Since we are all here to learn things about cryptocurrencies and to share ideas with each other on a way to increase our knowledge and revenues on how cryptocurrencies market work and how to make money from it, I think it is very important we understand some basic things about how the cryptocurrencies market works and where and how to rendering services for money,  selling products and trading coins in an exchange platforms as a newbies in this forum.
Of a truth I am among those that becomes rich through investing in cryptocurrencies in 2017 and I keep appreciate the ideas behind the whole things.  Having been trading forex,  commodities and stocks it was easy for me to diversified into cryptocurrencies trading and that is because I know how to interpret candlesticks formation and chart pattern and I learned all this without paying a dime from the followingsites : https://www.forexpeacearmy.com, https://forums.babypips.com, http://pumperspicks.com/ultimate-altcoin-buying-strategy/
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Because of the ways price behave, most times it is very difficult for the market to keep going up and sometimes the support and resistance level limit price within range because there is not enough momentum for the price to break the channels and that is exactly what we see happening now.  It is very important we also understand that $5500 is a strong resistance level and when this trading area is broken then it will be easy for the market to cross $6000.

I started to learn on how to trade in 2009 and that was on forex and stocks trading. Though bitcoin has been existing then I did not know about it until in 2015 when a friend introduced me to the cryptocurrencies market.  Since then I have to switch over to cryptocurrencies market and of a truth it has been profitable!  I have gotten my own share of profits from the cryptocurrencies market and I am still developing my skills and intelligence about how to trade better.  I will advise you to join us in trading as this is the best ways to make money from this market.  However,  trading entails risk and I have been trying to  reduce as minimal as possible in other to maximise profits.

I do agree with you that the bearish trend that commenced in December 2017 has come to an end when bitcoin and others cryptocurrencies went down to an unexpected price in December 2018. I do think that we can actually take the advantage of this lower price at the beginning and buy because it might be difficult to see price as low as this in next 2 years to come.  Now I see bitcoin strongly to retain $5200 and if that support level is well established then we should expect it to move close to the resistance level at $5870 trading area.

Coinbase price is relatively cheap and I think most of the price we do see in analysis and on coinmarketcap are coinbase related.  However,  it was two weeks ago that I open account with coinbase and I have makes some transactions there.  I think we are not having problems of exchange as many exchanges are out there and few are not good.  I do trade with poloniex since 2016 and binance,  hitbtc, cryptopia and latoken.

We have started seeing many positive predictions coming into the cryptocurrencies market and that is really a sign that the bearish trend that prevails last year might be coming to an end.  The cryptocurrency market has been favour with many positive articles this days and even on bitcointalk here we are seeing positive posts and comments unlike last year when everything was negative.  I strongly believe that bitcoin is going to surpass $9000 before the end of this year and that means if we can buy and hold till then there is no way we would not be in profits.

Though it has not happened to me before but I am very careful with my private keys and password.  I have an online wallet that I have used for more than three years now and I keep the private keys offline but still afraid of friends that may lay their hands on it and withdraw my funds or coins from my wallet.  I think we are at a time that we should follow op advice and recommendations since email is no longer safe to store our private keys.  I have enabled 2 factors authentication on all my account because of hackers activities and since there is no safe system I also pray that God should keep the eyes of evil people from anywhare I store my coins.

Maybe those one that you have invested turned out to be like that but we have see many projects in the past with large soft and hardcap and performed very well in the market.  I think we should focus on the scam people with big and technical ideas but the aim is to rub us our hard earned money that was invested into the projects.  For now I have decided to only invest in those projects that has existing products and services.

That is why some of us that has been in this market since 2015 keep saying bitcoin may recover this year because of the patern that it has been  following since 2016. It might be difficult to believe this but bitcoin is following the recovery faces that we witnessed in 2016. I am not seeing much bullish trend this year but the market might be a bit better this year than last year and we might be heading toward the type of bullish market we have in 2017 at 2020.

For now I think the cryptocurrencies market is in the bullish momentum and most of the technical indicators are showing uptrend trends.  I will said if you have a long term view it is better to invest now than waiting for a downfall or down turn before investing.  

In this case the best thing to do is google some good cryptocurrencies informations and send it to them on whatssap,  telegram, Email or any other channels of communications.  If you have decided to pass those cryptocurrencies informations to him in those channels and he is still not interested, you can now refer him to some forums like this one and explain to him that he can makes money from them through rendering services and selling goods and since we always like to make money through rendering of services and by then I do believe he will pick interest.

Most of us that has been following this market has feel the same joy time to time when prices appreciate and that means we should not be sad when things go on a contrary!  When bitcoin  or others cryptocurrencies went deep down it is always the best time to invest and if we can be patience when it went up we can sell with good profits.  I could remember my own own story when I buy bitcoin around $1650 in March 2017 and sold them in December 2017 with good profits that I used to buy the current car I am using.

It will be difficult for any coins to surpass bitcoin in terms of market capitalization and value in the next ten years because of the foundation that it has establish among the decentralized cryptocurrencies.  Almost all the physical structures of cryptocurrencies in any country has bitcoin as a foundations and I don't think that this foundation can be wiped away by cardano in the next ten years.
I think bitcoin is going to serve as money market to the cryptocurrencies market and at that I believe that it is going to remain the dominant coin.

Both binary options trading and forex or cryptocurrencies trading are risk investments venture and there are just a little better than gambling.  However,  I think binary options is riskier than forex trading because it is just one way things and you just did not need patience and much skills as it just deal with put or ask and whenever the term and time of your investment expire you either lose your investments or make 85% profits.  Though you are in charge but remember that the odd is completely against you and by investing in it your chance of winning is very slim.  In forex you have a bit opportunity to keep holding and in a long run makes profits from your holding and patience is required also.

It is very important that we should understand that icos'market is having bad time as it seems many fakes projects bring bad name to the cryptocurrencies market and icos market and as such I will said we would be good if we should have time to invest we should also create time to read the whitepaper and study the roadmap very very well.  You should make sure that the products are aready existing and we should be able to invest in project that has been listed in some populars exchange because Most of the projects lose 95% of it original values and that makes many investors to loss money and as such make people to lose interest in investing in icos.

As humans been we focus more on survival first before thinking of profits and expansion.  Trading is a game that we don't always understand the end and as such it is very difficult for some of us to makes money through.  95% of traders lose money and only 5% makes profits from the market and be among those 5% is what should make you a full time traders.  Remember that in trading you must understand the technicalities and Fundamentalities of the market.  You cannot make money from the market if you cannot developed your skills and knowledge on how to make it successfully because only the professionals makes money from the market.

Whenever I open any new's site I find it very difficult to  control myself because of the human inhuman to man.  I just read a story how a friend killed his childhood friend because of jealousy and it really break my heart.  We are having different news of killing and wars in almost all the countries of the world and it seems peace has been taking out of the earth!  Will this killing and wars continue,  how long will it last or has it becomes human nature too, Why can't we love one another and when will the original love return on earth?
It seems we are going  to have Peace in future as many of us having believe in different religions but this question keep ringing in my heart "should we wait for one God to give us peace which is possible for human being to live in peace".

We must tell ourselve the truth and that is cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology has the best financial system and the system is far more better than the legacy financial institutions and system we have now.  I think in future blockchain technology is going to makes banks obsolete and even if there are going to be in existence there are going to be of no used. We are still at the early stages of cryptocurrencies development and it is few of us that has some understanding of what is going to happen in future and how the decentralized cryptocurrencies system is far better than the current financial Institutions we have.

We do need a trading plan mostly in other not to over trade or cut profits when it is not due for that.  Many traders are cut in between because they have decided not to analyze the market and invest outside the trading plans they have in place.  I could remember when I was Trading forex and during one of the training we were told to follow our plans for consistency purposes and that is what op has mentioned again and that means it is much important for us as traders and investors.  It is you plan that lead you in the right direction in your business and that is to said our plans is our investments foundations.

I will say this can still happen and some of us that has been holding ethereum fornow  will be rewarded with a good price close to the end of this year.  When ethereum went down towards $70 many people and speculators said it is not going to recover above $200 this year but ethereum is almost achieving that.  I believe that $1450 which was the 2017 and January 2018 high is going to repeat itself again and we would do ourself good by buy now that it is still extremely cheap.  For those that has not been following the market but has been having interest on investment I think now should be the right time to invest and make money in future.