listed, knowledge is power, especially when dealing with ICOs to put it money into, we have to have good knowledge about their product and team so we don’t get to waste our time on projects that are not worth it.

It seems that we have already moved out of bearish markets still this must be the right time to accumulate as much as we are able to, but within affordable limits. Instead of these, I do see many people have started to profit booking as they are already into profit zones as bitcoin has showed more than $1k price movements. These people will cry when they do see bitcoins will be testing $10k levels by next month ::).

When condition of market still lower price I will keep holding my assets and take buck for buying and investing my money, after price raised up I will sell all of it and buy back again after price is down, doing the same thing every time.

Doing this samething accurately is what makes you a professional trader.  Buying low and selling high is not as easy as we think and we should be able to make some analysis before investing and the skills and intelligence to analyze the market is the problem most of us face.

You are planning really well we should buy when the price is down then hold and wait, most it is not all the time bearish in market as if one day the price is down you can buy and hold until it recovers, waiting is the best thing to do at bearish market because price recovery takes time and to make money we will have to wait for our investment rise high in price.

The bear market is an extremely dangerous place for inexperienced traders, and quite safe for experienced investors. Personally, I prefer to buy on strong drawdowns of altcoins during a bearish trend, even if you have to wait a few months to collect profits, for me this is the best option.

Yup that’s a good idea. When you buy coins and the price happens to drop to a low price, you can still buy more coins and add to the little ones you have and wait for when the price will go up again. When it does increase in price again you will be able to make a lot of profit as the price goes up and extra profits if it goes up above the first rate you bought at. But there are people who wouldn’t have patience and just rush to sell at loss.

Still, the thing is that it is difficult to tell when the price has gotten to the bottom. Even if you do it as you have said, waiting for the price to drop to a certain and starts to go back up, it is possible that it can go back a bit and starts to drop again before you know about what’s happening. Just like how it has been in 2018, no one even thought it would go down to this level. So my best advise is that people with no experience should invest what they can lose, if the price doesn’t go up, then they wouldn’t bother much.

Such a strategy is very elusive and according to many economists it is impossible to beat the markets in a consistent way, however there are many traders with decades of consistent profits that defy that explanation but as you may guess they keep their secrets very well guarded because who is going to give away the secret of making money in the markets to anyone, but the existence of those traders may seem to indicate that there is in fact a strategy that can allow you to make money in the markets in a consistent way and the only thing that you need to do is to find it.

Yes.The bearish season has given us great opportunities to start buying those potential and affordable coins and hold them after until we see a good price to sell them again.But for newbies,having this kind of market will make them panic and may resort into panic selling.Of course it won't help them at all so they should stay calm and relax as much as possible.

Point number one is quite hard to tell I always fall on this one, maybe I'm not doing my assignment because you never know after purchase if it is still going to go down further, even if the price stop falling for a week, there is still no guaranty that it will not fall again, it's still a gamble for me.

indeed it requires good knowledge and experience for point 1. but all this time I have done it by buying in stages according to the analysis that has been made, with the hope that if the price still falls again, I can buy again

I would like to tell you my experience to explain your concern:

1. Before buying a certain crypto symbol, you should spend time to read and evaluate the project as carefully as possible. I mean here the Fundamental Analysis and update news about it everyday. As a consequence, you can find yourself its real value. So, when it fall again, you will NOT, at least in panic sell mood. Moreover, you should learn about Technical analysis to find out the support areas as well.
2. Please don't consider crypto trading is a gamble, it's just a game only. We are just game players and try to control our feelings before thinking of having anything

Even if you're full of knowledge and experience, i don't think you should always try to catch the bottom. That would mean trying to get to a point you're not sure where at. Especially in a bear market. But these are good points. I may just add to have notifications for your target prices and try to stay away from the market from time to time.

Yo, anyone who is investing during the bear trend should learn to diversify within the crypto asset class. There are lots of Cryptocurrencies in the market and each has different levels of risk and outlook. It’s best to start with coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum, and then go for altcoins that has higher growth potential. Then as for ICO, since you know that’s the riskiest thing there is in cryptocurrency, you should go for ICOs from companies with strong reputation.

I can not speak of others but to me I think in bearish market as of such as the one we are facing now, I think is the best time to add more cryptocurrency into my wallet, either through bounty or through investment.

All that mentioned were the basic things that needs to be done when one is making an investment into cryptocurrency. Apart from the investment point of view user needs to be prepared enough to make an earning out of the market. Unlike the trend there will be continued fluctuation, making use of the same help increase the investment with the profit earned through the volatility of the market.

most holders will hold their assets when there is a bear market. well, it's always done, and waiting for prices to return to normal. besides, some people take advantage of this moment to buy in large quantities, preparations for a bounce at prices.

I beg to differ. An intelligent user will never make investment during a bearish phase. The ideal time for investment is when the market starts to recover. If you make investment when the prices are down, then there is a strong chance that the exchange rate will continue to go down for another 6 months or one year. In the end you will lose your patience and sell your coins at a loss.

Good point, we must need to learned situations like this, investors and traders often missed this event, thinking that the value already at the bottom will lead you to unsecure position, crypto is so volatile, we must understand every possible factors to trace the next movements.

Invest where your knowledge leads you, bearish and bullish do have their own opportunities to offer, know your capabilities to calmly observed before taking action.

usually whales and speculators take this opportunity.they trying take advantages from beginner investors that panic when facing market crashing.i am sure this kind of investors will gain more money from us.

You’re right op. During the bear market people should take their time to study the market and understand key trends. There are lots of people who complain about the bear market, but there are still people who are benefiting from it. Instead of complaining, it will be best for anyone to focus on research on knowing things can change for better ;).

Even now the trend is not bearish, it is not too late for making use of this current trend. I speculate bitcoin is getting ready for a rally up to $10k levels hence buying them now cheaper will be the one of the simplest way of making use of this bearish markets.

In addition bearish market is the right time to invest into expensive cryptocurrencies as they might have become quite cheap during the bear market season. Fill your cryptocurrency portfolio with them so that when the crypto market rises you will definitely make some profits upon your investment.
The cryptocurrencies that i would admonish you to purchase is BTC, ETH, XIN AND XRP.

Maybe that's why you shouldn't lose your patience. Bitcoin is around for over 10 years, so you have plenty of data to analyze its behavior.  I personally don't trust any TA when they are predicting that something, rising or falling, should happen in the near future. However, it's not hard to draw out a lesson from the past charts regarding overall Bitcoin behavior. BTC had crashed many times after yet another ATH, but it has always repeated and surpassed previous ATH in the future. That's why no one has ever regretted buying at 30% or lower of the previous ATH (we have a similar situation right now btw). So I agree with those saying that people have a good opportunity to accumulate coins during a bearish market.

Only if you listen to those hodlers who keeps on saying to buy more during bear market, right now you have almost a 50% gain. You can have your time to study more not just during the bear market because you have to  do this every time you make investment, bear market is just an opportunity for you to own cheap coins but it will still depend on you whether you will invest or will join those newbies who are panicking.

This is why newbie traders should not panic and learn to control their anxiety. If you get anxious and start panicking then speculative trading is not for that person. Since there will always be nay-sayers that say that bitcoin is dying and all other bad things about bitcoin one thing is for sure, which is the community support behind it and the deflationary nature of the currency. Both of this are going to lead to price rise and thus it is always worth putting a certain fraction of your income into this asset - not financial advice though, this is a speculative market after all.

However I have some people panic and sell at the drop only to cry again when the price rises. Its sad to see that because we tell them not to sell but they are so emotional that they fail to control their nerves. That is what is important to do in a bearish market.

Study ?  Why waste your time studying when you can just buy those cheap coins that you love . you must act snappy because the bear cant last a long time  . there is no need to study because you are already knowledgeable just before you enter the crypto scene  .  aside from buying , the next best thing to do is to keep on hodling if ever you dont have the cash to purchase cryptos   .

That's why it is always good to hold the coin instead of selling them for a low price in the market when the market situation is in bearish mode. I tried to control myself not to sell the coins when the market situation is in bearish mode because most of the whales will start grabbing the coins because most of the people will sell them for little profits.

Well, maybe the problem is with money. maybe some people see it as an opportunity, but ordinary financial problems are the main obstacle. of course being patient is the main thing that needs to be done, and waiting for the opportunity to reverse profits.

Changes never have a warning. It just happen, happens and happened in all of us. There is no permanent in this world, and that is one thing I always keep in my mind more importantly here in the crypto currency community. The bearish market always freak us out or shock us. But in the past months, I learned a lot from that, and  one thing is that, stressing out or panicking will just make it worst. Just live the live you calmly and wait for the recovery of the crypto currency market.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or plain trolling, I have to differ here. Studying the market and trading methods or indicators usage is never a waste of time. In fact it is the few thing that traders who enter crypto having nowhere else to spend it to lack in and thus they develop panic when the market crashes or euphoria when the market rises instead of buying or selling during that time respectively.

If we had knowledgeable traders running this market then it would be resistant to whale-influenced pump and dumps but sadly that is not the case in any speculative market.

The reason for that is also simple - those who have knowledge will use it for their own good and sell it at good price instead of playing in the market.

besides that we must be clever to take advantage of opportunities for potential coins. sometimes we still hold potential coins, so that they will sink further, so we must dare to take action

The best thing that you should do in a bearish market is to have patience to hold all of your altcoins because if you sell and buy more coins there will be chance that you will have huge losses in your money and it will be very difficult to get it all back. But you could also buy coins that has a potential to increase it's price or is good for long term investment like bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies that can help you to get back all of your losses. It will also be good if you use a good trading platform like Darb (https://darbfinance.com/?=crowd) finance that will help you trading with cryptocurrencies and fiat. It is also one of the most secure financial asset trading platform, that is why i highly recommend you to use this because it may help you in a bearish market.

That's right. To get rid of panic and axiety is one of the most prioritized things that we need while the bearish trend. Because these are negative things that affect badly to our emotion and then leading to a bad decision too. In addition, keeping our head calm is too necessary. I usually hold when facing a bearish time, plus buying some coins which is considered promising and potential. I think buying coins in bearish time is a good choice for accumulating.  ;) ;)

for smart investor that are here to make money sees a bearish market as an opportunity and not a threat, yes, an opportunity to bag more of that coin you have ever wanted to have, and wait for the bull run, just imagine those that bought bitcoin at 3k, they probably will be smiling now.

when prices fall .. you need wait until  Speed ​​and volume of transactions or trade decreased .. then you can buy
at you must wait some good news before buying
Now for example You should not buy Because the whale will return to the bottom again

Two things people, buy and hold some Bitcoins! Leave them dying altcoins and put all your funds in Bitcoin investment and trust me you would not regret it. I have seen altcoins that were worth $60 and even with the increase in BTC they are way down now and i don't think they will ever resurrect.

Buy more while the price is cheap. Thinking out of crypto? Well, I suggest you travel outside of your state. If you live alone, visit your parents. Also, you can make another honeymoon, read books, do skydiving or small camping with crypto friends. And finally, if you don't like any of these ideas, be a PUBG expert, I bet it will make you addicted.

Yeah market will not remain high all the time, we will have to face different like sometime market will rise so it will fall too, for this we will have to remain active all the time so that we can take mature decision, like try to buy if the price is low and try to hold it until the price recovers but sell when it will be high, give your best to the market and you will make profit, holding is good at bearish,

This advice.

But you know what, whenever I tell my friends that it's the probable bottom, they don't want to believe me. They have a lower expectation and it's around $1k.

This time, I'm focusing on my own position and unlikely to care with others position in the market if they aren't even willing to listen.

you should not just look at altcoins for just a few coins because I think there are still a lot of altcoins that are quite good and have the potential to grow back in the future
Even if they have very cheap prices, they still have an active project team to continue to develop their coins
they are still waiting for the market and the price of bitcoin is really good and when bitcoin rises significantly, the coins below it will follow it

like economic principles, of course we must dare to take steps and risks to see potential altcoins, this is aimed at accelerating the recovery of our funds. besides that, a good analysis is needed as a basis for our steps

Sarcasm at its finest.

I mean you can buy on low prices, that is obvious but I think a lot of them are doubting Bitcoin the reason they did not do it. Now they are wanting to buy but the price now is not that cheap comaring to the price in the recent months. In that kid of market, being patient is really important.

You can still able to trade during bearish market because not all coins and tokens are down. Bitcoin will temporarily drag down the prices of some altcoins but some of them will eventually recover even if the price of bitcoin is still in decline. Bearish market will also give you the opportunity to buy your favorite coins at a cheaper prices. Bitcoin is now going up again and remained above $5000 and might further reach $6000 if the present trend is sustained.

If by "being patient" you mean waiting for the price to go lower than it is now, I disagree with you. The price is still pretty low compared to that during over a year, October 2017 - November 2018. I think, such a long period of time proves that Bitcoin can not only surge briefly and then immediately fall, but it can sustain higher price than it is today being traded by thousands coins each day. Time will tell, but I think no one buying below $10k will regret it in the future.

Why do you assume that the users need to always do buying? I know a lot of traders who do short-selling. In fact, in a bearish market the best strategy can be to sell the alts and tokens at a higher price and then purchase them back when the prices are low.

It's not that they are doubting bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, they are just losing hope. They are feeding themselves false hope that is why it seems that they don't care about the market anymore. People are having a hard time making decisions whether they are going to buy altcoins that have the potential to pump up if the bullish market comes or they will just hold what they have and wait for the right time to sell it.

We can't blame them though, no one wants to risk their money in something they are not so sure of, but it's either they will regret not buying in this bearing market or they will celebrate because they made the right decision in the first place.

Well, the bearish market is well suited for the day trading as one can earn great profits by practicing short selling. However, one doesn't know how long a bear market last but he can trade as one can earn in a bear market as well...

What is it: to get ready for the bull market (or for Bitcoin $10 thousand prices)? I really do not realize how I can do it. It seems to me that we need to be more flexible and work out several strategies to earn in any market situation.

Most of the time you will be trapped out as the coin will continue being dumped and will not rise according to your assumptions, buying is good for projects that have real supporters it can be dumped for a short period of time when big bagholders got tired and wanted to exit, but there's still other investors who can buy those coins and keep it, that's the good time to buy and wait.

before bull market happen we have to ready by add our cryptocurrency stock.bitcoin or other altcoin that have big potency in market must be in our bag.don't ever regret if someday our pick list not realize and we didnt collect it.maybe binance token , litecoin be most collected coins now.

Yes, the day-traders manage to make money even when the bears rule the market. This is the most hard-working and enthusiastic group of traders. I guess they are also the most experienced people here.

   Good idea we all should buy more and more coins at this bear market. As bull market is only for the sellers but for investors only bearish market is good, you will get the chance to buy some coins at low price, store some of them for profit you should use wallet to store your coin for long term, as price change will make our future after buying at bearish market.

The bearish market is the best market available for acquisition of altcoins because the value is low and the evolution of it is predictable.

If altcoins can be predicted when the market is bearish that means profits are something that is very promising for investors, but in reality we often see anxiety and disappointment and end with the phrase "unpredictable market". If that's the case, I'm not sure altcoins are easy to predict because when you make predictions that don't have aim and confidence, then that will only be a loss for you in the end.

profesional investors always see the opportunity in bloody market.they consider it as best moment to buying bitcoin or altcoin while in low price.they now their action contain high risk but they already calculate about it before.

This is the most common mistake being done by the new users. When I was new here, I was also thinking the same way. I gave more importance to the alts and accumulated a large number of different alts and tokens. And then I learnt my lessons the hard way. First of all, the price of all the alts are dependent on Bitcoin. And secondly, most of them were created to poach the users of Bitcoin (although there are exceptions such as Cardano and Ether).

If you look at the technology behind these alts, you can see that none of them has the capability to replace BTC. They are having value just because some people think that they'll also give good returns like BTC.

Thats indeed a huge mistake, accumalating more than 6 to 10 alts as a way of diversifying their investment. I mean not all projects have the same outcome. Most of the people who have been buying alts during bearish season, ends up selling every little gains they made to cover the losses and trying to make it break even.
It was then I remembered, its more profitable to buy during pre ICO, but of course choosing the most promising project will be the most hardest part.

Well, in a bearish market, don't just hodle all your coins and tokens if they are on a downtrend. Don't make the same mistake I made and hodle all the way down, sell after every all-time high and then draw your FIB lines and back at the lowest entry point possible, and that, only in the projects you firmly believe are developing and producing use case scenarios for the long term. I learned the hard way and the lesson cost me almost all the money I earned in 2016/2017 through crypto jobs and some buy-in investments. I now am much more strategic and I never ever FOMO in any pump or coin now, EVER, however good it may seem. Now I will always look for good entry points to buy in any project, coin or token based.

See, both of the bullish and bearish markets are good for trading and making profits. Sideways market is something you should be wary of. People usually think that bullish market is all what is profitable but no. During bearish market you can increase your holding by shorting. You can also try futures market. There you can multiply your profits through leverages. Day trade there.

Bearish market is one of the saddest trend for some investors but for the opportunist investors, it is one of the best time for them. You should do some research to find out some good cryptocurrencies or projects to invest this bear market because if you do that right, then it will give you a lot of profit when the market become bullish.

I guess we are done in that stage, it's the new market that is playing now, it's the bull market.
Well, I can't stay we really are in the bull already but I have a feeling the past few weeks demonstrate a good price movement and I'm optimistic
we will eventually end the bear market.

What should we do in the bear market is just relax and accumulate more.

I agree with everybody who already said that this is the best time to buy. But before that if you already have your own predictions before the market crash, you should have unload ALL or half of your investments already. This is to limit/cut your losses, strategy like this are very effective in managing risks. As of this writing, we experienced a new highs of support since at the start of year 2019. It's hard to say that we still in the bear market, unless we have the full picture of the first cycle.

When others are selling during the bearish market, you should do the opposite of it. You should keep on buying coins that you know that is good for long term holding. Bearish market is the best time to buy coins that has a high profit margin. There is a saying that says that the crisis comes with opportunities and we can apply that in trading/investing.

Research can help you but it doesn’t really mean that you will be hundred percent accurate in knowing what the price is going to be. It’s really difficult to pinpoint when it is going to be and what it is going to be. It’s not really good to buy when there is a bull run, it’s best to buy whatever you want to buy before the bull run happens. Though I have been seeing some people claiming that after the next bull there’s not going to be any other bull. We are not really sure of that, there is every possibility that there will continue to be bull run. But, always trade wisely.

Collecting few alts in the portfolio is not bad at all provided you choose the right Altcoin. The price of the altcoins will rise as the market will go in uptrend but to get advantage you need to hold it for some midterm duration.

Also it is advisable to keep atleast 30% of the portfolio in BTC always.

Of course, if there is an opportunity to wait for the best price, then most do.
But there are situations when it is better to sell some tokens and coins at a loss to buy others.

Most of the times investors get upset in the bear market season but ideally this is the perfect time to reassemble your assets for another cycle of increase of the volatile crypto market. This is not the first bear market that the crypto market has experienced and it would not be the last so i don't see the reason why some folks would always want to whine about it and making it seem that crypto is dead. In the bear market invest into potential but cheap cryptocurrencies, hold and follow up on your investment portfolios for the crypto market to rise again. This is a complete cycle of making profit yet noobs in this space don't understand it lol.

I know this sounds simple but the only thing you can really do is wait out the bear market and keep on accumulating coins for cheap.  Fortunes are made in down times like this so don't miss the golden opportunity or you will regret it.

not all altcoins have good potential for the future, although there are several potential altcoins, but before deciding to invest more in them when a bearish market occurs do research on the coin itself whether it can last for a long time or vice versa. because there are some altcoins that cannot follow the movement of the bitcoin price when the bullish market occurs

I think newbies should know about the first tips that you wrote. It's almost impossible to predict bitcoin price, even stocks market players also avoid to buy stocks which the price is going down. It's bitcoin, even the risk of this investment is bigger so actually the right time to buy is in the bull market and the next step is try to find correct time to sell it again. The second tips is little but hard to do, I meant is although we already read all articles, news and etc in order to get more information but there is also a big factors that influence bitcoin price which we called whales. We don't know what is their plan.

We will never know the plan of the whales because they have different strategy than us and they can do whatever they want because they have a group of whales so what they decide is what is going to happen. Whales are so powerful and we should not rely on news because it might be a trick of the whales to manipulate the market since they can create fake news and spread it out. The best thing you can do is to learn how to read charts to have a more realistic prediction about the market.

If you’d ask me, I will say that you should buy at anytime you feel is right or at anytime you think you can afford the price. It’s difficult to tell when exactly the price is at the bottom. You should use the recent event that took place as an example ; everyone was expecting the price to fall more to $2000, but instead of that happening, the price took a turn around $3000 and went up to $5400. Those who bought at that $3000 were lucky that they did buy at that rate. So you should just do the same.

In a bearish market, if you are noticing signs that the prices are getting stabilized, then it may represent an ideal opportunity to increase your holdings. But that depends on how much purchasing power you are having at that point of time. Anyway... always remember one thing. Avoid panic selling. If you are short of cash, then selling some of the coins may be necessary. But it should not be done in haste.

In a bearish market the price basically declines and its not stabilizing  but buying at the dip is a good idea if you are an investor that likes to hold for a possible profit  . you dont need to wait for the price to stabilize before you buy because when it stabilizes that is a sign that a bear will be ending and will now be replaced by a bull .


Selling in a haste is beneficial especially if you badly need the cash because the price of the coins can fluctuate and worst it can go down more if you will waste your time waiting .

I have swing traded during the last bear market. Especially the past few months have been profitable since a lot of coins started pumping out of nowhere.

I didnt said its bad. Lets say 5 maximum alts in my portfolio (thats my standard limit, I sometimes consider 6). iMO, midterm duration isnt somehow very profitable. Well, it depends on the amount you have invested. Huge capital means huge returns.

I even have more than 30% amount of Bitcoin in my protfolio. I am still skeptical in diversifying my investment for more than 7 alts, I might end up lossing big chunk of my asset lol.

The first thing you need to do is keep calm when the bear market appears. Checking the price of Altcoin you are holding if they fall slightly, sell all to buy back at a lower cost to make a profit in the risk market. If you are a USDT holder, be happy because you can choose the potential Altcoin you want to buy because the price is falling, then wait for the market to stabilize and rise again and sell them and collect return profit.

Why consider the sign of stabilized prices if you can already buy during the dip and lowest? you can find it yourself and set a basis on how low should be the lowest base on your strategy in buying. Don't regret if you buy with a potential low price and the market became lower after buying. This will distract your plan of buying during the bear market, you need to set higher price with the bought price and don't look for your frustration if ever the market goes lower.

Bearish market doesn't happen when the market is cheap, it happens when the market is expensive or overvalued. Emotions are their biggest enemy in a bear market. Have patience, it seems that bear markets feel like they are going to last forever, but they don’t. If we stay with good, quality investments, we should be able to make it through all right. It is best to make sure that we keep calm and keep the proper perspective. By employing some alternative strategies, we can do quite well during those times.

The most effecient thing to do is to study things further in blockchain. You can accumulate coins but you can't do that every week or month or will just sweep all your funds that you might need in case of emergency. If you allot your time in knowing the very difficult things to understand in the tech then you will have an advantage to see if it will succeed or not.

We should always be prepared for a bear market, but there is no reason to be alarmed. You can't only survive from the bear market, you can even prosper from it. It can absolutely provide great opportunities, but we have to know what we are looking for.  If you feel that a bear market is developing and have substantial long positions in the market, it's best to buy inexpensive short and long-term puts on the major indices. A proper asset allocation strategy will allow us to avoid negative effects resulting from failing to diversify assets.

I am an investor who has contingency plans, so I have a tenth of my investment with usdt so when the market falls I start buying my favorite Altcoin. Increase profits to the maximum. I have divided my money into various investment landmarks based on a fixed price because you must be a known genius of it. So try to buy them at the lowest prices possible.

Bitcoin is around for more than 10 years, and we can check the charts from the past to see that everyone who was buying during bearish markets (before the very last one starting from January 2017) and then waiting long enough had made some good profits. It's only those who were buying in the range of $8,000-$15,000 during the latest bearish market are still in loss, but that's a temporary thing. Waiting long enough is the key.

So basically patience, maybe it would also be a good idea to stop obsessing about bearish this and bullish that?
Just forget about price charts for a second, get a life, try to make some work and accept crypto for it, anything accept compulsive focusing your attention on market fluctuations. Set a goal for yourself and work towards it, worst thing that can happen is you equalizing your missed investments with earnings. IMO another, equally valid key is the piece of mind.

Until you dont sell your coins you cannot tell that you are totally in loss, so if you have got some more investment then start buying in dip slowly and average your buying price so that when the market start to move up , then you should be able to be in profit in short movement. This way you can trade in bearish market and be alert in market.

I don't think we should stop trading and reading more. Of course, reading more is always good but trying to make money in the bear market is better. Practice is still better than theory and sometimes you will find success when the market is degraded.

Agreed. It is very important to keep in mind that all those market fluctuations may not concern you as long as you are not selling your coins. People tend to be frustrated by things which are, in fact, happening only in their imagination. I mean, if someone thought "I've lost so much!" looking at charts in December 2018 when Bitcoin was $3,200, the loss was actually in their head, not in reality, if they didn't sell at the time.



Idk, I wouldn't recommend trading to those who are inexperienced in the field. They can only lose more that way. It only looks like it's an easy task, buy-low-sell-high, but it's not and it has never been. There are many of those who lost a lot to their experiments with trading.

Obviously, the best thing to do is to go on a shopping spree. However, mindless buying could easily end in disappointment. My personal experience has thought me to go for the more established coins rather than the ones that are recently launched. It mitigates the volatility and risk factors. Catching the bottom isn't always the best way to go even with popular coins. Just go with ones that you've done your research on, reduce the risks, and gain handsome profits.

buying is indeed a very good thing for investors when prices start dumping. however, for those who try to make a profit with a small risk like me, maybe I will hold back the assets that I have. well, buying might be good when prices go up, but sometimes FUDs are bigger than that. so, for now, I hold assets, or coins that I have.

When the crypto market is bearish, too many portfolios can interfere with the psychology of investors or traders. Limit the portfolio to a maximum of 8 issuers.

Market needs to be considered with reference to the events happening around, and if some form of good news is found around relative to bitcoin with some dump in price it is good to invest as the profit can be made in a short. If the market is completely getting dumped with full of FUD it is good to invest but it requires more patience to get back profit from investment.

Those are incompatible things imo. Any good news (if it's a really good one) immediately followed by price rising, and a regular trader is always late to the feast. And there are cases when you think, "Wow! I'm not late this time! The price has barely raised!" So you buy as much as you can, and then you see that the price is starting going down, because the news was either fake or just not good enough.


True, it requires patience. It takes more than a year in some cases, but the chances of being in profit are much higher than they are with short term trading.

The bear market has taught me that you need to prepare for it, because it provides many opportunities for investment that can be easily missed without money.

Same as you I got to know, in crypto currency we will have to be very careful never take any step without thinking, try to buy when the price is low and sell when the price is high, in bearish market real and wise investors grab the opportunity to buy more and more, to be honest I really become happy when the bearish come because I get chance to buy at low, for huge profit.

Nothing big things will not happened in my life in this type of situations and there is no big moves will not been taken by me in the bear market so it will be like we cannot make the things probably the best so I am waiting to take a chance and make good profit in best days.

Work more and most importantly is that you also learn more. Getting more knowledge before doing big/small investment will give you good profits at the end.

I also sometimes confuse what I should do when conditions are difficult such as bearish, prices tend to fall more often and if you make just a few mistakes you might suffer losses. much of what I do is just wait and waste time, that's not the right thing. even when bearish opportunity is still exist, you have to be more observant in seeing it

of course not panic and still believe in the altcoin that you have now, if you do not believe and have excessive fear and in the end you do CL then it will harm you.

For me? I keep trading as usual but be more careful.
if I just waiting the good moment, I won't get a profit. buy and hold? not my type, I'm afraid if when buying then the price goes down.

downtrend is not unfavorable time for investor because investor will rather use that time to buy more cryptos   . its not difficult for them to buy though its only difficult for them to sell .


this is true but only applicable to other unknown coins  . if you will be only investing in bitcoin  ,  i think its a good idea to catch every bottom because bitcoin is known to increase and recover especially in the future where adoption can possibly grow  .


thats a nice suggestion  . but what will help you out the most in a bearish market situation is " seeking for information " you need to check the lateest updates on cryptos whether its from a news ( crypto news ) or from this forum bitcointalk

almost everyone feels uncomfortable when bearish market conditions continue, they feel hesitant to make a decision. if they are able to make a sale, of course they will feel loss for taking improper actions, but they are also doubtful about the market conditions that occur to maintain it, not all types of coins may not be able to provide benefits in the future because not all coins have good potential if we can hold them for an old time

we need controll our emotion while trading in uncertain market like current condition.and waiting best moment could avoid suffering loss , and better to us miss the opportunity than loss our money.

Bearish market is the time when some coins are down ,an opportunity to buy good coins at low price before another bull run will take place. Bearish market for me is an opportunity to get my favorite coins at low price

Bearish market entry are for risktakers, accumulating coins while on bottom of the bear market is actually profitable if things will go to plan accordingly and bitcoin will do the same pattern as it do almost every year it woulld be profitable huge profit

Being optimistic and have a good faith with your selected coins will let you see the opportunities like this, bear season brings a good timing to invest more
around this market, as the value of almost good alts together with bitcoin is really fallen, you need to pick projects that have good community supports and got a lots of possible updates to come, project which still progressive even it's suffered from big downfall, expect a big bounce back when everything becomes green again.

Contrarian investment will always do that. Those contrarian investors will learn about the investment first if they think that the fundamental factor of the investment is good then they will still buy. But I an not like that people, I should read more books and articles to gain more knowledge and information. Buy coin when the trend is down is a big risk.

As an investor if I’m stuck in bearish market, then I’ll simply hodl my important coins cause I know in the long term they’ll rise. Further I’ll evaluate rest of my portfolio and try and sell coins that don’t perform well, and the income that I raise from selling them I’ll buy more good coins. What I definitely won’t do is panic and end up selling my entire portfolio, I will simply stay calm and trade wisely.

maybe the bear market makes people think that this is really risky. but, some investors feel that it is the right time to buy. I just feel that we don't need to do anything when a bear market occurs. however, when you target a coin, maybe that will be a big opportunity for you.

In bearish market it is to buy! If you are selling during bearish market? You are doing a wrong thing and you should be ready to lose.  Traders knows all this things by following the principle of investing is what is the major problem for any of us.  If we know the trading cycles and this cycle provide us opportunity to buy or sell and what makes you successful is what you do at a particular time that determines how successful you are.  Many traders did not want to learn the right time to buy which is very important in trading.  

  Absolutely, during bear trend we have to take the opportunity to invest while the prices are much affordable that will give enormous profits when the market has gain massive stability and persistently exceed in crypto market world. This is a wise and easy way on which many investor became successful and wealthy. But it all matter to our wide patience on holding and keeping it until the bull trend has occur.

When market still lower and bear I would like re investing and buy back some potential altcoin, I will never sell my assets when price really down and drop because is very bad thing for me.

As a ussual thing to do, we never sell during the bear season cause we definitely suffer losses.
Holding will be the best thing to just like the others do and patiently wait until the market rises back. Buying more coins will be some options if we have enough money to risk but if we don't have any then, holding will be suited to us. 

Even if you are more careful, this action is still not a good option because in a bearish market, the rate happens for the worst and worst situations is higher than ever, agree that some methods are not the type you like but you should not ignore these methods, trading is about flexibility and patience, it is not a bigotry and acting according to your preferences. And in the bearish market, I always like to choose to wait and observe, the opportunity to participate will come, impatience only makes us get more losses.

Depending if your time span is short or long term but big drops on the charts are like discounts just dont get greedy and overbuy. Do timed buys and it will give more wiggle space.

No need to be afraid mate when you get in market be sure your money is gonna rise at any cost, we know crypto currency is full of profit, when the price falls and bearish market comes I trust my skills, I buy as much as I can and I only hold with patience to wait for the price to be normal, we know when market falls it gives us chance to buy cheaper.

HOLD, HODL and again HODL. This is only the idea till next halving.

If you are trading you may do whatever you wish but if you are regular crypto earner. You must need to take care the own expenses apart from holding funds. I am sure 50k USD worth will be 1 bitcoin very soon. So HODL always.

The bearish market is becoming a scare crow to most investors. Whenever I look at the market and how the coins are dumping, I develop cognitive disorders of quitting but I realise patience is golden.

Bearish market for me is the opportunity to buy several altcoins again, when investing, I always use a little of my capital to anticipate if one day the market conditions go down. So when that happened I still had the capital to buy some investment assets again.

That's a good opporunity and I hope evrryone their mindset about bearish market is not always bad effects to us maybe the day of bearish market we lose our capital but once it recover we can recover too and also we are getting more profit if we are going to purchase more coins and Im very thenkful because they still have traders who willing to invest even we experienced bearish market and now I think you earn money now because market now are increasing.

The best thing to do during bear market is to seize the opportunity of the low prices and buy more of the valuable coins but before that one needs to do an extensive research into the coins of interest. It is through the research that an investor will come out with the capabilities and possibilities of those coins rising within a particular period of time.

Bear market resulted to a big dump of good coins, we buy them as long as they are good coins.
It's really necessary to make a research first, but there are a lot of indicators for you to know if they are good or not, look at the trading volume, if they have good trading volume, that's guaranteed a coin is legit, then you can analyze the value if its undervalued or not, if so, you can buy and hold to sell.

This is an easy strategy, the hardest part is determining the timing.

  Absolutely, we have to be knowledgeable by choosing a viable coins we have to invest or buy, due of unpredictable cyclone that may appear in market site. But the current market phase has break the bearishness, a liable sign to visionize a massive bull trend will occur soon. As of now, grabbing the opportunity is not too late to invest or buy viable coins, as the market has pumping gradually and in the mere future it will hit the desirable peak on which everyone had waiting.

You don't have to be scare when the bearish market happen if you know what you need to do.
There are still ways to make a profit from the bearish market, and that is why you need to learn to anticipate the worst thing that might happen.
But if you cannot do anything, then the only ways you can do is waiting for a while, be patient, and don't take a look at the market too often because that will makes you become scared and worry and in the end, you will be panic.

If you say these things maybe it's because you have recently entered the market and you are at a loss, so you have no other alternative to HOLD.
If you have been in the market for longer, you will understand that in some moments HOLD is not the best choice you can make, but it always depends on the assets you have and are managing.

If it is small, say within 10 Btc (however the value is subjective), you can also simply "get out" completely from the market, with the entire capital, and park in 2-3 stablecoin, gold and fiat; obviously you will not catch and you will go out to the maximum of the market (December 2017) but already if you had gone out in February-March 2017 to return gradually after 12 months you would have made a very wise move.

If you have a large, very large asset, then getting out of the market altogether and then returning would be more complicated but not impossible; however you could always go out for 75% as indicated above (stable, gold and fiat), to then always return gradually, while for the remaining 25% you divide it among the best Coin on the market, and in any case among the top 20.

All this regardless of whether the bitcoin will reach $ 50,000 or $ 500,000; strategy and risk management does not look at the price!

Yeah, when it's bearish, it's not always about prices falling continuously, on some occasions prices will rise even if only a few percent. Right, most importantly you have to be more careful in making choices when bearish, because the risk is far greater here

Whenever the bear market comes. I always stop trading and just enjoy life with my family. I love to sit and drink a cup of tea at my backyard in the evening and take a look of the beautiful view there. Then I realize that they look more beautiful than my portofolio.

I suggest you not to only make money but also know how to enjoy your money with your family.

Why not BUY MORE? This is the best aside from holding because you are increasing your coins with a cheaper price. However, we are late now because the bear market has already ended and we might see the bull market now. The price are getting expensive slowly but surely everyday, those who hold and buy are earning now.

Yeah this is funny but yes sometime bearish market really confuse the people, it depends on us that how long we can hold our investment, the more we hold the more price will get better, so in bearish market the profit making way is to hold and let everything be normal once again, I have seen price rise and fall since long that’s why I never get afraid of bearish market I only hold and wait.

Not so funny if you've not been in the game long enough, especially when prices dip deep with no particular warning. But the general sentiment is to remain bullish, as a matter of fact, Fundstrat analysts propose (https://bitcoinnews.com/bottom-line-use-recent-weakness-to-accumulate-bitcoin-fundstrat-technical-strategist/) that traders and investors seize the opportunities of the bear to stock their portfolios (with bitcoin).

During bearish market, some investors become too impatient and begin to sell off their valuable coins at low prices. Ideally, this is not the right time to sell but to buy more from the weak hands that sell off their valuable coins at cheap prices. Since the market is not a one way trend, there will certainly come a bull market. The patient investor who buys more during bear market and hold calmly for the bull earns much profit percentage.

i bought some at bearish time and now i won and learning how to got 2x profit

If you purchased the lowest value of the bitcoin last 2018 and you remain hold your bitcoin and you are really earn 2times of your capital or your investment. But for those people who did not buy during rhe bearish market are not able for them to get their profit. All people who invested to the bitcoin are the real winner because they believe to the bitcoin  so they get good result.

I myself, if I experience a bearish market, I do a re-analysis of what is wrong in my calculations
then make a decision whether you want scalping / cutloss / HODL but usually I immediately scalping if the price of bitcoin masi is good
but if it looks bad cutloss 5 - 10% of the total assets and what if more than 10% I prefer for hold if top 10 cmc

I am happy with what you do when a bear market occurs. well, we shouldn't have to think so hard about it. we know that is normal. but some things sometimes make us afraid to take action. well, I also chose to hold back the assets that I had when that happened.

Bearish market is the best time for buying crypto and hodl it for a long term, especially if you believe in their fundamentals and have some big news on the future. But invest what you can afford to lose because we don’t know if its the bottom yet or it is the start of uptrend.

The current market situation began to slowly straighten by the end of the first quarter of 2019. Soon the market will change to a bullish reversal, so you should not miss the opportunity to buy cryptocurrency at lower prices.

My friend, what you say and I highlighted is very true but it is very easy to say but very difficult to do it! It takes years to acquire the patience and tranquility necessary to face the turmoil in the markets, especially the most volatile and unpredictable ones like that of the crypto.

I recommend this book ;)
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Bearish market is not always a gloomy situation for the traders and investors. It is a time where the price of many coins are lower which give us opportunity tobuy them at affordable prices. So instead of waiting impatiently for the next bullrun, I bought some coins with a big potential to go up when the market becomes bullish again. In trading, not all coins are going down, some of them defied the market downtrend and continue to go up so if you are a experienced daytrader, you can still earn profits.

Yes when the price is done we should buy but when the price rises we should sell I know when bearish market comes we lose our patience but we will have to keep patience and never sell at bearish but try to buy some more so we can store it for our future and later on we can see it growing and we can sell it making profit so I buy in bearish and after buying I only hold.

the possibility of this bearish market situation will still take place in slightly longer time or during this year it will continue because maybe the new increase will occur at the end of the year and before entering the turn of the year. opportunities will still always be there to be able to get coins at low prices, stay smart-clever yourself in making decisions for an opportunity that is there to be able to profit later on.

I think all we need in the bear market is to collect and select a good token to invest for good. I believe that the bear market is not a disappointment it is an opportunity to earn a huge amount of profit when the bull market begins crypto is not only about gaining it is also about patience and how to control emotions with a different market situation.

Having this mentality will give you good opportunities, taking the risk of buying while the market is still bearish will bring good outcome after the bull give a clear sign of much stronger comeback, opportunities are open if you have good anticipations of what future will bring to your investment, always look at the benefits and try not to look for short term but aimed with high hope that market will bring much decent earnings if you will hold much longer.

if we don't have assets when we see the bear market until when the bear market will occur
and the right time to buy tokens that you think are potential and can be beneficial in the future
and the most important thing is if we have coins when the bear market try to lose 5 - 10% management then cut if more than that because it is terrible if you experience a lot of losses there

The bear market is likely to end and I think that now you can buy promising coins and continue to keep them, because further with the growth of the market and the rise in prices for all coins, all investors will definitely get a profit.

Most of time we make money in bearish market because of low price in this time period most of investor and trader use to buy some coins at low price then they hold until the price grow so I think in bearish market we will have to show patience and hold until the price recovers so as after bearish it comes bull patience wins.

Yes, majority of investors will be in profits if they invest in the bear markets and hold until the bull markets to arrive. There are a lot of peoples who are waiting for the bull markets to arrive so that they can quickly make the profits grow and can reinvest depending on the market phenomenon. we have faced the worst bear markets currently so I think that we now really need the bull markets to make some profit and be rich in small intervals.

Even investing four digit numbers can make us have immense profits if the price grows much vigorously as it did in the late 2017. Once the bull markets start, the price will only be in the increasing manner at least for some coming weeks which would give us an opportunity to quickly make some profits.

Actually if there are strong signs of the bull markets to arrive then a lot of peoples including some of the big whales invest into bitcoins and the buy orders make huge counts which itself starts the bull trend. Majority of peoples who entered bitcoins at the exact time are actually the ones who made the bull markets arrive earlier.

Last time, we saw that there were a lot of investments in bitcoins in the year 2017 which increased the demand indirectly increasing the price for bitcoins. As we all know, bitcoins depend on the demand and supply factor so we must try to increase the demand for bitcoins if we want to see the price for bitcoins sky reaching.

we've today bitcoin price could break above $6300 and market capitalization back to $192bio.its good start for bitcoin recovery in future.each of investors didnt want to miss best price at this time before bitcoin back to previous all time high.

Choosing a potential place to invest and accumulate in that moment is really a great idea, we will have the opportunity to receive profits but I do not encourage this method when the market can consistently create very deep bottoms, choosing the wrong bottom will cause us a huge loss, huge profits can never easily appear as we think, there is always a wall of risk that is blocking the way. So be patient and control our emotions then waiting is what I think we should do in the bearish market, when a new cycle of market appears, it is time that we can act

if we have more money , maybe accumulate our cryptocurrency asset will give us huge profits in near future.market now very confidence , much investors add their crypto asset when they see bitcoin price starting rise above $6k.

bitcoin is indeed starting to rise, but altcoins don't. Well, I think in this case, we must continue to wait until the altcoin follows in the footsteps of bitcoin to have a high price. when a bear market occurs, you have 3 choices, sell, hold, or add assets.

I think the trend change starts from Bitcoin, with a significant increase in bitcoin at this time, of course I hope Altcoin will follow in the footsteps of Bitcoin, so I personally choose to hold the assets I have, and hope Altcoin will rise soon

altcoin will follow bitcoin price than.don't worry about this, at this time its still be bitcoin momentum to rise after several months we wait this moment.investors and trader prefer to hold bitcoin in order to gain profit in short time.

Bitcoin is already above $6300 at the time am writing, bitcoin bull have arrived I have said this many times before that the demand for bitcoin is on the increase and at that it reflecting on the steady price increase just like what we hard in 2017 before the all time high through out the year. Bitcoin price is following the same trend.

My way of looking at trading is totally different, in fact if the market goes down, I am one of those who think that if the trend is bearish, it should be used to win.

I never see news, I think the news completely deviates the direction of my analysis, the news is generated after the important movements occur, I think that no news is generated before the movement occurs, many news that are negative can be beneficial for investors, and many positive news can be bad for people in general who are not investors.

I learned these criteria from market speculators of great renown, the most memorable and one of the best is Jesse Livermore, which, in his analysis he moved away from everything, and made his analysis based on criteria that had nothing what to do with the news or felt attraction to any action, he just went by the way he was or was heading the market.

That's why I think that if the market goes up or down, in either way you can win, or at least take out profits.

Bearish market is good for long-term investment. It is actually a blessing in disguise. Just invest in cheap altcoins and wait for the market rebounds. It would certainly be profitable for you.

Bear market as they say is a blessing in disguise because it is during the bear market that potential cryptocurrencies are cheaper to buy. Purchasing these cryptocurrencies during these times and holding them till the crypto market rises can generate moderate amount of profits.

If there’s one thing a bear market’s good for, it’s homework. While the benefits bestowed by technical analysis can be debated, no trader in their right mind would consider margin or futures trading without a basic understanding of it. Start with the basics such as moving averages and RSI, and then move on to ichimoku, fibonacci, and all the rest.

But if you have lack of knowledge, bearish market can take you a risky decision because it might not be the bottom yet. The things you can do is to wait for the price to stop fallingand when the price is gradually increasing, it is the chance to buy cheaper price. Study the chart first before you start to buy.

Its important that as we a investor or trader we need to always study and always learn about Cryptocurrency because it's not easy to be here in crypto you need of wide knowledge and don't ever stop to learn about this if you want to really want to succeed here in crypto. So you will know what will do if the market is bearish and your not panicking like others do.

What i do and always tell my folks to do in bearish market is to invest more on altcoins with good potentials. Sooner or later when the market will recover,one can decide whether to sell or keep holding

For some investors, bear market poses uncomfortable times but I see this to be lack of experience in crypto investment. Every market condition, either bull or bear has its own unique advantages which must be utilized once that market condition lasts. For bear market, this is the time to buy more of the valuable coins on the market because they sell at relatively low prices. After buying, hold patiently and wait for the inevitable bull market - this is where large sales are made to make profits.

Some are newbie and they easily panic, but the smart one will certainly take advantage of the situation.
For smart people, bear market is their buying time, while bull market is their selling time, unfortunately, for some people they do the opposite.

I agree with OP in the reading of important books, because in reality those who teach are books, I have learned that we must have our own criteria to make decisions in trading, we can not be influenced in making decisions based on influencers, or other mechanisms of help like signals or groups of dump and pump.

In a bearish market there are many ways to take profits, it should only be taken into account that the correct direction should always be established to which the market is heading, because if we have insecurity in which the market goes down and up we will lose money.

To establish this decision, you should look at how the market capitalization, its volume and how sales and purchases behave in the main Exchanges, would follow the line of least resistance.

If you analyze in this way you can trade in margin trade and leverage to earn more, of course, everything has its risk, you must be sure that the movement will pass so that you do not liquidate the position you have taken downwards.

I don't think much more about the situation of the market is bearish because I know nothing will change due to this moment so I waiting sometime then take my chances and the future will definitely changes like before.

I am agree with you. For people with experience, bear market is good opportunity to accumulating coin or token at cheap price. Many people with good trading skill, able making profits in bear market because they understand market movement and read the charts. Better keep optimistic in any market conditon because we can take advatages from any situation

We have the same strategy when the market turns bearish. Bear market is a sign to invest in potential coins which will give us big profit once the market goes bullish.

Basically people get into panic by the time when market goes bearish. Traders who have been good analysts about the market just wait for the dip and invest at the right time. Another thing when the market is on the urge of growth automatically more inflow of investment will take place, and further even when the market is bullish people continue to invest making the market continue its growth.

therefore if you realize that bitcoin continues to grow and altcoin stays in place, it should be when bearish happens that you buy as much bitcoin as you can. so now the value of your investment has doubled, with the state of bitcoin continuing to increase.

No for me it is not good to cut your lose and to sell your coin because the price can rise and fall but don’t worry about it, bearish market is very normal in this volatility we only will have to hold it and wait for our right time to sell, never invest for that short time and keep holding let everything be normal for you, so that you can take benefit of this bearish, mostly I prefer buying and holding in dump or bearish market.

what will I do when bearish. simple, just observe the chart and if possible to look for profit do the trade short terms method. if you want an investment, buy a little don't use all your capital.

Long term investors will always see the opportunity and chance with the bearish market. And while the rich quick mindset folks, won't see anything with it because they all think about the positivity of the market. If you can't take the market while its on the bad side, you are not worth it to take those chunks of profits during the bull run. Appreciate the bearish market and take it not as a bad thing but look at the perspective on how successful people took advantage of it.

By far your second point is the best thing that you should do in a bear market, during the last crash I lost money and I am sure many users in the forum went through the same but now thanks to that crash I was motivated to learn more about trading and now I am sure that if a crash like that happens again I will not lose money and instead I will take advantage of it thanks to my new knowledge.

We did the right thing in the bearish mode that's why we are here.
To those who have experience the bull market last time, they should know what to do at this time.
Bull market is here and been playing around, pumping the price higher than our expectation, so let's take this as an opportunity to take profit.

  Right now is the good chance we can buy more in bearish same as those who got profit in last bullish will get profit in bearish if they buy and hold with patience till then. Bearish market has its own benefit for us we only need to recognize it and act on the movement of the market so I try to grab the opportunity and buy as much as I can afford to buy.

Bearish market are periods where you have to search out for opportunities to purchase highly potential coins are a cheaper price than you can ever imagine and not the time for brooding over the market trend almost everyday. It's sad to see crypto noobs do this sometimes but i guess i can blame them as they are new to cryptocurrency investments.

when there is bearish market i have two option which is holding my coins and buy some coins that have a potential to rising up their prices when the market recover, also you must know if your holding coins are still profitable when the market was on recovery soon.

Right we should buy at the bear market or just at the beginning of bull market where we might reduce the time of holding the coins then sell when the market goes much bullish.One who don't have eough understanding or afraid of their investment will do the opposite and tend to lose everything.

When bears come, it is the best time to invest in the cryptocurrencies. Sooner or later, they will go up, and the investors will get their returns. Naturally, it is worth choosing only reliable tokens and Bitcoin.

Filling your bags with potential coins is the best thing to do during bearish market. I know sooner or later altcoin and bitcoin season will come again.

The bearish market is like a dry season, and what I do when the market is bearish?? is buying.  only panic people and beginners who usually sell their assets when the market is bearish, they panic and are afraid to lose all their assets and do not realize that only the value of their assets is reduced not the number of their assets.

The best time to learn at best is during the bearish period. It will wipe off all scamming projects without any standard fundamental, it will teach you a lot that not all that glitters are gold until you accept that the best time to learn is in the period of pain that bear market always produced.

Many traders, especially the experienced one are still making profits during bearish market because not all cryotocurrencies are in red or going down. For those who are victims of FOMO, they can always wait for the market togo up again as long as they did not sell their coins in loss. To the new traders, bearish market is the best time to learn trading but be sure you already the necessary skills to trade during this bearish situation.

Exactly, this is the best moment for the smarts traders to accumulate more in preparation of the bull market, while the weak hands panic and dump, they are silently accumulating not only bitcoin but those altcoins which has a great value.

Whales are whales because they have big holdings and they would not have that big holding if they are not smart.
They could spread FUD and if you are affected with that, that means you belong to the weak hands.

Hodl as lang as you can and if you have weak emotion prevent yourself from checking the crypto prices. I have some bitcoin and alts since 2017 and what happened last year is really unforgetable because bitcoin crashed hard. I just hodl that time and I just think if I sold on that moment my paper loss would become real.

Most often, I would choose to just stay away from the charts during a bearish market. I prefer to HODL when everything is solid red. Or park some in USDT. But mostly, I just HODL. That is a better thing to do rather than sell BTC or altcoins. That is contributing to a bearish market. Reading, monitoring the news and developments, are things one must always do. But a bearish market gives me more time for those.

In times of bearish market those who have long patience will likely survive and can refrain themselves from selling.

Its hard seeing the market and our coins declining in price but if you have an idea right before you invest your hard-earned money, you're aware that this things can happen and its just temporary.

Bear season is a chance to buy additional coins and hodl for those who bought at high price. You wont lose anything until you sell.

For me, I just spend some money that I can afford to lose. When the price rate of bitcoin and other cryptos drop I just hodl, when I have some profit in trading, I usually get 75% and keep it, after that I spend the again the other 25% so that I continue what I’m doing and when I have this feeling that it's okay to increase I just get the 50% and spend the 50%. I usually don’t invest a lot of money; it's okay for me to gain 100 – 150 $ a month.  :)