Could be longer than 21 months, too, and I put the last ATH as 8 months ago, NOT 7... from late November to late July.

Don't Puke.    HODL!!!!!,   HODL!!!!!!,   HODL!!!!!!

By the way, when there is quite a bit of increase volume and downward pressures, it may be good to wait to attempt to buy at a low point.  A problem with this; however, is that  the trend could reverse at any time and then downward turns into upward.

You can conclude until you are blue in the face that we should treat BTC like any other asset class or to suggest that it is NOT tangible and throw out a variety of other mainstream derogatory arguments, but that does NOT change the fact that BTC has several innovations that have NEVER been tried before in the same vehicle.  I am NOT going to go through and argue all the basics of BTC and BTC 101 - b/c those have been batted about through all kinds of forums, including this thread.  You may need  to read up, if you believe that BTC is some flash in the pan pump and dump.  BTC has continued extended adoption and continued and extended investments and continued and extended liquidation avenues.  IN other words, BTC prices are going up, it is just a matter of time, whether it is this week or whether it is within the next year or possibly, worse case scenario a little longer than that....

In any event, the odds are that BTC prices will be going to $700 and beyond in the next few months and then past $850 and into the $3k to 5K range by mid 2015.  Surely, this prediction may be off a little bit, but the idea remains that BTC is on its way up, rather than down.

In reality, we each have to come to our own conclusions concerning our beliefs of the long-term viability of BTC.  There may be a need for a stop loss, but really, I believe that a stop loss may depend upon news that BTC is broken, or something like that.... the trigger of a stop loss will likely be different for different people.

Exactamente!!!!!  The plan of investing while the price is going down does NOT need to be exactly how I described it b/c I quickly outlined a viable way to think about preparing for downward BTC price manipulations.

For example, I have had about $800 of BTC allocated in fiat for over a month, and I have been just waiting and waiting and waiting for when to buy with that $800.  In about a week, I have another $2,000 coming in.  That $800 will become $2800.  I will probably buy about $1,400 with that, and just wait to see what happens regarding the other $1,400.  I hate to run out completely of BTC allocated fiat - just in case the BTC price goes down some more.

I don't think so.  If you believe in the fundamentals, then you believe that ultimately the price is going to go up.  Each investor has to come to their own conclusions regarding what they believe based on the information that they have at their disposal.. and sometimes there are leaps of faith involved in such beliefs.

I doubt that the deletion of posts is coming from mods... it is coming from individuals (children) who are engaging in a concerted effort of solidarity to keep the post count down.  However, they can be successful for only so long... sooner or later, they will have NO more posts to delete, and then the inevitable 7777 comes and is surpassed.

This BTC investment matter does NOT need to be all or NOTHING, and really it remains quite risky to attempt to predict the market exactly.

Let's say that you have $1,000 that you want to invest in BTC;however, you are worried about whether the price will go down to $500.  Well, why don't you use approximately half of the $1,000 ($500), and buy some BTC now?  If the price goes down to $500, then you can use the other $500 or at that point you may have more to invest.  or if at that point you believe it is going down some more, then buy another $250 and wait to see if BTC prices go down more.

It is generally less safe to attempt to time the market and attempt to bet all or NOTHING b/c inevitably it remains difficult to predict.

I was of the belief that Chartbuddy's historical posts would be preserved b/c they could provide one objective and quick means to verify what BTC prices were within the stream of posts.

I am saying that the situation and balance is much more complex.  If we have a large system in which the very wealthy are enjoying enormous profits, then the solution is NOT to give more to them and to leave lower income echelons to the "free market."  The problem is NOT only about minimum wage but a lot of aspects of the role of government and government regulation and the use of tax dollars.  The question is also political in the sense that the community needs to decide how to allocate wealth and public resources and what level of public services that it wants to provide and how much of those public resources to leave towards voluntary measures.

Bitcoin can play a role in some of these macro-economic factors b/c it changes some of the dynamics concerning the value of money and potentially provides more control to the people concerning their being able to save.

Supply and demand considerations do apply to labor and this is just one factor to consider when determining whether there should be a minimum wage, and if so how such minimum wage should be applied to various sectors of workers or communities... and whether there should be exemptions.

Yes.  I understand basic economics, and I understand that there is more than one formula to be used to analyze a situation.  As you may understand, we do NOT use supply and demand to analyze all economic questions.

I wouldn't write off this thread so quickly...   The thread could bounce down to 7,000 pages, and in no time be back to 7777 pages.... or we could just hover at 7777 pages for a month, but sooner or later, the thread is going to run out of post deleters.

Yeah, right!!!!!!   Your ignore is like your going away..... We can only wish for such.

You prove my point, to some extent, by going on talking as if you know more than others about various subjects based on some potentially unique experiences that you have had and that others were NOT present during that experience to imply that you are more experienced than others. 

It is possible that you may be deluding others, besides yourself. 

You were NOT once like me, b/c we each come from different perspectives. 

Regarding meeting each other, I would NOT want to meet you b/c you appear to be unstable.  Generally, I talk with people the same in person as I do over the internet.  A major difference is that in person, I would NOT have tolerated such stupidity for so long b/c I would have left the conversation or caused you to exit the conversation - one or the other. 

Anyhow, good luck with your supposed secret knowledge about bitcoin that allegedly you are NOT sharing.

Yes.  I have used that term, "mentally retarded" several times to refer to you and to your posts and your ongoing refusal to appreciate your lack of insight into the world.  I actually explained that I have a lot of sympathy for the intellectually challenged, and by the way I do NOT claim to be a genius.  I also stated that I consider a problem with you is that you go on and on and on about supposedly knowing something of importance and materiality and getting caught on tangents in order to justify your position.   

There may be ways that you could correct such impressions, if you were to try to draft more meaningful and substantive posts... or maybe just read and think a little more before posting.

In any event, you are probably correct that I should be more forgiving of what seems to be such short-comings.

IT would be nice if you just went away as you had asserted that you were going to do, yesterday, but certainly, if you do NOT go away, then I can attempt to deal with your posts in my own way(s). 

That's fine... go ahead and attempt to tell your story once again.  You want a couple hundred thousand more?  What's your plan?  Do you have a plan?  Is your plan to troll your way to obtaining more?  Or do you have some more meaningful plan?

I find you irritating, but such irritation does NOT have any real or meaningful impact on my emotional well being.  I am NOT feeling in any kind of desperation, as you seem to maybe need treatment.  I would suggest that you use some of your dough to seek psychological treatment.

Yeah right!!!!  50/50.  you are giving way too much credit to these stupid theories about minimum wage being the whoa is me problem in society.  There are much bigger problems regarding lack of community input and lack of investment and too much money and control going to too few at the very top.  This has been a problem for a long time, yet you can muddy the issue as much as you want by trying to suggest that there is some kind of meaningful split of opinion... when there is NOT.

Oh is that what happened?  Mmitech was probably desperate for money, since he had sold his bitcoin and invested in stupid shit.  And, mmitech was a bit of an imbecile himself (presale, that is)

Yes, trolling is such an important endeavor - you cannot even remember...   Adam may do a service to this thread by exercising his first Ban with you.... though he seems to nice for that... , which is too bad.