it is a little hard to say without knowing which coins they are. but i would definitely never choose the option number 1 because for 1BTC it is too much of diversification and not all of them go up at once and keeping an eye on all of them is a bit hard for me. can't keep track of 10 coins

but buying 2-3 coins at once is a better option in my opinion. it is easier to manage and decide on exit strategy.

well trading is difficult no matter what market you are trading in. specially when you are just starting to trade things will look strange, hard and unpredictable but as time goes by and you get to know the things that affect the market the most you can make better trades.

and i still say trading cryptocurrencies is much more profitable than trading in Forex and you can do it with a big capital and fast.

don't worry, they will start to come out as soon as there is some reversal and they get desperate for another dead cat bounce to get their short term profit out.


you mean $43
and the only reason why it is still up and kept up is that bitcoin price has gone up which makes the multiplication bigger otherwise it is getting dumped real hard.

working harder only gives you more income and there is always a limit on how much you can work and how much income you can earn. but this topic is about "investment" and it is not as hard as you think. it certainly is easier than working more! you just have to find the good investments that suits you and then go in with some decent amount of money.
it can be bitcoin or altcoins or even real estate and then make money from it easily and by practically doing nothing.

the stable price right now is both promising and scary when you look at what has been happening in the past few days.

it is scary because we are after a pump and there is no denying that and price can go down specially if bitcoin tries above $1100 again.

but it is promising at the same time because of the accumulation that at least seems to be happening and also as far as news goes SegWit activation is at nearly 59% but again it is scary since F2Pool has been trolling yesterday and if it keeps up we can be sure of it otherwise it was April fools lie

p.s. LTC is the 3rd highest volume right now and that with a rather stable price in past 24 hours.

which one to buy is never a simple question with a simple answer.
there are traders who are making millions by trading Gold, meanwhile there are others who bought gold and lost money! and the same goes for anything else.

where you live and also when you want to get in and how long you plan on holding are the questions that needs answering.

bitcoin is obviously a good choice since it is like buying stocks of a big company like facebook or google when it was super cheap and nobody know what they were. so obviously there is a lot of growth potential there when it comes to long term.

"can be used" or "someone is using it to..." doesn't mean bitcoin is being used for all that you said.

and as all of them other thousand topics about this say, criminals will never choose bitcoin which stores ALL of the transactions on a public ledger for everyone to see!
instead they simply use CASH which is accepted everywhere with no problem and is untraceable.

the best time to invest is when the price is cheap. but you should define cheap first. being low doesn't mean it is cheap.

altcoins have low prices but they are not cheap they are actually very expensive, in some cases they are over-priced. for example when they are pumped.

but in bitcoin for example, since the price will rise one way or another in the long term, you can call any price as cheap and buy there because in a long term investment you make profit for sure.

i had all my good feelings about FTC when it was 400-500 satoshi ish and sold them happily on 1100 satoshi and made a nice amount of profit, apart from other short term trades i have been doing in FTC on bittrex

but to be honest i was holding FTC for 20K-50K price pump (and it can happen with this coin) but i decided against holding it for that long so got my profit and got out.

right now it is impossible to predict the price of bitcoin by the end of the year because so many different things can happen. although i am sure price will be higher than current price.

for example if we finally move on from this FUD about the split and we can get some momentum behind SegWit then we can expect a $2000 by the end of the year and that would be a small 100% rise which is not even as big as the previous years' rises.

p.s. we are above $1100 right now.

there are at least 10 altcoins with talk of SegWit and a couple of them have already activated SegWit.
they are such random coins that i can not remember their names. let me do some search and if i found them i will update here.

edit: topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1777136.0 (looks like only 1, although i thought VertCoin activated it though!)

how did you conclude that it was dead?
- litecoin has had a very stable price for a very long time. it was worth $3.5 for the most time and fluctuated from $3 to $4 for the past year.
- litecoin has a lot of users and a lot of Full nodes for a very long time.
- it is constantly improving and it has a good developer team.
- there actually are some real world usage for litecoin although they are not that many.
- the trading volume has always been very decent and high.

now how do you call such a coin as dead?!!!

with all that said, what is happening now is a pump and it always happens in all the altcoins, they get pumped and their prices go up in 4-7 days then they come back down to normal price levels.

i honestly don't see any of the altcoins to be a viable alternative investment to bitcoin in long term.
however i completely agree that they are awesome short term investment even better than bitcoin when you look at them during the pumps. for example i have made 60% profit yesterday from LTC and today i made about the same percentage with XRP and now i am back in bitcoin holding it.

and all the rest of the so called "viable" investments are getting dumped the two bigger coins which made a noise have dumped down -44.3% and -20% which is a lot of money lost for those who stuck around and those who continue to do so will lose even more!

in the end when the dust settles you will see that ALL of them are pump and dump and there is only bitcoin that survives and continues going up.

it is still tied to fiat and not even CNY fiat (i think there is a equivalent bitCNY thingy) and that will still need verification. and these regulations aren't because of fiat it is mostly done to prevent illegal activities on exchanges.

and why is it trouble for bitcoin traders but there is no trouble for Forex traders!!

the whole point of ethereum, meaning the basic thing they have started their coin on was to have a big supply so that with that big supply they could have a fake market cap and because of having a big market cap stay on top (number 2) and on top of the news.

that is also why they never thought or said anything about the max hence the unlimited supply for now.
if things become hard to manage and sell pressure becomes big they will flip the switch once again and hard fork. the only positive side is that we can see our coins double.

$24?
hold, what do you have to lose! 24 bucks. don't worry about it at all. hold and enjoy even if price goes down you only lose a couple of bucks ($4!) and if it goes up you again make small couple of bucks ($2!)
monero is a good coin anyways, and although it has been pumped recently but i don't think it is the end of the rise.

i think you are trolling

and again, who cares
the other ETF didn't do anything for us and this one and the other ones in the future aren't going to do anything either. even if it were approved it is a third party selling "promise" not the real thing. it may be a tiny bit better to show bitcoin as a legit investment but i can not see how that can have any kind of significant effect either with approval or without.

we are experiencing a bear market in my opinion and it looks like one of the longer ones these days. with all the FUD and the crap that has been around lately the price seems to be staying low at $1000 range for the time being.

but in this year, in long term i am expecting this period to end in 1 month tops and then price will start a new faster rise. by the end of the year we can expect a $1500 price at the very least. but if things get better and the sell pressure is removed sooner we can even expect a $1800-$1900 price too.

i don't know about you but when i chose bitcoin i didn't choose it because of its fees, i admit the low fees is a good feature and it is still pretty low compared to any other method that we can use to transfer money.

i chose bitcoin because it is decentralized and nobody can control it, it is secure and it is being distributed fairly and without any sort of scam that altcoins have such as premine.

and from your comment i think you don't know what real potential is. you should take a look at the real world and the real usage of bitcoin instead of reading the altcoin pump scripts.

it is funny how a topic from exactly 1 year ago is still applicable today. it seems like people don't want to learn, as if they are resisting to learn something from their mistakes and mistakes of others and are still falling for the same pump and dump over and over again!

each day i open bittrex to check on my orders i see another -10% drop in ETH in red color right on top of the dumping list.