Lol.

@OP, Bitcoin is never been long term investment if you focus on small moves of the same. It can profit you with 15 min trade and it can loose you more than what you can get in a blink of an eye. Believe me it can get better at anytime. The only thing you can do is watch for the moves, and react.

I believe currently there are no coins which can give you good return within a month. Only some coins which are newly launched and are in the stage of hyping themselves. For example, one coin that I am watching closely right now is TBE token from the TowerX project. They are in the process of making their TBE more widely spread by calling new projects to get listed on their platform. I am already holding great TBE their and wish that they will spike like anything within a month. The team itself is very active and always their at your support. I guess they will sure pump the TBE to all new levels.

I thought so, ETH is still in the heart of many investors and yes it is also my choice for sure. In fact ETH is perfect right now as it is at its bottom price of 200 USD> I guess there wont be any great discount than this and I will always take this as opportunity to buy more and more ETH. I see ETH's potential because Vitalik is already improving the platform more and more. The supply which has gotten increased today for ETH will surely get invested before this year end and can boom the ETH for sure. In 2019 ETH situation will be even better, more ICO's will start coming for sure with more rules and regulations and thus making it far bright.

That's big dump man, very big dump. I mean thats big dump and I believe that it will take big time for you to recover. I mean in crypto you can expect the boom to come but that can take huge time to do so. I mean crypto currencies are volatile and mostly they tend to go down very fast as there are more dumpers than supporters all the time. ICON is also looking like going out of the way so you my not expect anything more out of it. Its better to wait for little spikes, reduce the loss and get out of it. Thats the only solution for you I guess.

What is bad year? There is no such thing like bad year because what happens with the crypto currencies is the output of surrounding nature where the investors matters, government decisions matters and much more things. This year things are odd because major decisions are being taken on the matter of ETF by SEC and the increased SEC involvement into the Cypriot currencies is actual thing making people uncomfortable to make the investment into it. May be this is why it is taking longer than usual for the crypto to overcome the current situation. This is just my opinion about it because there is no other thing which is as big as this one.

Literally died laughing when I read this one, and yet I am replying here. LOLZ.

Yes off course this is major concerns these days, the safety! It is very important that one should be having good platform with security measures taken for the safety of our funds. Now anyone trading on the exchanger with good amount is always fearsome because you are literally giving away your money to the exchanger when you place your trades. There is no way to recover them if something bad happens, like hacks, scams etc. You dont own private keys over there so you have to be cautious about it always.

Another approach is, volume, prices, number of coins and market cap for the exchanger should be in good standing position.

The only experience that I have got from the trading is, you should not be selling the Cypriot when the crypto currencies are actually entering the bear market. The sell should occur at the bull trend and not the other way around. If you have missed the train of trading like that then surely go for the holding and long term trading only. Because the only way to recover from the loss occurred in such way is to hodl whatever you have with you. With the time you can change the trade according to the way market is moving. You should always be liquid with your trades and always make the decisions with at most care. Then you can see yourself how the trades are working best for you.

Well things are changing rapidly these days and what to say about the advantage that you have mentioned here. The thing is, bitcoin is not that secure these days as it used to be earlier. You mentioned that its safe to carry it but no it isn't until the news hit the market where theft forced person on the street to give his private keys and transfer the bitcoins to him. This way things are changing and its not even safe in the bitcoin world also.
I know these things will be happening at smaller counts but they are happening and soon it may become matter of concern.
In terms of technical use off course bitcoin always outperforms itself.

Unbelievable. Its money anyways so one might have to believe in such crimes. Also heard one of the biggest story last year in which bugler actually confiscated victim in his house in Australia, and looted his wallet by forcing him. So this kind of news not new and they will keep rising as those who are doing this knows the bitcoin and crypto currencies very well. With the time, people will have to be more anonymous than ever and not to show that one carries bitcoin in their virtual wallets.
It creates doubt though, how those people come to know who has the bitcoin. 

Thats not possible for sure. These companies have been established four to five decades ago and has taken huge hard work to achieve the position at which they are toady. I guess with the time they have also developed themselves with keen attention over the details and what the world needs. Only these changes that they have made so for has gotten themselves into the position that they are in today. Without this no business or entity out there can grow so fast and so vast really. How many people does even know about the crypto currency with full fledge ? May be very less % of people on the earth knows about it fully. So its hard to say that they will even dethrone the Amazon, apple etc.

Indeed. Most of them even dont recognise the crypto currencies at all and all they know about it as something trading stuff. They have no in-depth idea about it so how can anyone be expecting them to use it for the purpose of real life affairs. A global decentralised only, that really sounds very big title with great responsibilities within it but its really a fakery and nothing else. People are not willing learn about it, the average person just recognise his bank, cheques, cash, and online banking and I am sure if surveyed then they will never want to try out these.

I dont understand why the current situation is not good for the crypto trading? I would say any situation for the crypto is always good and favourable for the crypto trading as long as you are applying the strategies according to that situations. If the market is in bear state then obviously I will put myself into trades which are going to be long term and thus will probably hodl my coins. Apart from this if I ever see that im already trading in the bull run then I will take advantages of short peaks and valleys to perfect my trades and go with it. Thats how it works mate. So if there is any situation out there then it can be perfected according to your trade.

As far as I remember, during the last year things started to pick within a week so there is still hope for the best to come. Lets grasp one important thing that crypto currencies can be very manipulative and thus at nay point if whales or big millionaire groups thought to pump it then they will do it willingly. Last years study shows that Futures investment and acceptance of the Crypto currency from Japan were the leading factors for this and thus a good news can also impact things nicely. We need such sparks this year also. I guess its too early to judge about everything, at the very last movement things can go wild.

I will be honest with my answer, and first of all I dont buy it to support the technology but I buy it for my own purposes like investing, making my wealth grow more and more. I am always following the success mantra of money makes more money and thats why I invest into the crypto currencies. I am not sure how many of you think that this is the way one should look after the crypto but, its merely a source of making money these days. There are just idea's about the new projects which are represented in front of us as ICO's but eventually we all know that they are just way of raising the money, making fund raisers for the company and whoever invest in it hopes for the returns from their investment.

Yeah , I have seen that most of the ICO's are also being created in the Philippines because that country is getting more and more crypto friendly. So off course we can judge from that Philippines are getting some more attentions and regulations being done.
Though they are saying around 5 crypto currency are being regulated in that country then also I would say it is completely positive about all the currencies out there. There is no such thing as regulating 5 crypto or 6 crypto. If government is showing positive spark about few of them then ulimtaley the market opens for almost all the currencies.

Actually many times new investors are following the new coins so this can also be beneficial for the exchanger to get more and more volume day by day. Many times people are waiting for their preferred coins to get listed over the exchanger and if any exchanger is first to do that then people go over the exchangers like that. This way a positive drive comes by and thus can change things easily.
Major coins will surely come over the exchanger but first making the name in the market is far more important than just having big coins listed up front.

May be that can form a good option but not that much good as if it will create a healthy environment for the crypto currencies. I mean if everyone stopped making investment into the ICO then how do you think that new coins which may have greater potential than the current will exits or will be created.

This can be bad and also there is always need to have changes in every field to improve things better and better. So in case of crypto currencies it is the crypto coins which are heart of the crypto world which needs to be improved all the time. Thats why ICO;s should be there.

Now scam and legit are the parts of different story I believe.

So its metal all over again I guess. Yes off course metals are the best investment to this date and in that we know very well that Gold, Silver, Platinum etc. Now I believe that with the time these metals are getting rare metals as well and thus getting more valuable to date. This year is big boom for the Gold and collectors of it are already enjoying like 6-7% hikes in the gold.
However with the time, there are more options now, like real estate where lands are getting more attention now and they should be invested very often we have enough money.

There is one stop solution for this problem : stop the FUD.

There you go you can't have best solution than that I guess. China has always been shown as the master of everything and that does start from the technological advances as well as myths about controlling the whole world. In the entire history we just heard that and nothing else has happened in reality.

Now just because they go for higher ranks in ASIC vendors then it doesn't mean they will overocme everything. That's complete FUD and what can I say misconception about the China.

Yeah, emotions and trades is the worst patch ever lolz. Many times I have fell for this one and I had all this without even realising that I had this loss because all I did was emotional judgment about the crypto trade that I was in.
Yes you do this all the time without even realising and no matter what how much you can control yourself you do such mistakes many time.
There is no comfort zone in the trading as the situation is always stressful and thats because you are staking your own money. When it comes to the money then you for sure fall for it.