I think that proof of oneself is what has made some members more reputable than others here. There are some members a lot of high ranked members can vouch for here and that's because they've earned the trust of the community. So, to that extent I will say that at some point we all have that opportunity to prove something.

Again, we may be seemingly anonymous with our monikers but that isn't enough shield to hurtful words. This is bad for those who don't have the backing of the community especially when wrongly accused or misconstrued. Words (hurtful or not) transcend the mere facade of usernames. People go through a lot in life offline. We shouldn't compound it with unguarded utterances in the guise that everyone needs to grow think skin.

Of course, this forum has proved to be a repertoire of crypto knowledge and great that you showcased what you've and also advertised us. You're a worthy ambassador.

Perhaps your people would've to consider a review to that old saying and add a prefix to the "father" knowing that there are fathers who aren't responsible in anyway. Supposed one has such a father it would be impossible to fly farther under his tutelage, isn't it?

I won't be surprised if some of the experts are members of this forum too but may not have revealed their usernames, considering the creave for privacy in the world.

In the real sense of it, I think everyone likes freedom. I'm not sure there's anyone who likes a regular job if they could afford money to stay away from that 9am–5pm slavery called a job. Financial freedom is what everyone who goes into trading seeks, nothing else. Money is the name of the game, whether we try to sugarcoat it or not. Financial freedom means having enough cash to make one stay independent and to the best of my perspicacity I think that's the sole aim why people work.

That logic doesn't work that way. What if those many trades one makes on the average are in loss, always? Over trading tends to weary a trader and cause them to lose track and focus on trades.

Honestly, I hadn't heard about that exchange until this moment. The first thing I do whenever I read about an exchange or someone tells me is to check up the rating of the exchange. I also did so now and what I found on Coingecko about Stormgain didn't impress me at all. It scored low there for me.



I wouldn't get on that exchange for anything. Just look at the trading volume. It's a huge no-no. How do you trade on such an exchange and don't expect withdrawal issues will come up? Of course, the exchange wouldn't want people taking out the cash and reducing their trading capacity and volume. It may not even be a KYC/AML thing at the end. I hope OP learns a lesson from this encounter and begins to avoid such average exchanges. There's a reason they're average.

Any profit gone, is gone and can't be retraced. Another profit that comes up is a different one and can't be treated as profit missed. Apart from the problem of most traders not using the Stop Loss (SL), not taking profit and allowing it run is another. For me, I try to break even once in profit. I hate watching my green turn into bloody red. Once in profit, I secure it. Traders should learn how not to be (over) greedy. Quite all right, there's nothing wrong in trying to get in more profit on a winning trade but overdoing it is bad. It's same way that being ambitious is good but being ovatly ambitious is bad.

I try to take like 30% or slightly above it on any winning trade and then allow the rest run until I'm sure it's juice is dried up, so to say.

You may want to lock this duplicate thread you have here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5368354.0 so that users can comment on one.

This is true. It's the same gimmick we saw when Dogecoin pumped, every new project picked the "dog(e)" tag. I saw a lot of them without teams, just shenanigans picking profile names on LinkedIn to plaster on their scam projects. It's the same way I see every other project that isn't Shiba but has the "inu" tag. The truth, regrettably, is that a lot of people like to pick those memetokens because they think with as little as $10 they can become millionaires over night once it hits $1 or $0.1 price. Can you beat that?

Well, I'm thinking hard how that loan part with someone else's KYC can be possible, with documents that aren't credit card. I mean, if one submits government documents and another tenders them to get a loan, there should be a picture there on the document of course. At least, I know passports and national IDs have them. Isn't it? Even cashing out money at a bank doesn't come that easy let alone getting a loan. The screening is always stringent. To me, except a bank is unscrupulous and involved in the racket there's no way someone else can get a loan with another person's documents at a bank. Again, won't the bank match the loan seeker's signature with the signature used in opening the account with them that it has on its computer? If there are properties as collateral, in whose name are they registered?

In order not to sound remote (while recognizing that this thread isn't about KYC being compulsory or not), let me quickly ask you – would you rather trade at an average exchange not requiring KYC or a more trusted one requiring KYC?

I don't think that's so. All a user has to do is wear a logo and anyone who visits the forum or posts here will see it and if interested, will click on the signature logo and be directed to the project's web site. My thinking is that all that user's farmed accounts wore the signature logo and the purpose – (advertisement) it was intended would've been achieved.

That's absolutely correct! Account farmers are always the first to dump even when price is abysmally low because they've several of the bounty tokens to make a huge gain.

That's the only logical explanation that can sustain that huge number of farmed accounts. The owner runs it as a call centre just like we've them in India.

I think reverse is the case. People don't easily insult others when confronted offline or in person but they can easily do that online. Keyboard warriors and soldiers always find the slightest opportunity to throw those who are even older than their parents under the bus. In a forum like this, what we may notice is more of bullying rather than disrespect where more established users tend to lord it over lower ranked members. Members who do that believe their high ranks endown them with knowledge and age, and this may not be true. Often it has proved not to be truth.

BTW OP, I will like to hear your story on how you got scammed. It's so that others may learn a thing or two from it

That would be hypocrisy at its peak and a lot of people are fond of doing that. This is the major reason no sensible person should copy the social media lifestyles of others. Humans tend to pretend a lot.

I strongly applaud this . It's the same way I feel and react to issues regarding respect. It can't be forced but earned.

This is the hardest part for most traders. No trader wants to exit the market (that's the point of the loudest ovation you literally referred to) only to see the same market go further in profit and that's why most will foot drag on taking profit. While it's not a bad thing to want more profit on a traded pair, it's bad strategy not to have an exit point. Every trader should have a TP set and must not move the TP further without adjust their SL position.

You wrote as a Fundamental trader with the news and all that atuff. There's nothing wrong in that but you've to realise that trading is beyond fundamentals. There's a technical aspect to it; that which enables traders make a  long term decision based on the parameters of whatever their indicators have been able to show them. Again, anyone found trying to base their crypto knowledge on what they get on the supposedly "twitter page of Elon Mask" according to you, isn't a real investor for me. Elon may be the richest man alive but that doesn't mean he has trading experience or that he's profitable trading. From the little I know of him online, he's more of a hodler than trader. So, why would anyone take his trade calls any serious then?

If your post is in any way meant for beginners to follow, then you shouldn't be advising that in quote ☝️. Leverage trading should be the last thing to ask a beginner to go into. Yes, it allows someone with limited capital access for more trades but once the loss comes you will regret ever going for it. Again, most veteran traders don't even use Stop Loss (this is bad though), let alone beginners who may not even know how to fix it. Spot trading is best fit for beginners, than leveraging.

First off OP, the number of times one stays in the market/trade doesn't determine how successful and profitable one can be. To even be negative about it, one can lose all week days' trading gains by trading on a weekend. But be that as it may, I don't really see any difference in trading into the weekend. The only nag would be that the market won't be as heavy and active as it would ordinarily be during week days because certain traders would want to go on a vacation or simply stay off the market. Remember the saying, all work and no play makes jack a dull boy? Everyone deserves rest. We don't have to be slaves to money. Work a bit and then take a deserving rest. Ordinarily, weekends should be for family and religious activities.

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Yeah, and that's because a lot of traders stay off the market and make it their off days so they can unwind and spend cash made previously on themselves.

It's like you were already answering your own question, by the way. However, let me quickly chip in something I read CZ Binance said about crypto. He said the best way to be wealthy in crypto is to hodl it. If someone heDl a single Bitcoin since 2015 and never sold it, the person would be in great wealth, no doubt, unlike if they tried to trade it (which most do and then lose out on it). I share in CZ's view point and this is why I'm of the opinion that hodling is also a form of trading. But it's also pertinent to note that when one hodls one should know the right time to sell.

Nevertheless, to grow wealth will mean investing and reinvesting. Then lead a minimal life of luxury so as to safe cash too.

In the past there had been alts that surpassed Bitcoin in unit price, though not in market cap. But that isn't where all that ends. There's something that goes beyond utility or use-case of cryptos, for me that's trust. A lot of people have got that trust for Bitcoin. They can confidently put their money in it and peacefully go to sleep compared to others. By the way, there's a reason that makes Bitcoin stand alone while others are referred to as altcoins. Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that isn't referred to as altcoin. If any altcoin surpasses Bitcoin price, that won't be anything special and I don't think it will affect Bitcoin's relevance. The only thing I know that can destroy Bitcoin is if the 21 million scarce supply is changed to something more.

The Lazio token was an instant hit once the IEO was over on Binance. It flew to $26+ same day it was listed and that was a great ROI for a token that sold for $1 at launchpad. Barcelona has its token too called BAR and it's currently trading at $16+. Clubs creating tokens for their fans is now a trend and I believe more clubs will follow suit in days to come. I want the frenzy to get to England immediately as we've seen it in Spain and Italy.

It's absolutely bad to flaunt one's wealth. What's the gain in doing that, come to think of it if not to intimidate others. For me, only those who are in showbiz can flaunt and it's justifiable because flaunting in a part of showbiz. Otherwise, there's no need one letting others know about one's bling bling.

That kid's life won't be the same again. It's scarred for the rest of it. That horrifying trauma of his kidnap will perpetually be there in his subconsciousness to torment him. I'm sure his sleep will be nightmarish this day. Again, there's likely to be repeated attempts on him now that people know he's worth something; except his parents are able to provide him private security. It's just goodbye to childhood for him. He may not be able to lead a normal hassle free life of children again.

Four years is a slap on the wrist for such a heinous crime.

Honestly, even to me too. It's pointless with that minor leverage. Anyone who trades Futures with that abysmal leverage should just stick to Spot trading. Futures isn't for the lilly hearted. It's tough and quick either way – winning or losing. It also typifies the saying, "If you're scared of dying, then don't go to the war front." It's a bloody place to be. Sorry, I had to used war as the closest analogy there. Futures is a more radical angle in trading than the conservative spot trading. I don't even do Futures myself in crypto. At least, not yet.

You want people to post their ranking up achievement on your thread, and you're moderating it? Well, for even reintegrating that your thread is self moderated (apart from that we can already see it on top this thread) may even scare people away from posting here. It simply means that only you choose what to allow and what not to.