Of course in every investment there are risk like losing value of the crypto that you've invested in and turning out to be scam especially in this bear cycle. I advice to carefully plan through where you wanna put your money into, cause this cycle is the weeding of shitcoins. Be sure to throughly research the project that it has real use in commerce, transactions or business not just for speculation.

As you get experience and get used to trading you'll develop strategies and techniques to trade i myself personally dont use bollinger bands my tools for indicators are MA, RSI and stochastic rsi and reading the volume also i do support and resistance technique to be as a signal when there's going to be a bull run or a huge dump.

From my own perspective yes it does affect the market when there's a fud or bad news it does significantly damage the price. Potentially making it fluctuate especially those investors that are afraid that they might lose money and quickly panic sell most of this guys are newbies and novice. But the current events right now the market seems to be unaffected by all the fud news and fundementals. It seems the market moves as the technicals or volume dictates. I guess the current investors of crypto are trader that's why the price doesn't get affected whenever there's a bad news.

Indeed bitcoin truly showed its strength surviving the bear trend and massive dump and this even weed out some shitcoins that might affect bitcoin's growth in the future. The massive correction enabled and has given us another chance to make millions or thousands in our investment, im sure that once bitcoin capitulated then people will start to buy in and a bull run will trigger.

This is why i hate kyc's especially when new projects with unknown devs are launching it that needed your personal information i dont know why they necessarily need it for but for god sake who knows what they're doing to our private data. They could sell it in darkwebs or even use it for their own gains like target marketing, identity theft and hacking other associated accounts.

This should be an example not to hodl in a long term when it comes to altcoins cause most altcoins in the market are dependent in bitcoin price especially in the bear trend some of them might not survive 2018 and 2019 is weeding out of excessive tokens that has no value. It's better to short and profit from it then exit rather than loss money in hodling, you need to set a specified stop loss to not loss 100% of your money.

I dont know about that but i depend on fundementals and technical analysis to make the right calls to buy or sell and stop my loss of crypto tokens. I just dont usually rely on gut feeling cause last time ive relied on it. I loss my investment well not totally but quite significant enough to not rely in gut feeling but in strategies and trading experts who really knows what their doing.

If you keep believing in others that bitcoin is a bubble burst then you should first do a research about the technology behind it, the development and progress over the years of bitcoin and how much has it gain support from big companies and institutional investors. You'll only get more and more confuse if you based your judgement on what others think. It's better to have your own conclusion on that matter.

This is a perfect example to not put all the egg in one basket. In fact we never actually know how much funds does an exchange actually has for example in the "proof of keys" event do they really have all the money to pay their users if all of them withdraw their funds. And even popular exchange, there's also a risk that it can be vulnerable due to neglected or weak configurations or bug.

People only do trading thinking they can make easy money and doesn't even bother to try learning the whole thing then just buy an unknown crypto because his friend says so then it dumps and his investment failed then post in social media and forums that bitcoin is a ponzi and then tries again this time joined pump and dump groups then gets scammed few months later loss everything. My advice dont be this kind of guy.

Actually, i think where just be going sideways for now before we go for an massive uptrend but it would be good also if we've seen a clear capitulation of the price for an uptrend to already start this years 4th year cycle. I would guess in the coming months will be in an accumulation phase so any dips or dumps would be a good chance to buy and add it to your portfolio.

This is why crypto currency is a way good investment asset then fiat because the price is not manipulated and not stagnant. People and institutional investors could make high gains just doing short and long term trading so if there's a chance that bitcoin is in its lows better accumulate while you still can or probably my advice is wait for it to bottomed out.

You should probably give up then. I mean the reason bitcoin is not bottoming out is because there are still people being optimistic about the price surging. What we need now is capitulation which means investor, holders selling off to see bottomed. We need more negativity and pessimism for bitcoin to hit its final low and to start a new rally.

Haven't heard about this projects will if you have concerns and issues of the bounty manager or project this forum is certainly a good way to speak up. I personally experienced a campaign and bounty manager bigotry who only cares about making money and not paying their participants properly.

Its not to late i guess until the price is still at 3000 dollar range then it wouldn't be to late. The dumping phase has already ended in 2018 this year according to the 4 year cycle of bitcoin the price should surge maybe in february or this month better accumulate while the price is still in lows cause it will certainly reach new heights this year especially when institutional investors and big companies and getting in.

The most notable move to take when trading in exchanges is to dont put all your money in one bag learn to diversify your assets or to be more secured put in a cold wallet storage like ledger nano. Crypto currencies are secured but the problem is the third party sites.  Who has sometimes vulnerable system or even neglected configuration.

The most important part of having bitcoins is having financial freedom and total control over your money the reason why more people are investing into it. Is because they're sick and tired of banking institutions exploiting their costumers in debts and regulations. Haven't you heard of fractional reserve ? it's where banks lend money that they dont actually have then charge you with huge interest. That's why bank runs are currently happening right now. Soon your proud fiat system will crumble.

Well basically SEC allows bitcoin to operate in certain countries like US not that it can't operate without SEC'S permission but it can help to avoid bitcoin getting banned and avoid getting treated us a ponzi scheme this hepls btc boost its popularity to investors and local businesses to be adopted. We dont need SEC's approval but it will certainly helps us.

Well, we all have different perspective when it comes to trading some hodls expecting huge gains and i think hodling is not bad either cause it keeps the price as it is without them the price would fall dramatically and you wont be able to make profit because everyone is selling and buying all the time a total market instability. I personally is a short term trader but i think these hodlers are necessary for btc to reach newer highs.

For me fundemental and technical analysis are both needed to gather information to make an intelligent decision in markets price action. When comparing the two i use fundemental analysis when i want to see if the token is continuously developing projects and has investors coming in and i do technical analysis to check if that token will go an uptrend, downtrend or sideways. So you use can those two to make an conclusive decision.