As far as hardware wallets Trezor mentioned they are only working on getting Trezor 2 to market right now. Ledger has already told the community they have Monero on their public roadmap. They are not even sure though if Nano S can handle Monero yet.

There could be more downside risk to XMR/BTC at Polo. If you take a look at the daily chart the StochRSI oscillator is headed down but not in oversold range yet. Possible double bottom set up at .0155. On the other hand price has stabilized at the 50% level from most recent swing low to swing high. Monero is working fine, fees are down after the recent hard fork, traders just need some more time to digest and dismiss the recent FUD.

Name a coin that is more private than Monero when used properly.

Just like Ether did when Coinbase added it to GDAX? Ether went down 70% in six months.

As long as Jihan Wu has the ability to block SegWit activation on litecoin he will do everything in his power (because he can.) Buying litecoin now is a crapshoot. There are better coins in which to invest your money.

Here are some Fibonacci projections from most recent swing high to swing low:



and on a longer timeframe:



I would give more weight to the second chart.

Ledger Nano S offers cold storage for litecoin using their Chrome app. Trezor does also, but you have to use the Electrum-Ltc wallet with your Trezor.

I won't buy a funded cryptocoin. Titan e.g. has missed out on sales to me because they only sell funded. There are too many choice collectibles to choose from unloaded.

Loading a 2014 original, gold or silver Kialara would be a mistake. Not so much with the Signature Series, since they were designed to be disassembled and the torx driver provided.

Sorry you have had a bad experience. Do not forget to consider using a hardware wallet. Your private keys are kept securely off line. I have never heard of anyone losing bitcoin who used a Trezor or Ledger Nano S wallet.

I think all the privacy concerns except one were made moot by the January 2017 RingCT hard fork. Have you taken a look at transactions using a Monero block explorer lately? Yes IP can possibly be linked to a transaction but that can be avoided easily using Tor or VPN and Kovri later this year will solve IP leakage permanently.

Monero is undervalued IMO because it is one of the few altcoins that offer something bitcoin does not ... fungibility. Hard forks are scheduled twice yearly for upgrades so no drama there. It is a fair coin whose price and market cap is being held back by just a couple problems. There is no Android wallet yet and no hardware wallet. You probably want to have some XMR in your portfolio before those problems are fixed.

Open Bazaar was DOA because it required shop owners to run the client 24/7 for their store to be online and take orders.

Sure see https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/02ZSzuha-Bitcoin-Elliott-Wave-Count/

As it stands you can make some Fibonacci predictions using most recent swing high and low of $1474 to $1633 minimum for top of Wave 5.

Those predictions would be invalid if the swing low changes though. I have seen other predictions from analysts I trust for top of Wave 5 at $1800 to $2800. If price goes parabolic that could happen (or higher.) That's why you should never sell all your bitcoin keep some for the future. Problem is the hard fork standoff is keeping the price down.

After a Wave 5 you would get an ABC correction likely to region of $502 to $779. If you miss selling at the high (most do guilty here) there will almost certainly be a dead cat bounce (B wave) giving you a second chance to take profits.

Problem as drawn and counted is impulse wave 3 of a five wave move up can not be shorter than wave 5 according to strict EW theory. If you look at a weekly chart on Bitstamp and try not to force an EW count it is more likely that we finished Wave 3 at the ATH with wave 5 still to come. That means we are probably in an extended Wave 4 correction. That count would put a hard bottom on the correction at the top of Wave 1 which I put at $779. The exuberance that accompanied the ATH would fit with what is normally seen with a Wave 3 top.

Well first of all good luck. But realize that no successful trader is going to hand over his or her techniques for entries and exits, stop losses and money management. They learned it the hard way in the trenches and often some expensive lessons learned. The best thing you can do is study the masters who have written books and trade on paper until you have proven to yourself you have a shot at making money. It will not be easy but you might have some fun. Trading is not for everyone. Day trading is pretty stressful so you might want to concentrate on medium to long term trades. Or not bother at all and just buy and hold bitcoin and perhaps a few altcoins like Monero which have real value as they offer something bitcoin can not.

New guys need to learn patience with bitcoin and just hold for the long term. Right now everyone who bought under $1200 is in profit. It might have taken a few years depending on where you bought. Bitcoin will always have $250 to $300 down days where some news causes a one or two day crash which lets you buy at a good price. Calling bottoms is tough.

Because bitcoin has been making higher lows but has not made a new ATH yet there is still a scenario where we revisit $800 which would validate one Elliott Wave count that Afrikoin has presented. A new ATH would invalidate that wave count and indicate that we are either in 3 or 5 depending on how you count your waves.