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Most of the ALTs are far below than their ATH. Even from the top 100, top 50 or top 10. Most of them are 10x below, some are more. For example, Nano ia now at around $3.5 which ATH is $37, almost 10x below.
I'm not particularly talking about Nano only. I'm talking about all the top 50 altcoins for example. What do you think? Will they make new ATH or simply get some hype? I have invested some amount on different alts, I'm in good profit but initially I planned to hold for ATH. Now, things are looking different. In my opinion, most of the ALTs will not be able to make a new ATH this time. Share your opinion.

Once after the bull market of 2017, altcoins started to bounce and marked great ath values. After that none of the altcoins made its ath, other than Binance coin which grew through its launch platform for more IEO. Those gave way for the growth of almost every altcoins. Once again this time there is more chance for an real altcoin Bull market. The previous one happened as a result of ICO hype.

I think the same for those alts that have taken their flight on ATH in the past, not all of them will get back. This is why I only hold notable altcoins like Ethereum and I can wait for it to hit back to ATH. It's near to the price from the past and could even go further.
I'm already in profit on it while holding it on its price of $1,200. But just as you, I'm also hoping that it will surpass the past ATH that it did.

I think last ATH was reached only because of a big hype, so many people were buying anything what they saw. For now many investors carefully choose projects to invest in, so many projects can`t get necessary demand, because there are many new projects and old ones not so interesting as some years ago. Some coins will definitely reach it sooner or later, but only that who are strong and correspond trends of 2021

The altcoins will have their time to reach ATH. I do not doubt that, but we don't know when the ATH comes. The top 50 altcoins list will have the potential to increase, and it could break the last time ATH. As you said, now things will not be the same, but the ATH will comes soon. If the ATH does not come this year, you need to have a target price sell, so when the price can increase higher, even if it's not reaching a new ATH, you can sell your coins and make a profit. These situations make people greedy because they want to make more profit, and they don't sell when the price increase, so you need to be careful, you should know when you need to sell, and the most important is don't be greedy because you don't know when the price will drops.

Nobody really knows, but I have the impression that this time everyday another coin is pumping (with or without valid reason). Look at dogecoin that suddenly doubled after 1 tweet from Elon Musk. I bought a lot of altcoins in 2017 and for most of them I am still at -30 % or more (e.g.  Stellar or EOS), so I hope that these coins also get pumped some more so I could sell these with a minimal loss.

There is still a big possibility for the top altcoins to reach the new all time high,
don't let you buy or hold the wrong altcoins,
I'm sure in the altcoin season the altcoins that will reach new ath are those that are in the top 100 coinmarketcap.

Top 10 altcoin? Yeah chances are very high for this coin to reach or established a new all time high this year. ETH also did that and most of the mare like <60% of their previous high, and we all know that once alt has it's own version of a bull run it's really hard to stop, probably top 30 will have their all time high sooner or later.

For the rest though, pump-and-dump as usual, so just be careful with those projects. And probably most of the money are lock in this whole new Defi hype.

It us depend in what alt you refer to. Good altcoin with good use cases and development will reach its ATH again VS Dollar, but maybe not VS bitcoin. But it will need time to reach it again. For example ethereum : it is not reaching its ATL againts bitcoin but when bitcoin goes high again ethereum will worth arround $1300-$1500 againts dollar.

It all depends on which alts are you talking. The majority of shitcoins are dead and they will never rich 1/10 of ATH. Others from CMC top still have good chances to see ATH or something like it

I believe what will happen on altcoins will be the same as what happened last 2017-2018 altcoin season which Ethereum will first make the move and some other large market cap, the more Bitcoin stays sideways or neutral, altcoins are making their move.
These past few months and years after the altcoin season last 2018, altcoin behavior become: If Bitcoin pump, alts are dumping, if Bitcoin dumping altcoins too. But let's see what will happen these coming weeks & months.

It's a different story today January 17, all DeFi projects have surge up big time, Chainlink, Polkadot, Aave are now more bullish than before, all I can say is we should try to hold useful altcoins only, shitcoins will always be shitcoins and people won't invest their money on such coins

It is difficult to say if they will reach a new ATH in future. But this can be said with a lot of confidence that majority of altcoin projects are failures or abandoned by its devs or just sold off to someone else who pumped and dumped its tokens and left.

If you have been following the top50, I would say you have been very lenient and magnanimous with altcoins. I dont care to even look beyond the top10 excepting the forked coins and centralized coins. Because they are not worth your attention or money.

Altcoins ride the waves secondary to bitcoin and they are never making any progress of their own. The only point I can still find out worth being plus for them is a lower transaction fee when bitcoin gets congested. Merchants dont go with anything beyond LTC, DOGE or ETH.

It does not make any sense holding anything else for long term. Sell them when you get profit and move to other sectors of investment not just crypto. ;)

You'd be surprised what people invest in. Shitcoins will be invested in, this cannot be stopped.  True fomo has not hit the public yet, the current Bitcoin run has been artificially pumped by institutions,  once the real FOMO sets in by the retail investors then altcoin market will flourish again. You see, people this time around are a little shell-shocked from the previous bear market, a lot of them holding the bags still. But once the alts get cooking and  bag holders gain that confidence human nature will kick in and they will buy more which will result in huge alt coin spikes. And when that happens bear market will be around the corner.

Those who should be worried about ATH are those who bought this altcoins at ATH, 52 weeks ago Nano goes down to 0.28$, do you buy then? ATH doesn't or shouldn't matter much to people honestly, what should matter is when you buy yours, it's why buying low and selling high should be everyone's target

As I understand, things move like this in the market: First, the money in the altcoins is headed into BTC and it comes to a certain position. Later, BTC stabilizes and some of the money is directed to the altcoin. If you remember, altcoins reached the new ATH after the new best price of the king in 2017. Therefore, I guess the new ATH will trigger something this time too. Even if there is no new ATH, there will be a good increase.

Ethereum could continue appreciating and get to the ATH this year, if you're holding Eth as part of the altcoins you bought, then hodling till ATH can be said to be a good investment, cause ethereum has a strong community of investors, and mind you that the said community will continue to grow, even in this year, and that'll take the price to new heights.

Having said that, I can't say the same of other altcoins, I know Polkadot for example is doing good, though I've personally not bought any polkadot token (I'm only using it as an example), but can you trust polkadot to continue appreciating? I don't think so; with Altcoins, the best strategy is to pull out when you have gotten returns on your investment; and like you said, you already have, so the time could be right to sell and maybe hold only Ethereum, that's if you have it as part of your stash.

Although we do not know if the ATH for altcoin will come, I believe altcoin will have ATH again as we saw in 2017-2018.
But unfortunately, we do not have a list for which altcoin will increase, and we can only guess and hope that our altcoin can increase later.
Besides that, it is difficult to know which altcoin will start the rally and make ATH because many altcoins want to raise their power and invite more investors to invest in their project.
But people still focus on bitcoin because they see the opportunity to make a bigger profit on the bitcoin, so they do not want to miss that.

In my own opinion, the bull run which brought Bitcoin to a new ATH was enough to bring some altcoins to their ATH but it wasn't actualized, that is to say, altcoins might find it hard reaching their ATH because now the attention looks like it is dropping. Also, from another perspective, the crypto space can't be predicted and Bitcoin on the other hand, seems to be getting all the whole attention from investors and platforms, that is it say, there is every tendency it will grow even more and of course altcoins will gradually grow with it, but reaching their ATH, will still look hard to get. To be frank, if i were you and I am in good profit, I would sell rather than waiting for the ATH, because from every indications, the market growth so far is entirely different from that of 2018, but if you are ready to hold for long term for coins like ETH, then there is every possiblity it will reach its ATH since ETH 2.0 is still in vogue.

I think altcoin can still reach its ATH price or even create a new ATH price, but not all altcoin can do it now, because in my opinion for now only altcoin that have progress and useful project that can reach its ATH price or even create a new ATH price, so for now my advice is that we better invest in altcoin that have a good product and always have progress, because it's more profitable for us and has a small risk to make our investment loss.

Every altcoin has a product that is almost all different, they have their own timeline and they also have their own milestones. For the bull run this time, if you look at some old school altcoins like Litecoin, Stellar or Monero, ofcourse it's quite difficult to get a new ATH like in 2017/2018. but if you look at altcoins with a new product, with milestones already achieved (mostly) in a fairly short time like Polkadot, I think you can expect ATH even before the bull run starts. what I want to say is, because each altcoins has a different purpose, and they have their own target in terms of price, although most of the bullish are influenced by the bitcoin bullrun

Very many altcoins in the DeFi sector have lost up to 90% in their price. And they will not have such an opportunity to recover in price to the previous level in any altcoin season. I look more positively at the growth of altcoins that are in the TOP 50. They still have the opportunity not only to reach the ATH price, but also to exceed it.

I'm also worried on this, I have received a lot of new coins coming from bounty, and until now they are not moving some of them are falling I received coins like Amepay but even with the ongoing campaign, the price is still going down, things are different now, compared 3 years ago and we really have to be choosy on what coins that will have a different path.

Old coins or tokens can or may have not pumped or surpass their previous ATH. Who knows this questions is quite broad. Honestly, when you noticed on gains section on Binance, everyday the coins or tokens listed there have change daily. Meaning some of them rotate in terms of traders taste. Should I say some are picking which coin to pump or shill? But its not a factor some gains were definitely on the fundamentals of those projects. But yes, I believe we can see some new ATH on old projects once we fully sync on a bull season.

Top 50, yes, there's a big chance that they will reach an ATH again.

ETH is a good example, it dropped below $100 and now it has almost break its current ATH.
Nothing is impossible, as long as investors sees that the project  is still alive and the team are working on it, hype comes and that will bring the price to pump. Of course, major coins like ETH, BNB, and other top 10 coins are exceptional, they survive from a long bear market, so they'll like make an ATH soon.

I think that it is impossible for altcoins to reach ATH now. Some has already lost 80-90% of its value and it will take years to recover. Some projects are already abandoned due to price drop. These altcoins are traded on the market, but no one continues development. Some altcoins were just hyped projects. What once was hyped, cant be hyped again. Lets not forget the demand. While new altcoins appear, old one becomes forgotten, meaning they will never reach ATH.

Ethereum, for example, has almost reached its ATH and I think a little more and Ethereum will definitely reach its ATH soon, but as for other top altcoins, I also think that many top altcoins will soon reach their ATHs, so I think another altcoins pump will be in this 2021.

Now that the alt season is now running I have a strong confidence that the new ATH for altcoins will be highly possible and seeing how many big institutions, corporations and companies are investing to cryptos as well it will boost up alts as well.

i think Altcoins seasons is still possible, i believe now is a great time to be investing in the altcoin space, in specific projects that I expect will perform well. Altcoins are highly speculative. This is due to the illiquid nature of the market.

Altcoins will have time to reach a new ATH, after 2017 has bounced and marked a big ATH  year, it is likely that a new ATH will be reached in 2021 by starting with bitcoin which has several times more ATH from previous years.

Some Alternate Coins like Vechain or Alpha. This coins are worth investing if you really can do daily trading because some of them are boosted in a day and within that day, you should decide whether you will sell or just HODL. I also think that some of the Alternate Coins are at their ATH WHEN Bitcoin is also at its peak so I basically see the opportunity when Btc is peaking, I take a look at multiple Alt Coins that are worth trading at that time.

I know you aren't specifically talking about Nano here but to start with, doing x10 in the crypto industry isn't a big deal. Remember Bitcoin, from a low of <$3,500 last year has done over $40,000 already this year. That's more than x10. I held a coin from $0.02 that later went to $2.4 in May 2020. That's more than x10. So, I don't think it's a big issue for tokens to blow pass the x10 of what they're currently now. Again, I am one of the few who believe that at every bull run tokens tend to do more than their previous ATH. And to this I say a capital YES. Alts will have ATH again. 2021 is a bull year for the crypto industry.

The altcoins are too uncertain so it is not sure for anyone to say confidently that they will achieve the ATH once again. The other reason is now the investors are also become very careful about their investment because of the fake coin and the useless project as evolved since the 2017 bull market.

i believe all good altcoins project will reach even surpass its ATH in this year mate
so, if you hold a kind of good alts, such as TOP 50 crypto in coinmarketcap, its better to hold it
all we need is only patience, if we hold the right alt

This year it looks like bullrun was limited to bitcoin as altcoins didn't have the expected bullrun eventhough there were slight increase in the price of top altcoins but it's nothing compared to the ATH, as for bitcoin those who invested in 2018 during its peak hot their investment back with a good returns but those who had invested into altcoins are stills truck, I think it's already too late for a bullrun as Bitcoin is going through correction and considering all these facts I don't think there would be ALT bullrun or new ATH as of now.

just like in the past, bitcoin will always move first then altcoins will follow my friend
but maybe in this year, only a solid and reliable altcoins project will create new ATH, and maybe the rest will gone

Hold on, markets are just getting started when the real parabolic storm start we will see prices doubling every few days and in short period of time the value of different coins will become unbelievably high.

From experience, some cryptocurrencies in the top 10 will not see their all time high. Example is Ripple (Xrp), which saw $3.6 around January, 2018 as its ATH, and is still struggling at $0.28 by January, 2021. And with all the problems around it, this coin may never see it's all time high again.

Also, majority of the cryptocurrencies in the top 100 may never see their all time high again, as better cryptocutrencirs with better real life case will be taking over from them.

what altcoin did you buy? and I also agree with you that the price of altcoin will definitely reach its ATH (especially the top 10 altcoin on coinmarketcap), because there are already several altcoin whose prices have started to increase and hit its ATH price (for example Polkadot), so I'm sure that in the near future there will be many other altcoin whose prices will increase very high and hit its ATH price, because now the market condition is very good and continues to increase, so there's a possibility that a bull run could occur.

The truth is that investors are now choosy. They will consider most of the leading altcoins in the market leaving others ignored. What happens last 2017 is lucky days for altcoins (that actually an ATH for altcoins) but for now, that chance is so slim to see back again. I'd never had that optimism in mind seeing the situation where only a few altcoins did the rise while the many off in the line, still in decline.

2017 bullish season is manipulated and hype, unlike the situation we have today. Investors now seem to be cautious in dealing with them, deciding to invest only for potential projects, not because of its cheap price.

My passion is for ethereum and BCH make new alt this year. just like btc has broken its ATH and even double the price. i strongly will wish to see ethereum make such bold move and hit a new ath. my Altcoins wishing to see them hit new highs are ETH, BCH, BINANCE. already done that today, SNX, CHAINLINK HIT A NEW HIGH TODAY. atom, even NEO is yet to make a new ATH.

To invest in altcoins have to be careful, even altcoins that are in the top 10 market cap do not guarantee a return to ATH ever achieved, let alone will make a new ATH, it is difficult. Like OP’s investment in Nano coin, which is very far from ATH, with the current price of $ 3.5. It may take a very long time or have to be helped by the altcoin season, which never knows when it will last again. But for altcoins at the moment, it is in a supportive market. I hope this can be sustainable.

Altcoin should be additional income for us, but we should use bitcoin as the main coin to buy or to invest because all of the altcoins follow where bitcoin price moves. Perhaps, the altcoin can be short and medium buy or investment, but for the long term, we can use bitcoin because bitcoin still the leader at the crypto market. So if we stick to the top 10 coin lists, we can have a chance to profit from the altcoins, and I believe that many altcoins will have the new ATH soon. Before the altcoin jump to the highest price, we can search for the coins and buy if necessary or if we don't have it, so we are not late to make a profit later.

I am sure that the growth of good coins is inevitable. Because it's not too late to buy for a long time. The main thing is to devote more time to familiarization with projects.

Just do research on the last bull market. Altcoins season never came for a long time. I believe you did right, so my advice is to hold your altcoins. Nano is a top coin, but some altcoins season will come at the end of bullrun time. But of course, the upcoming bullrun overcame the bullrun. Now again, people are interested in altcoins, so wait until the next ATH.

Come on now. You might be seeing this uptrend as a new entrant, which I can't possibly know but I am guessing since it is common in them. But honestly I have seen what happens after that, they buy some shitcoins and never see any profit. Moreover this high price is the point of buying wrongly which is called fear of missing out.

Therefore you might be able to make a profit off the price rise but long term value of such coins is low when compared to bitcoin. None of them will be close to what bitcoin has become and even if they do there are so many altcoins there. How would you even guess which one will be big? Better to stick to the well know bitcoin.

Probably only few altcoins may touch a new ath, currently my eyes are on Ethereum which is almost near to touch a new ath, probability looks higher of eth to cross its last ath mark hopefully it may cross in this month and ADA is the second altcoin in my list which seems to me much capable to achieve a new ath this year hopefully it may not disappoint.

Some altcoin price dropped but Don't panic thses shake out for removing money from week hand s to transfer strong hands, Alts market no dip more
Don't sell ur coins wait for btc calm
Exchanges already shortage of btc so they will panicking market to get more btc in last month 250k plus btc flowout from exchanges so more flowout from exchanges more bullish on btc
Stay stronger Alt will also increase with Bitcoin bullish

IMHO, I believe that most altcoins prices today will remain the same because today's bullish trend is just focused on Bitcoin's organic demand from institutional investors while some other altcoins like Ethereum have an organic demand because of the Defi boom other than that I don't see any relevant reason why other Altcoins are going to pump its price and beat its previous ATH record anyway it was just my personal observation.

If we look at the growth of the price of ethereum, we will see that since March 2020, its price has increased from $ 86 to $ 1437 in 2021. Thus, the price of ETH has increased more than 16 times. We can see that the profit received on ethereum exceeds the profit received with BTC. And this is despite the fact that Ethereum has not yet installed a new ATH.

I am sure the altcoin will have a bullish trend soon, but seems, bitcoin still dominate the crypto market and attracting more investors, especially for the new investor to come to bitcoin worlds. When bitcoin can jump to the high price, the altcoin will start the rally and maybe that will be the sign for the bullish trend to come. Ethereum itself still trying to increase, but ethereum price just follows bitcoin price, so it will need more time to increase back.

Do you believe in the alt season like in 2017? I don’t believe any more ... Then don’t buy it grows. Now mostly bitcoin is growing and the altseason is not visible. I think that the people who manage the market (and I believe that they do) have already earned enough and it makes no sense for them to pump all projects in a row, as it was in 2018. I would like to see the alt season, but I do not believe in it ...

note that when the bitcoin price reached $ 20,000, the ETH price reached its ATH. Now we have a bitcoin price of $ 31,000 and an ETH price of $ 1300. the explanation here is simple: the price of altcoins in relation to bitcoin are not rising much and most people are looking at the price of altcoins in relation to dollars and forget to look at the price of altcoin in relation to bitcoin

Whales and high-end investors are not here just to say words. They are here to make money. So take their words with a grain of salt. In this case the motive is clear. They wish to pump the altcoin prices so they can sell their bags and exit them finally at a profit. Without doing this they are at a loss so they try to manipulate the market sentiment in that manner.

As a trader you have to understand this and make your move in the opposite of what seems to be done. That is, sell when the prices start rising because once the small fries understand that they are being fooled, they will stop and before that whales will have sold their share.

Majority of the cases of altcoins suffer from this problem. If they had any real development going on, such pump and dump would not be so prevalent.