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When 2019 started you have a lot of expectation especially when the price is moving up again from a very long bear trend, you expect that the price will reach another all-time high this year, because of a lot of great news like the Facebook coming in the market.

I'd like to ask the community, is your expectation close to the reality that we've experiencing right now?

Bitcoin: expectation for bitcoin has been satisfied already because bitcoin extremely well performed by reaching $14000 before corrected.

Altcoins: expectation for altcoins has been partially satisfied with their bumps in late of April and early of May. The rest part of my expectation will be fullfilled if during last four months of this year, altcoins rally to their peaks in late of April and early of May, or even higher than those peaks.
I do see good movements of altcoins from bottoms, because their season will be trigger if bitcoin crashed or bitcoin moves stably in consolidation phase - that is likely what we are observing.

I stopped expecting because we are just going to be disappointed,  the momentum cannot sustain, the price is moving up and down and we don't know when will we reach the next all-time high or will we ever reach $20 k again, we just have to expect the worse and hope for the best to come.

Nope, I'm expecting that Q3-Q4 will reach again the All-time-high but based on the current condition of our market. It looks like it will not going there and we might stay in 10k area but who knows? There might some major news that will trigger the bull run we all waiting for.

I only have one expectation, I hope the market will soon enter a bullish trend. if you look at the current reality, I think my hopes are not too difficult. and could just be realized.

in recent months we actually see the market should have improved, but because of some negative things that happened to make people afraid to buy.

Hopefully in the future there will be no more bad news ...

In the case of bitcoin, it has actually exceeded my expectation for this year. The climb back to double digits was faster than I thought.

With regards to all time high's, I expected that to happen next year and not this year where Bitcoin will once again carry most of the major altcoins.

in my predictions another all time high for a solid and reliable crypto will not happend in this year my friend, but maybe next year is the right time for that,
because next year bitcoin halving event will be happend right ?

I expected that altcoins will have everything much better than now, but now bitcoin is all right (this is what I expected from it). There are still 3 months ahead of the end of the year and everything can change a lot. I believe in the altcoin season and wait for it to come.

Honestly, expectation vs. Reality are really opposite. When 2019 came many said and predict that bitcoin will rise $19000-$20000 when last quarter of the year will came. And now that we are on the first month of our last quarter of the year,expectation is too far from reality. But I think there is time to make it happened and I know all of us is waiting.

I also think altcoin will rise this year but it turns out that the dominance of bitcoin is getting stronger even already above 70%. Hopefully next year will be a good year for altcoin and transactions in the cryptocurrency market will increase

these are false expectations specially because they are based on fake hype in the market spread by other newbies trying to recover the 80% to 95% losses they have been experiencing over the past two years.
one top of that altcoins are still in pumped state so they need more dumping to go down and exit their bubbles in order to reach a more realistic prices.
then we have the issue of lack of newbies to buy these altcoins and help the pumps take place. so the pumpers will have a hard time making any major pumps. which is why they are currently pumping small coins 1000% at a time.

The current uptrend is really good to moving forward. So your expectation will possible on end of the year or next year, All the marketcap is depends on trading platform so peoples are enough value so again all are sell the coin and next day invest on future investment it is react the everyday market. I expect more than 25k USD on next year.

Did you think when facebook comes to the crypto and that will give a huge impact? it will contribute nothing for crypto and this has already talked so many times.
My expectation is not reaching yet. It's too far to see the crypto is going to be wild again. Even so, many experts have already failed to predict where the crypto will be going on.
Some may still feel skepticism about crypto right now.
Coin that will be issued by the big companies will not give a big impact to the crypto and it may become the opposite thing.

We are all hoping for the best and i am sure everyone whats the best of all but things haven't be going the way we all wanted and only few lucky people are getting good rewards from promoting bounty projects excluding top exchange IEO investors and pro traders,many others are waiting for altcoin season to return so that they can make good profit but i guess we still have to wait more longer

Far from it, I expect not only me but the majority of investors that 2019 is another banner year for Cryptocurrency, in preparation for 2020 where halving and launching Libra coin is going to happen, but unfortunately, look at where we are it's like we are starting all over again, we should have reached, $15 k already.

Sadly, many expectations are starting to get shattered especially when we about to enter the last quarter of the year. However, it can be because people are expecting a lot and we know that ordinarily expectations can be based on thin air consequently they are more of a dream rather than based on existing realities. Personally, I was expecting that within 2019 we can get back to the $20K level and if not then at least around $15K but I think I better revised this one and straight stick it to 2020.

I hope this will happen in the near future, but the reality is my hope has not yet been realized, I have many altcoins that do not have significant price changes, the market is still weak and there are no signs of an increase in altcoin prices, bitcoin is dominating the market today.

My expectations from crypto have not come to past yet,all the coins and tokens i have in my wallets are all bleeding out,the only hope left is if Ethereum can stand up on its feet once again after the 2.0 upgrade hopefully or if altcoin season brings back a big revenge,hopefully 2020 will be a very good year for altcoins especially.

No. I dont really see my own speculation coming true.
It had been a long year and it seems like some of the altcoins are still not getting the price that I wanted. Specially Ethereum.
A lot of usage can be seen but the price havent reached even $200 up until now. It had been so long by now.
Damn other altcoins are now getting a better value than it.

It had always been my second choice and I know a lot of bitcoin supporters feels the same way.
But I just dont why it is still so much down.

Of course that people would like to see better results, but they do not understand that we are at the very beginning and everything needs a time. Maybe you see a slow progress, but I see that blockchain is grwoing more than internet after 10 year of existence  ;).

No, it's not close enough but then I realize, I was just also getting hype with a great news in the first half of the year, and the price that we are witnessing now is something to enjoy actually because it's a great improvement compared to the rice of BTC at the start of the year.

Good things will come to those who waits, that's the famous sayings and that's what I follow when investing here in crypto.
The market is moving well, I won't complain about that as I will stay here even 20 years more and I'm sure at that time, there will be a lot of new ATH that will be created.

After reading news and articles way back the early months, with regards to four year cycle of Bitcoin theory, I can say the Bitcoin market is close to what I expected.  We have seen an essential increase of its price from 3k USD to the current price.  I expected that Bitcoin will be around 15k to 20k USD at the end of the year and it is somehow 2/3 - 1/2 of the what I am expecting and it is still several months before the year ends.

With regards to altcoin market, I thought it will significantly recover its market value but then I was wrong.  It is still far from the prices of 2017.  Ethereum for example, it is still less than 1/4 of its ATH.

Yeah, then this bull run has started i believe in new btc ATH. But 10k fine too. Much better than it was before

Expectations are sometimes meet when it comes to price but it is more likely the negative one if you always expect for something like risking all youve got because you expect that it will go higher and its not in the end.

I don't want to speculate,  but according the ATH history of cryptocurrency are always happening one years after bitcoin halving. You can see the moment at 2013 and 2017 right? All of them are jumping so crazy. So we just to wait after 2020.

I expect it to increase this year, but not getting into ATH, Bitcoin price has either SLOW or FAST price changes, it might take months or a day before a great dump or pump. All we have to do is to have patience and spend coins for great use. Expectations are kind of disappointing, usually when you are into trading.

I hope no more bleeding in altcoin for next year and bitcoin can stable at $15k area. But, we don't know what happen next about crypto industry, we known everything can work and no one has expected that will happen. I don't expect 2020 will break new ATH anymore, but I think it will stable price, let see what next.

I expected more from the altcoins, but hopefully, by the end of the year, everything will change.

EXPECTATION: 2019 will be one of the best year that will beat even the 2017 rise.
Before 2019 end, Bitcoin price will be 50,000 USD each or even better.

Reality: we are still waiting for the bull run and 20,000 is impossible this year.

Many people are expecting to have a high profit this year. they bought a lot low value coins and seeing this to be their fortune with a good bullrun x10 or more.
Bitcoin price will reach more than double of 20,000 USD like before ( 2017 ).

Reality: Expect the unexpected!

This year, I don't have a big expectation for cryptocurrency because I realize that the crypto market has been down for a long time. And even if the crypto market can rise again, it will need more than 1 year to come back to the high price like before. That makes me only waiting while I still trying to trade with many pairs just hope that I can survive and pass on this moment. That is hard for every people who involve in the crypto market, but I am sure that we can pass this and we will make another big profit.

But I am happy to see the crypto market can increase for a little than the last year so I could back to hope to see the crypto market will be rise again. Soon or later, we will see everything will be back to the price before, and we will see more people who will join in the cryptocurrency. We will see the adoption process will grow fast from this year and the next years.

But we still need to be careful with the negative news that will still come out, and that will make our expectations negative too. We don't want to see another down of the price in the market.

I'm pretty sure majority here expect 2019 to be a bigger year than what we've had back 2017, we all thought another all-time high is looming, but the reality is we are stuck to the $10k - $13k , honestly I'm surprised, there's a lot of great news and halving is just around the corner.

Mcafee even predicted that Bitcoin will worth $1 million next year, so the price should be moving up.

We need to wait little bit longer. This bear market is the longest one in the crypto history, atleast for altcoins. But I believe that the following bull market will be also the biggest.  :)

In 2018, I hoped that Bitcoin could reach $10,000. And in the year 2019 can be achieved. I'm glad that it could happen, but Altcoin doesn't grow as many people expect. Altcoins tend to be very slow in responding to Bitcoin price movements. Even that happens when the price of Bitcoin drops, the price of Altcoin is also dropped.

The Altcoin season I think will not happen in this year, perhaps when it enters the year 2020. For us, patience is very important and reality now better focus on Bitcoin.

In 2019, just a few months and seeing the development of altcoin this year, I agree that altcoin will probably happen in 2020. But seeing the cryptocurrency market cap market value is still under $ 300 billion and this is more than 50% lower than the highest market cap value , in my opinion altseason will still occur in some altcoins that might be in the top 100

the start of 2019 was (nearly) the start of bitcoin price recovery so that created some expectation (wrong ones at that) from people thinking altcoins should follow bitcoin but they were missing the fact that altcoins have never followed bitcoin. they always go the opposite way and dump down.
that is why those who had that false expectations were disappointed.

Base on my expectation for the BTC price it was exceeded, But on the Altcoins side it was not! But for the sake of fairness 2019 is not yet finish the 4th quarter of the year was about to begin in few days lets wait and see maybe more extra ordinary will happen on the market like what happen in 2017 thats how crypto works it surprise us all maybe in positive or negative results.

Not really. When I saw how bitcoin quickly began to rise in price, I was delighted because I decided that altcoins would soon follow Bitcoin. However, at the moment, the behavior of altcoins is not amenable to my conclusions and forecasts. So I'm a little upset.

I don’t really think about what will happen by the end of the year. Trading takes place at any price of bitcoin. Of course, the market growth would please me, but I do not want to reassure myself that I would later regret anything. Most likely there will not be a big spurt in prices like two years ago.

I have a very large expectations and I guess I set the bar a little too high and so my expectations has not been met yet but I have full confidence that it's just a matter of time, the crypto space is changing and things are moving very fast right now and I believe that the positive change we are all hoping for is just right around the corner.

My own expectation is gradually coming to reality. I was not really expecting much from bitcoin, because I do not hold much of it, however, it performed well already. My focus and concern has always been on altcoins.
I am a big fan to altcoins, so I have always expected to see them rise. With respect to what is happening now, it seems altcoins season is gradually coming near. My expectations are now so high.

Lol. It's very difficult to me meet financial or profit expectations in reality. Only few people finally realise that. Its first month of Q4 and I am yet to realise 1/3 of my crypto revenue goals for 2019. Well, there still time and since crypto is full of surprises we can remain hopeful.

My greatest hope is the return of the Altcoin glory. Until now it has not happened and I think by the end of the year or 2020 it could happen.

I really welcome the positive thing that Bitcoin can dominate the market. But the unwanted thing happened that with the dominance of Bitcoin makes all the prices drop Altcoin.

This was an event in the past year not like this. Supposedly by pumping the Bitcoin price, all the altcoins must fly high.

The expectations are not too close to reality, but at least this is much better compared to some time before. After the emergence of IEO, new hopes emerge, investors are again interested in investing, this makes the market a little attractive. This also affects the bounty. Projects that IEO in global exchanges such as Binance, Kucoin, etc. provide more interest, this gives hope that the tokens are not a scam and serious dev in handling the project.

I was expecting the same in 2018. I'm waiting for the same in 2019. And the price is not growing and not growing. Only Bitcoin rose in price a bit and stopped. I think we need to stop waiting and do other things, maybe then we can see the growth of the crypto market.

In terms of expectation about the current situation is not that big since we all know from the start prices are unpredictable. But the current price is not that bad unlike last year so I’m still seeing the growth will happen soon in crypto.

The cryptocurrency market is developing cyclically, which means that it will grow in any case. True, I do not believe in the sky-high price of bitcoin, starting at about $ 50,000.
I hope that in the last quarter of this year, the cryptocurrency market will grow again, but if this does not happen, then next year such growth will be for sure. For now, we need to be patient and accordingly prepare for such growth.

We can still carry that expectation but not this year, maybe next year could be a different year and what we expect to happen this year we can carry next year, but in any circumstances, there should always a dividing line between our expectation and reality.

It's ok to have high hopes because we are investing a lot like an early adopter of this technology, only three months ago we can still hope our expectation can happen.

My hope is that there is a trustworthy agency that screens new projects/ coins that are created, this will reduce fraud or failed projects, and will also affect the price of coins on market now

This is a really good solution for the entire cryptocurrency market. But I think that this international agency will appear on the market no sooner than in 2 years.

Because our expectation was built around the profit that we can get form bitcoin investment, many of us always feel agitated concerning our involvement in bitcoin, we are not seeing bitcoin for what it was created for and that is the reason why we are not always patient and we want the money to come as fast as possible meanwhile we are not helping the situation.

I am not also saint in this, when 2019 started, all my focus was in was how the 2017 would repeat itself, and I rushed to quickly make heavy investment in some altcoins that we have which I could get cheap expecting that when the bull run starts this year, many of them would give me at least 100x profit, but along the line, I realized that we are not using crypto the way we should use it and expecting what is not going to happen.

For me, the situation on the market is very joyful because the bullish trend can give good money, especially now when the domination of bitcoin is very high and after it starts to fall, you can earn very much on altcoins, I think in early October there will be growth!

I think people are finding it difficult to adjust to the current reality in the space, the space is getting matured and do we expect the price of BTC to do 10X in the coming bull market, possible but difficult. The reality on ground is that the era of 10X, 20X seems to be disappearing and we need to be realistic and if the 10X and more come it would be a bonus

In fact my expectations for this year were very low and I was not really expecting the recovery that we saw, I was a little bit skeptical of the growth that we were seeing and I didn't change my opinion until April of this year, but despite my cautious attitude I was still invested in bitcoin so I was able to capture almost all the positive move in the price, and something similar is happening to altcoins right now, I'm not really expecting a huge movement during the rest of the year but during the past week we have seen some signs that could indicate that altcoins are ready for an altcoin season.

The expectations are high by the crypto investors but the market is the best expert without our opinion. The reality can hurt the crypto traders but there are no so many choices if the market doesn't move. Low volatility kills the profitability of the day traders and the latest news lost their value in the market. The Facebook coin will not solve the current bear market situation in the crypto market, BTC should lead the altcoin market to all-time high prices. The reality is there is no objective ICR rating websites with the solid analyze-research for the project searching investors. I don't think the token sale direction will change towards the mass adoption, it will be even worse for the crypto projects in the future.

Facebook's announcement about Libra is actually a good news because they were acknowledging it as a cryptocurrency which is a good factor to give the people idea on how good cryptocurrencies are. Although we also knew it that some were not.

Not yet, I have a big expectation and waiting for the higher price to be reached but I will not tell on how much I'm expecting. But things are getting better now and I think we are near to that time where everyone has to celebrate on how good the market is.

Still expecting the BTC dominance to slash maybe to around 60-62% so maybe altcoin fill up that gap and we might have bullish run here and there and then maybe BTC picks up to 12k before the year end and am still seeing ETH near 300-250

I do not know how close. But the market has begun to be conducive though not optimal. New strategies in marketing such as IEO provide a new colour, investors are quite interested especially those carried out by global markets such as Binance.
Hopefully the halving bitcoin period next year can become a mood booster. This drought is long enough.

We're all expecting to bitcoin price gets higher but we can absolutely consider what is it now because it is not get stack on what it is now their was a time that the price of bitcoin is getting higher and getting lower. This incliment value of its price is a natural but bitcoin is more better when it is back on what it is before.

We are going to the final quarter of the year, so maybe some expectation might already change.
For me, at the start, I was really expecting that BTC will be able to reach its new ATH this year, but in the 3rd quartet, there's no significant movement for BTC therefore it's hard to expect that it will just pump easily in the last quarter.

Well, I want to be wrong, but like everyone else, we changes our expectation based on the development of the market.
What I just like to see a healthy altcoin as this year, we haven't seen any great progress yet.

2019 has been better in all aspects than 2018 for crypto, although we are in a stagnant market right now. When bitcoin started moving from the bearish zone of 3k$+ this year, many thought it will reach another all-time high. This wasn't the case as volatility remains a major crypto characteristic. I think BTC will rise very well next year before the halving news, after wish altcoins will rise. This is my own expectation from crypto market.

Reality is tough, especially in crypto industry. I was hoping that 2019 would be the same as 2017 and that after one year fall, we would finally see some green light, but nothing happened. Only BTC is going strong.

I guess it still hard to hope what we saw in 2017 will be happening in this year because bitcoin price itself is not moving to up to $15k so far, and even the price is down in many times. That will happen too with altcoin, which we can see the price drops too deep following the bitcoin price. But we have a chance to see what happens in 2017 can occur in the next year before or after bitcoin halving.

Bitcoin will be stable again, and that will happen too with an altcoin. We could prepare for the coming, and we should be ready before it's happening later. We still have much time to buy any coins we want so when the time comes, we can sell it at a high price. If you still want to make a big profit, I suggest you buy the potential altcoin because I guess that soon, the altcoin will be rise again before bitcoin or bitcoin first that will increase and then the altcoin.

BTC is ahead of where I expected, most alts way below what I expected.

BTC hitting 10-12K this year, and surpassing ATH around the halvening is around what I expected. Ideally 20-30K+ at the halvening, but at least getting to 20K. My reason for thinking this is basically because this is what occurred during the previous halvening -- after a long crypto winter, btc hit (or got close) to its previous high.

As for alts, I expected them to do the 'fall back as btc rose, regain value during btc's lulls', thing... and slowly increase alongside btc. But so far, that hasn't occurred. There is still time left in the year though, let's see how it plays out.

I like situation right now where some time bitcoin and altcoin have lower price and other time we can take position with bitcoin on the top price, just wait and see.

As far as bitcoin is concerned, it has beaten my expectations. Rising from $3200 to about $13,500+ is something beyond performance. I never expected it as such. As for altcoins they have majorly fallen short of expectation. My altcoins should have been held in bitcoin, I could have been fulfilled by now.

Like others here I also have high hopes for this year but in the end things aren't going the way I expected. I learned a hard lesson after losing a lot of money although it was my own fault. High expectations leads you to bad decisions and when reality hits, it really hits hard. So for this year I try to keep my expectations low so if I fail it woll not hurt so much.

I'm curious what did you did to lose that much money during this year? Did you invested in icos or in new coins? Because that is the only way in which I can explain to myself how you could lose so much money in a year that has been predominantly dominated by bitcoin, I know that people had high hopes of seeing an altcoin season during the spring of this year but at some point it should have become obvious that altcoins were not reacting and the only coin in which investors were concentrating was bitcoin.

In fact, the price of Bitcoin has fallen to $4k and I remain confident that the price will rise again in early 2019, after waiting for 3 months the price of Bitcoin has risen and it is still at $10k.
In 2020 we will see Bitcoin Halving and before this situation occurs, I hope to see an increase in prices by the end of 2019.

In general, I think the market has not been that bad, especially for bitcoin holders. Just that the increase in the BTC dominance had a significant negative effect on the altcoin market. But now that the dominance is correcting, I think things are moving on well for both markets

I myself also have hope that market prices will soon recover, because I have also held several altcoins since 2018, because I also believe that this year there has also been a growth in the price of bitcoin which provides better prices compared to 2018.

for now, the things that I hope haven't happened. but I do think that won't happen this month, but most likely it will happen later this year. I expect a high price increase by the end of this year because I feel that the closer to 2020, the price recovery will occur. but, I think the recovery in the price of altcoin has begun to show signs.

Everyone is hoping and expecting that we will have a good year, and until there's still time left we never loss our hope.

This market is so unpredictable, we never know what's coming but it's always good to stay optimistic so we will be prepare for good things that might happen in the future. The market has suffered for more than a year already, altcoins dominant rate have drop to 30% overall, that's the reason why we haven't witness a growth of altcoins but like what surprises we witness in the past, it could also happen in the long run.

The only expectation of mine that came into reality is better adoption rate in 2019 and it does happened since the beginning of this year but all my focus is on altcoin season which i believe is the expectation of many investors but till today nothing happened

I am still not really impressed with the level of adoption that we have, if the adoption had increase, there should have even been pressure on the government now to regulate cryptocurrency which is what we really need now, but government are still not much concern because the population of people that has adoption cryptocurrency is still very insignificant and not of any threat to them.

Although, I would agree with you that this year has been a good year and has we have seen an increase in the value of bitcoin, and I guess it was from that angle that you judge the adoption from, but don’t forget that we have some extremely rich people that just one of their investment could make the market move up and look like we have had big numbers of adoption.

it looks like 2019 is not in line with my expectations, I hope this year the altcoin market will increase again, but in reality the market dominates BTC. I only have a few top altcoins and while waiting for the market to stabilize, at least until the end of this year. if there are no significant changes in my portfolio, maybe I will change it to BTC.

Well my expectation is far to the reality. After we experienced dumping prices in the last year, I thought that this year we can see again the bullish trend just like 2017, but no.. at least it's better than the last year. But there are three months left before end of the year that I still believe that we can see bullish trend.

This year is really a difficult year. Despite the early recovery of the market, the price of bitcoin or some other coins also increased. But that doesn't seem to be what everyone wants. I also have a lot of difficulties trading recently. But hope for a better future

Expecting bullish trend after last bullrun of 2017/2018 is somehow to early if you ask me, that's just like some months difference, if bear do take over the market they always stay longer than when bullrun comes,learn to have more patience, my expectation is still after bitcoin halving

many thought so. but often it's just a nice talk with the hope of experiencing better times soon.
the past year and also the last days show how you can be wrong.
with the halving next year there is hope again but if we will all be rewarded or not we will see then. :)

Heh, I didn´t expect such huge dump after the 24th of Septemeber, the day when Bakkt was launched.
Many people put great expectations into launching Bakkt platform, but it was a fiasco, only 77 Bitcoins was traded after the launch.

2019 in my opinion is a turning point and the beginning of a new stage in the growth of the entire crypto market. However, this does not mean that in 2019 we will see new highs. I believe that the task of 2019 is to turn the tide with the fall and confidently gain a foothold in market growth. This is very important, as it will give us the opportunity to see a new growth trend, which means to see new highs and a new flight to the moon. But still, the main thing now is to have endurance and patience, and one who can resist now in the future will be rewarded.

Yes, my expectations are fullfilled and i hope it will continue to work out like this. really, so happy to get what i was counting on.

I personally think that BTC will soon reach a new all-time high, many altcoins will die, and good altcoins prices will go very high.

Of course I am among those whose expectations are not directly proportional to what is happening. I thought the market cap value of the cryptocurrency market would be able to break through $ 1 trillion and the price of bitcoin touched $ 50k but it turned out to be far below expectations

Don't be too sure in speculating, because what happened today is very different from what you said, try to visit the market today, the market is still recovering from the decline in the price of bitcoin and altcoin, although there is a slight increase that occurs, but the effect on the price of each coin only slightly.

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I thought the recovery of bitcoin after bearish trend will result to altcoins to follow especially the tokens that im holding. I want to see alts to soar high again just like what happened last year. My expectation didnt happen but somehow im glad that btc shows growth from $3k to its peaked this year.

The last quarter for this year is approaching hoping the price of alts will recover before the year end.

My expectation was that by this time into the year there could've been a massive bull run but this expectation was cut short by unending bear season for majority of alts. If the trend can reverse to aat least x3 of where we are currently that will be great.

The libra is really powerful when it comes to the size of its influence, but it is facing a lot of problems that need to be resolved and it may not be able to launch.
It's all just rumors and the fact that the market is in the bear market, and I just hope the price of Bitcoin doesn't fall below $ 7k, because it will create a wave of depression and projects that I Marketing will fail. But everything is out of my control and only hope luck comes.

I expected that the coins I'm currently holding will go for higher this year, but it's always not the case though. thankfully the price is still edible what I mean is it didn't fall to the lowest price like last year's bear market.

On what I observed about the movement of the price in the market today, it is just a normal movement like last year's bearish market. we just need to have some patience to wait for the price of the coins that we currently hold to rise again.

The problem with this waiting is if we are holding the right coins if it so, then we are doing the right thing.
I guess by following its social media page and telegram group we can tell that they doing everything they can to develop their project to increase its price on the market.

Obviously the current price is not heartwarming compared to the price a few days ago but we must also admit that the market will not always move up. Therefore evaluating the current price and waiting for the end of the year will lead to better results. I consider the current price drop as a start for the next increase. We should not grief in every fall instead it will be more accurate to predict drop in advance and act accordingly.

The current situation forces the many investors to sell their crypto holdings for nothing and the situation gets worse every day from my view. The expectations are not going to meet with the real markets and the markets are consist of different type of crypto traders which have various opinion on each case. Each different case has to analyzed by the professional traders and investors for applying the idea in order to match with the outcome of the market movement.

Those investors that were forced to sell their holdings are panic seller. They have no long term vision to the market and they let themselves fall through their emotion. Their expectations were not met so they just decided to sell and completely leave this market.
And that's a wrong approach to the correction that we've met, it only shows on how low their patience was.

I have a lot of altcoin bags but in fact in 2019 it was not a good year for the altcoin market, most altcoins have lost their value and I feel there is no hope for altcoin this year. I see that bitcoin is far superior and always dominates in the crypto market.

Ive stop expecting anything for now since all expectations ends up failing, i think bitcoin needs to fall for some readjustments to take place, altcoin still on my mind and i am sure the time will come but first bitcoin needs to calm down for history to be repeated

more are not in accordance with expectations, this is because my hope is always based on the 2017 bounty era. But I'm still grateful to be able to earn money from cryptocurrency. little or no depends on each of us, the most important thing is to do the best. Isn't cryptocurrency full of the unthinkable? so don't miss any opportunities.

At the moment, such a difficult situation in the cryptocurrency market. I think that 2020 will show a great capitalization in the market.

This year we seen many times that big companies like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Telegram, Mercedes, Samsung, Bosch.. showed a big interest in blockchain technology. It is a good sign that blockchain makes a sense.

When we have high hopes in the current state of the cryptocurrency market, we should also see the fact that the rapid rise requires a process in the midst of a volatile market like now bitcoin is still falling back in price,if you are interested in investing, we must be careful to choose it

We all know expectations are quite far from reality. Expectations have been shattered after seeing a ray of hope in the first quarter of this year that's why we must not have high expectations. If we have fewer expectations we will not be disappointed by the reality and reality is we have to wait till the next big move come. 

I expect the price of ethereum today to explode. But as far as I can see it doesn't happen and it keeps crashing. This may be due to the continued decline in bitcoin prices. Hopefully the market will improve again next year, Hopefully it will be a repeat of the bull run next year where each piece of BTC will raise 20,000 $ and ETH $ 1,000.

Since the market crash start last 2018, i was expecting the market to recover on early 2019 but the reality woke me up that it will need more time or years maybe so i never expect too much to happen this year but i believe that there will be a another year for bullish market.

Right, everyone expectation was high regarding in this year 2019 because in the previous year was full of bullish market. But you have to agree that, this year crypto market rising a lot since 2018. Although expectation isn’t fulfilled this year. The current situation is very stable and i think there are no big change will happen in the end of this year. I mean most provably the next bull run will be come in 2020 right now this is my expectation or prediction whatever it is. Bitcoin is now very stable condition that's why market will not increase.                    

I also hoped that way before but the reality that happened for now the market is still in a state that is not as I fully expected. we must wait for the market to return at the best price hoping the time will not be long, and for the time being I learned wiser not to just hope but do my own research

J had very high expectations when we were looking forward to entering 2019 and while we some some massive bullish movement, it wasn't up to what I envisioned, but let's see how 2020 would be, 2019 has almost ended and j don't think that we might see the bull this year anymore.

Personally, I don’t have any specific expectations at all because in my opinion all expectations always spoil people's lives. Take for example those people who are now actively leaving the market, they leave only because their expectations were not met. Having entered the moment when the market was at its peak, they expected big profits and as a result they had to bitterly disappointed only because they had high expectations.
When you have no expectations you have no disappointments

At the beginning of the year, I expected 2019 to be very productive. But unfortunately I was wrong. Although until the end of the year remained still 2 month and perhaps the situation still will change in better side. But most likely the growth will be in the next.

Honestly, this year has been productive for most bitcoin holders. As you can see the price wasn't so good at the start but now we're going up and isn't that a good thing? I've expected the other way that the bear market would likely to continue this year and we're going to see $3k for a long time but I was wrong and we should appreciate that.

I'm not expecting much since i've already expecting price will always go up in 2018, but i'm ended so disappointed.
And in this year, i'm not placing my hope too high. Doing daytrading is enough for me for taking like 1-3% per trade.

Expectations were better than present reality, have to admit this. But things could be even worse - that's a good thought :)
BTC is still growing from time to time and worth something - I still believe in bright future, maybe next year :)

I don't think it's good for us to do day trading for now, we might cause the market to fall at worst situations. Maybe it's now time to choose being a holder in order to reconstruct your asset whether you continue holding it or it's time to dump it. Disappointing moments cannot be stopped, the time will always tell it's reality and what's important is managing it the way we should because someday you'll overcome all the worries you had when green market signals will again arise.

Always set your expectation low and never set a price that is too impossible to reach at a very short time, the current situation is still far from reality but we don't need to panic because we can reach our expectation. Set goal, aim for a good prices and don't let the market situation to disappoint you.

I would rather expect a large community of crypto and crypto to be a legitimate alternative in every store, rather than expect continued high value. Why expect high scores if there are many ways to earn income in crypto. crypto volatility makes me think irrationally if it only expects value to rise, sometimes the value goes up and down.

To be honest, I don't expect much from the crypto market nowadays. What I believe is that in 2020, the market will definitely improve, especially bitcoin, because tomorrow there will be halving that happens every 4 years. That's when I will start actively buying some assets to sell or store. Of course, promising assets such as the top 10 coinmarketcap.

expectations for bitcoin I think are close to reality. bitcoin does not disappoint. the current value of bitcoin is $ 8k. I hope by the end of this year bitcoin can reach $ 10. and for altcoin very disappointing altcoin market has not increased since 2018 continues to decline. up only 1% -5% then fall more. since many ICOs that scam the altcoin market are depressed and many altcoins are ultimately dead.

we must look at price stability to support an important increase, or if it is unable to maintain a fluctuating rhythm, it must be lowered to the maximum saturation limit. btc conditions are in line with my expectations from the second point. The condition of altcoin is indeed very significant, but it is good to see the quality of trust in the coin. selection takes place and is transparent. Altcoin reality will be far more popular than it is today, especially when the price of bitcoin no longer reaches all users.

I have expected that at this point altcoins would be doing much better... unfortunately the long waited alt season is nowhere to be seen...
In my oppinion Facebook is not good news, unless they end up not launching Libra... but with the halving almost here, I am confident that BTC will spike during the first half of 2020 taking the alts with it...
fingers crossed  ;D

When at the beginning of 2019 there was a small cryptocurrency market pump, I thought that this year there would be good growth, but this was just a little manipulation by the manipulators and this small pump was very quickly over and the cryptocurrency market started to fall again very quickly and generally speaking, the cryptocurrency market has already been in a bearish trend for almost 2 years and I hope that in 2020 there will be a good cryptocurrency market pump.

Im also looking forward that 2020 is the year for crypto to bounce back not only bitcoin.

Altcoins didnt show any improvement and worse is the tokens that im holding are continuously losing its value.

We are already in the last quarter of this year but im still bullish that something good will happen in the coming days or months.

We can't get expectation with bitcoin price or altcoin price at the future on the top with many trouble faced by bitcoin today, many government want to close bitcoin as investment and transaction way where give bad effect for bitcoin become down, we just running how bitcoin price day by day without give big expectation at the future bitcoin have higher price.

I also hope that crypto is currently in a bearish trend and hopes that in 2020 it will become a trend like 2017 which is a pump trend that can benefit crypto users. I'm just waiting to do some of the work, even a third of my investment can make a profit in 2020

From personal experience I can say the following. Now the market is waiting, because, according to all forecasts, growth is expected in 2020. So now you just need to wait and carefully monitor the cryptocurrency market. I also want to say that despite the large investments of large companies in cryptocurrency. The price will remain the same since the futures have been approved.

It seems that hope from last year did not bring good results this year, I mean I want to throw away some old altcoin to exchange it for BTC, but the market does not support me and keeps me holding until the market situation improves again. but if there is a good opportunity the next day I will immediately sell and then convert some of my altcoin bags to btc.

Yes that short pump was created by whales for their own benefit and the mistake we made was reacted to that pump thus fooled again, the market situation has been not so good but right now if he notice all the other altcoin apart from bitcoin is fighting for their survival and bitcoin is freezer at a value between $7500 and $8500 it's neither going below $7500 nor crossing $8500 and halving is the only hope as of now.  Let's hope 2020 will be one more 2017 for the bitcoin and other altcoins as well.

I have no more expectations this year again, to me everything seem stable for now and its good for those who are just coming into crypto to invest now and its bad for those who have invested when price was high but if everyone can have patience the lost profits will return, all my expectation is now on 2020

we  have to realize earning profits very difficult.many time good fundamental have no effect in price action.meanwhile we really hope it could drive the price in the same direction with our position.sometime we imagine our trade will profits  but the fact different with our imagination.

I stopped expected after bitcoin reached ATH and finally corrected to current price, I didn't expect bitcoin to break above 10k usd again. the reality now, i must be grateful that the price of bitcoin is still relatively stable at this time. and can still get bitcoin and is still valuable when exchanged to fiat.

When bitcoin started to move again this year, I cannot deny that I did expect something bigger to happen like breaking the previous ATH. But another side of me thinks that it might be a bit impossible to make another record this year, not that fast this time. I am still happy with the current price as it is still many times bigger than last year.

The current price has nothing to be compared from the last breakdown, because it never encountered a sudden bounce or spike after 2018's fall. More people expected wide visionary, but still didn't conform to the reality of actual market situation lately. As of now let's start over a discipline in order to make our asset productive.

I have expected that the bull run will occur at the beginning of 2019 but I was wrong. The market is really unpredictable and is always unstable so no one could really predict it accurately. However, expecting the best would still really keep us positive and motivated. The market situation isn't really bad right now so investing and buying would be a great move.

IMHO! even in the bottom of my target price was not hit, My expectation since 2018 was really great but the reality was not even closer. As 2019 passing by im still optimistic that the market can recover, But i was wrong most of my altcoin holdings was experiencing a massive decline of its prices, until i was surprise when the Bitcoin price was reach $13K in july i was expecting a major bullrun along with altcoins but still my expectation was far from reality. Until today altcoin price was continue to decline slowly.

For me personally, for 2019 this is still far from what I expected and sometimes makes me feel disappointed or feel that what I have done has not gotten anything. Everyone must have hope to be able to get abundant profits, it is not wrong if what we predict is still falling, the most important thing is we must continue to observe the movement of market charts to determine the right moment and look for opportunities to get profits.

Obviously, the reality is the total opposite of the expectation of the majority . Well same thing happened before due to how high the market value of the cryptos became last 2017. For this year, expectations of a "comeback" I think, is due to frustrations since the market value of cryptos are falling for months already. There are many investors who have gave up with the situation and we just cannot blame them for doing so, since it is them who are losing.

The cryptocurrencies market needs not to get into great expectations by just holding on. Because holding any cryptocurrency except bitcoin could disappoint investors.

So if you're just doing hodl, you should keep your expectations low, at least in the short term.

I never expected the price of major coins to reach a new All Time High this year because its too soon to see that kind of huge growth once again after last bullrun, NO that is not reality, crypto still have to suffer for that last bullrun movement to keep balance in checked, either you are holding for longterm or short term or just a daily trader there is better time for everything in crypto, bullrun will come again but not sooner

Making expectations in this industry is not healthy in the long run. But it is vital of course so that we could estimate trades and make wise decisions. Overall, my expectations for crypto isn't complete yet. I am still waiting and hoping that there will be price spike in the next two months, before the year ends. Hopefully, things will roll out soon then we can see the latest progress in the current trends in the market like IEOs.

many such hopes are very far from the reality that is in place of the exchange a lot of price manipulation and many news from cryptocurrency that only gives false hope, with the good news can provide price increases it does not.

i wasn't expecting we will really be experiencing this long bear. that i didn't find it possible since it already happened in 2014 and i thought it won't happen again because more and more people are going to learn BTC and that it will have more demands and the result was bullrun. never expect what could happen after it.  i can only expect this bear will finally end and lets see much of the developments that the devs are doing while they are hiding.

Well, I don't expect too much in cryptocurrency because the market price is very unpredictable, especially for the price of bitcoin because there are a lot of predictions that they say it will increased it's price before the end of 2019, which i don't want to expect too much because might fall down again just like in the year of 2018. But for now, i see that my expectation in bitcoin is close to the reality because i see that my holding in bitcoin is increasing.

Your statement it self proves that you are somewhat delusional because you state that Facebook has some positive impact on the price, it has absolutely no potential to impact crypto market in positive or even negative way.

As you all know, BTC broke down from its support at 8k today, it is heading to 6k and it will most likely be very sad bear market for coming months.

Making expectations are key to believe in your investment so it will be better if you will be logical when you expect something to happen in the market. It is difficult to expect, especially after being disappointed a lot of times. Sometimes, we just need to lower the bar, our standards. No one can earn a lot of profit at all times, not anymore at least. But it doesn't mean that investing will go to waste. The investments can help a lot to make more other industries adapt and integrate cryptocurrency.

Well, I am expecting that bitcoin will manage to keep its position as the trend builder and will have the highest percentage of dominance in crypto space and that the adaptation will be having an enormous progress, and it's seemingly keeping up with my expectations for it still has its dominance and isn't overthrown by altcoins yet knowing that there's only 2 and a half months left for 2019. As for the adaptation of bitcoin, my expectation is also reached because even small scale businesses is surprisingly using and accepting bitcoin as one the payment options.

And you think the late 2017 spike conforms with reality and the current market situation that time? You think $3,000sh breaking $20,000 this year is too far from being realistic? Do you realized that January 2017 bitcoin price was at $800 and it was able to reach over $19,000?

The reality is that crypto currencies are still too volatile because of its low market capitalization. Bitcoin at hundreds of billions in dollars is still light. It needs to reach a trillion dollars to stabilize its price.

This is sad to hear that most people are expecting that we will create history every year, remember crypto is very volatile that we don't know what will happen as this can be manipulated by wealthy people or those who are called 'whale' so, don't expect too much and be very careful with every decision that you are making.

Over the past few days, bitcoin has been falling pretty fast and now, according to CoinMarketCap, its price is $ 7,490. In my opinion, this is not what we expected from bitcoin at the end of the year. Moreover, many piedredits further decline to as much as three thousand dollars. As a matter of fact, Bitcoin is well worth it. But due to its fall and the eternal bear trend, the last two years altcoins generally feel very bad. In this regard, it is noted that the general interest in cryptocurrency has already begun to decline. In general, the realities are now completely different than we expected.

It is even more sad when your words are implying the high volatility of crypto and how it can be manipulated by whales. Aren't those words meant that bitcoin can pump and break records in months, and it can also dump and break support levels in short period of time.

What I see is that everything is going down again... and I am so tired of red colour...
Can't explain why this is happening, but the truth is that it is going against my expectations as I would expect to have good green colours for the end of the year... it seems that we'll need to wait a few more months to see the market powerfull again

I think we all expect some upward movement from the market, but no one knows when the market trend will change.
The market needs a signal for growth, I am sure that such a signal can be a full-fledged launch of the TON telegram network, as well as the launch of the Libra project.
Now we have Bakkt which every day set new records in trading volumes. So, now the position is accumulating, and we have all the tools thanks to which the next bull race will be able to break the previous record.

Of course, there are always expectations and they are aimed only at growth. However, you need to study the market in more detail so that you can draw the right conclusions. The fact that this year we saw growth is in no way connected with global growth. I believe that expectations can be justified only when we can see a real opportunity for growth. Now I think we are at the beginning of a new stage in the development of the crypto market. If we analyze the market, we can see that the growth was somewhere in the middle of each stage, which means we still have to wait.

Can be said if in 2019 the expectations are not in accordance with what is expected, this year there is often a sudden decline in prices of both bitcoin and altcoin, of course at the beginning of the emergence of Facebook and telegram news will soon create their crypto coins, at that time it seems crypto prices will soon experience a pump, but in reality it does not affect the movement of crypto prices at all, there was an increase in the price of bitcoin at that time, but only for a short time and then the crypto prices returned to the down in market. :'( :'(

When you have seen bitcoin touching 18k to 20k dollars in the past that seeing you getting a bit disappointing, but then again, digital market is not a paved road. This journey is full of ups and downs. However, there was time when bitcoin was worth 100 dollars only and made it to 20k dollars so if bitcoin is 7k to 9k dollars at the moment, there will be time when it will be more than 30k dollars.

I observe that most of the investors here in the market are expecting that the bull market will start in this year but it seems not. It is now 4th quarter of the year and there are only minimal changes in the market.

People always expecting that they can easily earn money from bear market, but the reality is not. We should limit our trade if the market turns bear because the selling pressure is really high. We should also not expect that the bear market will turn bull market in just days, it takes weeks, months or even years.

Yes it is not easy for everyone to earn money in bear market while doing trading because a lot of people do not know the method of earning from trading in bear market, But most of the people know the tricks of earning and they can fit themselves in any situation of market. As you quoted that bear market takes time to become bull market, so I will say that yesterday the market took just few hours to become bull market so sometimes expectation comes to reality.

If someone is highly experienced in trading, it doesn't matter whether it's a bull market or a bear market. In bull market he will absolutely makes profit. But in bear market a trade can still settle for multiple small traders. Shorting is also a good option during bear market.

I like the fact that you acknowledged bull run won't come in just a matter of days, but nobody knows when exactly. What we all need is patience, we've been patient for quite long and the recent market soaring due to china news (BTC moving up to 30%) shows the reward of patience. Don't keep your expectations so high to avoid disappointment if it doesn't come to past.

In trading of course we must be able to see the conditions in which the direction of price will move, which is why we must understand in analyzing price movements, so that, we can make the right decision whether it's time to buy, hold or sell, usually novice traders often rely solely on instincts in trading so that the possibility of losing is very large, sometimes in trading we must have great patience, so as not to experience panic when the market changes suddenly, and it is better if we find out market capitalization information and information on market price movements before we go trading.

They have different strategy in different market situation because they are smart day trader.
As long as the market remains volatile, they can continue to trade but most of us are more effective in trading when the market is bullish.

personally, I would calm down trading when the market is bearish, for long term maybe I could benefit on that situation as I could accumulate more at a cheap value.

The 2019 year is on going and not over yet, there is still chance for the market to recover from long bear situation.
I think we should not expecting too much from cryptocurency market because it is too unpredictable.
We just need to buying some coins we trust, and accumulating them in bear market for low price.

instead of hoping the price will increase it's better to hope that the capital flow will be a significantly increasing by that you will have a more healthy market and also whether the coin will rise in price or not will all depends on their performance. Hoping all altcoins to go up is simply wishful thinking and I don't think that such a thing will always happen however if the market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market is increasing significantly that means the adoption is increasing and the liquidity will increase as well. Therefore price manipulation will be a lot harder to do so there's no crazy pump and dump game anymore, just a steady increase. that's just my opinion though.

In my time in crypto, expectation has not awlays been equal with reality thats the sad truth.  So many time i wish to for a certain amount of profit from my trading proceeds. Most times my expectation ends up being cut off due to general market conditions and other factors above my control.  But am positive though that this year will end on a brighter note with crypto replenishing my losses

I have also spent a lot of time on crypto and on average end up with sadness, because the results I get are not in accordance with the time I spend, and I have also experienced losses through trading even though not in large quantities.

Most times what we expect doesn't come to reality, for instance many of us hoped for mainstream adoption to come soon few years back, but right now it's crystal clear that it's going to take many more years with the way things are going presently. Well, I'm impressed with news from China about gradual blockchain adoption, at least it's a step in the right direction. I've been holding some coins expecting to see great profit with time, some gave me desired profit while most dipped.

I am sure most people expect a sharp increase in prices this year because in 2018 the downward trend in market prices continues. but in reality we are nearing the end of 2019 and the good news about Facebook certainly cannot influence the rise in market prices until now.

It's very unlikely to expect such sudden appreciation in price over such a short period of time.  I expect prices to continue consolidating this year in preparation for the rally which is likely to commence next year. In the mean time,  I believe the best for investors would be to invest and buy crypto for chap while they still can.

The price action so far(reality) and my expectation of the market has been in tandem, I hope that my predictions will be as accurate too.

In the current situation it is frustrating to face the price of crypto currencies on the exchange which has continued to decline very far. I hope in the crypto currency will soon experience a significant price increase. thus making us able to cultivate a high spirit in reinvesting.

for traders that buy on high price ofcourse will be very frustrating , they having floating minus now. But traders that have skill in analizing chart they and have no floating minus , recognized current situation was best opportunity to buy cheap coins in market . we must have positive sight in any condition so we could think clearly and take all opportunity around us..

Well, in crypto there are much more expectation and then sometimes become a reality but we can not control what can happen in the future. we are just helping the improvement of bitcoin's prices and to spread. everyone has a high expectation that there are wonderful to happen of the price. we can not blame the people to overcome their emotions about the prices. we should prepare on what will happen in the next time to not over react if bad things that gonna happen.

For me personally, what is happening right now is far from what I wanted. Although sometimes we have high expectations and we believe that this can happen, the good news about cryptocurrency sometimes makes us have great expectations about it but what I feel now is actually not very satisfying because many coin prices are declining and for now I am just more focused to survive and at least look for opportunities to benefit even if only small.

everyone does not like this situation, but some people actually use it to look for opportunities to invest, even some of them do trading to take advantage of price fluctuations. they including me hope that soon there will be price improvements with increasing investor confidence

basically there are still many who believe about predictions from several people or from certain sources. I personally do not expect much in the coming year for the price, but I rather hope to keep getting a job that produces so that I can still survive that year

that's how the speculation market works today, as you can see that there will always be people that getting looses in the speculation market and there will always be a winner.
But so many newcomers don't know how to play with it. As you can see that people are getting greedy to earn fast money when they have known if this is a market with a very high risk.

Guessing the price of bitcoin is always a difficult thing. Don't expect too much of the bitcoin price going to a point. The best way is to spend your money and buy bitcoins at times when their value drops dramatically and wait for a good opportunity to sell a higher price or keep them. A closer look at the price history of bitcoin shows that its steady growth over the long-term is feasible.

I think the cryptocurrency market will develop differently. Most associate the growth of this market with the rise in the price of bitcoin. However, there are also many other options, including market growth through the growth of altcoins. It may also well be that completely different alternative solutions may come to the forefront over time. The existing cryptocurrency market has many shortcomings, it develops one-sidedly, so over time, more worthy solutions for its development will certainly come.

I am in crypto trading since July 2017 after 2017-2018 Bull run every one set his/her mind that again it will happen in next December or January, So every time at the end of year we expected that Bull run will occur but we are wrong in my opinion Bitcoin will go up but we can not predict the actual time maybe it is in next weekend maybe in next two years.

Waiting for a new AllTimeHigh might never occur anytime sooner so its better to always buy bitcoin when it drop in price and sell when it recovers, this way you will always make good profit over and over

There is no way to guess right about future bitcoin and altcoin movement, all you can do is predict and hope for the best, the only thing i am looking forward to now is halving, even few new projects are waiting to launch at that time to take advantage of any possible price surge

I think this year Bitcoin has already grown from almost 3000 dollars to 14000 dollars. I assume that the next bull run is possible not earlier than six months. Bitcoin can still grow during the halving of the reward for the mined block.

indeed a good achievement this year, from $ 3000 to $ 14k, this shows that the actual price fluctuations are common and do not need to be responded to in the extreme. and for next year I think the surge in harha will exceed $ 14k, hopefully before the middle of next year the peak of bitcoin that I mean has been reached

The price of bitcoin is unpredictable and it is possible that by the end of this year the price may rise high, it may not exceed the historical maximum in 2019, but this should not be excluded, because we remember that if bitcoin goes up, then growth is always very rapid.

This year is not over, so there is hope at the end of the year. If it really happens, many people will be happy. but again market conditions are not much profitable for now, we can hope but not expect much

Let's see what did I say last year this time around:


A good call I would say, at least I correctly guessed that Bitcoin won't reach $20K by 2019. This year's trend was not exactly flat, sideline for a whole year as it ranges $4K - $14K, quite a rollercoaster but yeah nothing new. My call from last year still stands: I expect another massive rally and new ATH within two years after halving, that is before 2022.

Expectations and reality often vary, which makes people go crazy. Do not expect too much from crypto market and you would not be disappointed, invest only that money that you are ready to lose, otherwise it can end really bad.

Unfortunately no. It is true that there is a lot of good news at this time but bitcoin price movements have not shown signs of a bullish period. The opportunity to go up in 2019 is already 2x but it always fails maybe the increase in bitcoin prices will occur in the coming years

Most did not meet expectations, but at least it was still enough to meet family needs. I focus on earning money as a bounty hunter. It is quite difficult to find projects that are truly legit, there is always drama. For example, reduced allocations, extended bounty periods, slow distribution, destroyed prices after listing, etc. However, if you are lucky to find a good project, you can still benefit, although not too big. The important thing is patience and always grateful to accept anything.

That's correct. Bitcoin seems to to accurately elude predicters and analysts. When they say we will go low, boom, it goes high and when they think it will soar further, the next minute it tanks. I remember many predictions on bitcoin reaching 16,000 usd by November which never happened. One thing is certain, bitcoin is key to blockchain - cryptocurrency adoption and the future is bright. So maybe we should focus more on adoption use cases than speculation

My expectations were more or less justified, because I was ready that this year the situation will not change for the better. But I didn't think it would be that bad.

Well, when the mini bull-run started earlier this year, my expectations were that it could continue till the end of the year but then it couldn't end up that way (that's as at today's price tho☺). Nevertheless i believe where we're hovering around isn't that bad for Bitcoin looking at the struggles its gone through for the last few years. Lastly, I believe bitcoin will achieve more in the near term👍

For me personally, I have never stopped expectations about bitcoin and altcoins, even though the current situation is still not good.
As we know crypto price movements are indeed difficult to predict, so the situation right now can change suddenly. If we look at
history in 2017 the prices of bitcoin and altcoins are surprisingly rising to peak prices, we did not expect it. That is a lesson for me
that it is not impossible that in the near future bitcoin and altcoins will surprise all of us with a significant increase in prices, so my
advice is to have an expectation of an increase the price of crypto is a positive action, which can make us optimistic that we continue
to hold the cryptocurrency until the price is back to the top.

It's not even close, we expect the price to be at least at $10 k level heading to the end of the year but unfortunately, it's still going down, much to our expectation, 2019 is really the year of unexpected events even experts are having a hard time with their prediction, hopefully, things will change next year.

my Expectation, this month the price of bitcoin has reached $ 11k, or higher  ::)
You can see that the current price is at the level of $ 7k, and that is quite far from my expectation. even like that, new hope always arises. I just hope that the price of bitcoin can reach $ 8000 or $ 9000 by the end of this year. Well, approaching the price of $ 10k is better than staying at current levels.

Well only bitcoin lives up to its expectations this year, for altcoins no single expectation comes to reality and 2020 is already here, now everybody is expecting bitcoin halving to bring new ATH which i think it might not because last halving bitcoin doesn't start surging instantly

Well i dont even have any expectation for current market condition. But i always hope the market will be good again and the price is up. Maybe everyone hope the situation change better but no one really know when that time arrive.

Expectations are sometimes not in line with what is happening in the market and I think this is common in any market. I think many people are expecting more on the cryptocurrency market but because of the many bad news, investors are a bit scared and wait and see. Hopefully 2020 can meet the expectations of crypto investors and can provide good profits

our expectation sometime could make us disappoited when its not come true. We had wait it for long time and there is no sign at all. Let bitcoin or other cryptocurrency price moved smoothly and dont focus on it only. There are many opportunity outside that will give us money regularly. One day situation will changed and bullish movement happen again , hopefull it happen in near future.

Major brands like Facebook adopting cryptocurrency in the form of Libra was a watershed moment for cryptocurrency industry and although its progress won't be as fast as hoped due to many regulatory issues world wide it should see some level of success if the market is going to survive it should be able to progress these types of technologies so it will be interesting next year to see just how these projects evolve

I am also looking forward for the positive news regarding Libra, this year their hype looks like its gone already because of what you've stated, " regulatory problem" but eventually they'll be able to comply if they really want to push through this project to succeed.

A success or a launch of Libra is something big that could increase the adoption in crypto, its influence is too big and Libra would help us introduce crypto to the people and when that happens, these people will become our potential investors.

Everyone must have good hopes for every coin they hold. Of course everyone hopes that this year will be a very profitable year for them, but if we look at the current market conditions, for me the current market conditions are far from what I expected and maybe at this time I would prefer to be patient to face current market conditions.

Only time will answer what we expect because the current market situation is difficult to guess, and the best option for now is to hold it firmly and patiently.
remain optimistic and let the market move as it is, and let's see in 2020 whether the market will recover, especially bitcoin which is expected to reach the highest price according to everyone's predictions.

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My expectations are very close to the reality that I experience. I really want to have lots of cryptocurrencies. I am passionate and love it.  :)

This year is good for cryptocurrency, at least, crypto isnt too bad as 2018
I know that the bearish still happens. but, bitcoin already jumped from $ 3,000 to $ 13,000 makes me happy to see
it is a sign that crypto can wake up in the future.

take it slow, in the next year, we would see another big 'thing' in cryptocurrency.
which continoues crypto story to the moon. just believe it, many people, company, country already joined

Yep, after the crash from $ 8k8 to $ 6k4 a week ago, and total market cap was around $ 200Bil, It seems that we have lost faith in an altcoin season and bull market this year. I hope the price of BTC will not return to the $ 3k price as early this year and keep the current price, then go to a bull run before the halving events next year.

My expectations are also very close to the reality that we are experiencing, especially I want the value of death to increase.

This year I have a lot of expectations, especially these times. We expect the currencies to increase in value and be more stable. My expectation is very small, and the cryptocurrency grows stronger.

After the crypto market slowly declined in 2018, my expectations were inversely proportional to reality because the value of my portfolio dropped dramatically. But it happened because it was purely my own fault, not selling when prices were already high and greedy to expect prices to continue to rise

2019 may not be as expected after 2018 it is also not good for the cryptocurreny market but I am still optimistic that the crypto market will reach the highest price and market cap value. Today many people already know about the cryptocurrency market and several countries have begun to recognize crypto as a digital asset

On expectations that are embedded in my mind, Cryptocurrency always provides large land as an opportunity for everyone who joins the Cryptocurrency. The fact that the land increasingly narrowed. It shows that Cryptocurrency lacks openness to all circles. So it is quite disappointing with this that continues to happen. The expectation of Cryptocurrency continues to expand its land for the future.

I try to keep my expectations in check because it is very easy to think about all the profits that the market of cryptocurrencies is going to give you and then begin to daydream about what you're going to do with that money and then when that doesn't happen you're going to be very disappointed with the results because it is impossible for the market to match your expectations, I prefer to just take it a day at a time and take whatever the market gives me.

A rise will come again. Think about what we are now in 2018 with us. Corporate capital will enter the market. That's why they drop their prices. Because there is no investment in an increasing market. They need to bring classic investors to the market.

I also understand how to have hope after being stuck long enough in a bearish condition, it's good not to over-expect if in reality it might not happen. It's better to have a little realistic expectations than big expectations, maybe you can have big expectations but to a certain degree

I think they're pretty sure they're gonna offer a new world order for Bitcoin. It does not make sense to see Bitcoi as the gateway to monetization. Because bitcoin promises other things. It can offer an opportunity for democracy. Perhaps in the future Blockchain will have an integrated voting system.

Things are worse in crypto since this thread was started, and that wasn't my expectation at all.  I generally try to keep those low so that I'm not constantly disappointed, but this has turned out to be a very rough 2nd half of the year.

I *think* 2020 is going to be a better one for bitcoin and a lot of altcoins, but I don't *expect* it to be, and there is a huge difference between those two.  If I expected a bull market next year, I would be backing up the truck and loading up on various coins, but I'm not doing that. 

Precisely what I was trying to communicate about the way I think.  And it isn't as tho you can predict what's going to happen with anything in the crypto market anyway.

My expectations were very close to what is happening now in the market. I stopped believing in miracles for a long time and don't expect more huge growth.

Number one lesson: be hopeful (due to the prospects of the industry) but keep and open mind (because, not all predictions and assumptions turn out real). Crypto is not mathematics and thus anything is bound to happen. I am more of the latter, my hope for crypto is immeasurable and I hope it fulfills all its potentials

I think the price of bitcoin this year is quite good although at the end of this year the price of bitcoin has continued to decline to $ 6900 but bitcoin has pumped up to $ 13,000 in the middle of this year. and provides a sizable profit to people who bought bitcoin earlier this year at a bitcoin price of $ 3000. the rise and fall of bitcoin prices is normal for us as bitcoin holders to be good at speculating and making good use of bitcoin price fluctuations. and now is the right time to add and buy bitcoin. I am optimistic that bitcoin can pump next year.

unfortunately my hopes for this year are not close to reality, this is far beyond expectations. I hope the price of bitcoin and altcoin can move significantly but vice versa. The market said differently that the price of cryptoqurrency this year did not experience a significant change, even when BTC pumped up to $ 9k when it did not affect the other altcoin prices at all. the current market reality is really bad.

I have high expectations for crypto and its not even close to now but about my portfolio i don't worry much, i still believe that good bull run will occur, its a shame that bad days last longer the good days, I'm not ready to give up

And please do not forget,,, less than 1 year ago we were seeing a low for 2019 of about $3400. So we are actually more than 2x more than that right now, so there are MANY people who are still very happy with doubling their capital in less than 1 year, no stock has done that this year I believe.

I do not want a BTC pump. I want a sustainable and slow growth:)

You need to do the best that you can to learn from this experience, we are all expecting that something similar to what happened during 2017 happens again and many were expecting this year to be similar and in a way we got it, but it was too short lived and that is what generated all of that disappointment among people and it doesn't seem very likely that the next year is going to be any better, so dedicate your time to accumulate all the coins that you can and forget about the price for some time.

In line with you, If there is no price up and down, what is the rhythm for? The point is we have already planned some, the rest will be a surprise. And again we need to instill a bit of satisfaction in cryptocurrency and never regret your decision. I think fortunately 100-200 is also good if we can manage it

Post from September, time is passing fast. Bitcoin dropped in the mean time, some other alts too, while some are moving up like tezos for example, and there are couple more. What is happening with the market currently? Like always people are buying and selling, more then before. I think this market is in the stage of accumulation, many things are happening everywhere around, prices are moving up and down, but that doesn't stop people from working for crypto, from trading, or gambling. We see new exchanges, new casinos, new services, many things are new, and we are going forward I believe.
Crypto market will explode once again in the future, this accumulation period will end one day, I strongly believe in that.

Just try to take any news and chart as the reality to be trusted by us. Let those people are still dreaming to see that their dream will happen in a short time. The huge growth will come when crypto gets a bunch of good news especially from the institutional investors or buyers.

Indeed seeing the current situation is one opportunity to buy coins. but with the current situation also sometimes makes us feel bored in trading. this condition is not only seen from the graph, but also the development of crypto itself which is currently experiencing a decline. What do you think is the solution to dealing with the development of crypto today?

IMO, there is no need to be so much negative about the current situation. Apart from the decline in the exchange rates, there are a lot of things which are occurring in the background, away from the attention of the vast majority of the users. First of all, many of the useless shitcoins are becoming dead or dormant and the degree of market fragmentation is decreasing. Another thing I have noticed is that many of the established coins (Ethereum for example) are moving from the power-intensive PoW algorithm to the more environmentally friendly PoS algorithm.

I think the market is not that right now. BTC price was below 3000$. It think market recover a lot from where it was last year. So I hope it will continue that way and will go upward.

But in the year of 2019 we saw a time when the price of bitcoin reached to $14000 that was a great achievement of bitcoin in that year and because of that a hope again appeared in the hearts of many people and the price of bitcoin gain a good position and the investors again came to participate in the trade etc. It is right that altcoin showed not like the year of 2017 but they all got some breathe and it is expected that in the year of 2020 they all will also get a high value.

I also think that the market will recover, but it will not happens at the first 3 months and not in the middle of the year. Now we can expect another decrease in the price of bitcoin. if this happens, other cryptocurrencies will also fall. market recovery will be possible after halving. then people will understand how valuable Bitcoin is and then they will start buying

What?
Check now.. https://coinmarketcap.com/... it's 6900 currently.

There is no uptrend yet and what we are seeing today is bitcoin dropped below $7K, so it's not a good start though.

Maybe what he meant was the price when December 2018.

And maybe after halving I think it takes time for bitcoin to reach a new ATH, and maybe a new ATH can happen at the end of this year or even into 2021.

In your comment you are saying that it will not recover in the first 3 month and in the mid and will decrease and along with that you are also saying that it will recover at the time of halving. I want to inform you here that the halving will occur after around three months and some days from now and it is the fact that when we enter in a time period like the current then the price increase much faster. The halving after a few months means that now we will not see the price dropping again but from now it will start to rise in value.

the time details are difficult, but if it really is now starting to pump trends I think it's time to do some research. if true, then investing is highly recommended but again we must look at the research results first before investing in crypto. I hope that bullrun will come soon this year especially

I think my expectations for 2019 yesterday are quite close to reality. because I hope in 2019 yesterday bitcoin can reach $ 14k but in reality the highest price of bitcoin in 2019 is $ 13k. and I think this is quite beneficial. I bought bitcoin at the beginning of the year when bitcoin fell at a price of $ 4k then I held it until bitcoin reached a value of $ 12k. I get a big enough profit. I am very grateful that this year bitcoin can again provide a large profit.

Everyone expects the price of the cryptocurrency to rise but I expect all cryptocurrency prices to drop by the beginning of the new year. Because if the price drops at the beginning of the year, I can invest enough in cryptocurrencies and expect them to rise at the end of the year. The only thing I will say is that it is not right to expect much from reality. We should all expect to be in line with reality. One should never expect the price of the cryptocurrency to be a surprise.

Thanks.

It all depends on the time frame that we are using, when it comes to the long term then I am extremely bullish on bitcoin, I prefer to not put a price to my expectations but every time I think about I cannot see a scenario in which bitcoin does not become successful regardless of what the governments try to do to stop it.

But when it comes to the short term I am very cautious, the volatility of bitcoin is huge compared to the volatility of other assets and its price can go up and down abruptly, so in that time frame I keep my mind very open since I do not want to be caught off guard and bitcoin surprises me and I lose money because of it.

every year bitcoin provides benefits for investors who can be patient and have the ability, because the potential is better than altcoin. my story in 2019 was not much because the investment I made was also not much. but that year was enough to provide the experience to be patient in price conditions that were not much profitable for altcoin holders.

what people expect, actually what people hope. when they expecting high value, they are just hope for high value in next time. people just need more support, and they are gather around to power up their hope. and people just follow the flow, when the value hit it they will sell what they have.

I quit expecting in light of the fact that we are simply going to be frustrated, the force can't continue, the value is going here and there and we don't have the foggiest idea when will we arrive at the following unequaled high or will we ever reach $18-20k again, we simply need to anticipate the more regrettable and trust in the best to come.

But this is exactly why we should not predict and just give in to the market. Keep buying regularly, ignore the price,,, and when 18k comes that is when you wake up and sell what you need to.

Anticipate the worst always, and always remember the golden rule of investing only what you can afford, then everything will be fine.

While I understand that people concentrate so much in the price of bitcoin at the same time they do this too much, anyone that just used their fiat to buy whatever amount of bitcoin that they could whenever they can will get profits when the market finally skyrockets, but obviously people do not want to do that, they want to maximize their profits as much as they can and in the process they do the opposite and buy and sell at the wrong moments and lose money as a result of this.

We all do have different expectations upon different situation and it depends on us how we will handle such expectations to come into reality because if we just keep on expecting, nothing will literally happen because it will just remain a mere imagination. But good thing that upon entrance of the year 2020, our expectations for the whole cryptocurrency community that the price will get into an increase have come into reality which have started from Bitcoin down to other cryptocurrency in the market. Well I guess with thi happening, we all do have big expectations that something big will soon to come in the crypto industry. But for me, I just let the happenings to flow in front of me so that no disappointments will happen if my expectation doesn't come into reality. We must let the sequences to happen. If it will happen then it is good, if not, maybe it will come in some other time around. We just need to keep on holding and believing and surely those expectations will come true in no time.