Probably one of the reasons why we need regulation. It is really an absurd thing and I wonder why people still use this exchange as an exchange doing something of this magnitude shows that they support something illegal, horrific and unethical, and I wonder why anyone in their right mind would even not consider this a shitty one. I kept laughing yesterday when I got their mail and I just blame myself for even registering on this platform in the first place. This just shows an exchange with desperate measures trying to do whatever it takes to keep scamming and unfortunately some gullible ones will keep falling for it.

It is just some form of sheer silliness or an attempt to try to want to gain relevance and that shows how shitty they just keep getting. I would say just exchanges like Yobit actually do this as I believe no exchange in their right mind would just be pumping unnecessarily, and even if they do which we cannot tell anyway, promoting it is even a very much more absurd thing to do, but of course, I would not expect anything less from an exchange that has always been known to be full of shit and scams over the years.

Leverage trading actually is extremely risky and trying to increase the risk the more is like trying to deliberately shoot yourself in the head because of greed or whatever you think you are looking for. I would not even give 100x a chance no matter how tempting it could be, let alone as high as that ? That is insane !

Trying to go the leverage way is the fact that you can easily get liquidated if things do not go your way and as a trader, you should always know it is always a game of probability while using the tools available at your disposal and that does not mean those tools will always be 100% right as things can quickly change and you do not want to end up in the bad side at all.

I think drawing new gamblers on a different type of game will always be hard. I think getting people to accept your new game when there are games that has been around for years and people got accustomed to is always difficult.

Dice for example has been around for years and one of the reasons why crypto people keep gambling there all the time, sportsbetting has been around way before crypto was around, I think people actually gambled on which gladiator would win, so I think that's at least 2000 year old gambling. Hence, when you put up a new game you need to be patient and wait for people to come, the feedback will be the wagered amount.

Actually, when it comes to sport betting, it is always an equal chance when it comes to the platform and the person who is betting.

The thing with sport betting actually is that if you are not just picking a game randomly and you are trying to do some analysis before picking such a game, the chances of being able to do well in it will be there, but the truth of it all is that just very few people are always able to analyze the market to their favor and as well know not to over get greedy when it comes to placing bet. A lot of people that bet in sports, because of their gullible nature always end up losing hugely.

If we really want to talk about something general, I actually do agree with you that positive thinking is a good thing to go with as that can help drive you into achieving a whole lot of things that you would not have thought you would imagine.

However, when it comes to gambling, I would say trying to face reality even though you still want to have a little mindset of being positive is always the best thing. As long as you face the reality that gambling is all about a game of luck and winning is never guaranteed, then you will be able to know how much you really want to be channeling that positive energy before you end up getting caught in the middle of driving yourself harder into losing more and trying to get out of it.

It is a big market and there is actually no way you can have an idea of all the coins in the market.

I actually invested in graft a while back during their ICO which was done using the NEM smart contract platform before moving to their own mainnet immediately after the ICO and I can tell that a lot of development has been going on with the project lately based on it being a payment system and the team are really doing some pretty good work.

The potentials are there and even though it is not even in a big exchange yet, I believe it is a good one to hold for the long term. Now the whole market is down and that includes Graft that has gone low as well, so in the case of a bounce like that, it is possible it reaches the bottom and the smart investors are picking the dips up.

It is even better that if you can really not do analysis on your own and get good at knowing what you are looking for in every trend and in every market, then the best thing to do is just to simply buy and hold rather than stressing yourself on what people are saying or what someone is saying even if they are analyzing the market.

There is really no need to be looking for a time to buy, the market is in a dip and I wonder when someone would actually tend to see the best time to buy again than now. At least, a whole lot better than buying the peak which some people gullible did while joining FOMO. We are presently in a structure where no one can actually tell where the market will break out to, but for now, we just have to be patient and wait for it, and if you cannot, just buy in and forget the rest about the short term.

Yeah, this is what a whole lot of people have been hopeful for right now and are waiting to see how the Q4 of this year would also turn out. We are seeing some possible signs of bullish movement though, but nothing is certain yet and like someone said in another thread, it is like we are in a crossroad with a lot of pointed directions and not knowing which one to take at the moment. However, looking at the charts displayed, we have always ended up seeing those cross roads in the past with Q4 coming up with some bullish activity. Hopefully we end up having a sweet Christmas gift again this time around.

I believe halving and adoption by major business or stand by a government will do all the needful things to keep bitcoin afresh in people's opinion. Until bitcoin prices get stabilized, I believe people will not get bored of it.

I do not believe it was a "decline" I think it was a correction from what it used to be at $20k levels. Yes the prices hit $20k levels and than dropped to $6k levels however you are forgetting that bitcoin was 900 dollar levels just one and a half year ago which means bitcoin increased 7-8 times bigger since than and even before the $20k levels it was around $3k levels which means it doubled the worth, so basically bitcoin increased insanely if you just omit the $20k times.

This means 2018 was a great time for bitcoin considering even the lowest price of bitcoin was double the average of what it was during 2017 levels. Bitcoin is stable around $6k levels compared to how it was volatile in 2017. We need sustaining and slowly progressive bitcoin prices rather than being highly unpredictable.

I think the wisest decision would be when the price of something goes up you could use trailing stop, which means you can put up 5% increases incrementally and whenever it goes down back to the 5% level you sell it. (For more clarity on this, please google for how to trade with trailing stop-loss strategies, there would be lots of articles to guide you better toward making you a master on it.)

For example, you buy something at 100 and it went up to 107, if it goes up to 110 you reset the sell price to 110, when its 113 you wait, if it goes down to 110 you sell if it goes up to 115 you reset back to 115 and you keep doing this with each 5% price of it. That way you can both keep going up with the price during bull and never fear the bear because max you could ever lose is 5% with this.

Good for you! And I hope you have invested in all the altcoins you can today and you have left out bitcoin. I would want to see how that ends up turning out for you in the future. Bitcoin is where it is today because people trust it. The fact that you keep taking about some altcoins overtaking bitcoin, one thing you have to understand is that the only thing you are doing at the moment is to just make the developers richer as they really do not add any value at all.

I simply do not know what is in the future and no one knows, but any smart person, would obviously want to take their bet mostly on bitcoin before even considering any shitcoin at all.

There is even a huge difference between a less volatile movement which is also called a sideways movement and a stable market. As long as volatility remains, then there is no stability here. However, it is obvious the OP is trying to pinpoint to the likes of USDT, USDC, TUSD and the likes which are somehow pegged to a dollar or some other physical asset backed coins being pegged to the physical asset they represent.

They are always stable because they are controlled, but I doubt if we have up to 100+ stable coins in the market right now. Without regulations, it would be hard to audit stable coins anyway, but with regulation in a way, I really do not see any special problem.

I do not think they are bad either and yes you are right with the fact that it is just the same as USDT. Usually, sometimes, it is always a lot better when you just hedge in real fiat rather than using some of these stable coins, but over the years, they have really helped for most of the exchanges with people really trying to hedge their funds in USDT without having to go through the bank.

But, the question has been raised that the tether team keeps generating funds from thin air, without a backed currency to it, but at the end, I guess they were able to prove that wrong. Nonetheless, when people keep saying things a lot about some of these things not coming with a good scenario in the long run, I always prefer taking the preventive measures instead.

Obviously, it is just a matter of time before we started seeing that, and this is just a very good signal that more is coming and it would really pay off for those who have been in this space for a while now who are the early adopters.

We have seen how a lot of people have tried to go into physical assets like gold, silver and the likes in the previous global financial crisis, and now that we have digital assets that are accessible to everyone, then, it makes it even more interesting. It is a good thing though that they are even allowing this. Not like a country like Zimbabwe, that even with the hyperinflation, and their dead fiat system, the government is still trying to frustrate the usage of cryptocurrency.

Yeah, it takes time, great knowledge by small business owners when it comes to the blockchain technology to be able to see it revolutionizing small businesses. It is something we will get to keep seeing in the long run. I am sure over time, small businesses will be able to come up with something and be able to find a way they can integrate the blockchain technology. The good thing about this technology is that it can be applied to various sectors and anyone who is taking the bold step in this fresh state of things, will really be happy they did.

Thinking about that is what has actually brought about huge innovations over the years and why we will keep seeing small businesses with great ideas thriving if they can take advantage of this very interesting technology. Automating processes is something that is gradually becoming a norm, finding easier way of doing things is something that is also becoming a general thing and seeing small businesses in the forefront of applying the blockchain technology, all these things can be achievable when done right.

Unfortunately, Ripple is actually a very hard one to tell when it comes to a growing community of investors or thereabout. It is a centralized entity and the possibility of it being manipulated is always going to be there and that is one thing that has made a lot of investors to stay away for the long term.

This is not the first time Ripple will rise in price and it is one of the coins on the top of the list of market capitalization that rises very high some times and fall back way lower eventually. That sounds to me more like a manipulative market and as long as the devs are holding most of it, I really would not take that risk no matter how high it is going to get.

A very good approach indeed. It is not really that hard for those who are very much in control of themselves and are not really looking for something they should not be looking for in gambling. Being a gambler does not mean you should totally lose yourself, just like in the real world, when you feel you are overdoing somethings, you just take a step backward, try to identify your mistakes and then see how you can amend things.

People who tend to this often always make decisions such as the OPs' and it is really a good thing and would be a good thing if most gamblers imbibe this culture as that would make us see less of addicts.

The market would have gone down normally based on the way people got greedy and even though a lot of bad news has really popped out from China in the past, this does not mean they will keep having a huge hold on crypto and eventually with their shenanigans, they just get left out at the end.

Nothing is going on in the market than the fact that we are in a downtrend and there is nothing wrong with it, it is normal, it has happened before and believe me, it will happen again. The only thing is that rather than seeing a downtrend as a problem which a lot of people always tend to see it as, it is a whole lot better to be seeing it as a great opportunity and it would take a smart person who is focused on the future to simply knows that.

Okay, maybe you are then missing on the future. Well, I would not judge you on your goals, and for what it is worth, I hope you have been able to find what you were looking for in fiat over the years. In as much as I hedge in fiat sometimes, the main idea for me is to increase my bitcoin stash and I see USDT as just any other altcoin in which I am taking advantage of the fluctuations and utilizing it for my own benefit.

Yeah, the idea of diversifying is always going to be there in the long run, when you talk about stocks and real estate and I would not actually advise anyone to not consider that at some point, but for fiat, I really do not know what to say about that.

It is really a very great opportunity which I believe no one should ever miss. Nevertheless, we can end up seeing the market go lower, as there is no doubt about that, but at the same time, the thing with the market currently is that we have really gone down hugely at the moment, and when you are comparing the price with the previous ATH, anyone buying now will know it is a very good buy and with that, you cannot regret it later on.

A lot of people have always in the past regretted not taking advantage of dips and I am sure they should be used as an example as to why no one should be missing now.