Whale is an imaginary umbrella term used to denote big investors and those who trade in volumes that can influence the market movements. Someone specific it might not be but using that term "know the movement of whales" is a vague one and an incorrect one. You cannot know big market movements before they appear but you can prepare for them. Likewise you can buy at the low price when the market is dropping, hoping that whales will buy and raise the market while selling when it reaches the top.

Dont be fooled by what some users say on the internet, there is always a chance that market might move in opposite direction. Small investors should not get into such talks, they are counter productive, but focus on the long term gain.

It essentially means that the trading activity is low. To improve this, the marketing team needs to ramp up itself and start doing promotional stuff on different social media, conferences and online gatherings. Gradually there will develop a group of investors pumping and dumping the coins on a regular basis and the gradual growth of the name of the project.

This is tough for a project that has already gone down and investing in it at this point would not be something I would recommend. Most altcoin projects end up dying out a painful death for it's investors as the developers abandon it and move on while investors are left with bags of junk coins.

If the project is young and the use case solves a problem that actually exists, try to motivate their team and see if marketing can make a difference.

With the price of bitcoin going back to 19k and sliding even below, downfall is definitely possible - but this is a price and not a project's downfall.

Specifically giving statement is not possible because every project is unique and prices dont necessarily indicate the current development status of any project. For altcoins, if you have faith in a coin, do invest in it at the low price, but the faith in important.

For bitcoin I am expecting further crash and therefore my suggestion is to put a hold on the buying for sometime and observe the market for further movements. Day trading should be stopped by any newbie at this point.

It is a continuous cycle and running along the cycle without getting devastated by seeing price changes is the key here. Pro traders see bearish markets a the time to accumulate and newbie take it as the time to panic sell - there lies the difference.

Of course the market will recover but that does not mean that in the bear market one will start moving the new coins because the older owned asset has gone down in price. This is the mistake done by inexperienced traders and those who lack the knowledge of historical charts of bitcoin.

Patience is important and impulsive decisions taken at the wrong point will lead to bad outcomes. While currently the bear trend is strengthening, I do expect even lower prices to appear but recovery will happen as a rule.

Accumulating smaller fractions over time is also what I would have suggested if you had asked this question before having invested in real. But assuming you did all this in real nothing more can be done at this juncture. I hope you were not high during taking this decision.

That nice feeling you are having is temporary and it will not comfort you when you run out of liquid cash at hand which I assume you are already lacking, hence the loan.

Still I hope you make some money from this investment plan. But taking a loan would be the one thing I would never suggest a fellow bitcoiner to do.

My suggestion would be once bitcoin rises, sell the asset at profit and cash out, payback the loan once you are breaking even or profiting, rethink your strategy.

The downtrend tends to affect people's nerves and also the fact that the prolonged bear market has an effect on both the wallet and the moral of a trader. In such times I feel moving away from the market for a short period of time works wonders. By that time some of your proposed orders will have been completed and you would be delighted to see that you are accumulating the right asset in the right direction.

Liquid money crunch is the problem that one will face in such times. In such cases, just stop buying for sometime and let the market recover. After all you will make money when you sell these assets at the bigger price so you have to wait it out anyway.

The important thing is not to panic sell and exit, that is the test of patience here.

The bear market reveals what lies under the veil. The truth about altcoins being nothing more than shitcoins in the major numbers and that bitcoin is the only coin worth putting money in becomes evident here. Of course bitcoin will also drop in price but its history clearly shows that it recovers gradually back to its prices and gives its investors good returns on every rise.

The lack of development and mismanagement of funds in majority of newly launched altcoins added to the fact that the mainstream market cannot be compared with altcoins in place of their fiat equivalents makes the entire thing a problem for merchants and hence the low adoption.

Even if bitcoin starts bull run, people should understand that the extent that altcoins might recover is small and hence gradually it is time for bigger and better things.

This is exactly what many altcoins tried to do in the first few years of their inception. However things took a different turn which smashed their optimism. You see, you need merchants accepting an altcoin as payment for that dedicated service. Or they have to start a new chain of services under a name in order to sell their products or services in exchange of that token. Starting this from scratch is a whole different ballgame. Most companies who were raising capital in the first years of ICO craze wanted to do this but after understanding the reality they stepped back and changed their vision to something less daunting eventually dying out.

Such ventures will take time and a lot of investment from the owners to compete with the existing market leaders. Hence it is difficult for a niche group to start this. But maybe in future we will see more adoption in crypto and gradually commonly known merchants will be accepting bitcoin, altcoins and their own specific token as well.

I cant believe that there is a site of that name being run on the internet for shitcoins in real.

In all seriousness, these coins are never going to get quoted on CMC or CGecko which means that even searching or attempting to accumulate them over time is a futile venture. Only the bagholders who got those coins at very cheap prices will dump their coins one fine day and the enthusiastic owners will be suffering the losses.

For such insight, take a bow sir, take a bow.

I am not sure about the "afternoon" part, because this is not like the stock market, bitcoin is traded 24*7 for 365days and hence somewhere or the other it is afternoon.

But I do see differences during paydays and weekends, the former showing a slight bullish trend and the later showing stagnancy or even a bear trend.

To be honest, time of day is not that much applicable to an asset that is traded every second in my opinion. Some others might think otherwise - but I feel it is an oversimplification of trying to fit bitcoin into the already existing fiat asset classes.

For me the best time to buy bitcoin is when it is in the bear market, that is what newbies should keep in mind.

The main point here is faith and belief in the vision of the creator, if you partake in those, do invest in it at the lowest possible price. It does not mean that the project will give you a profit but your support might be what the creators need. But again do assess the fact that 99% of shitcoins are scams or failures from the start and the creators only hype it to gather the money and bail.

My honest opinion is that the altcoin market is a bigger Wild West than bitcoin is. Almost every coin you find here seems like a shitcoin which is designed by a bunch of 10-year olds and hence does not impart any mature economic visions for me. Furthermore, majority of these are made with the intention of "testing the crypto waters" or plains scams. Hence I stay away from the altcoins as much as possible. I find investing that time in bitcoin has given me much easier decision making and peaceful nights.

My opinion is that
1.It is a market and there will always be someone buying and someone selling.
2.No price is forever here.
3.The bull nor the bear markets stay forever, but they are continuous cycle.

Hence the above question in the OP title becomes a null one. When we are going to recover from the dump the bull market will gradually start again. But the strange thing is that during a bear market the attention towards that asset declines but again rises during the bull market. It should actually be the opposite if everyone was to make profit.

Truth is that if everyone joined in during the bear market, there would not be so many rekt people.

I am not so sure about the altcoins though, their track record is bad and although the top 10 will survive a bear market, how their long term value unfolds is not worth speculating on.

But for bitcoin, one can say with certainty that the future price will be bullish and this bear trend is already seeing a reversal because of the constant movements happening at 20k USD range. We might see a break from these movements towards one direction, whatever it might be, we can handle it like a pro trader if we know how to approach the market in general.

Obviously newbies will panic during a bear market, but knowing that every dip is a opportunity to buy takes time to sink it and so this is nothing different to the veteran traders.

Getting involved in the forum discussion will gradually lead to accumulation of merit, it is a grind indeed for many users but the point of coming to this forum should not be ranking up to join a campaign, but to discuss and learn about crypto in general. I can see this from a newbie's perspective to be a daunting task, but merit sources are generous enough and do identify quality posts with tact. Read and try to get involved, it takes time and you might not like it but it works out gradually.

I will say that bounties have always been like that and airdrops even worse. The only thing that does not change with bear market, is the bitcoin price and hence should be the one being being aimed for.

Bitconnect saw its stud days too and then crashed as well. It was promoted like anything specially among low income countries and became a very popular topic of discussion among the common users in the casino trollboxes too. Then there are these social media friend circles where such coins become circle jerk topics and then all buy it like anything.

Eventually they will all lose and the same cycle will repeat after a few years in another name and in another form. The winner is the person running these scams and not the investors. Chit funds and HYIPs/Ponzis exist in real life while LUNA exists in the internet. No difference between them at all.

Regulation will not stop such projects from being popular. If someone willingly wants to get scammed without doing research on the project they are investing in, why will the government force them to stop?

Altcoins have the habit of not recovering from dips not bitcoin. You can confirm this by looking into bitcoin charts and comparing them with altcoin charts. History will speak for itself.

You dont need to find the deepest dip. When the price drops, everyone will flock into to buy, so catching the lowest price is never possible even for a quick trader due to a lot of factors. But buying at a low price near that lowest point is important. You might completely miss the dip, in which case just wait it out. Trading is not about being the best, it is about being consistent with trades.

A likely scenario during a bear market. If you already bought and spend all your allocated budget then just wait for it to go back up. If you havent spent all your money, keep buying in smaller fractions as it goes down. Note these in a personal chart so you know when you sell how much profit you are making.

During the crazy days of altcoins which was around 2015-2017 ICO tracking sites became very popular where they used to list upcoming, running and closed coin offerings and there used to be tabulated info about the projects. There also used to be a review and a personalised rating given to each of these ICOs from the site itself.

What they lacked is transparency and legitimacy - these sites used to be paid by ICO teams to hype their projects and get "premium" tags on their website so as to get attention from the incoming traffic.

Hence never use such sites to drive your investments. Do your own research and by own I mean initiated by you, not available elsewhere like questioning the advisors on linkedin yourself. Only then you will get to know how many are just pumped by these advisors and how many are only faking about their advisors.

Some users of the forum have been attempting to get into every bounty and airdrop possible, this only leads to a waste of time and electricity because these coins will be worth dust in the next few years and they will only be inflated with big but fake promises.

Still such users will not learn their lesson from older members of this forum and continue to do so. The craze behind bounties has currently reduced but it is still there. I dont get why such users dont attempt to improve their ranks gradually and then go for bitcoin paying signature campaigns.

Getting rich is not easy, but needs a clever approach, which is not going to be through bounties or airdrops.

A government can regulate the amounts coming in and out of an exchange and thereby tracking the KYC of the accounts running those trades. From that a lot of information regarding owned assets, taxation and possible tax evasion could be checked. But for that centralized exchanges need to run under government reins which has not started yet. DEX and how they operate is also vulnerable to government crackdown. But these things should only instill fear in the minds of criminals, average Joes like the major number of users in this forum need not worry.

This is what I feel how regulation will start. In my opinion any change is good for the future. While some people might argue otherwise, the number of scam coins on the market is way more than the number of legitimate projects.

Therefore in future some middle-ground needs to be reached and a type of regulation may happen. How? we have to wait and see.

I would play on a no-KYC casino or those who have a less strict KYC implementations.

Deposit bonuses and cashback are not that important for me since I am not a chronic gambler. Therefore those things are out of the question but I am sure many addicted gamblers depend on these for their quick shot bets when they run out of cash and hence they exist.

Again giving my KYC documents and getting identified with a casino in the future could be bad for any person depending on their local government rules, in that sense I dont think this group will be a large one at all.

After all, the anonymity of crypto gives the advantage to gamblers who want to hide from governments or worse, their spouses.