People who certainly have nothing to want to do, will always look for an excuse not to be a part of something. Security is one thing that can be a problem for someone who is careless and not knowledgeable enough to know how to stay secured in this space.

As long as you are careless with money, the same fate anyone who is in fiat and leaves their debit or credit card vulnerable is actually the same fate they will always experience anywhere they put in funds. It is more like putting gold in your apartment, and then always leaving your door open to the whole world to see the gold you have, with easy access to and then thinking someone will not take advantage of your stupidity.

You know when people say they do not have luck when it comes to trading; I tend to realize how they have actually ended up getting it all wrong right from the start. Trading is a profession and every profession requires learning and because a lot of people take that with levity, they tend to get burned at the end of the day.

Gambling and trading actually work together in some ways. if you are trading without a strategy, you are gambling, and that will always give you the worst experience you can ever imagine which is what makes people like the OP depend on luck, but on the other hand, if you trade with knowledge and great experience, then that makes you a professional and in this way you are not trading based on what you expect luck to give you but based on what you know.

Totally right, although recently, there has been some discussions regarding the team claiming during the recent proposal to audit that the USDT market is backed by real dollars available in a certain bank account and I guess like you said, the only thing we can hope is to just assume that to be true but as it is, I just want to believe that assumptions rule this market.

People are always bound to want to believe whatever that just comes to head which is why sometimes, paying attention to news and rather looking for facts on your own is always a better way to go.

Bitcoin was created almost a decade ago. Now it is one of the most known investments in the whole world. It is the "new age" investment method for people who are tired of stocks and forex.

Now considering in ONE DECADE, bitcoin went from "some unknown source creating a fake digital money" into "the new investment method of this age", I think worrying about drops like this is futile. Bitcoin is strong with us, we are the ones that makes bitcoin a big deal, we keep it at the spotlight.

Calm down on FUD days and just keep on promoting and making good headlines to your friends and family, the better public awareness we create, the more people will come.

If he has a very good trading knowledge and experience which is always the first thing that is important for anyone who wants to trade anyway, using different platforms should not be a problem. Most of the time choice of coins can make one to use certain platforms or mixed platforms. It is a good thing there is API in which you can easily trade on any of these platforms without having to log into them using other softwares like Coinigy on desktop or tabtrader on mobile.

After bittrex, I am finding all the comforts with binance. Even I have cleared the KYC requirements of bittrex, I am slowly moving toward binance. Whenever same trading pair is available in both of the exchanges, I do choose binnace for various reasons including all the ones you just mentioned.

That freedom that decentralization brings actually cannot be under-emphasized because this is one criterion that brings value to this space as it is. Judging from the way things have been over the years, centralization ends up giving a lot of room to control, manipulations, monopolies and a lot of things being affected with bad economy policies and in the case of decentralization, I believe we are all a deciding factor as to how the market goes in terms of demand and supply based on usage.

Apparently, everything in life will always have a pro and con but if we really want to look at the advantage that the decentralized space brings to common people, we will both agree it is far better off than centralization.

Centralization is just a part of the system that tend to benefit the elites, government and the banking system, while the working class and lower class tend to be the ones to bear the outcome of crazy policies that ends up affecting everything which is something the decentralized ecosystem rules out.

Very sure about that considering that hackers will always want to look for loopholes almost every time and then it is either they fail or they succeed. For most of the reputable exchanges, it has really been a good time for them to find those loopholes and to also evade the risk of being hacked at that moment and in the future. I have seen some cases of some DDOS attack, but at the end of it all, the exchanges were able to rectify it.

Using different password for different website and not using easily hackable passwords/using lengthy passwords are few other additional things everyone must follow. I do hear lots of hacking stories since I have entered into online earning. I was working in PTC sites before. I mean these hacking problems are not just due to high value cryptocurrencies.

There is actually no other way to access someone's wallet unless the owner ignorantly ended up leaving it vulnerable and in that case, it can make it a lot easy for anyone to gain entrance into the wallet. I think so many people usually end up being a victim of a phishing attack, or probably, ended up being a victim of malware and all these is the reason why people should always try as much as possible to stay secured, so they do not end up being a victim.

I have never really seen any kind hacker unless it is just some hacker who really wants to just play with you or have fun with your emotions after already stealing chunk away from you. Moreover, the wallet actually becomes vulnerable as long as the hacker already have an access to it, so the best way is to simply abandon the wallet and go open a new one to start making use of. I wonder why someone would steal $80 out of $200 when he could have the chance to steal everything. Something sounds vague to me here though.

However stats want to look, people will always want to spell out dooms day scenario in any of it. Altcoin have gone down in value so it is expected to see their market crash go down hugely, but we also have to understand that this is a general market condition that affected bitcoin as well, so no coin or token was left out. As long as people tend to cash out profit and there are panic sellers, there will always be occasions like this until market finally bottoms out.

That is what every smart investor should always do. The experienced investors always buy when everyone is panicking and selling without assurance where the market is going next and then also selling when others are buying. It seems the best way to always take advantage of the market is to always do the opposite but most of the time people always prefer to just keep making decisions emotionally in the market when they should be taking advantage of it.

It won't explode, all of those things are considered in price way before it happens.

It won't be like 6 thousand dollars on April 2020 and 60 thousand dollars on may, if the price goes up then they check the dates and it increases slowly but surely before hand.

Hence, if you believe that the price will be effected (naturally) from miners not selling for cheap and all agree to increase the price so they can cover the costs than you can assume they will start it way before that, maybe not from today but the affects can be seen even today, it will happen closer like 6 months before or so. That way it won't happen all of a sudden.

There will always be whales in every market and there is nothing anyone can do about. They may be controlling the price as it is, but that does not change the fact that the market is still extremely very speculative and this is why it is always so easy to manipulate, coupled with the fact that it is a decentralized space and there is simply no regulation.

Everything about a price depicts how the market is and the market is not ripe yet for us not seeing FUDs and people not taking the right step to invest when they should. For sure, we will get to see bigger value in the long run as adoption keeps increasing and the demand for its usage becomes a reality than just a speculative market. This should make anyone know that the best thing to always do is to invest no matter what, and there is absolutely no way we can completely eliminate the FUD, unless maybe we reach the laggard stage.

$18k mark is something that could be possible if we get to see some pretty good move upward this year, but I really would not be counting on it so much, judging from how things have been over the years and for the fact that we are still in a bear trend at least for now. It is hard to always tell what a market will always hold and the thing we can do is to just keep monitoring the trends and then, we can see where it leads eventually, but I would not say $18k is not a possibility.

Everything is always possible, but technically, there are some things that one may not seem could be possible much but all the same, as long as we cannot tell what the future holds, it still does not mean we will not always get to see some possibilities or some surprises in the long run. We could say for what it is worth, we can actually get to see bitcoin attaining some good height, and $18k is not that bad, but all this would depend on what the future certainly holds anyway.

Well, it is not just about people panicking, we also have to understand that people got greedy as well at some point and this is more like the ripple effect of a greedy market. It happens everywhere when it comes to people participating in FOMO, and there is no way a market would go so huge, that at some point it won’t reach a stretched state and therefore would need to correct.

Every market is bound to face it and I wonder why a lot of people make it sound like it is only applicable to the cryptocurrency market alone. Moreover these types of falls are not new for crypto market by any means because bitcoins reached $1200 levels for the first time in 2013 and then setting up then ATH by 2017 only. In between time, it went as low as $180 in 2015. It is just cycle of every market and crypto markets are not an exception here.

It is just exactly what anyone would want if he is a whale. The simple fact is that they want to always find a scape goat in the market they can feed on, and that is one thing about them, as they are the market makers anyway. They have the resources, the funds to be able to hold up a market in a way they want it, make people believe what they want them to believe and then, they strike whenever they feel like while those who are just pup petting around, tend to be the scape goat in this scenario.

The reason why controlling the price movement is so easy anyway is because the market generally is highly speculative, we have a lot of not so experienced traders since it is a market easily available to all, and then no matter what, there is always someone to take the bait. I would not say that is not fair, I would rather just say, it is a greedy way of them trying to make more money. Still, this is the main reason why real life usage is necessary globally, and that is the only way we can be able to see the manipulations subside.

I want to believe that mentality based on how gambling has been perceived right from the onset is actually the main reason why a lot of people still link criminal activities with gambling related activities. Now, that there are regulations in some casinos, and they obviously will not want their license taken away from them, or the owner being in a mess with the government for illegal activities, I am sure a lot of criminal activities have been curtailed in the gambling world.

I guess anyone from this gambling community will agree with you as no one could predict what a frustrated gambler will do. Also, ending up in severe frustration in gambling is a most common event, we do see both in online and physical casino. An addicted gambler may turn as a criminal at any time as their urge to continue gambling may enforce them to do anything.

That would be a very interesting factor indeed. At least, with such kind of factor, you can correlate how you are doing at the moment compared to how you should have done if you go the other way. There is always the need to have an informed decision or will I say a feedback on your strategy which is why correlations like this are always important. I would really suggest this factor as well, but all in all, it is a good thing for the OP to be sharing such a brilliant strategy.

Choosing only 4 to 5 of them does not mean on the average you may have more or less than choosing all what he has chosen. What is important is to just choose the number of coins you know you can handle and then stick with them as you keep managing your portfolio like the OP did. It is a good strategy and good of him to share it with the community as a lot of people may not even understand what re-balancing is all about and how it can help them.

Scalping is very risky and then scalping on a leverage trading platform again is even a lot riskier. You really do not have to trade on leverage platform before you scalp, as you can simply do that on a normal trading platform depending on the level of risk you are willing to go with. I understand that sometimes, shorting the market as well can be a good way to get some extra profit on your trade. For scalping, I have always been an ardent lover of Stoch RSI and Moving Averages, alongside volume and that is always a good one for me.

1 minute is actually not reasonable and I wonder why it is even available on exchanges anyway. You have named very perfect indicators for scalping and these are basically the ones I use most of the time myself and I have been able to do well with it over the years. As long as you remain with your strategy, you are principled, you know how to manage your funds appropriately well, and scalping can actually be very rewarding.

This time it really disappointing me. When the price goes down to like 6.2 thousand dollars or so that means it usually reached the bottom, however the good part whenever it goes from 6.2 to 6.5-6.6 thousand levels it usually goes even higher to 7.2 thousand levels which means that it follows a trend of 1 thousand dollar going up and down most of the time.

This time it got stuck at 6.6 and did not moved to $7.2k levels. Previously when it hit 6 thousand levels we saw 8 thousand, than when it went back to 6 thousand levels it went up to 7.7 thousand levels and after that it dropped to 6 again and moved to 7.2 levels, this time it went to 6 and only moved to 6.6, the increases drops with each time. It is scary overall .

Usually, as long as people will always want to relate historical events and tend to want to place it with what is happening currently, articles like this will suffice? A lot of people believe that the last quarter usually bring some goodies to the market and probably that is setting up some excitement in the market for a whole lot of enthusiast or those who are looking forward to at least recovering from the amount they bought during the peak. However, expecting a new ATH this year should totally be out of it.

People already know about bitcoin, the popularity has always been there and the news revolving around bitcoin right from the onset and all these things have been bringing a lot of enthusiasm for those who understand the benefit the future brings with this space and are looking for the right moment to be a part of it.

The hype has not started yet, and it will only start when you start seeing FOMO rushing in. With some good news though, we can see some pretty good push before the end of the year, but I would not consider something so serious.

This is a decentralized market and that will always bring about the volatility. As long as a market is pegged in trading pair against another currency pair, then there is definitely not going to be any form of stability and if by stability what anyone is referring to is having something that would not fluctuate hugely and rapidly, then I would say for a young market, we are not even close yet, and before we can start seeing something like that, I guess we will have to look forward to real life usage.

Upward fluctuation in long term is the reason why most people are here and still holding their bitcoins, however bitcoin may attain stable value like gold (not exact stable yet less volatility) but it may take more decades of time.