You make me laugh. Have you ever seen a car without a brake? If the answer is No, then you cannot see a broker/exchange without the stop loss. What I can only suspect is that you do not know how to place it with them, and the best you can do is to contact their support for help since it varies. Also, you may try to view their tutorials about this, it is mostly in the form of videos with exchanges. I am sure it will be an effective guide for you.

In my experience with trading, brokers/exchanges give options for the setting of your Stop loss and even Take profit before you open a trade. But in case you opened the trade before you want to set it, the option is also there. All you need to do is to modify the active trading position and you will be fine. However, the advice to give you is limited because you did not post the name of the broker or exchange you are talking about for a proper guide. Had it been you did, I would have helped you with the direct image of how it could be done for pre and post-trade settings.

Let me know if you will need more advice in this reagrd, but let the name of the broker/exchange you seek help with be added.

I experienced this about 5 times yesterday alone despite not experiencing it for almost a whole year. When others complained of it some months ago, I barely experienced it and I chipped in my advice then on the use of secure browsers and VPN. But this time, it happened repeatedly to me and I was concerned really because I only use my local IP and not Tor or VPN and others.

Now, reading what people had to say on this thread, I think that it's general and it could be for an important reason. We all know the controversy that happened on the forum recently, maybe enhanced verification was done, or at least such that would rescan the users' activities periodically to ascertain whether or not it's a human behind the screen.

It's nothing to worry yourself about. But if it persists too much, it could be that you use enhanced security to browse and you might want to change it or continue to manage it that way.

Your statement is outrageous against Bayern Munich as if they are that poor. I only see a temporary setback for them which I believe they will dust off soon. The club do not show so much poor performance in all competitions as you make it look, but in the Champions League and Bundesliga, and it's still a few defeats they conceded in counting, it's not as bad as many other clubs even though they are disappointing, to say a few. This is so discouraging to be candid, but let me still believe that they only had setbacks in those games. At home, this has further given Bayern Leverkusen the due advantage over them which might be a dash of hope for Kane this season. With 8 points clear of Bayern Munich, Leverkusen is seriously getting closer to lifting the cup this season. I must say that the club deserve it even though clubs like Bayern and Dortmund did not live up to expectations this season to be a better contender.

Xabi Alonso's side has proven their worth this time, I only hope they can replicate it beyond now, unlike what some underdog clubs do. You will hardly see any club beating them now, which deserves enough praise. Going forward, I believe that Bayern Munich will improve, and if you take a closer look at their last match against VfL Bochum yesterday, it was keenly contested though Bayern fans deserve better than what they displayed. Let's see what they will play against RB Leipzig on Saturday too. As much as I want Bayern to win this match, if they play like that of yesterday, it will be a regret for them. RB Leipzig is stronger than VfL Bochum that defeated them, so the risk is higher for them. Well, I hope the recent streaks of defeat will boost their morale to do better in the match.

The money mindset in gambling is the beginning of the failure of any gambler, and even if you will make the money, it's just advisable that you should not put your mind to it, otherwise, it will drive you beyond what you could imagine. Agreed, it may not be so convenient to say you want to be using money to gamble and only focus on the entertainment part, but if one can force himself to do it, it is the best. We should learn from the way and manner in which most people are losing their money in gambling, they are losing mainly because they are just desperate for money. Sadly, that money may never come if the right attitude towards gambling is not set in place. How can this right attitude be set in place when the mindset of the money to be made has clouded the decision of the gambler due to emotion? That's why we have to be so cautious when we gamble, and perishing the mindsets of the money to be made with desperation gives us an edge to focus on the important things to put in place.

This looks like a good plan and I must confess that I love it as well. But in my case, I prefer to do it a bit differently from yours, though it doesn't matter as we are still not wasteful but creative about our gambling winnings, which is what matters most. To be honest, I've not been so serious about my gambling winning, but this year, I think I will be. Initially, I often stored the money in my gambling account for as long as I could, and I could use the one with good funds to fund the one with no funds or a new one I was trying out. I also use it for some travelling and tours, but nothing has been kin toward investment.

Now, on reading your post, I believe that it's time that I take my gambling winning seriously. I don't have issues with winning with my sports betting, so I can do this. I will only try to accumulate as much as possible funds to be able to make good investments with it. I will not immediately withdraw my money like many advised on this thread, but set a goal, and when the accumulation hits the goal, I can shift it to crypto investment, and buying land and properties.

I can always see this and ever be happy about what gambling has done for me in spite of how some people talk badly about it.

Yes, of course, altcoins are listed among the futures trading options with traditional brokers and exchanges and many of them have huge daily trading volume. This can only mean that people are trading them, and if they are not good for trading, people will not dare to do that. But still, investment advice shouldn't be general because what I prefer might not be what others will prefer. For instance, as volatile and risky as Gold is compared to many other assets in the FX market, I still love to trade and I've considered it as my most favourite asset in the financial market. What I can advise you to do now is to first establish the kind of trader you are. You should know if you like a slowly moving market or a fast one. It is from here you can know what to choose among the altcoins for your futures trading. That's if you will choose any of them at all because I consider most of them more volatile than Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Okay, I think I get you better now, and congrats on that, just get it consistent, it will help you. By the positive emotion as well, I believe that you will do well with it, but it's still about balancing things when it comes to gambling, and if I were you though, regardless, so far it's a positive emotion, you can still find your way around it and get to bet at best. But I would still like to advise you about your time and self-management where you plainly stated that you are faulty. You shouldn't have allowed gambling to affect your relationship, it could only be interpreted towards the fact that you didn't gamble responsibly at that time.

Money aside, you may be making money in gambling but still not being responsible in it, you might be lagging in other ways of life that are important due to it. That's what you should now work on and not quit what is giving you money. Again, I will still not advise you to rely entirely on gambling as your source of income, that is bad. This is one of the ways you made the mistake at that time. Gambling could be a good source of income, but it is best that we do not put our minds to it. The problem might start by entirely relying on it, and this will now start clouding our judgement because of emotion. Due to this, we might be segregating ourselves from our loved ones simply because of gambling, but nothing can be said less of an addiction in this regard.

Notwithstanding, if what you narrated is correct. I think you should go back to your way of gambling but make sure that you have a change of attitude this time. Judging by what your standing is, a way you know to make money shouldn't be abandoned in my opinion.

Are you asking me again? I made it clear in my post that my gambling risks have to be proportionate depending on the amount we take about, the kind of game I want to play and my affinity to risk-taking at that time of gambling. In all, one must consider good budget and planning before gambling, so a situation like this can't be argued in favour of the low or high risks taking alone as you make it look, it must be in relation to some conditions. This is majorly based on the size of the money we are talking about. You can't expect me to have $100,000 in my gambling account and gamble more than 1% of the money. That risk is too high for me. I would rather risk lower than that in such a situation, so it is not a rigid decision in any case.

The same consideration goes for the low amount of money. I can't be wasting my time risking so little with a small amount of money in my gambling account. With this amount, in some cases, I can risk 5% of my money, and that might still be so little for me because I need to make money (if that is my reason for gambling at that time). If you read my initial post very well, all have been rightly explained there, except you did not understand it. Basically, I gamble based on the size of money I have for it, the risk/fairness in the games I want to play, and according to my plans on the budgets for that specific period of time.

You have a good understanding of the risk involved, some don't, while someone like me will also not care even though I understand the risk. I believe that as an adult if someone introduces something to me, it is my choice to accept it. So far the person did not force me to do it, then I should be able to take the responsibility of accepting it whether it is good or bad when the outcome comes out. This shouldn't be different in gambling and cryptocurrency, but what I will never do is introduce gambling to old people, I would rather introduce gambling to the young generation. Both gambling and cryptocurrencies are fun and are ways to earn income as well, it is not so inappropriate to introduce people to them, but the risk lies solely on the person that will accept it.

That's why I often tell people including those whom I introduced them that they should learn what I introduced to them very well before risking their money in them. Information is good and it will not make me evil because I shared it. It is now left for them to accept or decline.

I'd read a lot about gambling-friendly countries, but I never knew that people could take it seriously because you will hardly see a country that does not allow gambling, and their reasons could be mostly about religions which we have to respect when we are there. Aside from those countries, any country that allows gambling is friendly to it as far as I'm concerned, though the friendliness may vary. Still, the ease of gambling there could be taken into consideration, in which taxes are part of the good factors to make it more welcoming in the country. However, the countries where gambling is somewhat more rampant, if that is the right word to use, are the USA, Singapore, China, The UK, Germany, Australia, and many more. Personally, I do not believe statistics in this regard so much, I can only believe that most countries of the world are gambling, and the gambling magnitude can only be traced to the culture and population of the country. In most cases, the higher the popularity, the higher could be the number of gamblers.

As for the taxes, I think you need to be careful, I have too many conflicting details on the internet, so it is not worth sharing. What you need to watch out for are the ways some countries tax those playing in their jurisdictions. Some might tax you on online gambling activities but not tax you on offline gambling activities. It might be in the inverse fashion with other countries. While some will tax your net gains alone, or not even tax you at all. So, I advise you to learn the gambling tax law of the country you intend to go to rather than randomly seeking advice from people. It could mislead you painfully. This is even as the sources I sought advice from are conflicting.

You do not reply directly to capture the OP, it's basically about the online and physical businesses. Risk is involved in all we do, I mean including those things we do that are not even related to money. We might be taking a risk unaware, so as long as we are living, we take risks daily, especially with the choices we make. This is why we can never be out of risk, but when it has to do with money, we should be reasonable with the risk we take, or else we will regret it. It's also worth saying that the OP didn't distinguish the risk very well in his write-up, the physical business has a very low risk compared to the online business, well, that's my opinion. Many risks are involved online and if you follow the due process, you will spend a whole lot of money more than others.

The money to secure your online business, for marketing, the licencing, tax and regulatory money, and some could be subject to renewal periodically which is mostly annually. These are some of what you would need money for, just to know what you are in for. But what if after all that, enough patronage did not happen as planned? Or your business is seized by the authorities as we often see, or even hacked for a huge ransom, or worse?

But the issue of physical business is lessened, though no business without its own issue.

I like your stance here, and if it is possible for all traders to win due to how the expert traders are teaching and mentoring, that would have long happened. But it hasn't, which means that every trader can't be successful no matter how they try, something will still go wrong. Even the expert traders are facing trading challenges, and there are weeks/months they could fail, and there are some weeks/months they will win as well, it's all about how they put what they know into action and being cautious at the same time. However, one thing that is keeping successful traders outstanding is the way they manage themselves and their trading accounts better. This is why I always say that there is a thin line between a successful trader and a professional trader, and being a professional trader doesn't make you successful. You could be a professional trader because you know everything about trading and are even teaching others. You may also have your book about it that teaches about all that a trader needs to know to be successful, but still not successful.

This hints that the theoretical part is nothing compared to the application, and the real-time application varies depending on our prevailing psychology (balance or not) at that time. The trading psychology that people often underrate matters a lot. Owning to this, traders can fail or become successful in trading despite all they know, but their strategy, management, plans and psychology are important factors. The most common among these that cause traders to fail are management and psychology. Many traders have good trading strategies, but they fail to manage themselves (psychology) and their trading accounts well (risk and money management), that's the issue and it goes a long way in making the traders fail even if they know everything they supposed to know about the market trading. And this explains why you may teach 100 students about trading and only one of them may be successful. It all has to do with the right applications of what you know, or else, the trader will fail.

I will be more correcting here because most of what you said is wrong. First, Bitcoin and altcoins are crypto assets, either of them can initiate the move in the market. But often, it's Bitcoin that initiates the move, and by its most relevant remark in the industry, we should not expect less. Nonetheless, altcoins are not as useless as you make them look, and Bitcoin is not without its losing season as well. If you bought Bitcoin in 2021, will you be smiling in 2022? That is it, none of them are immune from the bearish season, so the store of value you attributed is not so appropriate, investors can only manage their portfolio better to avoid losses.

Again, how they will help you store the value is still a function of the type of coin/token you are talking about. A lot of them have values now, they are linked to good projects nowadays and such projects are such that we can physically see. So if one can hold on to such coins/tokens these days, they might be better than it was before. But still, one has to be careful and use the charts for guidance, as risk is involved.

Lastly, you are wrong about the P2P remark. Many altcoins have their P2P and I've used at least 3 of them in the past.

This is a good observation and I've observed it myself with mixed possibilities. Well, this is an asset we are talking about, the market is always confusing and no one can certainly predict what will become of any market. Due to this, I advise that all the answers and suggestions you receive should just be taken as information, you can't be certain to believe that's what will happen in the Bitcoin market. For me, I believe that Bitcoin will not find it easy to hit the ATH of about $69,000 before halving, though the possibility of that happening keeps increasing daily. Nevertheless, we have barely a month and some weeks for Bitcoin to halve, I do not think that the asset will be able to move as high as that.

It has already moved so significantly in the few weeks of 2024 after a correction and I believe another correction could happen. What I do not believe is that it can be so expensive to that extent, nothing is currently so spectacular that will make it happen. It has enough of promising futures in the near future but more investors might be waiting until the halving, and not before it. This will always undermine the bullish movement of the coin till then. It will only try to buy, but it will retrace afterwards, and also buy again to make a retracement again. This will happen until the halving comes in place, after which it could be buying with better momentum.

Hey buddy! The choice is yours and I advise you to do enough research for you to select well. However, if I were you, I would not be so careless to invest the whole $1,000 in just a single coin/token. What if it underperformed? This pains investors more than anything, and I know that it is best to diversify rather than believe a certain cryptocurrency can save the day. If I were you still, I would not limit my investment to just 5 coins/tokens, I might go higher to between 7 and 10 cryptos so that it will be better spread for me to maximise my earning potential and reduce the risk of missing out as well.

You might want to choose from Bitcoin, Ethereum, AVAX, INJ, SOL, PENDLE, AI, RUNE, ICP, MANA, NEAR, DOT, ADA, ALGO, OCEAN etc. You know what, the list is endless, just do your research and select carefully. Good luck to you.

True or not, Bitcoin is so promising, we can see it all around us, and those who want to get the best through it must be ready to take the risk. But it's not about just taking the risk but taking the risk at the right time. Like the OP, he took the risk at the right time, and you can imagine what he would gain if Bitcoin eventually hit $100,000 or more in the next 1.5 years. How many banks and investment packages can achieve that (almost x5) within that short time?

I have so much trust in Bitcoin (decentralization) and the investment involved in it, even the payment gateway involved eases a lot of pain for people like me. This can't just be overappreciated. I knew what I went through when I was sending money abroad initially, so it is all benefits regarding Bitcoin if we look beyond the money we could make through it. Well, for others as well, it is never too late, anyone can still make money in Bitcoin because the way I see it now shows that it might even surpass the $100,000 market that people often call. It has almost reached $60,000 before the post-halving season, I wonder where it will be when the time is eventually reached.

Are you surprised? I am not. Regulation is non-negotiable in the crypto world, and what we've seen is just the tip of the iceberg. In the next 10 years or thereabout, you would have seen enough regulation that would have further lessened the decentralization of Bitcoin. By the principle of operation, Bitcoin is decentralised and nothing may change that, but when it comes to the way businesses are being built around it, you can't say that anymore.

We first had the centralised exchanges and other centralised systems allowing Bitcoin that the government has been on their neck, and now again, the ETF, what do you expect? The usage will be more centralised. I see nothing so different from how the fiat currencies are being overseen by the authorities in this regard. I don't think that the government can ever allow what is dealing with money to be happening without having a say in it, so I understand their plight too. However, people have a choice, they can try to do it without the use of any centralised system. It is so possible as far as Bitcoin is concerned. This is just a choice in my thoughts, but I am certain that the decentralized system can cover up, at least for now.

However, I used "at least for now" because, with time, the government might start clamping down on decentralised websites and apps, it is only a matter of time. I hope people can refer to my warning when the term comes.

If I got you correctly, you are advising someone to look for the community or website where such can be extracting his gambling predictions. Do you think that is the right idea? Well, in my experience, that's not the best idea even if it is right with you, you do not have to always be dependent, being independent is key and I do not know what is so difficult in sports betting that someone will not be able to use his brain for it. The good way to make the analysis is highlighted by the OP, you may want to learn more about it online to get it better, so it is so simple. The learning is better so that you fully understand how those people you wanted to be copying their bettings are also doing it. We should not always go for the easy route, we can do it all by ourselves too.

As for the betting odds, I believe that the difficulty matters here. If you are betting on the team that has the greater chance of winning in the view of the house, and probably yours and others as well, you will always see the low odd attached to them. But when the chances of the teams are so similar to each other, you can see at least 2.0 odds. This is the kind of match I like to gamble on, but you will hardly see them if you are betting on the biggest teams in the sport.

That's a very good marketing approach, it's an influencing kind of marketing in which the company uses important figures in sports or the entire team in the form of a partnership arrangement. They know what they will be paying per specific period of time, and the club/personality they choose will be obliged to do some bidding for them, which includes adverts and audience at some important functions. This is though not as new as you made it look because it's been long years ago that I've been seeing such an arrangement. This is also not different from using celebrities from any field to be their ambassadors.

Companies often believe that since these celebrities are popular, they can use their popularity to increase their awareness and, in turn, increase their patronage. This is always working to be candid and some people will go for such companies, be it casinos or others just because the celebrity they like or teams they prefer have something to do with them.

Laziness could be a good point for some people, but this can't still be able to express what is responsible for not getting the best casinos for other people. Some people might just not be lazy but still become victims, whereas, some people might be lazy and still luckily locate the best casinos somehow and have the best experience with them. So, this is subjective, it can't hold the truth for all situations. Exposure also matters here, we are better literate than each other, and the location we are plays a very big factor here. That's why you see so many people selecting by recommendations alone and I don't blame them. While some who aren't even lazy would search so well but would be furnished with so many options which will be another issue of confusion for them when it comes to the right selection.

Not to mention that at times, if we search, we can be confused or be wrongly directed. The word "best" today on the internet could mean "worst." This is because every company/website is now investing in marketing and SEO, and the more you are relevant on the internet whether you propagating nonsense or not, the more you will appear when people search for you. I do not always like what I see on the first list when I search and indeed may be a no-go area for me according to my experience with them. Therefore, if anyone asks people to point them in the right direction, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are lazy.