I tend to align with you more than the Op. It is just like a general knowledge that low price coins gives better profits. But the puzzle of finding these good low priced altcoins is hard. As you rightly said, many of them are scam, some are pure shitcoins without road map and maybe will depend on social media hype for temporal pump and dump. It is fine we understand that whoever invests in such projects is just gambling and nothing more.

My main portfolio is bitcoin, I have some stable coin waiting for where to invest it but no courage or confidence to do so. I don't actually know why it is so

Sorry about your health. May the joy which the bull run brings escalate your healing.

Very basic and static rules since bitcoin was created, but many decided to overlook the rules and do what they wish. But in the end, majority of those who disobeyed the rules cry. Many of the newbies are of the opinion that these rules are obsolete and you see them look for ways to cut corners and win the market. Some resort to investing in shitcoins, others join signal and pump and dump groups. But the basics is always better.

I am surprised that you requested for this. You should understand how this forum works and how we even advice newbies who post their addresses to keep them private. Op do not have to do much to prove to us that his story is true. For your mental wellness, just assume OP just lied and all will still be fine.

We are all carried away by the volatility of Bitcoin because we profit from it. Gradually we are losing the main essence of bitcoin or let's say other things bitcoin brings to us. We should love and believe bitcoin both at low or high.

The exact quote I was going to reference.
Bitcoin is built on scarcity model, the more it is lost, the more scarce it becomes and the more valuable.

How will you determine that a particular bitcoin in a particular address is lost. Maybe the owner is hodling.

There was much emphasis on signature ban;
If I should ask, do you prefer he should be signature banned or he should turn a good forum user;
I do not think it was a error not Sig banning him;
Maybe he was not wearing signature when he was banned;
Or his plagerism was not monitized;
If someone can get lucky to have a second chance;
They could be lucky not to have signature ban;
The forum is becoming more lenient than the way I met it.
It is a good development;
Since matters are treated or judged on case by case basis.

Good that OP made the thread. It thought you would have said the user called out by blackjack be ignored since they are not on DT and does not have the possibility of getting in any moment. Nice you didn't toe this path. That is how many people ignore users that left them negative tag because they do not possess DT power. Who knows how the coming years will be and they would my crook or whatever means gets into the DT and it will then be difficult to prove facts. Nice the thread is created since Blackjack has the vision of restarting promotion here.

About Op, I don't know him much. But the neutral tag left by nutildah could define something. But I am yet to understand how someone allows himself to be scammed frequently  

What do you mean by psychological trading and the way you used it is somehow confusing. You mentioned it alongside technical analysis, making it look like (technical analysis and psychological analysis), while in the real sense, it is technical and fundamental analysis. We need to understand that whether technical analysis or fundamental analysis, psychology is both required. You cannot be successful in trading by only reading the charts and candlesticks without using your consciousness. In the real terms, psychology exists and not an illusion.

Where then is the position of fundamental analysis. All these while, I have always read about fundamental and technical analysis debate and not technical and psychological.

I don't know whether op is practically asking how to use stop loss, like he doesn't know where to find the function in an exchange. If that is the case, all you need to do is to read from the particular exchange you are using as many people have recommended. Just like the programmers depend on documentations to succeed, you need to read how different exchanges implement their tools.

But in the other hand, if the Op already knows how to use SL, but was only asking advanced ways to use it to put smart the market. Well, he needs to ask the pros. Iam not a good trader and I have been lazy to advance myself. But when I was trying out my hand on trading, I had some issues with SL and ended up not using it again until I stopped trading.

My experience with SL was horrible. It happens as if someone is always watching me, whenever I set my SL, it doesn't waste much time to trigger, but after that, the market will reverse and continue to green. It has happened to me multiple times. I then decided to stop using the SL and then, the worse happened.

I experienced this yesterday when I wanted to access the forum. I didn't bother much about that because I was browsing from a strange location with poor network connection. I had suspected that it was due to poor network connections that made me experience that. This is my next time access the forum after leaving the strange location, I'll see if it persists. While many people have thought it's from the cloudfare side of the divide, I had thought it's from my own side and its network capacity.

Did you actually mention wallet signature verification before you login to use the forum? Is theymos trying to implement something new from the backend which is the reason for is happening?

I am very sure that moderators do not ban users based on account sales. So, in that aspect, he is free. The only punishment he should receive is the one he is suffering currently i.e red tag.

In terms of spamming, should I say that the moderators do not consider him a spammer or his type of spam isn't detrimental to the forum. Maybe if he shares link with suspected malware, he would be banned immediately.

Maybe if such a user is banned, he will just create more of similar accounts and continue their activity. Maybe the best thing to do is to contend them and use the red tag and flag to fight him.

It seems that Manchester United has returned to their winning streak. I mean the days of agony might be over for my dear club Manchester United. When you check the table, Manchester United has won 4 of their last 5 matches and drew only 1 without losing any. This is a good result to build on and I believe that with the return of some injured players and commitment of some lazy players, Manchester United can make the top 4.

About the young Manchester United striker - Hojlund, it is just a wonder thing that has happened. We all could remember how long it took for him to net for Manchester United in the English Premier League. But as it stands now, he is among the frequents. And one more lucky thing is that Manchester United coach, Erik Ten Hang has declared that he has much confidence in the young striker

FUD is an inevitable attribute of the cryptocurrency industry and also of the mother coin - bitcoin. People are always willing to jump in when the train is on the green lane. No matter how high it is, people will still jump in believing it will go more high. But when it is low, a few will buy while majority will think it will go low the more. So, only the people who has studied the nature of the market and stick with bitcoin make good profit from it.

We were all here when bitcoin was at the region of 15k, not quite long. Some others were waiting for it to hit 10k before they buy, others waited for 5k, a few started DCA while some but in bulk at the discounted price. That is how it works,any people missed the 25k region, 20k region, 30k region, 40k region and will also miss this 50k region. Maybe they will buy from 70k when there's a new ATH and the sell pressure at 100k might likely force the market back to bear and they'll panic and sell at lose.

Campaign rules of 3 different managers in the forum;

LOL. I didn't know I was so specific. There's actually no data to back my claim but I guess probably high and even upto the aforesaid 70%

Things have really changed in the gambling section these days. I made a post about stake campaign just above discussing same thing. Years ago when I was promoting Rollbit, there were many shit posts about sports betting. Some users do not even have a clue about the football clubs involved and the countries or leagues they belong. They will just read earlier few posts and generate a random reply from what has been said already. These days things have changed, which means the campaign managers have made some special kind of rules to combat spam. Also, even if I am not a Jollygood fan, I think he did some job to combat spammers, especially those that predicts match that has already been played and decided 

Live example you gave. Ronaldo did it and it did cost coca cola.

I have these to say;

• Spam is an individual based crime and not a campaign based crime  
• Although some campaign rules can indirectly instigate spamming  
• Stake has been called out as a spam campaign, but I have these to say about stake  

a. Stake minimum post to be paid is 25 posts which is ok. It is the bonus arrangement that makes her campaign participants wants to make upto 100 posts to have maximum pay.
b. Before now we could call stake campaign participants spammers but now they are no more. It seems that the manager made a certain rule that makes these guys post long wall of texts. I mean upto 80% of them write longer texts than myself. We all know that quality of post in this forum is largely measured by the length of post.

• Spamming doesn't necessarily mean making upto 100 posts per week. Someone could make 100 posts without spamming while someone making 20 posts will spam  
• If anyone makes upto 100 posts without bursting (giving upto 5 mins wait time), and these posts are highly connected, I would not call that spamming
• It should be called spamming when it is irrelevant or unsolicited  
• I do not see stake participants as spammers just like the then 1xbit. But if I were the manager, in order to erase the stake name in the mind of bitcointalk users whenever spam is mentioned. I'll simply rearrange the campaign to pay participants $100 if they make upto 50 posts, and maybe $125 if they can go 70 posts. The result will be same and the campaign will still dominate the gambling section.

Some of the high rank members from Snr members do this often than newbies. I am not sure newbies have this idea that the first responses get the merits. Any newbie that has this idea must have been told by the higher ranked members or the newbie isn't a genuine newbie. Talking about being in a haste to reply posts, some people have been mentioned severally in the reputation board for this purpose. Yet, the act keeps happening.
Most times, the idea is not to read others opinion and enjoy the conversation naturally. The idea is to earn as much merits as possible and rank up as fast as possible. Since there is an edit button in the forum, they could just type rubbish, submit and later edit it and let it be the first post in the thread.
The way to stop this act is to start denying the first few responses merits. But then the forum cannot do that, so we should just learn how to live with that.

While this might sound unreal, it is very true. I have faced such a challenge while I was a lower ranked member. Some of the established members does nothing else than to bash the newbies. When they ask innocent questions, they take advantage of the question to earn merits to themselves and demarket the questionair who is the Op. These things happen, but if you are not sensitive enough, you will not understand. A post that ought to get merits, but due to the first responder was hash and negative towards the Op, no one will drop a single merit for Op. Unless in a rare case that people like DdMrDdMr will.


  Some established members do the above while some newbies are so adamant. And in some cases they turn to be teaching the established members how the forum works. Things like this are offensive, especially for people who have been long here and know how unreal some newbies are

Over the time I have seen established and experienced members in cryptocurrency business advising the newbies on how to avoid scam. But in the end the number of newbies falling for scam keeps increasing as if they are deaf to advices. What happen is that the newbies think that the established members are preventing them from making money. In the end they get scammed and definitely learn from their mistakes. That is why if I advice and they don't take, I'll simply wait till they fall victim and learn from their mistake.


Many people do not actually know that this is scam. I have seen people create scam coins, make money from it and in the end they get glorified by the society that they are into bitcoin. While in the real sense they are scammers.

Trading is not all about buying low and selling high. There's more to trading and the others are among the things that shapes a trader. These are;

• Experience
• Patience
• Technical know how
• Risk management

You can have a very good knowledge of trading, but your emotions is poor to keep you going or you are very impatient. So, a good trader must have these attributes in a right proportion in order to be successful on the long run.

Some people know how to join but do not know when it is necessary to exit. At a time, everyone has laid their hands on trading, either as a noob or experienced. Some have failed and exited trading knowing too well it is not their thing. But some are still forcing themselves to be successful in something they know not how to handle. To this people, failure is inevitable on the long run.

There could be many reasons why many people do not actually trade or why they stopped trading, some of the reasons could be;

• Impatience to learn how to trade 
• Lossing more often than they win
• Emotional imbalance 
• Trading not their thing 

Why I personally stopped trading is fear. I am not sure I am using the right word to describe this. I have phobia for trading and this was induced in me from forex trading. I lost more than expected in forex trading, so anything involving candlesticks terrifies me.