I've read this story over and over again, but it is not particularly true. Many would chase after the merits but with quality posts and would get it, while others would not chase after it and have quality posts and would still not get it. Nonetheless, some with lesser quality posts would chase after the merits and get it even more, so what you said is though a general saying here. but it's not particularly true.

The merits distribution on this forum is so unexplainable, regardless, do your bit and leave the rest. Nonetheless, if you are writing quality posts, it will often attract merits no matter how little.

No one knows.  If history is any guide and if you have patience then it is a fine time to buy, particularly with the halving coming up in a few weeks.  The time to buy is when you can because you never know when you will need bitcoin.

I once bought a Mac but it didn't make me more productive. I didn't understand the function of the Macintosh because I was used to Windows, so I chose to sell it again and buy a regular laptop that uses Windows. Additionally, when I use a mac, many of my friends think I'm "different" because I live in the countryside, which makes me uncomfortable.

So, I don't think luxury items will make us more productive, but the items we need will make us productive, whatever the price.

It's easier to trade this season because everyone seems to be moving up. I guess the ones that are benefiting here are the futures traders but don't get it wrong as when the quick dump has happened, a billion has been liquidated in the market once again. That's why if you choose to be a chill investor, you don't have to get into such trades but your only trade is when you buy and when you want to sell because you've already made a profit. But if you're going to do this often, you're likely to lose more.

Indeed, Bitcoin is used by many people to trade, whenever you want to buy it is certainly not an obstacle for all of us, it is an individual's right, regardless of whether the price of Bitcoin reaches $100-150k, basically the price of Bitcoin always increases and changes in price.

People's beliefs about Bitcoin vary, the point is, never forget to monitor Bitcoin price developments in the market at all times, the aim is not to lose, analyze, predict, Speculation and information about Bitcoin is important, Bitcoin has its own formula for users so that everything can be achieved well.

Trading is different from gambling but as we may have it, there are people especially traders that are not ready to wait for there signal to click or wait for there strategy to meet all requirements before they go into the market. They always trade based on emotions and what there thought tells them. We need to know what we are doing and avoid unnecessary loses because decided to gamble rather than trading. The is huge money to be made I trading if we can be patient and wait for the market to sail.

ML odds for now,

Taylor - 1.70
Catterall - 2.08

So Josh is a slight favorite going into this fight. And even if he is coming from a lost, odd makers think that he can win against his rival. I think the odds will remain the same here and I don't see a wild swing and make Catterall the favorite here.

But in any case that fans knows that Taylor is way past his prime already, then a bet on Jack will be good this early.

I think he is waiting for Bronny to play with him in the NBA before he will retired. I really doubt that he will stop playing next season or in the near future since he can still play very solid on his page in any role that he wants. He is just not that aggressive anymore due to his age but his leadership makes his team solid because his teammates rely on him.

I believe we will see first him play as a bench player first like Kobe did before he finally retired. He can still perform much better to bunch of other team starter tho.

Are you being sarcastic here or you actually mean this? PythagoraZ wasn't talking about being successful in gambling but rather, he's talking about making it a stable means of income. Being successful in gambling is of course very possible but you can not definitely make it your stable source of income. The word "stable" means steady and continuous. Your winning in gambling is not always guaranteed no matter how expert you are, this automatically make it impossible for someone to rely on it as their source of income.

Yes, because gambling cannot be used as a stable source of income, management becomes difficult.

One good way to manage gambling is to set a budget limit for gambling, such as 10% of your monthly salary or other percentage. We cannot determine how much profit we will get because there is no guarantee that we can win, therefore we need to determine spending limits because that can be determined

But it's best not to expect too much from gambling, because often we don't get wins but continuous losses which will worsen our financial condition

Wait a minute, this is not over yet as Northport had a big run in the 4th quarter. From a 15-point deficit, now it's only down to 5 points, and we have a ball game here. They might even get a win here; I'm optimistic. There's still plenty of time, so it's possible.

PBA games so far are very unpredictable; it's never over until the clock turns to zero. Good luck. I hope Converge will choke, or maybe we will see another overtime game tonight.

Converge had 11 points lead after the first half. We might see the same scenario in the first game, so I think betting on Northport is the right play.

They should all learn from Manny's exercise to strengthen his body or abs, here is a young Pacquiao doing that hard training and it really pays off,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpcso_3tj7c

Hopefully Gaballo will somewhat stop the bleeding of Philippines losing in title fight. Ancajas was the recent victim. All advantage points to Moloney, but this is boxing and it can change everything with just one punch. And as per the poll, majority is seeing Reymart Gaballo to strong a knock out victory, could be biased voting though.

I get your point and you're worried about your money regardless the price low or high, if you're not bothered about the profit then the money you used in investing will still stand like you made mentioned of $250. There's not point exhibiting fear with the price of bitcoin except you have zero knowledge about bitcoin, when the price of bitcoin decrease there's still chance for the price to increase that's one thing you need to understand about bitcoin, the bull and bear market, as an investor who want to make profit will want to sell during the bull market. You should have a clearer meaning about bitcoin investment cause it seems you speak with doubt.

Sounds like a really good profit taking strategy to me, you've got a target selling price and at the same time you're not selling all of it at once which is smart because that way, you can easily sell at more profit the next time or maybe even get some profit during the peak and not regret hodling for a long time and you're not wallet emptied when the price starts stabilizing then dumping again. I would've liked to recommend you to hold on to it and set a target price to sell but when you look at it, it's more logical to do this, make sure that you're ready for the transaction fees though, they're going to be really expensive during those times and probably it's even more expensive than the last time because there's ordinals now that's hitching on the network and just imagine what would happen when every retail investors are selling their bitcoins in droves in combination to this one, it's going to be a riot.

When everything's going well, it's cool. But sometimes (often?) money problems lead to divorce. Suppose your spouse/husband gambles a lot, his or her loss/profit ratio is acceptable (so it's fine), but then one day he or she has bet it all and lost it all. You've got nothing left (and no savings either). What's your reaction? Has this ever happened to you?

Another overtime game; last night, NLEX vs. Northport went to overtime, and now we have this game. It's never safe to have a good lead because any team can have a good run and bring the game to OT. I'm afraid that Meralco will lose again; that could really trigger trading Newsome.

The only set of people that are ever going to lose in this bitcoin game are those who sell when the time is not yet right. I mean, those who bought at a high price, but due to market conditions, out of fear, they sold out their holdings and ended up recording losses. 
 
No matter how much one ends up buying bitcoin, it's never going to lead to regrets. As long as the person in question bought the bitcoin with a small amount of his assets and can hold it for a very long period of time, they will eventually reap the fruit of their holdings. It's just a matter of time, which might seem to be taking forever, but with time they will gradually get to when they will take profit from their holdings.

When we are making an investment, we must have a focus on a particular direction on what we are doing, same also applies to when we are planning to make sell, we have to know that the particular time we are selling is profitable for us to release at the moment or not, I've learnt that we cannot just engage doing anything on our own without having any direction toward a plan for it.