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From the bull market in 2017 to the present, the price of mainstream cryptocurrency has fallen sharply. How much money do you currently have, you can buy cryptocurrencies in the future market. If the bear market will last for a few years. What do you choose to do?

just because price of something is lower than its previous price it doesn't mean it is a good idea to buy that thing! the only conclusion you can ever make from the price fall is that the price of that thing was unrealistic and had to come down. there is no guarantee for it to rise again.

if you don't believe me you can search for the same topic line as you started here and see how many people have been saying the same exact thing for the past 2 years and anybody who listened is currently in a loss between 50% up to 98% simply because they thought the same as you.

To be honest, I am not sure that the 2017 bull market will repeat very sweetly and even very difficult to choose coins with high potential, unlike in 2017 where almost every coin has good potential

Crypto currencies should not be the first source of your income, so generally you always need to have some cash left by side for such purposes. If the market goes down, invest more to equal the token price in your portfolio.

I don't think its good to invest as the price is lower. you never know what is there in the future. Also you cannot conclude that this is the bottom for the market. There could be more downwards movement than we think.

if the bear market continues for several more years, then I will look for opportunities to buy more cryptocurrencies. I will earn money on referral programs.

I never use my all saving money (money fiat) to buy cryptocurrencies even to buy bitcoin. Cryptocurrency is risky place to store my money and I won't take the second mistake to decide it again. I'll buy if there is a chance to gain profit and currently I have been investing and I still hold some altcoins and bitcoin as well.

I'll use them as a banchmark to buy more again, I mean I'll buy bitcoin or altcoin if my currently investing give me a profit and I'll buy more. Yeah, you are right cryptocurrency price is still at the low price and I'll say it again in the future because this industry will still growing and its price is deserve to increase again.

Now my money is down 70% compared to 2018 and I have no other choice but to hold the coins I hold and trust when I bought them and hope the future will come to it in the future. I can still buy new cryptocurrencies right now, but the amount is not too big because most of my money was invested in 2018.

the use on crypto currency to helps as medium with the exchange on trading between parties on business relation gives of chance as fine to dispose of worse on waste with decision as might to gains on focus with business objective to run within timelines of plan with the project.
 

for me the bears market already over mate,,
because now bitcoin run above 10K Usd,,
but, if the bear come back and the price hit another bottom, i will all in bitcoin  ;)

Learning from 2017, that I must learn to take advantage of any opportunity to make a profit in the future. What I mean is when the crypto enters the year 2018, slowly the crypto is experiencing a sharp decline. I also suffered a loss. My advice is not to give up on trading and bounty campaigns because this is our opportunity.

I also hope that the situation in 2017 can be repeated, the chances are very difficult. I think that opportunities now arise and now many new projects have the potential and can make a profit.

My portfolio is down by 80% compare at the start of 2018. but atleast the altcoin im holding now is recovering, hopefully it will recover atleast half of what it loss. also im buying more of it so..

Everyweek i buy coins or token in the market.
The deeper the better, i dont have any extra now with fiat i made sure that i stretch them to cryptocurrency.
I want to get the best profit of the future.

I'm converting 25% of my monthly savings to crypto. And I'm holding all of my bounty rewards. Sooner or later, we'll going to have another bull run and I don't want to miss that this time. You just need to buy some real coins and wait. But I'd still not recommend anyone to go all in in crypto as you might get frustrated waiting.

You can keep your money in Bitcoin and Ethereum. I think another cryptocurrency can fall even more, this is my opinion.

I have an equivalent of $1,000 to invest in the current market and the price is still stable from the purchase price. Now is an opportunity to increase the deposit amount on the portfolio because I am sure the future of altcoin will increase.

Price of top altcoins have fallen to their lowest range for last two or three years period, but if I can bet, I will bet most of investors, and people who self-called as crypto enthusiasts have still hesitated and worried about altcoins. They thought like altcoins will hardly to recover, they will never come back; I would stay away from altcoins. Yeah, whenever most of investors think like this, it is time to hop on the altcoin boat, load more cheap altcoins into portfolios and wait their craft starts to rocket.

Hilariously, when price rockets to peaks, they hope if there are other chances, I will do invest in altcoins; but when price falls back, they will return to hesitate again and again.

I hope it will not happen, the community cannot sustain a bear market that will last a few years, some investors will turn to other investment portfolios like stocks, gold or just do an offline business, people will lack motivation to wait for the market to improve, so far the longest bear we had only lasted months.

Honestly its not been easy holding on to my altcoins for years now but if this type of unencouraging market continues then i will be forced to quit investing, i won't dump the altcoins i have but i will lock them away and move on with my life works until  something new come sooner

I don't have much money for now because I already lose some coins. I still wait for the price can recover again so I can follow to recover my losses. But I realize that will need a long time before I can start to recover. I don't mind if the market is hard to increase and need to wait for more and I think I could still buy more coins if the price can get down lower than now. I will still hold the altcoin for a few years because if I sell now before the price can increase, then I cannot recover and make a profit at the same time.

The reason why the bear market is still occurring is because majority of people are not interested in buying any token and those that have already are selling off ! So the question of how much you have left has been answered because no even wants to buy any token until there is turn around !

I think for the moment trading is the best thing, considering the price of crypto is down. we can buy as much crypto as possible and store it in our wallet until later maybe next year we sell it at a more expensive price when prices have risen again. yes hopefully next year the price of crypto can improve again and the dominance of BTC will not affect the price of cryptocurrency markets. but I read a number of articles that say that crypto experts predict that crypto prices will improve again by the end of the year. so maybe it's the right moment for us to sell all the tokens in the wallet that we have bought now.

my choice is I will continue to trade. and while I will not hold for a long time.

many think now is the right time to buy or invest in crypto because prices are cheap. but I think that's wrong, they think too optimistic. if their prediction is wrong, it will be very detrimental. therefore do not buy for long-term hold, this is the wrong choice.

Right now market seems to be totally bitcoin centric so every other coin does not seem attractive but obviously good quality coins do have good long term potential like eth, ada, neo, eos etc but investing is always a risky business so we have to manage our finances accordingly.

I will not because of a so much money, not know what to use of for and that the next is to recommend that be used to make purchases. This sometimes might not be the solution, but rather, research will provide value of what to do and there might come almost the best solution to it.

I dont have much money to buy crypto now but I already have crypto holdings which I think is enough for my portfolio. Im not using my fiat money to buy additional coins, I prefer to use my earnings in sig campaign and other online sideline.

If the bear market will last for few years then I think we need to wait for the bearish trend to come to an end and remain firm to hold our coins until then.

The 2017 bull market is very fun to make our spirit stronger. The amount that I got was quite satisfying and I'm sure the crypto market will still be there and growing and I still won't leave it anyway playing crypto

If I have some cash, exactly I want to stock the Ethereum and TRX, because it still cheap right now. And they all still far away from their ATH. Long term trade are good too. But you need to more patience. Just buy it before bitcoin halving. That's the only chance for buying.

If the bear market last for a few years to wait until its surely going to have a bullish market after, well i think i would just invest and buy more tokens at the bottom and use it as future investments, surely there would come a time that the low cost we invest turns out to.shine and increase in the long run. I would be patiently wait for it for as long as there would be bullish market in the future.

It is an opportunity for those holding USDT and the worry of those who hold the coins.

I read everyone's answer and found that everyone has hopes for future cryptocurrency prices. At the same time, some people still hold funds to wait for purchase, and at the same time make bounty to get free cryptocurrency. To deal with the cryptocurrency bear market.

We're not in a bear market in generally, bitcoin has already recorded success in 2019, giving its investors (those that bought bitcoin earlier in 2019) a return of investment close to 3x. Some altcoins have also experience success but most altcoins in general have lost value compared to the price value in 2017 but that's not what's discouraging investors. Investors are always ready to invest in altcoins but the lack of quality altcoins is the issue. The hype that drove the prices last time aren't present so the valueless coins are dying out.

Usually during this period is when smart investors accumulate coins for future profit but majority of the current altcoins aren't worth investing in for long term. They're like the test dummies as far more superior project built on the same idea will be popping out sooner or later to take the spot light off this old Inferior altcoins.

I haven't seen most projects then be success or be of potentials as you have said. The hyp during 2017 was the main reasons behinds these coins and tokens that where full of potentials. Most of these projects crashed landed after the hyp, till now we found many of these projects dead while others were later turned scam. Bet you that, most of these 2018-2019 projects who h still strongly with investors are far more better in potentials compare to the ones in 2017. 2017 hyp may not come back to cryptocurrency world again just to protect investors and projects.

I just entered the crypto market with the title of bounty hunters, besides I have never invested and tried with day trading. It was quite pressure on me.
If the coins continue to decline in the near future, I will continue to work as a bounty and find another full time job. I will complete the bounty and hold tokens for those projects until the bull run arrives.

I'm already spended all my saving for buying bitcoin and top alts like BNB, XRP, bTMX. And if the bear market will go for 2 years I will survive it. I have my regular salary in fiat so no need to worry

prices i believe had already gone to the bottom but you can wait for the next dip, it could happen drop to 8500USD they say. not sure if it really will happen.  if things really wont go too well after this year, i will just take more contracts aside from the job contract i have today. it ain't easy waiting for these bulls to start running wild/.


forget XRP, it ain't meant for cryptousers.  ;D

I am also not sure that we are on the bottom. Actually, each one, who has enough free money to spend on cryptocurrencies and also has a desire to enter the crypto market, can do it any time. It will be too odd to wait for "the better times" as soon as the market cannot be ever predicted. Just start with the smallest (100-200 USD) amount, and then, try to be as flexible as cryptocurrency is.

I don't have an estimation on how much I can't invest for future purposes because currently I already have invested my money before so that's what I can say right now.

HODL.

Not too worried if another bear market cycle comes around. I've got a solid job at the moment so I'm able to dollar cost average BTC and a few major altcoins weekly or monthly, so I'll keep accumulating through those times. I've never been been worried about not buying at the absolute bottom or selling the absolute top, either- I scale in and out of coins as necessary, and it's extremely hard to catch exact tops and bottoms as well. My portfolio value has indeed dropped a bit since 2017, but it's coming back up and I'm using the new knowledge I've gained since then to make better decision this time around.  

I am sure everyone in crypto wants to buy coins at the bottom to be able to sell it higher,
but we always don't know what is the bottom of crypto market.
You cannot easily predict the price of crypto. When we say it is the bottom, it might be going deeper in anytime.

I think that people who decided to leave the crypto market will not read this forum and think about whether the crypto market will grow. They sold coins at any price and left. They cannot answer you in this thread.
Those who stayed, of course, hope for market growth and the opportunity to capitalize on it.

Of course you are right, many people tend to act quickly and do not want to freeze their funds in the field of cryptocurrency. I also do not believe in the growth of Bitcoin to 30000-50000 dollars.

It is very important to have a stable job in a bear market, so that you can get through the current difficulties, and you can let your family continue to live. Buy some bitcoin every week. This is also a very good way to bear in the bear market. Lower your average price, which needs to be operated according to your current funding situation.

If the bear market chose to last for a few years more, I would just continue accumulating cryptocurrency because whatever I am doing now is to secure my future when cryptocurrency becomes extremely popular so that I would not be among those that were in 2009/2010 and had the opportunity to buy bitcoin at extremely give a way price but fail to do so, but now, they are regretting it and thinking they could turn back hands of time.

I know perfectly well that there are lots of scam projects in the market, but that should still not stop us from investing, because of we are to consider all these scammers, they are the ones that will scatter our future career in cryptocurrency but we can still try very much to get projects that are solid and have future through research.

i'm not sure about that, i have quite enough money to buy like 10 or 15 eth but the problem what if the price will lower than the price that i buy, and what should i do if the price will stuck there, i dont think this year will follow pattern of cryptocurrency at 2017

I think for those who bought Bitcoin at the beginning of 2017 for $ 800, the price of the first cryptocurrency suits today.

After the last market collapse, I made a strategical move with diversifying my crypto portfolio. Some of the altcoins made a new higher-high price point and I liquidated my trades on those levels in order to buy other potential altcoins. The bear market is not done its job and the wave of the next downtrend is not far according to my market analyze. At least, the small amount of BTC is necessary for buying the cheap altcoins and this amount depends on the personal preference of the crypto traders. Understanding these facts will guide the trader for getting the best trading performance in the crypto markets. The facts show us the reality, the experienced traders share their opinion which is based on their market expertise. Buying at the bottom is the same to catch the falling knife in the bear market, in such cases I prefer to wait for the less foggy market environment which is best for buying the uptrend while the market is in the correction mood.

As it stands, I am rather putting money into the top 10 altcoins for the 10 percent trades. These coins are the primary reactors in the market after bitcoin and safer to trade unlike other coins on coinmarketcap. Till there's a positive turn around and trust in the market, investing in any other coin will be considered high risk by me

Yeah, some coins got really cheap. Still, why should it tempt us? Maybe it was never worth it. We should be thoughtful in these matters.

If I calculate with what I have now I can buy 5+ bitcoin at current prices, maybe if I have the desire to buy, maybe at $ 3000. The crypto market is more likely to go down every day, the increase is not constant so it's very difficult to think of investing in bitcoin.

when the market is weakening and there is an opportunity to buy altcoin at low prices but unfortunately I don't have a lot of money, I can only buy a few seeds with BNB. from here I will take the option to stay in the long term or at least until the market is completely stable.

Having a good source of funding for your investment would help you a lot to make a good call and choose the right project/s to bring inside your wallet, not only Bitcoin but also those top solid Alts who already have a good communities to backup the project for future reference of success.

With good amount of money to spend with your investment, you'll be able to plan wisely with accordance from the situations that taking place right now.

I doubt that it is a good point to buy crypto right now, because the market is still very uncertain. I have already invested a lot of money into tokens, so I am just waiting for another wave of hype and hope that Bakkt exchange can push it further.

I will still buy even if it's in the bear market. but not for long-term holding. I will only trade, and look for a small profit. maybe someone thinks buying now and holding it for a long time is the best choice, because the price of coins is low. but I think that's a bad decision, the reason being that we never know when market growth will occur. the market could be in a bearish state for a very long time.

yes you should be able to take advantage of this moment to be able to buy a lot of altcoin or a lot of cryptocurrency because many coin prices are falling and many traders are panicking, use these traders to buy their assets at low prices.

Bitcoin is the only coin thats worth rushing to buy if it loses big value, for altcoin it can be very tricky because you can't predict if the price will keep falling after you rush to buy on exchange but as for bitcoin there is a bigger chance that it will recover in a short period of time

To be honest, I have lost a lot of money in this cold bear season. But that is not the solution for me to give up, because the bear market is the right moment to buy and accumulate altcoins. I will keep it for the incoming hot bull season this year.

Currently the prices of cryptocurrencies are governed by several factors:
1) Actual use demand - or the application of cryptocurrencies is not much
2) Some people hold too much of a digital currency. After increasing the price, people sell it down. Therefore it is highly volatile

But I believe this is money for the near future. And when it is widely adopted, the price will rise. For me this is a period of additional accumulation by using idle money to invest. and a few years later maybe I could sit and have coffee with you in your country.  ;D ;D

If you ask many traders how they have been making profit, they will tell you that they buy at dip and they sell at high, and the amount they make depends on the number of times that they get to see dip to buy and sell high, and the only cryptocurrency that would really give them such opportunity is bitcoin, because anytime that bitcoin dips, it is certain that it will surely increase back no matter how little they are, I have never seen bitcoin keeps gown down without having some percentage of high correction later in future.

Most of the altcoins that you see, when you see their dip, you need to first run far away from them, then keep sighting and monitoring them from afar because if you near their dip, you will end up being a bad holder off the coin.

I am happy to see your spirit that you are not gona give up ever i am sure One day you will be able to recover all your lose as you now know very well when to buy and when to sell your coin. Now a day the price is low so you should try to buy more but as said you lost allot it happens because of panic selling kindly avoid panic selling.

Currently I have no money left, I have all my money invested in cryptocurrency already but this is taught me a lesson save a little sum to buy the cheap coins later I learn from it.

It's just an indication that the market goes on a cycle, last 2017 was the biggest bullish trend we have seen so far. But as soon as it burst, follows the bearish trend that's why the price is still on a decline.


I don't think that any traders will say how much money they have. Of course, even though we are in a bear market, it doesn't mean we can't put our money and buy good coins and do nothing but hold. On the other hand, traders will be traders, they will continue to try and make money regardless of the current market situations. So for me, continue to bag cheap coins and then trade if I see some profitability and take that risk. Exit on time, rinse and repeat.

TBH, I have lost a lot of money during the bear market and there is less chance I will able to recover the loss in the bull market. For recovering the loss, finding the reliable projects in investing may help but the risks don't let to put all in the altcoins. The required amounts for profitable top altcoins exceed the small amount of budgets.

The market is at the bottom which is profitable to go 50% of the Bitcoin holdings to the altcoins. Depending on the profit expectation, altcoins will reach the middle of the uptrend line in case of the bull market. If the bear market continues for the rest of the year,  the new uptrend will be much more strong than we predict.

You are not alone. I've also lost a lot since mid-2018. Many experienced traders have speculated that when bitcoin dominance decreases, trends change, altcoin starts to adjust and bounce back slowly, and that is starting to be seen now. I'm also still doing the analysis to get the bottom floor then waiting to bounce again.

I do not have enough money to invest in cryptocurrency. I have been suffering loss in the crypto market. I bought some altcoins some three years back. But price of these coins shed by almost 70 percent. Now I am planning to wait for bullish run to come and recover my loss. Till then, I will join bounty campaigns.

The fundamental principle in cryptocurrency investment, "Buy at certain low price and sell at certain high price to make profit." However, there are some technicalities here which require the investor to know which type of coin to buy the dip, how long to hold and when to sell to optimize ones profit. This can be achieved only through the performance of adequate market research.

When bitcoin price was 15k usd

I bought 2 btc i lost 10k usd..

But I made up for it..

I bought 1000 ether in price of 80usd and i sold it the price of 180usd

And i have buy some coins like CounosCoin and tron and axe

Counos is the best platform
I prefer to you

I don't worry myself about the present cold market condition, instead i keep taking the advantage of the market and getting myself some coins and tokens at cheaper rate, so far i have been able to buy some bags of electroneum and apollo currency

If the bear market still happens in the market, I don't know if I could even buy any coins at the market or not because that will need more money to do that. But I think we almost see the bear market will leave the market because bitcoin is not increasing too high, the altcoin wants to increase higher. So we have the chance to see the bear market will end.

I hope that the situation will be changed after this month and the altcoin will start to raise their price to the higher price and the bull run will come. That is only my prediction, but I don't know the right answer for that because I think the market still be predicted and we still waiting for the bull market comes.

Honestly I have enough money that I already earn from the bullrun last 2017. But I don't trust the market now so I am afraid to buy now the price value is too low. Because I think the bullrun happened last 2017 will not happened again in this present year or even in the next year 2020.  So to be safe I don't take the risk to have false hope for the next bullrun.1

Holding on to your money won't make it grow, why don't you find few promising altcoins to invest some money on? it doesn't have to be new altcoin projects if you are that scared, go for altcoins like verge, bnb token ,loki , havven, v-system

Do not be saddened by the loss that has already happened, because there will always be sustenance for those who want to try, so the solution remains enthusiastic in facing the cryptocurrency market at this time, because I am sure our future in cryptocurrency will be bright.

I think we have seen the best of what bear market can do, no more damages and bear market is officially over, lets have patience and see what happens after bakkt do their thing and early next year will be better and stronger, don't forget that BTC HALVING is also in 2020

Anyone who can afford to invest 2000$ in crypto today might be a very smart move from my own point of view, bear market is really at its bottom and i don't expect any further price falls, the moment we are all waiting for might just be around the corner already

That is a good way to increase ones wealth and assets in cryptocurrency. Always looking out for the dips and taking advantage of them to buy more of those promising and capable coins is a smart strategy that must be adopted by every cryptocurrency investor. At the moment, there are numerous altcoins with good potentials and capabilities yet selling at low prices now which can be considered - DIVI, Bitrue BTR, MTC.

I have no money and only one crypto asset right now which is a very low cap coin, so am trying hard to earn some bags of coin now so in the next bull run I might have something to show for again. There are some coin and tokens that belong to some very good projects that I have my eye on but right now I don't have a leg to stand on, so am just trying to work for it and hope for the best. I missed out selling coins in the last bull run and had to sell many cheap just to survive, which was the most unfortunate event of my life in recent years. I really hope that I can change things and am giving myself a last chance in Crypto by 2021 to make something decent or I will just most probably fold in the end. I will try though not to give up as I really enjoy watching this niche sector evolve and seeing how it changes other people's lives for the better. Who knows, my turn might come also.

It is good to buy at the bottom but you should make sure you are buying coins with potentials, again another difficult thing to know is the bottom of coin, what you think is bottom might be a new high. I think this is time to buy

Seeing the bear market at this time I personally still hold some altcoins that have a good reputation and good progress in my wallet and always hope for a bull market again to recover my loss. I don't trade my altcoin because I don't dare to risk losing my money. For now I only trade bitcoin to get daily profit even though I get very small profit ;D

hodl is a nice idea to do in a kind of market like this but you can also do buying to have an additional asset on your portfolio  .

dont be afraid to trade your alts as long as you see a good oppurtunity so that you can recovery your past losses quicky instead of waiting for a bull run which is unexpected and could only take forever to come  .

 its also okay to get small profits because if you will save it and sum it up , they can also become huge  .

2000$ is not a huge price as recently have heard that price of ETH is just 250$ such a cheap price to buy some ETH. I am sure in future price of ETH will be highly profitable. Bitcoin is yet in price of 7k $ which has ability to increase. Now its your choice to buy which coin you could prefer to have. For me best coin is bitcoin to invest.

Have seen several predictions recently of bitcoin finding the bottom price around 10k but some of my trusted mentors said something different. The bakkt is capable of a pump in subsequent weeks but how long do we think it can last before another down turn. It is a positive development in the space but the market is unpredictable with such.

It varies and I think telling on how much money you have on the internet isn't really my thing. I don't tell on how much I own and I want to buy in the future. I can tell small figures which can also be a thing for others but I'm not really into telling the thing.
If this trend continues and we're still on the bear market, I choose to do both and continue what I used to do, buy and sell as long as I have cash on hand.

That is what most of us who has suffered this loss of investment are now doing, we just focus on gathering more coin through bounty campaign, but there is still an issue even with that also, most bounty campaigns end up wasting our time, we work for long time, and in the end we end up not getting paid no matter the research we do on the project, it is a little difficult to really spot the very bad ones out of the market.
 
This year has not really been a great year at all, I could remember that in 2017, after I participate in a bounty campaign, I still go further to invest in them because of the prospect that I see, but the ones nowadays does not even have any prospect and neither does it have any future anymore. We just jeep holding them and believing that things will change.

No, the bear market still not over. The price is down for now, and the situation will be like this until the next month. But that could be changed if many demands in the market will make the price to increase. Let's hope that in the next month, the price will go to the higher rate and hope that the bull run will come too.

Although it is still difficult to determine when the bull run will arrive, with the increasing of the altcoin and bitcoin price, I think we could still make a profit. The profit is one thing that we want right now, and without the price increase, we will be difficult to make money.

Right now, I still have some money to invest in bitcoin and altcoin but not much like other people. I hope that money will be enough to buy any good coins which can increase later.

I have nothing left what I do is trying to recover my past loss there's no bottom yet a sudden crash comes every now and then we can't help it as there's nothing anyone can do to stop the market crashes.