yeah, that trading fee of bittrex (0.25%) is really felt when you are trading a lot. it can accumulate to a considerable amount of money after a while.
but sadly poloniex has a lot of issues that makes me still stick to bittrex. of course there are also other exchanges. you shouldn't restrict yourself to just the two. bittrex can eventually fall to the same faith. polo was not bad in the start either.

there is actually no limit on how much you bring in for your investment. everything is calculated percentage-wise. of course the minimum is important but there are exchanges that have very low minimum. for example Cryptopia has 10 Doge or 500 satoshi limit for their trades. and even if you start with 1000 satoshi you still make profit on that amount. like 100% on 1000 is 2000 satoshi in total.
and it doesn't matter if it is small. what matters is that you choose a number that you are comfortable with.

exactly the opposite is true!
besides what do you think makes the market cap? it is supply * price and in case of these coins with fake huge supply their market cap is also fake and huge. so it can in fact be very misleading to look at market cap and make decisions based on it!!!

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if i want to choose between NEM and 0x i would choose 0x because NEM was recently pumped whereas 0x is still not properly pumped.

i wonder what it takes for you people to stop repeating the FUD!
China never banned bitcoin, period.

now 1 hour later another topic will be started talking about China banning bitcoin and how bad or good that is...

i am not sure if this was just an advertising technique to pique the interest of the reader or if it is genuinely your whole strategy! if it is then you are treading on thin ice with a big IF. that IF can go either way. the 2 cent coin that you buy can easily go down to 1 cent and your $2000 turns into $1000 in a blinking of an eye.

not a strategy that i would use, ever! so no i don't want to try it but i have a proposal for you which may change my mind or possibly others.
if you say your strategy works then start posting here with coins your bots suggests!
do it for a couple of weeks and post a new coin every day.
by the end of the month or 2 months you have built a nice history and if your strategy is as good as you "claim" it to be, it will be clear with a high accuracy like 90%. and if not, it will also be clear with a couple of lucky shots and an accuracy of below 40% then you are just wasting everybody's time.

the format should be like this:
[no editing or deleting posts]

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imaginary example:
(post date: 29-30 Aug)
coin: LTC
buy price: 0.013-0.014BTC
sell at what price: 0.017-0.019BTC (46% profit)
when to sell (approximately): 3-5 days

i think you need to first clarify what is it exactly that you want!
you ask for "security" and then talk about transaction fees! well sometimes fees are the last thing you should care for when you are looking for "security" (whatever that means in your head.)

all of these have flaws. some small and ignorable and some are big enough to want to ignore the coin itself. i personally prefer Monero among these.

sometimes i think this altcoin market needs to die and burn to the ground so that something fresh and good can rise up from its ashes.

of course i hope it doesn't get to that point and i still have some small hope for some altcoins that nobody even pays attention to. but i can't help thinking the way everyone is only caring for more money and how everything that comes out is either a scam or a pump and dump kills even that glimmer of hope!

countless!

if you mean as payment, then i don't know. maybe they want ETH tokens more than others. but there have been cases where they asked for bitcoin too.

if you mean as the platform to develop their crap and call it ICO then it is just because there are so many other ICOs that they can just copy. it is at a point where creating one is very easy. you don't need to do much work and also if you say "we are using ETH platform" it looks better compared to saying you use something else. because nobody cares about the project itself. everyone looks at the cover and judge the book by it

since this is at least a couple of days old, i say nothing.

we knew exchanges will be closed 1.5 weeks ago. the exchanges also started releasing the news that they will stop operating at least 3-4 days ago. and price took its course (nose dive).

after the MtGox stuff, Japan has been really out of the game but they made up for all the lost time this year alone. things are looking up over there. the government is open to bitcoin and that is helping the adoption greatly. this is just one service out of many different ones in Japan. and yet so many people refuse to believe the revolution that is taking place inside Japan these days, starting this year.

ETH has a huge pumping team behind it who have deep pockets and the support of many banksters. there is also the ICos that are pumping it up for free.

LTC also has always moved with bitcoin since it is THE copy of bitcoin and since it also has SegWit on it already.

as far as Doge goes, it offers nothing and it has a huge supply and an ever lasting new coins that are being created without any cap. it has been said a thousand times but it is really a supply and demand issue. and the fact that Doge has nearly 0 usages.

these new Korean exchanges are like the old Chinese exchanges: with 0 fee and lots of fake volume. and all their volume for all coins are ridiculously high like this not just BCH!

it needs price to overcome Ripple not volume. and it has been falling so far as bitcoin started to rise back up again!

not really.
there will surely be another pump of BCH. nothing can stop that but it will not come this fast and it certainly won't be because of fake volumes of Koreans

in my opinion if you can call something "China based coin" or generally if you can limit it to a country then it is already dead as a cryptocurrency project.
one of the main things about cryptocurrencies and all the projects involving the technology, is the decentralization. if you take that away you are taking away one of the main reasons they even exist!

the bankster did what a bankster must do. they lied, they invested in something that could make them a lot of money and they took advantage of their position to open up a golden opportunity for themselves to buy in.
you can't blame then for doing his job.

what you can blame are people who listened to that bankster's bullshit and closed their eyes and ears to the reality of the matter.

enough to make me want to continue doing it.

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as much as i could afford to lose.

i look for altcoins with potential of a big pump or some news coming on to them that can lead to a pump then i invest and wait for the pump to slow down and then i dump to get my bitcoins out to hold.

no i don't do arbitrage trading.

because of the dump i say mostly the top altcoins which are big and also have lost a great deal of their price. such as LTC, ETH, ETC, possibly even XRP.
not sure about XMR at the moment but it also can be a good candidate.

but don't forget about other altcoins! there are others that are unaffected by all this and they have actually been rising. although rare and hard to find but they are out there day by day

from my perspective Russia has been one of the weirdest countries when cryptocurrencies specially bitcoin is involved!
they used to say things against bitcoin and even talk about making it illegal (they never actually did it though) all the while holding up huge seminars on blockchain technology and bitcoin's future in their capital, Moscow!

then finally this year, right after Japan announced bitcoin legal, their government officials started showing a completely different approach. their central bank even said "since bitcoin is traceable it will soon become legal"!

long story short i believe Russians have always been greatly involved with cryptocurrencies in reality but also always had a lot of difference of opinions among themselves.

only bitcoin price is under pressure of heavy manipulation and FUD coming mostly from Chinese related news. not bitcoin itself. nothing about bitcoin has changed it is still the same decentralized cryptocurrency that got adopted as a legal method of payment over at Japan and a couple of other countries followed. the scaling debate ended. the supply is still the same. the hashrate is even a little bigger now. the future will also be the same growing trend with not much to change.

this is not the first time there is a big dumping manipulation and this won't be the last either.

by the way this is altcoin board!

technical analysis is mostly useless for bitcoin, it doesn't matter what it tells you the bottom, resistances, supports are. in the end the price will be determined based on how much panic is there in the community!

if it were useful then price shouldn't have dropped like this! the current curve doesn't fit any kind of analysis you may come up with.

It's almost pathetic how people read first word of a comment and make their assumptions to just say what they like to say

show me where i said every single Japanese (man, woman, and child) are using bitcoin instead of cash!

not at all, next time you went to Japan try vising one of the shopping centers, you will see at least a couple shops with the "bitcoin is accepted here" sign.

you went out of your way to make this topic about something else that it is not. thanks!