Either d_eddie is referring to margin, or alternatively, he is saying that he sold a certain decent-sized chuck of his BTC upon this recent price rise (which overall is selling on the way down.. but that is o.k. if it makes you more comfortable) in order to increase his available cash by 20% in order to prepare and insure himself for the possibility of additional down (although I find the characterization of insuring for up to be a bit confusing).

Edit:  Fuck... this just ain't my day... d_eddie beat me too it and pretty much blew my whole speculation thesis out of the water by admitting that he is employing margin trading.

I know that frequently shills and trolls and even other kinds of wishful thinkers and propagandists call trends too early.

But trends exist, and usually they cannot be known while they are transitioning, but after the fact, we can call something a trend (or a period).   I would call 2014 and 2015 a bear trend or bear period.... but really we may not have known for sure that we were in such a period for more than 9 months or that we were out of it for a similar amount of passage of time.

Right now, we are still in a correction, and if we merely stay below $10k for 2-3 months, then I would be hard-pressed to call that a bear trend or a bear period, but instead a consolidation period in the middle of a bull market.  There are a variety of other scenarios that could cause BTC prices going lower than $6k and then staying there for a considerable amount of time, that would likely be called bear periods if they last more than a few months.

It still seems that we are quite a distance from reaching a "bear period" for our current situation, and 3 to 6 months from now, we might come to another assessment... even though it seems that there has ben some capitulation but there does remain a decent amount of optimism, in this thread, that we will be returning upwards in the next few months, which would therefore, if it happens, not arise to the level of a "bear period" in my thinking.

Breaking below $5k now seems much more likely than it would be if we were to go to $80k first.

Seems that this particular BTC price correction is going to affect any next leg up... so if we do not break below $5k this time around, then breaking $5k after reaching $80k would seem to have been marketed out...   But if we have a bit more of a lame upwards trend, then breaking below $5k could still be within reasonable possibilities.

 So yeah, if we go (more or less) straight up to $80k from here, then that going straight up might cause around $80k to be the next ATH top.. but if we spend more time in these price territories, then it becomes likely that the top could go higher than $80k...

Also, if, hypothetically, we were to go straight to $80k from here, then likely somewhere between $10k and $15k would become the more reasonable bottom of any extreme price correction, so my point is that the passage of each leg does change what extremes are reasonably feasible within this particular asset class that we have.

TLDR:  I suppose that I am neither conceding below $5k to be inevitable and I am also quibbling with how reasonable such a below $5k would be if we were to an experience a decent reversal from here, especially a reversal that brings us into anything approaching $80k.

Edit:  Dammit... bitserve beat me... with fewer words, too.. Go figure!! 

Tell us how you really feel.

You are whining and holding, which might be a form of HODLCRAEFULly....    even though you are sounding muchie bitter and resentful, which could be showing movement towards, almost capitulation?  


[insert meme - "my coins are only worth what they were worth one month ago and in November, and they are ONLY worth 8x from what they were worth one year ago"]       So sad...

You could be correct that this time you end up gaining more than 14 activity points, and I am not clear about whether gaining those points is because your post(s) might overlap periods, or if there is some other algorithmic rule that i do not understand that would allow your activity points to catch up by what seems to be three missed activity periods (which would have been 42 points (14x3)).  Currently, I am suspecting that your posting 1 time, had caused a catching up of the activity points, but you are not going to receive any more activity points for two weeks - because your activity points are caught up to your current posts.  Probably there is a better way of explaining this, and I did see that you had 168 activity points, and now you have 182 activity points (which means that you just earned the max - and the max caught up to the fact that you posted today), and if you earn any more activity points between now and two weeks from now (before the next activity points update date), I would be surprised.. b

According to your post history, you have not posted since January 31, 2018.  Therefore it appears that you did not post for at least 2 activity periods, and possibly you have not posted any for 3 activity periods.   You have to post at least 1 time every activity period in order to earn points for that activity period, and if you activity period passes without you making any posts, then you will not be able to make up activity points for that period.  

It is a "you snooze, you lose" sort of situation.  

Hahahahaha...

you are taking my little "temperature tantrums" seriously.....  








 








Currently, that topic sucks.  Let's not talk about it for a lillie bitty.  uhm k?
 

NO!!!!!!!  Bitcoin.  My little friend.   Don't send dooglus on a vacation.  He doesn't need (deserve..  hahahhahaha) one.    If you give dooglus a vacation, only allow him one or two days of vacation, at most.....

Seems a bit retarded to me for guys (and gal) to be selling on the way down and hoping for lower prices, and seems to me that if any of you guys (and gal) were planning to buy BTC lower, then you would have already sold a while ago...


Therefore, seems to me to be either times to be buying or if you are uncertain about buying now to be HODL and wait to buy lower, if prices do end up going lower. 

In other words (am I repeating myself), does not seem like a time to be selling.... lots of mistakes seem to come from selling on the way down rather than buying on the way down.

Must be an inside joke to refer to yourself in the third person because whatever could be any supposed other joke is not obvious.

Just sell now.  Why wait?  Good bye.        Be missing you.   



NOT

I cannot see nor hear.  lalalalalalallalalala

Hey!!!!!!! 


We are not all getting drinks?

hahhahahaha

Way to stay on top of things, Icygreen....  

I agree with you jojo regarding the stupid-ass obviousness to the trollish occupation of the tard.....


But I gotta take this opportunity to admit that I had overlooked d_eddie's earlier responsive post, and substantively, my attempted defense would be that I was NOT making any kind of broad lumping of J.Bittarded and Tera dee beara, but just asserting that the two of them would have been on the same page in March 2017 or perhaps anytime in bitcoin's history in which they are proclaiming sorcery in their ability to foresee an impending bitcoin doom crash that is BIGGER and WORSE than any of us blinded bulls imagine (and throwing out their bull criticisms), and in this regard, it is inevitable that at some point these broken records are going to be correct in terms of identifying that a BTC price correction is imminent.



Actually I overlooked this one too..., and I am soooooo soooooooo sooooo happy (not) that you can find some kind of value in my posts, from time to time.   

That's Koreck Isaac Newton.  Even if we are not happy, we should be willing to make some lemonade out of these lemons.   

If you really believe what you are saying, then you are asserting fairly strong logic that peeps should be making their own assessments of BTC price direction(s) and taking various technical analysis with a grain of salt.  

Surely none of us knows the future with any kind of precision beyond asserting probabilities of event x as compared with event y, but some folks are going to be more in the ballpark in their predictions than others, and have developed strategies to profit from predictable volatility that has difficult to predict short term price direction(s).

Like you suggested:  Bitcoin bubble claims can be characterized as making money attempts mostly for:  1) those who are not yet in, 2) those who are invested in a competing product, and 3) those who don't understand what differentiates bitcoin from other assets.

Here's how I feel: