Stop-loss is to stop your loss. DCA is to average your entry price over time. Their names are different and also represent the core ideas behind. They can not be use as alternative because stop loss is for exit, DCA is for entry. You can not call an exit is also an entry. That is very weird and never be true.

However, you can do your stop loss at $40k and make a DCA at $30k. Stop loss first and wait for price falls deeper to make DCA. So if you want to apply this, you have to do stop-loss early enough so that you can wait for deeper falls which would be -20% from your stop-loss price. At which you will have a new entry, for DCA.

The best advice I was taught when I was a crypto newbie in 2017 is don't use margin.

And you know what? I ignored it. In fact, I did have good trades but with margin, if you let your account is liquidated 2 times, your capital will go away. With a trader or an investor, capital is vital and if you lose it, you are done your trading or investment business.

Do your signal group gives you any warning about risk of margin, leverage and guide you how to allocate your capital for margin trading? If they don't teach you about that risk management, it is a bad group. No matter what signals they give you.

DeFi is part of altcoin ecosystem and we have Announcement (altcoins); Announcement (tokens). Most of DeFi projects belong to Announcement (tokens) which is a child board of Announcement (Altcoins) board. See theymos' classification on altcoins and altcoins (tokens)
Definition of tokens

Also it is not first time, it is requested. BITCOINTALK FORUM NEEDS A DEFI SUB-BOARD

Fact are:

• At start, people know of risk on CEX where they don't own private key & they think they just use CEX for short term trades.
• In the end, they become more familiar & comfortable with CEX so that original fear will disappear or blur significantly.
• They will leave their coins on CEX for months and in bad situation, it is beginning of nightmare

I am sure that not many people can be disciplined on how they use CEX. Make deposits, finish your trades and withdraw instantly after you finished your trades. Can you do so? I guess most of people will say No, because they have to take into consideration of withdrawal fee that is sucked and expensive on CEX. [1]

• [1] Old story. Exchanges get profits from users' withdrawal fees.

Agree with you. Emotional reactions from people who don't have enough experience in Bitcoin market. They said it because they don't have experience and only look at short term movements.

Manipulations are everywhere, in every market as well as ups and downs. Market can not rise forever and if it is a good market, downs are vitamins for healthy growth. Fortunately, we have a healthy Bitcoin network and Bitcoin market.

Why not?

You can not use that index for your decisions if you are a FOMO trader or investor. But if you apply the principle "Being fearful when others are greedy and being greedy when others are fearful", so yes this index can help you to make decisions. Obviously, it won't help you to find out exact bottoms but good enough to base on it and make your entry in bottom range. That's good enough.

You can check it with Bitcoin Yearly Lowest price that is a very good chart for considering long term trend of Bitcoin.

I made charts for Yearly Highest and Lowest Price

When you look at lowest price that means you are looking at worst performance of Bitcoin in each year. See, the trend is absolutely bullish. What do you need to get profit with Bitcoin? Simply get in and HODL.

You can enjoy them now but they are centralized exchanges and I am sure sooner or later they will require KYC. As a fact of regulation, we will see more regulations from governments globally. It is unavoidable trend because governments won't let the crypto market is free of their controls and regulations. Centralized exchanges will be one of first targets they will aim at.

In addition, always remember that "Not your keys, not your coins". KYC or non-KYC is not most important factor. The vital factor you must consider is you have to own private key of your coins.

https://notyourkeys.org/

No one challenge you here. You can simply enjoy the forum by reading. As a new member, please read first, spend most of your time to read (rules, pinned / sticky topics, tutorials, etc.) and only post if you want to ask something which you can not find relevant answers or if you have something helpful to contribute in discussions.

Else, don't post, just read and improve yourself

Also, pay attention on your writing style which should be succinct enough but still can express your opinion well.

• Welcome message in which you can get some advice from @theymos on how to write
• Bitcointalk posting etiquette

Most of traders fail in the market and most of us can not beat the market.

So even if you can become a winner, a successful trader, I believe you will have to spend expensive cost before you get succeeded in market. Especially it's a very volatile market like crypto where there is no circuit break, no margin of changes intraday.

Only you can protect your capital. Remember, protect your capital is your first priority, not gain profit. Because as a trader, you will lose all if you lose all your capital. After losing it all, you will have nothing to do in the market.

[BIG LIST] Buy/Sell Crypto (OTC, P2P, DEXs, CEXs, NO-KYC, ATMs, etc.)

That topic gives good list of P2P, no-KYC exchanges, so you can filter from that list and choose one that you like. Don't forget to double check on Coinmarketcap and Coingecko with Exchange score on Coinmarketcap and Trust score on Coingecko for an exchange you are interested in.

Many questions can be found in 

• Bitcointalk's important historic changes
• Hidden pages/ features on the forum
• List of the forum's admins/ global moderators/ staffs
• History of local boards

[Guide] Secure air-gapped crypto wallet storage method. That topic was written with many details, step by step to create air-gapped wallet.

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As far as I remembered, I calculated average from raw data given by theymos for each round. It's with his old data dumps.

• I take average of all slots in each round
• Usually there are 10 slots/ round but in some rounds, there are more than 10, up to 14 perhaps
• I calculated duration of each round by myself and double-checked with theymos data (old style), it matches
• So if there is anything does not match, it is how we calculate per-slot stats

I see recent months, theymos changed the data format but as said I stop updating that topic many months.

• You can double check it with current given data from theymos for each round. I don't know what he did in order to get stats for per slot, but believe there are not much difference.

You are right. The project has a powerful mechanism for Buy back and Burn. Why burn? It means the team don't get any benefit from Buy back process. If they don't burn Buy-back tokens, they can dump huge amount and this action will trigger a big red candle.

It is also very clear for investors that they don't have to feel fearful or worry about what developer team will do in future with Buy-back tokens.

So far, in total more than 400,000 xBlade has been burned from the mechanism.

Also, they have Buy back mechanism in Bonds but it's worthy to note that with Bond, no Burn! Only Buy back and add liquidity

Coinmarketcap and Coingecko don't list and track all trading pairs of xBlade which surely affect total trading volume. I mean stats are inaccurate a little bit.

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About Sales Tax & changes in Bond ROIs

In short, Sales Tax is reduced from 10% to 4.5%. Consequently, we reduce ROIs for BUSD Bonds: 7 days and 50 days, to avoid arbitrage compromise.

Note that with BUSD 50-days Bond, each new round, vesting time will increase 5 days. With $xBlade 220-day Bond, each new round, vesting time will increase 20 days.

BUSD 50-days is almost sold out, about 87k $xBlade left in this round.

For more details, please read

• https://cryptowar.substack.com/p/xblade-bond-updates
• https://medium.com/cryptowar-metaverse/xblade-bond-updates-c2ebe5b6fa95

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If you want to find a hidden gem, here you go, with $xBlade. It can be covered by abundant pump & dump tokens, but in massacre and bleeding days, you can find it more easily.

The project has mechanisms for Buy back & burn, Sales Tax, Bonds and more than that a solid and sustainable model. Check it out guys.

It is hard to find hidden gems but it is harder to be strong and hold hidden gems to harvest sweet fruits.

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Partnership & listing announcement

• We already partnered with Owl DAO + Owl Games
• $xBlade as well as $XBN are listed on Owl Games
• You can use our tokens to play on Owl Games with 3000+ games there

Sources

• https://twitter.com/xbladecryptowar/status/1487357807032553472
• https://twitter.com/OWLDAOio/status/1487354305112059906

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Also, let's check our report: Invest in $xBlade: One-page summary

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Thanks for the clarification. I don't mention it but usually, price will have some delayed effects from Fear and Greed psychology of the market. It is why we have win and lose streaks.

It takes time to end greed or fear of the crowd.

• Bitcoin Streaks (Rise/ Fall) - 2013 to 2020

This!

If people don't do own research and understand (at least basics) of a project they want to invest in and they simply make investment by advice of others, greed, in the end they will exit when they are fearful. Most of newbies do like that in the market.

They don't have to understand about Bitcoin in technical aspects, know how to code, run a full node, etc. but they should know at least

• Controlled supply
• Equivalent Network Time

You can get it there Forum's 2020 year-end report

See details in that post. Here I only reuse the chart for impression stats which somewhat represent the forum traffic stats. I did not update that topic for almost a year. 

This topic is for newbies who participated in Bitcoin and crypto market in last 2 years or just a last few months or weeks. I am sorry to call people who have less than 4 years in the market as newbies. Reasons: they have yet gone through a full cycle of bullish and bearish period so they don't really experience how rosy and bloody the market is in different periods.

Today, I would like to share a chart for Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index.
Newbies won't notice it but the chart does not lie us. If you are not too sensitve, you won't realize it. On the chart, the psychology of market in January of 2021 and 2022 are totally different. The first one is extremely greed (score is 93) and the second one is extremely fearful (score is 21).

It's time to practice and get matured in this market.

If you have time, read two other topics and related resources

• Bitcoin All time high charts and news; Bitcoin Obituaries
• EndtheFUD.org