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Do you believe that it has started? I have a good feeling that I should buy them before winter. Prove me wrong.

I personally do not see any alt season starts, maybe only if you think of the season of total discounts caused by the BTC price drop? If you have good feeling about some coin and you have extra money to spend it's your decision whether or not to invest in something.

I would be very careful in your place, altcoins have been performing very poorly since the beginning of 2018, and they no longer follow the price of Bitcoin to the extent that was case before. Your money, your risk, no one at this point can say you are wrong or right.

look, I'm afraid alts are dead and they will be dead for a very long time, there are no money resources to resurrect them  :(
and I doubt that folks will start to sell bitcoin and buy some alts.. no, I think everyone should the opposite - sell alts and buy btc while the price is attractive

Well, I also believe that Libra will affect them positively? what do you think?

Ah.. It's now time to use one of my most favorite crypto memes ever.


Answer: No. You're going to need a lot more upside from here to be able to call it an "alt season".      ..assuming we're going to get another one lol

From where we are now, there is no more altcoin season. It's "altcoin waiting for bitcoin" season.

Libra is something that doesn't matter at all when it comes to Bitcoin or altcoins, and, as things stand, there is a good chance that the project will not be realized at all. Just google by keyword "Libra" and you will see that actually the whole world is against this idea. Even if the whole project starts, it would not be useful for cryptocurrency in general - ask yourself why would anyone use Bitcoin or any altcoin if Libra is the ultimate crypto solution?

I personally don't see the benefits of investing in any altcoin, especially in the long run - so I advise you to look at the Bitcoin chart (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#charts) and statistics which is showing ROI (Return on Investment) from 2013 until today is 5,544.73%.

I don't know what you see for saying that. The cards are turning their fate with altcoin since last year and whatever hype they did can't closely affect the price.

All I know that only bitcoin season will bloom this year. Don't be fooled by small increase, all is usual.

I don't think so? The fact that BTC crashed shows that the eyes of the market is on it. And besides, the third halving is just around the corner. BTC will only attract more and more attention as the time between now and the halving shortens so I don't really think altcoin has a chance to squeeze itself in. Besides, its not only BTC that decreased in price, iirc, all famous altcoins had some losses in the market.

I think the best indicator for an alt season is that we will see Bitcoin's dominance index go more or less at 30 percent at Coinmarketcap data just like what happened on the last bull run of 2017.

Unfortunately, Bitcoin's dominance to date as per Coinmarketcap's data is now hovering at 65 percent thus any altcoin season idea right now is simply unrealistic. Imho. :)

Don't people have any patience anymore? It's not even Bitcoin season yet :)

I wouldn't expect alts to show major action before Bitcoin has confirmed the end of the bear market. Of course at this point alts won't be at their cheapest anymore, but I wouldn't bet on alts having reached their bottom before Bitcoin has stabilized.

Hold on. Maybe I don't understand libra correctly than? Sorry if these are a bit newb-like questions. The idea is that you will be able to buy Libra only with Bitcoin right? And Facebook will be offering a discount if you pay Facebook ads with Libra. IF this is true than around 4 Billion USD will go to Bitcoin and than into libra? since everyone will want a discount when paying for facebook ads.

crypto is very difficult to guess, if you want to collect some coins I suggest first look at market conditions and good news, bad news from altcoin that you will buy, because altcoin is not yet stable, easy to free fall down I suggest caution.

What makes you think Libra will only be purchasable using Bitcoin? Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook would sell Libra for anything but Bitcoin.

I'm pretty sure that I have read it somewhere. Something about that in the beginning you will only be able to buy it with BTC.

When people massively talk about something is dead, altcoin, bitcoin, stock, whatever kinda assets, they usually end their winter, wake up and began their new growth season (rallying from bottom, exactly described).
I do believe that from now till the end of this year, altcoins will recover impressively.

It is important to remember that shit altcoins mostly have been dead and will hardly or never to recover, but for good ones, they will do rally after bottoming out.

One above raised interesting point that bitcoin has not yet started its bull run with its new parabolic curve, so why have we all been depressed too much with altcoins?

You got it wrong, the idea of Libra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libra_(cryptocurrency)) is to be something like a stablecoin, so you convert your fiat into Libra and then use it for sending money to someone or to buy things. The point is that it would become a world currency in some way but under the control of Facebook and its partners. This is something that is not liked by anyone in the world, so this project has no future so far. Buying Libra with Bitcoin is only one possibility, the same as buying any stablecoin today.

What I'm noticing is that BTC is dropping and Altcoins are somehow doing its own price correction. I could be wrong but ETH started to climb from $160 to $167 and BTC stays on $7600 after dipping. This also happen to some altcoins which are mostly having good amount of volume. I can only think some of whales are already starting to buy altcoins using the BTC they have on exchanges.

According to ''analyst'' YES: https://beincrypto.com/altseason-has-almost-arrived-for-altcoins-according-to-analyst/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cryptocurrency&utm_content=ff
Impossible to say but now's a good time for checking alts out. My favourites XLM, NEO, NWC, NEM...

Libra is basically dead in the water after major partners pulled out.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/25/facebooks-libra-plans-appear-to-be-in-big-trouble-heres-why.html

And it had nothing to with alts anyway. More similar to apple card than crypto currency.

Not quite yet imho, but i feel it's near. When projects start to rise against btc rather then usd for days, then i know it has started. But i want to be prepared and don't want to fomo into that when ever it happens. Neither am i trying to catch the bottom so i am just buying little by little them right now. Just to be sure i am somewhat in when it happens.

China has already shut down their country to cryptocurrency so there is no way they will be going back again. The problem here is that most countries are open in cryptocurrency adaptation but at the same time they will have to face the scammers that is taking some advantage to the people who doesn't have any idea of cryptocurrency.

Alt season is far from the reality yet, we will have to wait for the new ATH of Bitcoin in order to see it.

Arent you aware on the current news as of today? If not then you should read this up https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-jumps-12-as-chinas-xi-embraces-blockchain-boosting-crypto-sentiment

They are now having some positive sentiments on blockchain tech as a whole which means they can possibly revert it back.

I think the altcoin season can begin and I see the current market conditions, there are already many altcoins experiencing price increases and this may be the beginning of the start of the altcoin season, hopefully there can always be price increases until the end of this year and can make many traders happy again.

Some altcoins has a bull run but some are going down.
I think alt season is really seldom to happened because there are too many alts out there so it depends to us of choosing what altcoin will be up.
Maybe the altcoins season only come when bitcoin experience a bull run then become stable, after that alt season might happen

Almost all top 20 alts now are following BTC increase. This might be the start of bullish trend we'd been waiting for BTC and to other alts. At this time we can count in our hands those alt that are not participating in this trend being red since almost all top 100 are recovering now, let's see today tomorrow how people react in instant pump of BTC and ETH happening now.

And as a result Bitcoin is going up and alts are going down relative to Bitcoin, opposite of alt season. I think this is pretty much how it's going to be for the foreseable future. There is not so much money to go around as it was at the end of 2017 and investors are smarter after being burned. Only the major coins are going to see gains, Bitcoin getting 80%+ of the capital and the rest fight for leftovers.

In my opinion the alt season has already begun, it can be seen that most of the altcoins are experiencing an upward movement.
Now waiting for the bitcoin side away first, because the market is still dominant bitcoin that just raged to the price of $ 9300.
Later, after Bitcoin is stable, it can change altcoins to follow up too. So please invest in altcoins each of your mainstay from now on,
I recommend altcoins that are popular if you want to invest.

Today's increase in BTC is enough to make many people surprised, because the increase is quite high,
but today's BTC rise is not a sign that the altcoin season has begun, in my opinion it's still too early to draw conclusions,
wait for BTC to sideway, and we see if altcoin will go up when BTC is sideway,
and if you want to buy altcoin, I think now is the right time so that you are not late buying altcoin when the bullish altcoin season has started.

Nope.  Alts still stagnant mate and those pumps that we saw and experienced in some alternative coins  is just a small pumps wherein a normal scenario that always happened in the market because of the volatility . So its not a season for alts.  Unless if its show a high jump what I mean even 20%.  

Do you think both of countries will accept crypto easily? india and china have already stated if these countries are considering to put blockchain as its main core system and used it to operate the various things in the future. But it looks like china has a mode chance to accept bitcoin and recently bitcoin surge more than 30%.

I don't really know the development of crypto in India, but I think China can indeed accept bitcoin. I heard that China will make their own cryptocurrency, and because of this, I think China can again accept bitcoin as an investment tool, or something like that. I just hope that other countries also support it.

for now the price of cryptocurrency is back up, and bitcoin has a pretty high increase. although there is an increase in the price of altcoin can also be confirmed but I think the price of altcoin is rising due to the rising price of bitcoin.

No way.

There is simply no FOMO going on with the alt market anymore.

And look at the bitcoin dominance index, it's continuing to go up. Right now the climb in alt prices is purely due to the fact that bitcoin had a crazy run up to $10k from the $7.5k low within one day, not because of anything other than that.

And with the way institutional investors are looking, it's apparent that it's going to stay that way for a long while.

I think we should wait more because the current market is having a lot of surprises happening. In my opinion, only the top altcoins can increase in this period because the current demand for buying only focuses on good coins and there is not much chance of raising prices for other altcoins. I'm not sure what the market will be like next time but hopefully everyone will feel better and avoid panic sell.

You can't really say I have a feeling that something will happen, prove me wrong. The onus is on you to offer some proof or at least compelling evidence that you may be right. I think it is preferable to base buy and sell decisions on reasoning.

The alt market has been recovering over the last day, but this is being led by a BTC recovery. Alts aren't increeasing relative to BTC at all at the moment. I do think there will be an alt season at some point, but it might require further price rises across the whole market before there is sufficient confidence for people to sell BTC for alts. I think it's premature to say this is alt season, just because alts have recored a few dollars but remain static against BTC.

Of course, no one will prove to you if you want to believe it. You can see how cool someone is playing with the price of Bitcoin: a month ago it fell, today it has risen to the same level. Altcoins reacted with optimism. And many people want to believe in the best.
At the same time, many altcoins are still in a downtrend. Today's positivism may just be a correction of the red trend. If you are not a supporter of the buy just because price has fallen, then it is better to wait for more reliable signs of growth.

Not yet I think, just take an example of Ethereum today. Yesterday I checked, it was at $160 range but today it's $180/ETH which is really crazy despite of the bear market trend at the end of the year. We still don't know if it will continue or it's just a short bubble.

I would say that it's just a mindset of people that every year especially in Q4, there is a possibility that the price is increasing.

Not yet. It's a possible bull trap that we've seen but still a good motion and recovery for the market because we've been so drought for the past week.
I wouldn't wait for the altcoin season and won't monitor it as well. Let it come on surprise so that it's the best feeling that we will ever had without any expectation but soon it will come.

why did you say altseason when many altcoins are falling? of course this is not altseason, this is btc season
btc is rising more than 20% in a day, it touch highest at 10,000+ $
i'm sure it would be continous pumping and reach new ATH in this year (ATH 13000$)

The sudden recovery was unexpected but the major recovery happened in bitcoin and its fork coins, the rest of the altcoin market recovered but the biggest winners are the main market players and even if there is an altcoin season it will take a really long time to happen, i am not expecting one either but if it happen i am glad so that i will book my profits after a long time.

This must be the reason why Bitcoin suddenly surge up in just a short amount of time making it almost looks like the bull run. I like how their president change his mind for accepting blockchain technology again. But this is just only for Bitcoin and alt season is not yet near in the corner.

Take your profits and enjoy it. This is truly an unexpected recovery but let's all rejoice and take this as positive thing to the market. While the others who have given up to the market thinks that there's no way for bitcoin to recover and some actually wished that it will dump some more.
But most of them got it wrong, bitcoin pumped instead of it to dump.

As of now, the market seems good and most of the altcoin has a rising price so basically, you might call it an altcoin season but not totally altcoin seasons. We all know that altcoin seasons is the season where the price of a different altcoin is rising. If you look in the coinmarketcap all top rank altcoin has a beautiful and green color which means the price keeps on rising and even bitcoin is now starting to pump again.

Altcoin season has not started yet. The whole crypto market got a pump because of China's president's speech about endorsing cryptocurrency. You can't tell this is an alt season, but you can buy reputed altcoins as the price is very low comparing the potential. So, buy now and wait for the bull run. I hope you wouldn't wait for a long time.

Winter is almost on us, and I've been saying for a while now that it's a good time to buy both bitcoin and altcoins that have a future.  You have to pick the right ones, tho and that's the trick. 

The last jump in bitcoin's price has pushed up alts, but I still think it's a buying opportunity especially for the short term if you do that kind of trading.  If bitcoin stays as high as it is, altcoins should do pretty well *and* I have a feeling that both are going to go higher in 2020.

This is the thing, tho.  People usually don't know when the 'season' ever starts, they just realize it well after the fact, after prices have already gone bananas.  We might have just started that kind of situation in the past day...but there's no sure way of knowing right now.

come on, don't be too optimistic. just because altcoins goes up a few% then you say the altcoin season is coming. it's the same as before. so try wiser and don't get involved in FOMO.

But being too pessimistic is not a good idea either, even is not coming yet. It would be better to take this opportunity to earn some money. Based on coinmarketcap, it's still increasing so it's been better than before.

Yes it is, at least that's better than just doing a waiting game :^)

Some of the alts started to increase a small percent, but in general, we couldn't say this is the start for the altcoin season. But in bitcoin we have seen a good movement, that is true all is uncertain. But hopefully, by the following year, we will see a good movement or good price increase on altcoins.

Yes, this is a good time to buy alts. Yesterday the market had a great growth, bitcoin increased almost 40% and the alts approximately 30%. That's a good sign, I believe this Q4 will be quite similar to 2017.
All pumps will be made before the halving of bitcoin, so we should buy when the price is still low.

How can this be proved or disproved?
One day of growth, and you already see the beginning of the altcoin season! Really? Even if this is the beginning of the altseason and many want it, we cann't know for sure until this happens.
Let's be sober. To see the beginning of the growth of altcoins, mutually confirming signals are needed for this. All we have is a suspended downtrend - there are not enough signals to buy.

Being optimistic will give you some hints when trying to sort the market up, the alls season is just doing the same with the sway where you
can take chances if you carefully analyze the situations. If you have money to spare and there's a willingness inside you to work with potential
coins to grow, investing and position yourself to this level can bring good profits.

When market still growing just like now (it's following bitcoin price actually), i wouldn't advice people to buy any altcoin/bitcoin since the price was increased too high (more than 30% for btc and around 30% to altcoins).
It's more appropriate if you wait a while and see how's market first, whether it will be going back down or steady on that price before decide to buy more

Which news directed you to this idea? Because there was only an increase in BTC in the market, and as the altcoins were affected by this increase, there was little movement. The increase in the prices of altcoins due to the increase in the price of BTC is not what you think. I do not think the altcoin season has started. Wait a bit more. If you bought in winter, you had the right time to sell and in the future there will surely be opportunity again.

And for what reason do you believe that, sir? There is virtually no indication right now that alts are going to rally hard. With BTC's significant spike in price, alts have actually declined significantly in comparison.

ETH has dropped below the 0.02 BTC psychological level yet again, LTC scaled back from 0.007 BTC to 0.0061. And these are the major players within the market, not even talking about smaller scale alts right now.

I think that big market caps will fare better this time round, compared to newly bloomed ICOs. Given the fact that regulations are tighter, and institutions can spot scam ICOs a mile away.

I don't think alt season is started, If we look the prices of cryptos in the market right now they are all red, still the price is down. I think if bitcoin pump much reaching $15,000 then I guess the alt season will start.

bitcoin makes a high pump guys, and that's unexpected. I think you are wrong, but you are also right. this is indeed an altcoin session, but a dump session. and you really have bought altcoin, because after bitcoin is stable, the altcoin increase session will start. but not for now. maybe 1 week ahead. when bitcoin already has a quiet price.

no it does not started yet . there is no crypto season on this year yet because the year that feel dont really differ from the last year.  im saying that the market is still in a bad shape but you dont mess with your feelings because there is a good chance that what you feel can occur . go ahead and bag some alts now but i also recomend to bag some btc  . expect to harverst your gains soon

There is actually a very clear sign that altcoin season may start at any time, and we can see from the present increase that made the market to generally go on green lane, though this increase was actually because of the increase that we saw in bitcoin from about $7500 to $9700 suddenly, but what still made me feel that it is sign of bull run is because altcoins don’t usually react to the increase of bitcoin generally.

Most coins that usually react to the increase are still coins that are within the top altcoins, but this time around, majority of them actually surge in price also along with the bitcoin, which sent some signals to me that we might be about getting into bull run, and another thing that made me feel so is that most altcoins have now bottomed.

As far as the market is concern I bet not, as majority of it fell to 90% from ICO price you can already conclude that its far from recovery. But don't lose hope and grip it may come like a shock, I am also optimistic not only on Bitcoin but also on other cryptocurrencies as well. Building a good company takes years or decades, not days and months.

Alts almost dead, so it's not going to wake up earlier. I had not see that kind of bad situation regarding alts after join with crypto-currency. Yea, you may buy before winter since there is no possibility to bump within couple if months. You may take your time, and manage fund. Although I am not hopeless, but alts holders are spending very hard time. Even me, my portfolio dump more than 8X but still holding. So this is season of buy altcoin, on the other hand you can say alt season. Because seasonal fruits or vegetables found cheap on every country. Since alts are cheap we are on alt season.

No, I do not believe that altseason has arrived. Just look at the market, during altcoin season the major altcoins are doing x2 over several days, while BTC is staying stable. Right now the opposite of altseason is happening.

I bet this memes answered the question of OP very well 8) there is no sign of altcoin season based on the market movement and even if we see some coin that goes up, it's not enough reason to say that altcoin season is started because I think that it just happen due to the sudden pump of Bitcoin in the last couple days.

I just like to invest in good altcoins in this market and tend to increase during this period to ensure the best profit. Currently there are not too many opportunities to make money in this market because the risks are now great and the volatility of the market will make you spend a lot of time to wait. I think only choose the top 5 coins because if Bitcoin increases then those coins will tend to increase together.

The dominance of Bitcoin has prevented many alts from achieving good prices and the downtrend is still overwhelming this market so there will not be many opportunities for alts.

Even BTC had gained some momentum, I think it would be too early to assume it as the beginning of the alt season. However, some of the alts had shown some increment along with the increase of BTC still, I think it would take more time for alts to get back on track. If BTC continues to grow like this I guess we can soon expect a bullish trend hitting the alt-market too...

Alt season could have started already with Ethereum regaining losses from previous days. But we will have to wait for Bitcoin to break the old resistance at $13,500 before we really see some altcoin season.

You wouldn't know altseason has started already until you later realize you can't buy TRON for $0.01 its the same thing with BTC. You have no chance of seeing BTC to have bottomed out already until you see it didn't drop to $3k again. Of course you could have bought 3BTC with your $10k but now you can only have 1BTC with your $10k. Just something you may wanna think about because its the same thing as you can't buy ADA right now for $0.02

the altcoin market must indeed be supported by the power of bitcoin. but we must remember that when bitcoin rises very high it is also not good for the altcoin market. therefore when you see the movement of bitcoin together with altcoin in this market is very good. that means the altcoin market response to the growth of bitcoin is synchronized. when this can continue and growth can be maintained then the altcoin season can be run.

I don't see much happening to altcoins even after BTC jumped up by 30% which was BTC's third largest jump. Last 2 such appreciation in 24 hrs happened when Bitcoin's price was in single digit. Usually after such a growth, altcoins follow the price movement. But nothing much has happened in alt market. Rather the volume is shifting towards Bitcoin with Bitcoin gaining more and more dominance. I doubt we will able to witness alt season like one we had in 2017. That time people were not really well versed with the market dynamics. Since, we all have seen that cycle of pump and dump in altcoins. I don't think people will again trust altcoins for long term investments.

that's so funny meme, i laught at it.

but, i wanna highlight something. if we wait coin to increase so hard, then we called altseason, we would lag that altseason
so, even small increase doesnt mean that altseason started, but we have to keep an eye to watch in order to not lag altseason

Start accumulating for altcoin season.
Its a good time to trade with altcoins, we may not consider it an altcoin season the projects today are good to dump that you can gain with coins you just bought yesterday. If you have bought about 23k of TRON yesterday and you sold today, you earn few bucks without having to make some shillings anymore. Waiting for the price to dip to 100 satoshi, you are good to buy back.

Alt season not started yet, but give the signals that it will start Soner not later.

The movement of BTC was unique, never see that much price pump in a short time.

Now alt coins are mostly green. If we can go green a few more days we can start to speak about alt seasons and make ready for lambo

I don't believe so.

I think these altcoins are just following bitcoin's uptrend, as usual. As long as bitcoin's dominance is this high, i believe altcoins will always just be directly correlated to bitcoin's price. To back this up, all you need to do is look at the historical charts, only bitcoin has retained it's value (and even with some gains) compared to some altcoins out there that have lost almost 99% of their value.

yes we can't deny that, look at the pump that happened where the bitcoin pump is so far from the alts that it can be assumed that the alts season hasn't really started so far even though we get a bit of recovery in every alts, but that's still not enough to say the season alts begin. let's wait until next month, and if in the next month the changes continue to be positive then surely that is a good start even for the crypto market

I don't think the alt season has started... maybe it will come by the end of the year/beginning of 2020, before the halving...
I'm waiting for it for so long, that I gave up making predictions... but it will come my friend... we just need to hold on

what signal do you mean?

it means strong bullish in bitcoin. but it doesnt mean in altcoin too

if see the market, compared green and red, so the red is more than green. it wouldnt indicate that altseason has begun
altseason means that altcoing is growing up continously, simultaneously, and ofc increase its market capitalization

does you need more confirmations to make sure if signal valid ?
people should understand about supply and demands zone, sometimes when the price down and hit the demands zone
the price will jump hard, this zone will pull the trigger buddy

I hope it starts soon, found some promsing projects so going to start filling bags now.

Are you talking about the projects you started  :P, if you think you found the perfect projects to invest let everyone know about those so that everyone can see that and analyze those and one advice to you is that i have seen this market for a very long time and experienced many scams in the market and my take on that is be careful what you invest as you can be the bag holder of those coins if you are not careful with your selection :P.

That means red is more dominant than green right now, so it perfectly not showing any altcoins season. It went so unpredictable to see it going to happen further, because it has no proper demand compared to what's happening with btc lately. We're seeing bitcoin built up a progressive market but that was opposite with what's happening to altcoins.

Having a 4 days of green market i can't speculate that alt season has started. It happens all coins were following the increase of bitcoin because of a good news of China carries a lot of hype. I don't see any proper demand and supply which they have reason to pull the trigger into alt season.

I cant feel yet if the altcoins are started, But if that happen maybe we should need to hold or buy some altcoins from the market. And we need to choose those altcoins are trusted and have future to increase the price. Because as of now their are lots of altcoins are spreading in any maket and become a shitcoins in no time. If we have on that kind of coins must better to remove it early to sell if that have price, It is wasted our time if we hold it for a long time.

The altcoin season does not mean that the market will be in the green for a limited period of time, if you could check the past graphs then you will have an idea what the altcoin season means, there are no signs of recovery in the near future but everyone is expecting the market to rally after the bitcoin halving  and usually in the past we usually see that the altcoin season starts after the bitcoin rally.

I won't say it alt season, just yet.
We don't really see a really significant price for alt for the past year, if I remember that one correctly.
Even with bitcoin bullish trend, alts follows just a bit, it's really hard nowadays for alts to have a stable price.
Still, I might be wrong, but, it doens't hurt to never let your guard down only because you've seen a "green" on the markets.

Altcoins are usually just coins that help you to make a profit and very few coins can bring you long-term profits during this time. I think if you have decided to invest then think many times because the fact that altcoin depends very much on the rise of Bitcoin. Today altcoin has recovered slightly but in the next few days we can not predict what will happen next so it is best to be patient and wait a few more months.

I personally am very worried about the volatility of this market because the value of all coins can be easily manipulated if the investor holds a lot of BTC.

we should talk about china's alts season. You see, when bitcoin increased by nearly 30%, the other alts only increased by about 7% - 10%. Particularly for the alts of China such as ONT, BTT, TRX, NEO have increased very strongly about 30% - 50%.
This shows that the Chinese government is really making a positive move on crypto. And this is an opportunity to buy more Chinese alts.

the risk of investing with crypto or altcoin as you say in your opinion with predictions and developments that we cannot predict in the future as investors must have confidence and patience in investing and as investors must be able to take advantage of every opportunity we will get in investing with Crypto currency buys when you have confidence in getting profits

For my own opinion it is a miniature alt season. we can say that it is the real alt season if when altcoins jumps as high as 200% percentage like what happens way back 2017.
Wether it is alt season or not its better to make profit than anythingelse.

How do you know that is not real bullmarket? A lot of altcoins have started grow. May be this is the beginning of bullmarket. Who knows... We will see in next wollowing weeks I think.

We are in September 2016. Many altcoins are going to have "almost" no big movement before the next Bitcoin ATH, in March 2017. The current situation is comparable for me. Bitcoin has just made a bearish fake, and it will go up to reach a new ATH in the first quarter of 2020. There are a few weeks, a few months before the altcoins explode. By then, normally, it would be better to stay in BTC and buy altcoins at a good price (especially the lowcap i think). In a few months, it will be too late. The countdown has started! good luck to everyone!

all possibilities can happen and no one can predict all developments in crypto and altcoin if altcoin will develop, of course it is good news for investors who have been waiting because altcoin is in a state of being experiencing a decline in value and price development hopefully the news will make investors interested

Opportunity to buy Chinese alts and shitcoins at 50-70% premium? Not a chance. I wouldn't want to be caught in the middle and end up catching knives. The best way to trade these kinda moves is to get on the trend early because sooner or later the pump would lose steam and everyone will resume their prime focus on Bitcoin again. I might be wrong too, chinese alts might make more moves. But then, it's not always advisable to chase pumps.

No , there is no alt season for this year. My personal thoughts are that we gonna see an alt season only in 2021 when the bull run in bitcoin will be kinda over we will see some massive rise among altcoins. For now , altcoins are just recovering from what they've lost during this bitcoin dip as I don't see any good altcoins going over the price they had in September or August/July. The good thing is that we still have a lot of time to accumulate and hodl! Also a reminder not to fall for shillers for are promoting some altcoins...make your own decisions based on your own researches.

No man,even if you see ETH and others top level altcoin they are still lower.Also most of the altcoin price is lower than the ICO price..price down 80%-90% than ICO price.I don’t think altcoins price will be up as we saw in 2017.but there is hope that altcoin can recovered.But It's really hard to recover 100% price.

agree with this, i also dont see any altcoins season, most of altcoins pump and dump triggered by bitcoin movement

we saw yesterday when bitcoin pump almost 40%, most of altcoins dump so hard, when bitcoin stable, altcoin is strating to go pump

the pattern is often like that, just a few of altcoins can do opposite that pattern

for now Not yet the time for altcoin to go on stage, because market is still not stable, even bitcoin price growing up, i don't think altcoin are following the bitcoin way, because we all know bitcoin are central pair for another altcoin, and altcoin need more time to adjust to the bitcoin market

No, I will not start proving that you are wrong. The last week of October pleasantly surprised all of us. I start to suspect that this situation resembles the market of 2017. It was almost the same picture as with the cryptocurrencies on the market at that time. Probably, I will invest more in Bitcoin, when I get a monthly salary, but alts must be  also bought, especially Eidoo and Ethereum.

   Alt-season that we expect to happen hasn't started yet. This is a minor increase,
it's refreshing for a change to see the prices rising, but we will not see the price
rising to the previous all times high prices.
   SheriffEl is right about one thing, it's good to buy before the winter. With that part I
agree. I will buy more Bitcoins and alt-coins from my salary in next two months, like
I always do, I can just hope before some significant rise.

Altcoin doesn't need a stable condition to get the bullish season and it looks like the bull season for altcoin has already started again. Ethereum and almost all of the coins are getting a huge increase by the way. We will see the next big bullish trend for altcoin in a short time. I have no doubt about that.
The market gives a very positive reaction.

Bitcoin has enjoyed the better part of this year, this could be the time for altcoins to also shine and enjoy a bit of a bullish run. There is also a great sign of positivity since in the last 24 hrs, we have noticed most of the altcoins appreciating in price. This is the time to hodl some prospective altcoins.

if you keep buying slowly a diversified portfolio you wont be wrong
cant predict exactly when the altseason starts, but it sure did not start yet.

Not yet, the altcoins season has not started yet maybe the altcoins season will come in one to two months in the future after the current bitcoin halving.

If that is what you believe then you should act based on your beliefs, the market of altcoins is definitely looking promising but I have my suspicions this is nothing more but a mirage, we seemed to be headed for an altcoin season some time ago and then a crash came out of nowhere and any hope to see such an altcoin season disappeared, and now we are facing the same scenario once again and a crash is again possible as such I prefer to wait until it is completely clear an altcoin season has started.

In my experience from 2014 until now, there was a time when this altcoin experienced ups and downs.
I divide 1 year into 3 parts:
1. January - April
2. May - August
3. September - December
- Phase 1 I call as the stage of the period of price increases until gradually to the middle of the altcoin price.
- Phase 2 is a dark period for altcoin where all altcoin prices can drop dramatically.
- Phase 3 is the time to repair the price to the peak price.
from the period of 2015 until now I feel the velocity of prices from altcoin like that. But this does not apply standard for the price, because the name predictions still predictions can be missed or right.
However, everything can be seen from the habits that often occur after several samples are taken from time to time hehehehe.

Follow your instincts and why need to prove you wrong?seems like there’s no seriousness in your plans lol,because the tru investors don’t look for negatives but instead the positive is what they wanna here if they are already decided to buy the said coins
Not unless they are in doubt then that’s the time to ask for another opinions

nothing needs to be proven, altcoin season starts if bitcoin starts first, in reality without bitcoin what altcoins can be do. And also in the fact, investors are also more dominant in choosing bitcoin.
You want to buy altcoin? so buy if you feel good.

Determine that this is the time or not, is not a solution that must be taken if there is no conviction. it is better to quickly decide on something after analyzing as well as possible, so as not to miss getting the benefits of the right action. whenever is the right time it is important to analyze well.

Analyzing every situation and allow your own conviction to be followed by your actions. It's difficult to anticipate since the nature of this industry is volatile, you have to be patient with every decision making that you need to take. Every single information should be sorted correctly in order to make sure that you are doing the right thing. The alt season is coming to those who wait and we'll prepare anticipating the market growth.

the news is very positive and thus many investors are interested again in investing and we know that the development of the crypto currency depends on investors themselves with confidence and patience as the main capital in investing and in conditions like now investors must be clever in utilizing every opportunity that will be obtained in investing and profits will be obtained

Usually nearing the end of the year there will be a change for everything, so it could be for the next few weeks that altcoin starts moving towards improving. of course it will start with bitcoin which continues to improve and followed by other altcoins which are also affected. and will continue to improve until next year.

the crypto market cycle is like that, but for the past few years I haven't felt it. I remember the end of last year, when many said Q4 until the beginning of the year was a reversal for altcoin. but in fact it was even worse. eth, btc and several other big coins fell to the lowest point. and I hope this year is not so, there is no need for an increase, just a stable price until halving bitcoin that's very good already. and when halving can later trigger a pump for bitcoin and altcoin.

Instincts doesn't mean you always need to follow it it is different from the way we think. Although there's some point that we need to consider but not all the time as the market moves freely in any direction. So i can say that this altcpin pumps is only a miniature of bull run it doesnt mean that altcoin season has started.

There is no need for anyone of us to prove the op wrong, the market will do that, if he is correct then the market will have to go up during the next weeks but if that is not true then the market will remain at the current levels or even go down, personally I do not see how this is an altcoins market when bitcoin is still in complete control of the market and altcoins are just following it in a weak way, it is better to remain invested in bitcoin than to waste our time with altcoins which do not grow.

Give something first why you are probably going to be right. I am seeing a good mixture of red and green in the altcoin charts right at this moment. I cannot consider this as a beginning of an altcoin season. Most in the top 10 are even in red. If the altcoin season comes, it should come with the top altcoins such as Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin having the highest green amongst all of them. 

We can say alt seasons started when we see hot Money flow to crypto market from outside. We see many big amounts of USDT transfers from wallets to exchanges but still we only see green candles at specific coins.
We can call it alt season when we start to see green candles at most of the coins at the market. New users and hot money will bring the alt seasons and we will again start to talk about lambos 😊

Yes we are still too far from the altcoin season as I don't see any green marks against even the top ten altcoins and this would be possible only if bitcoin goes wild which might have positive affects on other altcoins but the way it works for altcoins is simple, the market reaches peak and when the price slightly starts to fall the users just shift their fund to Bitcoin or convert it to USDT nowadays which is the reason why we don't see altcoin pump even if Bitcoin's value increases which was not the case in the past. Altcoins need to go through a market saturation in order to standout and pool in more investment.

You are right. Altcoins are really nothing without the Bitcoin. They are two sides of a coin but from experience, bitcoin is the prime market mover. It reacts to catalytic growths first before it altcoin does. So technically, there is a bitcoin bull first before an altcoins season

The altcoin season doesn't seem to have started yet, altcoin is moving very slowly because they are waiting for the bitcoin season. Maybe after that new altcoin can move up. So I have not planned to buy some altcoin because at the moment altcoin hasn't been able to give me much profit. I expect Bitcoin to fly first now.

if that's the reason then you should buy altcoins because the price is still low now, because it's useless when you just wait for the bitcoin season because at that time at least altcoins will pumps happen. so why buy altcoins when the pump is running, that's the wrong way because at least we don't need to wait for a pump to start buying

altcoin cant increase if market dominance so low compared with bitcoin, it just has 33% in thousand altcoins

Bitcoin has 67% market dominance in just 1 coin. it shows how low altcoins are, so altcoins need more market dominance

yes, i agree that in this time the good coin to invest is just bitcoin only, altcoins are look doubting

We may have to wait a little longer because the value of Bitcoin is currently unstable and the high volatility of the market is the main reason affecting so many other altcoins. I think the altcoin season is unlikely to happen this year and we may have to wait a long time because the current trend is focusing heavily on Bitcoin. I personally still hope that the altcoin season could happen sooner but now can't do anything but be patient because things often happen unexpectedly in this market.

Agree, the market dominance is very high for the Bitcoin and it is impossible for the altcoin to increase. Still, it is a very good chance for the investors to grab some cheap coins altcoin with high potential active developments will help the coin to increase very quickly once the dominance of Bitcoin is going down.

Things happened surprisingly most of the time. We can't accurately predict the market, all we can do is to continue chasing and speculate the next good run. Optimistic investors are always willing to wait and patiently trade little by little. Some might do little scalps and try to accomplished decent profits while others are into long and keep buying those cheap coins that they've spotted around the market.

Whatever  trading style  you have, it's best to stay calm and patiently observe every market movements. From that point you'll be able to get some hints on when the strong bull will hit the market.

i basically agree with your opinion. i also see better times ahead than the last 1 or 2 years.
but even if we are of this opinion, caution is advised. there are simply too often false temptations.
divide investments in any case and do not invest everything directly at once. 8)

You must stop talk bullshit about that altcoin is still possible to increase whatever the price of bitcoin is. look at a few days ago when some altcoins are getting huge increase even when bitcoin has dumped from above 10k to the below 8k.
The bull trend of altcoin is not only determined by the bitcoin trend but some traders are actively doing swing trade from bitcoin to altcoin too.
This needs a lot of explanation about the correlation between altcoin and bitcoin.

people who invest in crypto certainly have hope for a better future for their investment. but my fears and worries remain a common problem for crypto investments. because you can see how the market looks calm, but no one can know what will happen in the next 1-2 hours. especially to see what next year. we might be able to see from trade trends. but that is not a 100% guarantee it will happen.

But if eventually the dominance of the price of Bitcoin still does not go down then you will experience a loss in the alt you have bought. Indeed, the dominance of Bitcoin is still strong and we do not know when it will end. I personally still have confidence that the Altcoin season will come soon.

what do u wanna tell us, bruh?
you only look at micro view not macro, and you made opinion just based on one thing, not consider others thing
whatever it is, altcoin is still on bearish right now

https://www.tradingview.com/x/pCvGc5qz/

It is too soon to buy altcoins, you would be right if the altcoin season was just around the corner but I do not see it that way, so the best option is to wait and avoid making any kind of move, I know you will not be able to buy at the bottom of the market if you do this, but very few traders do and the ones that did it will claim that it was a matter of skill but most likely it was because of luck, let the market play itself and only buy good altcoins once the bitcoin dominance goes down.

Yes, everyone is expecting right now it is very good to grab the altcoin in the market due to fluctuation we are seeing with the Bitcoin dominance. Once the dominance for Bitcoin starts decreasing we might see a complete upward trend for the altcoins. So it is always good to accumulate when the market situation seems to be in a downtrend.

Altcoin season probably hasn't really started because right now I only see the top coins rising and there hasn't been any change for all altcoins. We are still in bear market at the moment and are all happening unexpectedly so I do not believe in any predictions of others. If you want the altcoin season to appear, then you should analyze this market yourself because until now everything has not been too much difference compared to last year.

The only problem here is that profits and investors only consider altcoin as a tool to make money . Before investing, take some time to analyze the volatility of that coin to avoid unnecessary risks.

Not yet in my opinion. Indeed we are somewhat seeing some recovery to some altcoin but I doubt that it would be the start already of the recovery. It is too early and more likely to happen at the end of this year, as what is expected by the majority of the investors. Investing would be a good idea but be mindful of the risk tht not all alts would be able to recover the downfall this year. Only those which has large community of investors and users are hving chances to more likely to recover and be profitable.

There was a time in which investors thought that altcoins could be a way to improve the development of this market but since then I have understood that altcoins are only good for one purpose and that is to make money with them but it is not a good idea to invest in any altcoin, there are thousands of them and it is impossible to invest in every single one of them or to try to analyze them all so the only option is to only invest in popular altcoins like ethereum.

it's not wrong for you to invest in some altcoin that you think is good for the future,
ethereum is known as altcoin which is able to compete with bitcoin, but try to find information about altcoin in the top 100 Coinmarketcap!

Actually the market is looking so steady .I am not watching any huge altcoins pump so how can i say the time is being started .We are still in huge loss and didn't recover yet .I hope we will get a huge pump in near future what help us to recover our whole loss.

It will take a lot of time for the pump to start working again because the altcoin season has not started this year and the downtrend is still overwhelming this market. I think it should be patient and wait for some time to know what trends will happen next because if you choose to invest now the risk will be great. I personally believe the altcoin season will occur in mid 2020.

May be just a small prediction of me but the recent growth of the market makes a lot of investors coming back and it is certain that the market will be interesting next year.

yes I think I still need more time for altcoin, there are no signs of a good price movement specifically. there are still many coin prices below and the volume in some altcoins has not grown, have to wait for more time and I hope it won't be long

actually, feeling is not enough to predict current prices, but because so much information is strong enough to make prices rise, I agree with that opinion. although the current price of bitcoin is not far from the level of $ 8500, I am pretty sure that the price will recover soon and reach the price of $ 9000 by the end of this month, and most likely will reach a higher price in December. I'm sure the price of bitcoin is not far from the price of $ 10k at the end of this year, and that makes a pretty good achievement compared to the end of 2018.

I guess we are at the end of the alt session. some reliable predictions like Tradingshoot say that alt sessions will occur in the next 1-2 weeks
read here https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/iyy9sJ23-Is-this-a-sign-that-the-ALT-SEASON-has-started/

alt season will start when bitcoin season starts first mate,anyway if you did purchased that time ?then you will be trapped for today because price is still dropping up to this moment.

but if there is a reason for you to hold longer?then better do as we don't really know when the season will start and all we have is speculations so better buy now and keep the currencies in you hands.

but if you want more safeties then buy at least the top 10-20 .

we can't talk about a real bull run, but thanks to the horizontal movement of the BTC, we can see that the prices of subcoins have risen compared to a few months ago. you can tell it is mini bull.

That hasn't happened yet, altseason is accustomed to appearing when BTC crosses the gold cross and returns sideways for several times, alt season not only occurs for the top coins, but almost moves for all active coins including POS coins and some which have been called shitcoin. The current rate of increase is not confirmed for that.

If we think the market is bullish, then it is bullish and if we consider it in the opposite way it is bearish. Why I say this, because the market will be under fluctuation throughout upon which it isn't possible to precise the market trend. Everything we experience out there is based on some predictions.

From the beginning of the year 2018 people keeps murmuring the altcoin season is gonna begin, but nothing big has happened to make a change in the market. After a long the ongoing year gave a better growth with altcoins, and hope this gets better by 2020 which is much expected for the cryptocurrency growth.

If we based on the past bull run, we need to wait for btc to create a new ATH again before we can expect an altcoin season.

IMO, it has not started yet, and even Bitcoin now is moving sideways, recently it pump back to $10K but was not able to break big resistance, so probably its not time yet and we need more time to break those resistance and I think to make it happen, we need some big news in the market that could trigger FOMO.

yes you're right, hopefully in 2020 there will be changes to the market. no growth has been happening for a long time, and we need that to make the market viable. the only hope is when bitcoin halving later, hopefully when there is a pump for bitcoin approaching halving. and this pump can have an impact on altcoin.

well the last alt season happen is in 2017 when bitcoin almost reached the $20k value right?so basically correct we need to wait bitcoin first before expecting other pump from side of altcoins
but this time is when we need to at least start to buy right?because the opportunity is here that since prices are low then accumulate for future.

We also have to ask, are the price moving high? Or just of a few percent ups?
A lot of things to consider before we go into the final says. You have the feelings and I respect that but sounds different from what I've felt and actually what I've seen around. It is pretty obvious that altcoins never pump instead, we saw them keep declining and even potential coins never show some pumps. It surely alts seasons will come but not this time and this year, it still needs time for the market to recover before we're able to see it again.

There is mo specific date or season when the altcoins will rise but I hope most of the time from now on like this year or next year. But now the movement of the altcoins is not increasing because for this now it decreasing the price of it. So if the persok have plan now to buy you can buy it.  Everyone are waiting for the altcoins to rise and once it starts this is that day  crypto will popular again.

alt season has not yet begun and although this year there has been an increase but it is only a temporary recovery which in fact this year's trend has also improved compared to the previous year, so with this slight recovery will at least motivate many updates that might be better in the year ahead until it might have a more positive impact which in fact alt season is expected next year

I would say the season to buy ALT is right here. Such dips are ideal for buying. I m slowly buying ALT coins of my choice to get a good average buying price.

I've also noticed that bitcoin has plunged however some of the altcoins remained firm. I don't know what's happening but let's assume this as it is always happening for bitcoin.
Let's say that the bull that we've seen last time was a bull trap.

As you can see that stability was not real, the market was artificially inflated two weeks ago and slowly it is returning to its real value, there are no investors buying altcoins or even bitcoin and when that happens the price needs to go down, how low the market will go? I do not know but I hope that investors sold their altcoins long time ago since all of those speculations about an altcoin season were just that, speculations, and we can safely say there will not be an altcoin season during this year.

Indeed its a good time to buy and accumulate popular altcoins now. The market is in red status and even btc is declining. Dont think about too much on how long we are going to wait for alts season because in time it will happen. Lets be firm with our decision to hold and be patient thus we can endure the bearish trend.

Market is still in a downtrend so the investment will now face many difficulties and will directly affect the profit of investors. If you know how to make money during this time, you will have a lot of chances to buy some cheap coins. I am holding USDT but I will consider investing slowly in some coins like BTC, ETH, LTC because these are my top 3 options when join this market.

Even though the price of Bitcoin dropped hugely but the price of altcoins is also kept dropping. Which is a good sign to grab the altcoins again because with this fluctuation we might see more downtrend for the altcoins and the altcoin prices will start recovering? So it is very good to grab whatever coins will give profit to us.

see no connection about what Buffet says in buying this low.

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with the market situation now?i ma afraid that this is the season for alt,instead this is the right time to BUY crypto altcoins.

that is what exactly we all know because Bitcoin will dictate the prices of all altcoins.

As far as I can see, there haven't been any signs that an alt season might start anytime soon, or even that alts can reduce BTC dominance by falling less than BTC. We may want alt season to happen, doesn't mean it is going to, at least not yet.

Last altseason happened in end may, but it was small altseason. BTC dominance dropped 49% to 39% so fast
based on that, we dont have to wait until BTC reach new ATH to get new altseason.
But if you mean big altseason, we have to wait new ATH.

There are many different predictions about the altcoin season but it is likely that the market will move to a new phase in 2020 and this is a very good opportunity for you to consider investing now. One way or another, you have to always manage your assets and allocate your capital appropriately because the big fluctuations will certainly affect your profits a lot.

there is no alt season mate,there is only Bitcoin season and from that all the altcoins may have a chance to grow.

never forget that there is no currency that waited to Grow but bitcoin and then the domino effect will happens next.

altseason may happen next year. In these bear market no happy season that will happen.  Wait till year im sure before or after halving everything will go up.

If all the shit coins are having limited number of coins you will see these kind of shift in dominance if there is a small rally in the alt coin market and it is not a big surprise, the only thing you need to remember is that all the thousand shit coins with billions of coins combined to drop the dominance and it is not even a good metric to compare in the first place :P.

Bitcoin dominance is a way to know when altseason will happen, it has been proven
you can read most of altseason article, those use bitcoin dominance to know.

“When Altseason?” — How to Time the Most Profitable Period in the Cryptocurrency Market (https://hackernoon.com/when-altseason-how-to-time-the-most-profitable-period-in-the-cryptocurrency-market-440c82a056dd)
What is AltSeason ? (https://medium.com/cryptoaddicts/what-is-altseason-b61c39d72dca)
Alt Season: Scamming Noobs Since 2013 (https://medium.com/bull-bitcoin/alt-season-scamming-noobs-since-2013-71bd19410d98)

I expected the alt season in the fall, but after reading a lot of different information on the neironix.io and checking the calendar of events for many coins, I came to the conclusion that now we should not expect it, most likely the main market revival will begin before or even after the bitcoin halving. I am waiting for the alt season in the spring of 2020.

I haven't seen any signs of Alts Season right now. The popularity of Bitcoin has been cooling in recent weeks and that only makes the price of bitcoin drop more sharply and the price of alts less than previous times.
I think we should still wait for next year, 2020. I am still waiting for Ethereum 2.0 and hope it will help the whole bitcoin market to buy more alts, creating season alts in the near future.

in my opinion ethereum 2.0 we cannot expect prices to rise, for example we expect BAAKT to rise, but instead Bitcoin prices tend to fall,
but I am sure if the altcoin season does arrive, ethereum 2.0 can be an excuse, we just wait until bitcoin is stable and dominance goes down

Every year is a different time for the financial markets, the crypto market cycles are not an exception. When the prices go down due to the general market conditions, the altcoin's price lags behind the BTC market trend. The last years were the middle of the bear market cycle IMO and the next year predictions are based on air which we don't use in the investing. The wise investors already have reserved their place for the altcoin rally party and the party will end when the music stops.

Altcoins could start the bukl signal maybe by next year or year 2021 aince bitcoin is still in crisis and it could take a lot of time to recover and not immediately to rise up and definitely its gonna happen and we need to hodl as much as we have funds and always buy in dip.

And buying an altcoin could give us a lot of profit just like on year 2017 and  only buy those has potential to increase in the future.

when there is a significant pump in the second quarter of this year it seems like it will be a fast season, but the prediction i think is still incorrect because the pump does not happen continuously which means the season has not started yet and until the end of the quarter this year it still does not indication if the season will start

This sounds like a great recipe for bankruptcy. It's called "catch a falling knife" and has its roots in the gambler's fallacy that following a "down" there must be an equal or better "up" . That's not true at all.

Holding altcoins today is a bad idea. Buying more is even worse. If there is going to be another alcoin bubble you will have lost all your money by then if you do what you're saying here.

Just try observing the market value of most of the altcoins and there you may see if the altseason has already started. There are plenty of news already that says altcoin season is near and there's a possibility that it is occuring right now. As part of being startegic, you should have been able to hold great amount of altcoins already so that if the altcoin season has already started or it is already near, you would get the opportunity to redeem great profits from your investments.

but if you only trust the news, you should not fully, if you see altcoin growth currently not specifically. there is still time to do research before starting an investment, so that investments made can be more planned

My opinion is this) Altcoin season begins after BTC leaves the falling trend and a new growth cycle begins, now as we all know, the downtrend is going. After the BTC leaves the downtrend, it should begin to show positive dynamics and then the altcoins will start shooting and flying to the moon, then there will be a crushing drop in BTC and altcoins as well, and when the BTC stabilizes, the alt season will continue to the new bottom of Bitcoin in this growth cycle, for some reason it seems to me that such a moment will come when there is a year left before halving.

I think the last shakeout before the bullrun begins just started. I really can't say where it'll end but if what Peter Schiff predicted holds water, we should be looking at February next year for prices to start recovering from this dump. I really hope we get to $3k+ so I can get some for cheap.

Market still keeps getting big selloffs every few weeks without a big rise first. The alt season will start when alts starts performing better on the upside without  big selloffs.

Investors are still struggling to trade the large sum of token acquire from ICO in 2017/2018. It still looks like a difficult come back. We still fund from USA and China. Regulations in these countries could be relaxed in coming year. Speculations are only positive for altcoins after bitcoin breaks the ATH. Every new investors last year and this year will understand that cryptocurrency is not a rich quick scam. Time of entry is important and dangerous, bullrun new investors are likely to dumped on unlike investors at the moment

To be honest, altcoin season is really hard to see these days. It's not like we are in 2017 or something. But that will still depend on your decision whether you want to risk or not. I think it is better to wait for the lower point and invest on coins like Ethereum and XRP, and other highly trusted coins since you know at some there is a good chance that the will bounce back.

This year and next year are expected to be very volatile so what is happening today is normal and I think the downtrend will continue in the future. I am not interested in investing in this market this year and only hold stable coin or participate in some IEO projects to make a profit. In fact, Bitcoin's dominance is making Altcoin worse and worse, and if this doesn't end, the bear market will overwhelm the entire crypto market.

You don't have many investment options during this time so it is best to just sit still or follow some new news to add more knowledge.

yes, I myself am also happy and confident, that at the end of this year the price of altcoin is in recovery, because I see market price movements also growing better. So now is the right time to trade altcoin.

Investing in the top altcoins is the right thing to do but I do not know if the timing is right, the market is experimenting a huge decrease in the price and it does not seem like it is going to stop, so it is important that if you take the decision to buy altcoins that you think about it and see if this is the right time because if you buy your coins too soon you will have to hold them for years before having any chance to recover your money.

I don't think so, market is still on the decline and is causing all altcoins to continue to have major collapses. In my opinion, it will take a few more years for the market to recover and don't expect too much of others predictions this year. Currently you should limit transactions and invest only in Bitcoin because this is the only option that helps you greatly reduce the risk of investment.

in my opinion instead this is the time to buy Altcoin, if you think for sure you will realize, this is a whale game,
bitcoin prices are dropped first then in 2020 prices will rise again after halving, trust me  ;)

If you are in an industrial age, saving is a good solution, it will not make you rich, but it will make your life stable by contributing the money you make to the super fund government, when you get old you'll get it back but the times have changed we have moved over to the industrial era, saving is like you're losing value for money, inflation increases every day, prices the escalation. I know time is the right thing and it is a premise for success but you should use that savings to invest or take an investment course, this way you will earn more money, crypto investment is the best investment for me at the moment, when you step into the investment path, you will understand more about money and you are passionate about it, when you are passionate you will earn more.

After a while of researching and investing in alt, I really do not know when the alt season begins, this market is really difficult to predict, 2017 is a lucky year for altcoin investors but Now the market is very poor, if in your position I recommend you to be very careful when pouring money into altcoins and taking profits from it, you should carefully study the information about it, including good and bad news because As I mentioned, altcoins are really unstable.

No, this isnt altseason but bearish season lol. you can look at cryptocap exclude btc  (https://www.tradingview.com/chart/ghfc4eI9/) and know that this is not alseason
i think altseason wont happen if the bitcoin dominance is still high and hasnt reached new ATH
so, we have to wait until several years to get altseason back. but i m sure that it will happen again

Evereybody is waiting for that alt season which is impossible to happen this year. Instead of waiting for the altseason to start why not fill your bags with your favorite coin while waiting for the bull run.

I agree to what you just said in fact i joined two airdrops recently (Margix and Newscrypto) still thinking about if i should invest money in it. Will probably just test it out with few dollars to see how it goes.

In fact, the general mentality of everyone is to always want to buy any coin at the lowest price and sell it at the highest price. That is why they are often weak and indecisive in buying or selling coins at important times.
That is why we should learn Technical Analysis to know what is a good time to buy alts. But in my analysis this is not a good time to buy alts, it's too risky because bitcoin has yet to show any positive signs on the chart. perhaps as we should wait until early 2020.

i remember those days were btc is unstoppable from 5k$ going to $20k and with that i learned a lesson if you already made a profit dont ask for more.dont wait for higher profit or else it go the other way.

I have the same thoughts as you, I think now is the right time for us to invest in altcoin. Buying and holding altcoins long term, I believe we will have a good return early next year. Currently the prices of most altcoins are still very low, this is the time for us to buy. I will use my savings to buy more ETH, ADA, EOS, and BNB.

You were wrong, alt season never come even for bitcoin season because it is price just slumped down a lot now. Its price touched new lower price again since there is a good news came from Chinese who tried to adopt blockchain technology on their industries.

Seems like I just feel investment on cryptocurrency it will be good to choose it for short term investment. It means, when there are some good news comes who are really will make their prices goes up then I will buy it and if there is not good information it will good to store it at stable coin.

One more push by the market to the dips of altcoins will make the investors REKT and  I wish it will not happen in the near future. Buying the BNB, ADA coins is wiser point here because the stated altcoins have proved their intention in the crypto ecosystem, using other low volume altcoins for trading is better than investing them. The opinions are different and I respect both kinds of investors-traders.

According to the predictions many people this year will not be the ALT season although many say so it does not belies that the ALT season can come.
Because the crypto market is very difficult to predict.
Those who came out with his predictions are merely entertainment for investors.

It is hard to pick absolute bottom in the high volatility crypto market. Prices are close to bottom range so good to buy dips in some top altcoins while waiting for next rise.

It is not clear bottom in the altcoin prices, the yearly lows are still far away from the current market price, the bottom range can be observed if you check the higher time frames. If you looking at the 4-hour charts on the trading platform, the main trend can be hidden in small price bars.

Don't expect anything from Libra because Libra is not certain until now, and it is not related to the rising price of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies I guess. Altcoin itself depends on the price movements of Bitcoin. And for the Altcoin season seems not to have happened yet. considering the price of Bitcoin which is still down also controversial news about Bitcoin is still heard.

I think its not yet started because bitcoin is still in down we all know if bitcoin down all altcoins are affected. So i think for now you can buy some altcoins and you gonna hold it. But don't expect because i know you know that altcoins and bitcoin are not stable for now. So think many times before you go with it so that no regretting in coming days.

Altcoin season will not happen in the next few years because the market is still maintaining the downtrend and everyone is worried about the future of this market. In fact, Bitcoin is being manipulated and any fluctuation of this coin will cause the altcoin to collapse so this period will be very difficult to predict. I just hoped Bitcoin could stabilize until the end of this year but things didn't work out according to my predictions.

In recent days, a lot of bad news has caused the market to collapse and if this news continues to appear, crypto will continue the downtrend for a long time.

yes the market isnt on good condition now, it is pure downtrend. but the market can change quickly
market doesnt need long time to change, i think next year the condition would be different. There will be halving in 2020 can trigger the market goes well
so, it can make crypto great again. prepare for this time to buy some coin which you think would be big, then hold as you can

The altcoin market still hasn't changed, it will be very risky if choosing a new project for our investment. the best choice now is to see how the market will develop and how long we will be in this condition. we must immediately determine the attitude, whether we should invest or join in daily trading with altcoin that has a high trade.

Nice words, its really hard to pick absolute bottom in crypto market, but for that reason is hard to predict possible absolute top too. Its why some people, even I in some moments, believe that top is really high and that we are far away from some possible top. Its why this can be a good buying opportunity, for people who are looking for long term investments. Many of us wait for the next rise, and probably we will have to wait for some time more.

I agree that what we are seeing is not an altcoin season and that we are in the middle of a bear season however you cannot really wait until the bitcoin dominance is really low to invest in the market, by the time you invest most likely the whole altcoin season is over, right now is a good moment to invest in altcoins because the bitcoin dominance is high and it cannot go that much higher however the problem with doing that now is that the market could give us a surprise and remain static for months.

This is a very bad time for investors but currently investing in altcoins will certainly bring quick returns because these coins have gone through many periods of decline, so in the near future altcoin will start to recover. For now, it's hard to predict the future but I hope the altcoin season can come back again as a lot of investors are waiting for this in 2020.

It may not happen, but altcoins are always investments that make a lot of people rich so there no reason for me to give up on this investment.

Libra is after-all a centralised currency thus, no more expectations or trust in it.

why not trust it, I am sure majority of the people would trust libra as they trust facebook.
Its a multi billion company which has billions of users, so its impossible people would not trust, of all the projects in crypto, they might be the most reliable, although they are centralized and stable coins, but if they bring adoption to the market, I would say they are a good project.

The best time to invest in alts will be in the starting phase of btc halving.

As is usually said, never give up on FOMO and chase the pump - especially when the bullish momentum has not been established. The same applies to those who claim that the 'alt season' is here as long as ICON (ICX) and Ethereum Classic (ETC) experience some upward price movements.

The current altcoin market actually does not show signs of reversal in general trends.

Do you all agree?

while we are waiting altseason, actually we still can get profit from this market.
we can do short selling in crypto, which is we sell high and buy low.

But, make sure that we have a good knowledge in technical analysis. bcz it is needed to predicting price as well
and fully understanding money management to avoid margin call

Altcoin is facing worst time of its reign and we may not see anything worse than this. Its a thorough manipulated market and its more difficult to tell what the next move might be. If the tide changes today we follow it. Altcoin is a very large space and they can not all be that bad, lets check it and face the truth, so something is responsible for it.  We have seen a lot of development from real project and why are they still struggling. We will know better with time

until now I have not seen any good season for altcoin. now the market conditions are still the same. so I think it might take a long time to get back to a stable position

The market of altcoins has gone down for so long that the probabilities that it recovers during the next year keeps getting higher but as we know the market can be very irrational and even if it seems like it is the time for altcoins to recover investors could still concentrate most of their money in bitcoin and eventually people desperate for the terrible price of their altcoins could sell them making the price to go down even further and delaying the recovery even more.