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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: solid12345 on June 13, 2014, 02:24:20 PM



Title: Is there anything in crypto that makes logical sense really?
Post by: solid12345 on June 13, 2014, 02:24:20 PM
If there is two things i've learned in trying to trade for the last 6 months it is this:

If a coin has bad news, expect a dump

If a coin has good news...expect a bigger dump!

I honestly think there is no rhyme or reason to anything.


Title: Re: Is there anything in crypto that makes logical sense really?
Post by: TheDragonSlayer on June 13, 2014, 02:34:26 PM
This is what I understand,

1) Bad news -> huge panic sell -> recover some immediately and most of it after few days
2) repeat


Title: Re: Is there anything in crypto that makes logical sense really?
Post by: Instamatic on June 13, 2014, 02:39:18 PM
I equate the exchanges to futures speculation.  There's a few coins with merchant adoption but many with none.  Until such time as a coin becomes a viable replacement for wages, retail purchases, and the such it's all a guessing game based on press releases.

But yeah, both good & bad news seem to cause price fluctuations that's hard to understand.  Even run ups on coins with no real purpose are amazing, but when the market cap increases it opens the door for more day traders to come in and move some shares back and forth just enough to get a profit and get out.  Then it's back to being a fairly useless coin that somehow generated interest 1-2 days.


Title: Re: Is there anything in crypto that makes logical sense really?
Post by: isvicre on June 13, 2014, 02:46:56 PM
Sometimes you can catch pumps but you have to be so lucky.