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Let's recap the lesson from the recent bearish run, before u invest in any cryptocurrency.


1. make sure u do an intensive research,
2. never stop believing in urself and when things go wrong, u will learn a big lesson and be happy u did your best than following a footstep u know nothing about,

Good luck

This is spot on and I love this part


There is need for everyone to focus and do intensive research and also stop relying on information from other people

Yes you are right, Self Confidence is the key to survive in the bearish market. Proper research can give you profit in this red market. We have to stay calm and hope for the best.

Yes I agree with the author and I agree with you
But to add up to it

With self confidence there is need to discover self discovery
Which works well with devotion to make comprehensive research

True. And as much as possible do not fight the trend because it will destroy your portfolio. If you did enough research then there's a good chance that your chosen coin/token is not a shitcoin and will creep back up sooner or later

  Do not forget about risk management, put stop-loss and take-profit orders, at least for part of the trading position.

Yes you are right alongside the author
And I like the part you mentioned risk management and taking profit
Most token hodlers often run short at loss due to greed

We need to eliminate greed from the system

Very right
Negletible attitude has left so many investors in peril or loss
They rush in to buy the green candles and then panic miserable at a small red candle

To avoid this there’s need to focus and follow the steps above
Dyor

You are right we should learn from the long bear trend we have seen in past months, the most important lesson i have learned is patience, i am sure market is going to recover now and bulls will take over but there are many things out of our control like we cannot predict the prices in either bull or bear trends as we can never be 100% sure where each one of them will stop.

Yes
I also learned patience
With patience and right mindset
You can survive any bearish run

And even be a brave trader buying the dip

In any business first thing to learn is patience  and self esteem, which will give you moral to really get what you want , following another person predict or way will not help just try to build on yourself and always learn.

Thank you! Very useful information. Now we get a unique experience that is very useful in the future.

If you know nothing about a certain thing then it would be good if you just study and wait for the right time before making any move like investing if you are here in crypto world. One thing i learned with bearish market is that it is not all negative, it is some sort of a chance for you to be able to add something to your portfolio because everything is down and it is the right opportunity for us to buy.

Actually we are all learning from this so new and atypical market, so perhaps one of the lessons we can take from this painful period is that we should never assume anything in the cryptospace, we can not even assume that the lessons we have learned should become in sacred laws, because maybe in three months they are dead letter and we may see absolutely unexpected behavior in the crypto market.

There is nothing left but having a great openness and willingness to change, because perhaps that is the only thing that deserves to be called "permanent" here: the change, therefore we must be in a continuous search for information to know first hand the possibilities that the market will present us to make the decision that best suits our interests.

I agree with you, we need to learn to change and be in continuous search for information
And more importantly, we need to evolve in all circumstances as the crypto currency space evolve be it the bearish market or bull run
We need to revolve emphatically

So far, I have learnt that this market wouldn't always go the way we want it to be, and that's okay. We get burnt now, but for a greater purpose. I have also learnt that it is important to have patience in this trade. without it, one won't be able to stand the heat, and make the most out of the market.

You can't eliminate that thing. They have been thinking if they can take the advantage from that situation and then they are all wrong about that. Look at the fact that how it can be a disaster for those holders.
So many holders are getting trapped by the bearish trend they have been selling their coin so cheap. So many people have trapped.

This is clear obvious reasons why a lot of people end up frustrated and sell off their tokens in panic mode, leading to loss of profit

It’s hard to save a trapped crypto participants, serious investors can only take advantage of their weakness

Conducting in-depth research does not guarantee you will get the results you want, sometimes luck affects you too.

This is so true. Also remember you can't always get it right all the time, but doesn't mean your strategy is flawed, it only means some things are beyond your control.There's also the place of luck even though a project ticks all the right boxes

the biggest lesson that you should have learned has been from the last year's bull run not from this year's dumping run. if you just learned the lesson then it is too late.
the lesson was that with every pump there will be a dump in the opposite direction and equally as big to come back down toe the ground. something like the Newton's principle :D

additionally we also need to be able to control our emotions while trading because if we cannot control our emotions we will experience failure and always learning from failure don't give up easily

Yeah if you just look at the chart in the long view, the big Rise in crypto from 2018 till december 2018 looks like a very big pump on the pong run. But i do think that the Price of cryptos may have reached a bottom now

Bearish running is not so reliable and convincing but as you have said it brings knowledge about the details of crypto's working and moreover you can understand its all processes.

No, we can not learn from this. It's just a very big correction, payment for VERTICAL growth in 2017. This phase will pass - another will begin, do not give it some HUGE value. We simply can not influence this, this is a natural market process.

This is true. There is no guarantee that all our investments will go right. There are times wherein there will be downsides to our investments. Instead of moping, see it as a lesson learned in order not to do the same mistake again. Don't lose hope!

A good trader always place a stop loss on their every trade.
Because no one could make sure or predict where the price will go, analizing chart is just 20% chance to predict the movement of the chart

Yes.
I also just want to add. The flow is not accurate so never go with it just because of the hype.
There are a lot of times that it goes the other way around so be ready for it.
If you aint so sure about what to do then what is the harm of just holding it.
It never gets old. A plan that mostly works for old timers.

Remember the most important rule is never to buy / sell under the influence of emotions, is better move away from the computer and when you calm down, think about whether to make a deal.

Whether it is bear market or bull, there is always possibility for trader to get profit as some coins show growth during both these markets, during market cap reduction or grow. Just check it yourself. So, am I right? Want to read your opinions about this.

see a lot of people who jumped in the crypto without confidence for sure. This is because many don't have deep knowledge so just following other people's movements without a clear base. Moreover many don't understand what to do in the analysis or research so that reasonable only when many are stuck and fall in investment was quite bad.

i strongly agree to you there. The moment that you stop believing to yourself is the same moment that you lose. We all know too that intensive research is also the key but, we need to know first what we need to look at. For me that's the kay to successful investing in crypto or any other financial investment instrument.

Don't trade if we cannot think because this only makes we buy the wrong coin and we don't have a chance to sell at the high price. Make sure that we know what we did before we make a mistake and be sure that we want to buy the coin because we know that the coin will increase in the next moment. And if we don't know what to do, it will better to stay calm for a while and watching the market only so we can determine the right time to enter the market and buy the coin.

  One should understand the Crypto Currency Market trading, all information about the specific coin, status on the market, fundamental, market structures, the ups and down in the market is always temporary, it will recover soon after the market glitz. one should note that Market is Volatile,it is unpredictable. PATIENT is the Key during this time.good luck.

when looking at the charts for long term you  should pay attention to two things. \
first is the cycles that the altcoins have. which starts with some accumulation at the bottom then a big rise to pump it to the top which slows down as newbies jump on board then a big dump that brings it back down.
the other is the price in bitcoin. sometimes when you look at the value of altcoins in USD you can be confused to see a rise while they have been getting dumped and that is because bitcoin price rise hides this dump in altcoins.

And I would add something else:
If you think that the bottom of the market has already come, take a closer look - it can be fake.
If you are determined to hold the coin, do it to the end, and do not even think to sell before.
Don't believe in bitcoin at 20,000 by the end of this year. Thoughts in cold blood.

It doesn't matter which market is on - bullish or bearish - you should always do research before investment. Without research it is easy to lost money in the most bearish markets ;)
Believing in yourself is also a fundamental thing, but people who love crypto don't need to believe in themselves - they just do what they want to, searching for new technologies and ideas. Maybe it is better to change point of view??

knowledge is an asset that is important enough to start everything in crypto. in the absence of this must be quite impossible to be able to generate through the crypto. a lot happens in this time a new person just wanted to rush getting results without any basis and clear science. in the end, they slumped with the collapse of the prices and go without results.

sometimes not all great developers or projects can survive or get out of this bearish and you have to understand the causes of bearish and bullish, yes it is a pump and dump.

for me the most useful lesson i learned during last bearish run is that you can never be sure about deepest point. like if a coin is dropped to 10% from its top point it doesnt mean that it will be a bottom point. it ccan keep dropping more and more.

I agree, I learned many valuable lessons after investing most of my savings in ICO's/crypto back in December/January...it still hurts, but I was able to average down since. Next time I will sell at fixed moments set in the past. I will sell small portions, not whole positions, but I will most definitely not wait until ath and then wonder why I didn't sell (part of it) sooner. Bear/bull is a normal process, I'll just embrace it next time and hold with only a part.

True. And as much as possible do not fight the trend because it will destroy your portfolio. If you did enough research then there's a good chance that your chosen coin/token is not a shitcoin and will creep back up sooner or later

Lessons from the bearish period says that not every shitcoin is a shit coin
And it also taught that every coin can be manipulated and pumped to a high price

Or manipulated and dumped to a ridiculous price
There is need to be confident on tokens we hodl

Know how to recognise signs of bear market before it hits and sell!  :D That would be definitely best knowledge that I could want.

Disappointed with OP .
These are very general things and how the " research " would have helped for investors who for example invested when ETh was ~400$? ( which is 1000$ less then its ATH)

Some thing are impossible to know,  Some can be predicted, possibly if some investors did some reading before invested in btc @19k$.

Experience would be a good teacher and it is applicable here in crypto world. You may experience some not nice things here but be sure to make it as a challenge that you would not repeat that the same mistake again. Even in bearish market, you will still make profit and that is one lesson i've learned through experience.

3. Sometimes we are also wrong with our observation so be open with others suggestion. And if you see that they are correct and helpful, admit the fact that we aren't too good enough for ourselves and use it as a way to improve your knowledge from this bearish trend. Too much confidence will also lead you to fail if you aren't going too broad with it, there should be balance in everything.

I also think that intensive researches about the coins are very important. As you said, I am always trying to do my best, and I think that this bearish run have showed us that, waiting for the better prices to make buying can take a very long time.

Always make time to research on your own before you make any decision when having an investment in crypto. Above list could help so actually price movement cannot be predicted and never panic selling that will resulted at all to lose. Bearish trend can happen so the important is let us make a research on the coins we hold.

Each type of run is special and knowledge about bearish one gives a lot of new skills like patience, being ready for work and to be attentive very often.

When people invested the money which can be affordable for them then they can hold it at any situation but we people are investing on the short term basis which is that money needed for something in future and some people even invest the loan amount so they can't do anything other than selling for the low prices because they need to pat them back.So the must important lesson is never invest more money that affordable for you.

the biggest lessons that these dumping periods that are properly long teaches the newbies is that being a bag holder of altcoins is the worst decision that you can make in this market. because the dumps are not something you can avoid, they do happen and the prices crash hard whether you bag hold or not. so the best decision is to sell when you see others are dumping so that you can prevent losing 90% of your investment.

If that big lesson also means big lose then it's not as simple as that. We are all talking about money here — a vital part of human. In reality, you can't say "Nah, nevermind" when you lose money (unless you're very rich), it means a lot to you because you are depending on it for sustatining your daily living. Furthermore, let go, move on then continue to be positive is also very hard to do when you lose money especially those bigger amounts that is why you should avoid committing mistakes as much as you could. If you made something wrong then make it last as well, always set your mindset on that manner. Yeah! I know that nobody's perfect but I'm pretty sure that you don't want your journey as a crypto investor was full of downs, right? Of course you aim to be the best at all times :).

I guess you're right . Those who survive this bear market will learn a lesson from their mistakes and will not allow their repetition in the future, because they will become much smarter and more experienced. It is important not to sprinkle ashes on your head, because this market is still ahead, and your experience will help you earn on it in the future.

I will like to add been patient to the mix of what we should learn from the previous bull run. What seem wrong today might turn out for better tomorrow! While you wait for your coin to develop in to what market will perceived as value, you should learn all you can about cryptocurrency, trading and investing!

Good catch, it can be a basis before making any decisions inside this business, what we experienced will bring us more knowledge and  understanding on how to make good judgement not to make same mistake again, this how we treat things in a positive ways, allowing you to grow from each decisions that you make and always find wisdom and knowledge converting anything to positive results.

As we all know, bearish market is where the correction is needed to correct the crypto market and later make some another positive adjustments of the market price value. Being an investor, you should have to keep updated from time to time and monitor the market trend daily. In bearish market, don't be attempted to make a panic selling instead you may have to hold and buy more btc instead while waiting for the bullish market that most people are anticipating to occur.

Well said, lesson learnt from this crypto market as it will always not be same. Overconfident will lead you to loss, yes most of them invested loads of money as they thought they can have good return this year. Request them not to sell in hurry wait for your turn.

You are right. Especially in the current bear market environment. Patience is needed. And strive to learn encrypted knowledge. At the same time, we must pay attention to investment risks.

Well, I would add the suggestion to avoid buying an altcoin when it has already surged 10X or 100x since then the risk to buy the top is too high, as well as to avoid selling an altcoin after that it has already lost 90%-99% since you would likely be selling the bottom.

3. Always invest money that you can't afford to lose.
If you rely your life on cryptocurrency, you'll have a bad time :D

Other that those that you were mentioned earlier, you should spare some of your fund too keep without investing it, just in case there is something bad happen to something that you put an investment.

little solution but very useful, but sometimes people's research is not the same, judging from the level of knowledge they understand, it is not enough to do research, but there needs to be intense long discussion

That is really right. We always need to buy coins if we really trust that coins future. Because we can see 90 percentage loss in sometimes. and these
hard times we need to continue believing our token holding. So we need to do very detailed research about our tokens before we buy that.
and also we dont need to be unhappy about loses. always people gaining experience with some wrong moves and loses.
experiences cant be gained freely and easily.

I think you are spot on, judging from several reviews and testimonies from victims
Relying on crypto currency with ones life is quite risky, it leaves you vulnerable to fud and panics
Which can force hands to dump

Investing what we can afford to lose will bring surety and confidence in the portfolio

This bear in the market makes a lesson for everyone and makes us more familiar with the market so we know when prices will down and when prices will rise

You have to keep you mind cold when bearish market happens. Because nothing can protect you from losses but yourself. Patience is the key to profit. Never get panic and wait until situation to stabilize. And always remember: you did not lose money before you sell.

I currently suggest investing in altcoins rather than ico.
Atcoin prices are cheaper than investing in ico, and the risk is not too big. there are many choices, it's just that you have to keep doing research and analysis

I did big mistake in crypto trading and currently i loss alot of money, from this case i understand what is my mistake and what should be the solution for that mistake. Did not use stop loss, does not have diversify risk and FOMO and greedy is some of the my mistake and i will promise with my self this is will not happen again in my trading activity. I stil beieve there are others chance for crypto will bull run, so for now i keep patient waiting for that.

Sometimes there is hard to do the 2nd step. Influenced from outside sometimes easier for us to accept than what our heart says. But when we able to do that i believe it will be the best move we had.

Irrespective of the intestine research, it's never enough because the market will always go up and down. So I agree with you on the aspect of

i have actually learnt alot during this bearish run and it will help me on the long run. Generally i leant not just to make intensive reseach because i dont think that will really help but to be more updated on the market and know what next to do

You must add to trust instincts because other than our effort,its the natural skills is what we need and that is our instinctively thinking..

Many aspiring traders are making research,technical Analysis and speculative decisions but they forgot to use this internal ability fo help us get through this.

If we become successful then thats the prize we can get from all this effort

Agree, during this bearish time we should learn what we should and know that it is not always losing when it is bearish market. There are ways to earn during this time and the important thing is we gain experience.

You're right because there will be a lot of fud, speculation, and gossip when bearish happens. and if you just follow that. it will only worsen the situation. you are right You have to believe in your self dude. use your own knowledge for research.

That's the consolation price when we did some risky moves when the market still on its bearish stage, learning how you can adopt things that is not usual and assess even you aren't sure on what will be the outcome, experience will be enhance and you will be able to observe well in the next trip that you will going to take inside this business, always find good things even in the worse day of your trading activities, you can do much better next time you try to trade back.

Well this advise is meant for investors who buy low and sell high however to traders they make profits irrespective of the market conditions whether bearish or bullish I think its high time we started to diversify our hodling status to trading although it might not be that easy but in a long run it will pay off.

One major lesson I have learnt in this period is that wit all the research one could do and how strong the team is never fight against a tide, always move with the tide. Assuming when the bear run started that I sold all my holdings and stopped investing in ICOs I would be more than 20X better now, and would be buying at cheap price

You do realize that this is an extremely volatile market where instincts don't really help much, don't you? It is far better to practically trade in this market rather than becoming emotional and investing purely based on emotion.

This is what usually tends to make people lose a lot of money and basically whine about it and blame everyone else, but not themselves which is seriously deplorable. HODLING is the best strategy in the long run in my opinion.

Choose a strategy that works best for you and invest based on logic and be practical about it.

A lesson in bear market is also a lesson self-discovery! There are many event during this bear that stretched my thinking and forces me to grow and do more! Bear market actually make the best trader in cryptocurrency and hope there is a positive story for everyone!

I do agree with you about self discovery, but before there can be self discovery, there has to be realization of mistakes,
Until a trader, or airdrop hunter or bounty hunter, or investor are able to realize their mistake.

It is hard to be self based or learn self discovery.
Neither will there be courage to proceed.

Bearish has taught us a lot of lesson,one of which is not to make your decision base on speculation, it has also taught us that in crypto anything can happen.

I suppose this is just common knowledge, more to say that you should not go to war without a plan or a weapon because the chances are you'll lose. This same analogy applies to crypto investments also.

agree, there shouldn't be any intervention, bad people are so many outside your room, if you don't believe in yourself, do research repeatedly, so that if there is a mistake, that makes you more massive and progressive

Learning from past mistakes creates knowledge to be better. In this bearish market I learned that there is no right time to buy but it's up to your research if you'll buy or not since there will times the prices are high and there also low.

In the bearish market, I think the most important things is patience. If you calm and research carefully about this market, you will find the best solution for yourself. The price always goes up and down, and if you want to earn a high profit, please invest in a long-term way!

In bearish market we can learn a lot of things,we need to be patience and search the reason of the dropping, usually the bearish market going to give us more knowledge about the market situation,we can know the resistance and the support level of the coin and how interest the investors to invest

The best thing that you can learn from the coins when they are in a bearish run is how to be patient, we know now that the coins are down so there is nothing that we can do but if we can all just be patient and not give into the urge to actually panic sell our coins, in no time we will be seeing a bull run with higher prices than we have ever seen before

But still, luck still plays a role here. Even though a coin or a project is really good, it doesn't mean it is going to boom. Just like in this period of time, it is a red market and the investors are not earning any money right now.

I think so too, when it comes to investing the best way to prevent yourself from getting blindsided by the coins is to make sure that you are always researching into whatever coins that you want to invest in, this will go a long way to tell you the kind of project you are putting your money in and what to expect from the coin in the long run

All I've learned from this bearish period is to sell , and not be too greedy. It'll save me someday. I paid a lot for this experience.

That is why they said that experience is always be a good teacher. Experiencing the bear market gives us an ideas that it is not always honey here in cryptosphere. We can always work our ways around the market if we want to gain profit.

I have also learnt that it never pays to be a weak hand, if you have a feeling about any coin or token, listen to that inner voice and never allow the panic to push you to make any rash decisions that you might regret later.

No matter how much research you do or have done, there is no way you could have predicted when this sudden dump would happen and quickly the prices have fallen. Even now you can't tell when it will recover, could be weeks could be years

In the bull market everybody can make profit, but when the bear comes only the most knowledgeable and experienced traders can fight with it.
Self confidence is important to believe in your own analyses and strategy.

It's useless, I think! We need more concrete recommendations. What to do to stop a panic attack? What to do when you've lost the half of your deposit? How to stop being greedy? And so on and so forth

I think believing in the coin that you have invested in when the bear market comes is very important if you are going to actually be able to hold all through out the coins going down and dipping all the time. With so many coins being down, if you do not believe in your coin then you are going to end up being tempted to panic sell all your coins

I learned one important thing, never put all your eggs in one basket. If you would like to start your own business and be your own boss than you need multiple sources of income to make sure you will not go down at the first quake.

Bitcoin has been my only income for over 2 years now, I haven't worked in an office space for over 2 years. That is a great thing to say however during this bull run I have used all the money I made during the bull run and I had to work like crazy and try to find more work like crazy for the past 6 months.

I have been doing well until recently as well, after this whole Bitcoin Cash and Craig Wright deals the price went under what I can continue living a decent life, I have barely enough money to pay for utility bills and after that I have very little amount left. Basically I need the price to go back up to 6.5 thousand or it will be a big big problem for me. That is why no matter how much bitcoin rises in the future, I will try to make some money in another way as well so if crypto falls again I will be fine.

We have learned a lot, especially about the fact that this market is very manipulative and we can not predict the course of its movement, It's all like divination on the coffee grounds, one is lucky - the other is not. Technical analysis doesn't work here.

What you have in mind, can be formulated somewhat differently. Before investing in cryptocurrency, you should make a plan of action and follow it clearly. You should think ahead about what you will do when the market goes up or down. At the same time, you should not give in to General panic or feel FOMO.

Every event brings with itself few advantages and disadvantages  ,bearish trend will also have the same and lot of things can be learnt from it .
1. invest with your own researh.
2. invest slowly .
3. overgreed may ruin .
4. diversify your investment.
5. keep faith in yourself.
6. book profit as soon as the opportunity available , play with profit.

Yes! thats the basic thing you need before investing so that you won't regret putting your money on it.  Have faith because its not always winning, you need to prepare yourself from worst and have courage to face the losses. Its the experience you need in this type of industry.

This is the most expensive lesson of my life. Payment for the University and courses in General are not nearby. Although I have not closed my positions and recorded losses, the lesson is very sick and expensive. Next time on ATH I will sell)

I first encountered a bear market and realized that I was not prepared for it that from a psychological point of view, as with the moral. I thought I could survive any Deposit drop, but when I saw -50%...

yup, researching is definetely the option we have considering the only option we have in this bearish town of cryptomarket which led to thousand of bankruptcy of most individuals who baegely force its way in this market

What I learnt in this bear run are

1. There is no solid project, because any project could fail
2. Do not be greedy, always have your profit kept somewhere incase of difficult times
3. Have a job apart from crypto, if you don't want to lose both ways
4. Never trust crypto influencers because most of the time they are just doing the job they are paid to do

Concrete recommendations is good but you should get them yourself because influencers cannot help you
There is nothing to be done to stop panicking attack or fud, why ? Because you can’t reach millions of people same time

When you lose half of your deposit, question is why did you hodl beyond the pump limit ?? Why did u fall in love in crypto currency? This are individual choices and opinions

To stop been greedy, develop yourself and become a better man

It is wise idea to believe in yourself instead of others. Especially in cryptocurrency, you should do research yourself before jumping for crypto train. You may consult with crypto experts or friends, but ultimately take decision on your own. And one advice is start with small investment.

bear market happening now the things that did make many investors fear and go. However, this can be prevented by an analysis of the well. can read the chart that there will at least provide a good way to be able to predict and take decisions that must be made to the bearish market conditions.

Research does not help when the market shows us all its flaws and is only set to devastate investors. This is an additional factor that is impossible to predict and learn the movement of coins.

It has been a very difficult time for investors in the past 6 months as what we thought was already a low for the year turned out to be a stop on the way to the eventual bottom. I would add that during the Bear if you held coins that you were confident would recover that purchasing additional units at the lower costs would help you reduce your overall averages.

A lot of people have learnt a lot in the bearish run, slowing down enough to invest smartly, taking time to learn and educate themselves. Learning from setbacks strengthens and corrects resolves.

After the bear market, I realized that market analysis is a very necessary thing that can save your Deposit and help you not to lose money.I often faced the fact that all gave for good luck - as it turned out it is not the best option.

You can earn a lot during a bear market if you learn to recognize signals that indicate speculative growth of coins. I have noticed many times when several wealthy participants in a crypto exchange begin to rock the price of some minor altcoin. If this moment is recognized and purchased with this alcoin, then after 3-5 hours you can sell 2 times more expensive.