What you mean by "look" ? The graphic designing or concepts ? I believe these are NOT enough things for making people to be attracted by being similar to bitcoin or with any imitations. Honestly, I'm not getting your point up to the level you meant. Looking into the team and roadmap are always important before adopting any new project and ICO. I believe many people are already doing this and only beginners of this crypto space might get themselves as a victim of those scammy projects.

Participating in to bounty program should be done after lots of crosschecking and verification. I'm not sure how many people are valuing their hard work that they are going to put for a campaign still I do see many scam projects are finding their success only due to the people who are all ignoring those crosschecking.

I'm always not preferring to contribute in ICOs for many reasons but the prime one must be I should not support scammy people. Instead of looking for making big money out of ICo, I am more careful on not supporting scammers, it is kind of being more conscious against scammers.

Honestly I do not need these many features because I'm rarely using them as I am no more into active trading for many reasons. I believe many people already had turned as the long term holder hence at least with respect to crypto trading, this kind of rich features are less significant for attracting more number of new traders. I believe these are the demand of active traders still I'm not sure how many of them will be making use of these.

This must be the reality. Like most people here, availability of a coin/token is the core deciding factor for choosing one particular exchange. When there are multiple exchanges are having same coin/token, I will go with better prices for my coin along with enough volume.

Yes, there are lots of aspects we need to cover so that we can find success in trading. Trading is not easier one unlike how it seems for the out side people. Because, when you are failing to match up to the point in any one single aspect then the total process will get collapsed out. But, when trading is becoming a practice, remembering and making use of our past experience will help to manage all the things of trading more effectively. But gaining experience and then using that experience at right time is the key for the any one to become a professional trader.

If you notice, professional traders never blame the market but they will go for finding where the actual problem happened and what caused that.

I agree that no one will be able to predict accurate levels of where the market will turn. But, for that reason how we can keep buying all the times given that how much capital an average trader will be having. I mean to say there are a lot of practical problems for implementing this kind of suggestion as no one will be preferring to buy for very small amount every time so we need to check many practical things before going for this kind of ideas like buying at every dips.

This is what has been emphasized in this forum many times like 'every trader must know what they are actually doing while trading'. It means we should not go for trading by believing in to someone else's calls because no one will be taking care of our capital like we will do. If we are strong in our research and analysis, making profits from trading even for newbies will not be a big challenge.

The thing about bitcoin is that price doesn't always do the same thing.

For example there is no reason to believe that bitcoin will go down like 2015 did when the price didn't actually went up in December like it did last year. Why would you think that bitcoin price will go down due to Chinese new year like some years ago it did while you do not think the price should have gone up during December ? That is just one example, it just shows you that bitcoin could do anything at any month but previously happened stuff doesn't reflect on what will happen in the future.

Could bitcoin go as low as 3000? It could go even lower, who knows. However it is just not certain, it could very well go above 5000 as well, both are as possible as it gets equally so we just need to focus on ahead and see what waits for us instead of looking back and seeing what could happen.

News on economic crash downs are looming out in faster pace in recent rimes, I read in another article about developing countries like India also may face such crashes. Indian reserve bank former president himself had predicted about bankruptcy of Indian economy if they are not regulating themselves. India kind of developing countries are having all enough resources to cope up any economy slowdown and as far as I have concerned India not heavily impacted by the recession in 2008.

Coming back to the topic, USA is having all their enough reserves and a recently I came to know about their gold reserve which is more than sum of world top five economically stronger countries. I do not think US economic will crash down if anything that will be happen then that might be worst scenario than what we had in 2008 (I hope no one could forget collapses of major giants like AIG and USA government's plans of mammoth $700 billion bail out to restore their economy in 2008).

It will eventually become decentralized. I mean even the crypto exchanges have a middleman right now, there are some decentralized exchanges between people where there is no middleman but that is taking sometime. If it is taking sometime INSIDE the crypto space, it will be a while before we can have other investment options in decentralized sense.

All the above, it is a right step forward to be able to buy stocks and so forth with crypto so you can actually still keep your money in crypto while investing into other stuff. Right now stocks are very low due to the economical crisis but if people start to buy stuff with crypto there than they can win double, both when crypto increases in value and also when the stocks go up as well. Which means they will probably suggest that to others and we can get more hype around it.

That is exactly what almost all good investors believe after a bear market all the time. Warren Buffett even has a famous quote "Fear when others are happy and be happy when others fear" or something like that. No financial investment option would go down forever, maybe it will continue to dip a bit more but in the end after a bear market there is always a good economy following that.

Look at the 2008 time, it was one of the biggest crisis we have ever seen in our entire life and right afterwards from 2010 to this year the markets haven't been any better. We have this right now and I think until 2020 it will be small/mediocre in the ROI sense but after 2020 we will have a 5 year period where everything goes amazingly great. That will be even better if Trump is not the president and someone with a bit of brain becomes the president.

Trading small marketcap cryptos is very much similar to gambling. Many professional traders are never considering Penny stocks for their portfolio. Because, they might get delisted at any time which will be leading to unexpected losses. I agree trading small marketcap may get double the profits also in very quick time but they are not at all good for holding. Like most of the people here, I am a long term holder of cryptos that is the reason I never finding this kind of cryptos interesting.

Do or die is not my way of trading. Slow and steady progressive is the thing, I am believing in to.

As per few crypto experts, marketcap nor daily trading volume in one particular exchange, should not be considered as a criteria for choosing a coin for trading. Because, we may get stuck in between manipulators.

If you are able to take FOMO out of a investor then he will never rush to investing and then it will be reflecting in delaying bull run. I mean to say only due to the rush of investors, we are having strong bull run and when investors are not having FOMO then there will be no sudden rush for catching the cheaper prices hence if you take out FOMO from investors that will lead to negative consequences.

But we cannot ignore the basic fact of trading, when someone is selling, the other one is buying. So we need all types of people so that we will be having a balanced the market condition. For example, when everyone will be holding that will lead to a bigger bubble and when that will be bursting out, most people will be booking losses that is the reason we are having bubbles time to time just due to having irrational people.

It may start by January itself but how far it will take the coins you are holding is the biggest question here. Because, many experts are predicting about sideways markets for the complete 2019. Hence, we cannot expect any big bull rally which will be setting a new ATh for bitcoins and ethereum. But, I believe any bull run which will be making prices better than what we are having right now, is most welcome. Because we have fallen into the deep of markets, need to have some quick recovery as early as possible.

On what regulations that you are talking about ? I have not heard anything about that as no states are on verge of making their stand against cryptocurrencies. But, SEC is still rejecting all the bitcoin etf applications if any improvement is possible there then we can be sure about stronger bull run. Crypto may fall due to negative news but definitely will not fall totally. You need to understand this fact for making better investments.

For the people who are holding since 2015 and from the bitcoin prices lesser than $300, last year was not a difficult one in some sense. I agree that could be more disappointments in 2018 as most of the speculations were referring something completely different. But, it is the a and we cannot expect always only one thing to happen.

Out of the factors given by you which will be influencing the bitcoin markets in coming months, I am believing in to "new investors". Yes, how much of bitcoin market is going to convince the new investors and institutional funds will be the key for what is going to happen in 2019. Institutional investors will get easily convinced when they are watching market is about to start.

But, the real kick starter will be new investors as they only will trigger the institutional investors. But convincing new investors to get into bitcoin adoption is a very big challenge. Agree or not, they are the real deciding factor on how this year will be.

Trading volume must be a significant factor for the direction of a market hence you cannot say that we are going to have a year with no noticeable changes but will be having increased volume. There are chances for downmarket with very low volume but usually rising markets will be having increased volume. When bitcoin prices are available for comparatively cheaper, it will obviously attract more new investors then we will be having more volume and a rising market which will lead to a noticeable change most probably .

Recovery always takes more time than the time taken for downfall. We are currently trading at the strongest support level since mid of 2017 hence most probably it will never get broken. It means we are into sustaining phase which is nothing but sideways movements and this must be the sign of recovery for the any market.

Tony Robbins is one of the biggest scammers in the whole world. He just... talks ? That's it, he knows nothing, he has expertise on nothing, he is definitely smart but not in the book way smart he is more like street smart. He charges insane amounts to give talks and his tickets are quite expensive to go watch and even if you pay nothing and watch him on youtube you can see that he talks about the same BS of self improving and self loving stuff people NEED to hear.

If you tell someone they are worthy and they are great and they are meant for something huge they will love you and thats how he won the love of people. He kept telling them great things, nobody made any fame by telling people they are worthless after all.

Moreover, in reality not all people are great. Now he talks about bitcoin? He is full of it and he can stuff his bitcoins where sun doesn't shine.

Because it gives them a sense of legitimacy. I mean lets remember bitcoin was seen as the "the money drug dealers use" just couple years ago, people who get into bitcoin at 2017 sees the financial investment or the commodity trading parts of bitcoin but us the old ones have seen bitcoin as this money laundering, contract killer payment, drug dealer type of thing just recently and from that point to this it has been great.

That's why Bakkt and sec will have great deal of impact on bitcoin, we are moving further from those days into a professional investment option used by wall street type of people and all around the world. Will that have positive effect on the price ? Surely. Will that have a positive impact on the VALUE ? Definitely, without a doubt even. It increases its value a lot.

Bitcoin will hit as low as $3400 or so at worst, I doubt it will go any lower but this is bitcoin and it will do whatever it wants so we can't really guarantee anything, who knows maybe it will go lower maybe this is the lowest it will go, but I just "assume" it won't go lower than $3400.

Ethereum on the other hand has a huge increase up ahead, with the new hard fork people will want to be part of the new stake family and will want to buy and keep making eth for a long time, the ICO owners that receive ETH for their tokens will keep their coins and stake as much as they can so all that combined ETH will probably no go below 120 ever again, probably 130 is a good number. These are all of course made up numbers, I do not have any reason why I said these numbers aside from gut feeling, I have no proof to back any of this up.

Politics and economics are tied together, just couple months ago people were claiming the biggest increase in US history like 4%+ and so forth and made Trump the king because of it, today we are blaming Trump for the sell off and the bad markets. He definitely has a lot of part in the markets and why things go down and all that but lets not forget that even tough he is the president he is just one man, there are bigger issues that lead to him being the president while he clearly is not fit for it.

The republicans have always been in favor of capitalists and making money for themselves instead of making the country better, even tough democrats are not any matter the last republican president left the biggest bear market in history for a democrat to fix and just as democrat one fixed it another republican scooped it up and made it worst again. We just need to fix the issue from the core instead of blaming one puppet.

I guess many countries have already started to study on this self-regulation as most of them are deliberately looking for what kind of regulation they are able to put on this crypto currencies space as this industry looks like beyond any control. I'm expecting a big success from this Japan's initiative so that other countries will be following it. I like this self-regulation as it will be ensuring the basics of decentralization is as far as I have understood.

Yes, that is now the case study for many European countries and they are all working on that. Crypto currencies are going to stay with us for sure but the question is how easily that is going to be. But, when seeing how Japan kind of countries are doing, I guess bitcoin may get into mainstream more smoother than we could imagine.

No, you can still get profits when BTC drops. Just get back into this discussion as many people has already explained various methods to make profits when bitcoin prices are falling down. If you ask me, we can make profit when BTC drops through direct and indirect methods. Direct method is some exchanges are providing shorting way of trading, you may go for selling first and then you need to buy. Second method is, making use of stable-coins for locking USD value. Just google for more information on this.

Leverage trading has anything to do with shorting kind of trading ? I am sorry that I'm not aware of why shorting needs leverage trading whereas why not we can go for shorting within our capital ? Do we need any more capital which is bigger than what actually we are having in BTC or USDT for usual trading ? I'm just curious what is the relation between leveraged trading and shorting.

I just go and answering you are in reverse. Basically, I am a long-term holder and I am not actively trading every day nor on weekends. Whenever I will be having some excess money after my life's need, I will go for buying bitcoin regardless of where it is trading. Usually it would be around $150. I guess this is the answer for your second question.

Monthly trading volume would be around $200 worth of bitcoin but sometimes I do get bounty rewards and I just go for selling them right away but most of them not exceeding value of $20. That may happen once or twice in a month but not for every month. My monthly average volume must be approximately $200.

I just want to know why you are asking this ? Is it part of any academic research studies ? I'm not seeing any poll you are conducting still you are collecting some information. Stating the core purpose will be the right way of having discussion here, just my opinion.